illegally trained tech causing great harm to those whose intellectual property was stolen - in addition to all the other harm from generative AI, from the dumbing-down of students and users to harm to the environment.
The use of AI to pretend a deceased loved one is still with us is considered unhealthy by psychologists. It's a delusion.
So is the use of AI to revive performers who are gone. That's done by money-grubbing estates/heirs hoping to wring some profits from fans deluded enough to think it's okay.
These are all profoundly unethical and stupid uses of technology, like the sort of fakery in the video you posted.
And all this AI slop, which your video is, threatens to drown what is real, what facts we have, in a deluge of garbage. Which we're already seeing happen on the internet.
No one is going to have any better understanding of the Civil War after watching AI-animated Civil War photos. That YT account is doing that to make money off the gullible.
No one is adding to a real artist's real legacy via AI imitations.
No one is communicating their real feelings by setting up an AI imitation of themselves to conmunicate with their loved ones after they're gone. There are real ways to do that - writing or leaving audio or video messages. What an AI version will spew out might bear some superficial resemblance to their thoughts but could also be hallucinated and completely off and potentially very upsetting for anyone who's become dependent on those bots. And people foolish enough to choose bots for companionship do become dependent on them.
What you're advocating for is extremely harmful. Saying it should be "live and let !ive" is like saying slave labor or child abuse should be "live and let live" - because you're starting with being okay with tech bros' theft of the world's knowledge and culture to train AI for their own profit. You're giving approval to the greatest theft in history, a theft designed to make the AI competitive with those still working whose work was stolen (and the competition factor wipes out any claim it was fair use).
By doing so you're showing contempt for everyone who did not want their intellectual property stolen for a power grab by tech bros who are quite happy to support fascists.
I don't believe George Carlin would think generative AI was okay. He'd probably have some very. choice words for those who develop and peddle it, those who use it to "create" what is essentially a fraud, and those who fall for it, whether completely missing that it's AI, or finding it so entertaining that they don't care at all about the harms dons.
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