Can we now all admit that AI is bad? The technology itself may be neat, but the side effects are killing us. How can AI make computing easier when ironically it's now significantly harder to get computers? AI is driving price increases, unemployment, economic inequality, illiteracy, misinformation, slop on the internet, possibly global warming and water shortages, etc.

Is this really the future we wanted?

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cpursley 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Farming implements and looms are bad, I miss having to scratch my own food from the earth and knit my own clothing from whatever fibers and animals I could find...

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lapcat 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is not a serious response to my comment.

Did farming implements and looms make food and clothing more expensive and scarce? No, they did the opposite, making both more readily available. So your comment is a disanalogy.

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aroman 11 hours ago | parent [-]

The point you’re making is that AI is an intrinsically bad technology, but that does not follow from this news story, which merely evidences that AI is in demand and supply has not caught up.

	▲	lapcat 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> The point you’re making is that AI is an intrinsically bad technology Not really. I said, "The technology itself may be neat." There's a larger societal question: how many resources should we devote to this technology? The current answer appears to be "unlimited resources". > AI is in demand and supply has not caught up. The point is that we're currently suffering the many negative side effects of AI production, some of which I listed. Will there be a utopian future when the negative side effects are all eliminated? Maybe... or maybe not. In any case, it sucks right now, and relief does not appear imminent. Indeed, the Apple price increases are a sign that the component shortages are not just temporary, and even the wealthiest corporation in the world can't ride out the storm.

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bbg2401 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You're going to have to work remarkably hard to link your comment to the parent without looking like a disingenuous ass.