It feels like Pandora’s box has been opened. I don’t think it’s all smoke & mirrors. It will not impact all industries equally. It won’t fix humans being poorly intended or malicious actors seeking power & wealth. In many ways, they benefit the most (giving capital more access to creativity). It’s built on the largest scale theft of public good for profit. To me, that’s wrong, and the people/masses should be getting financial returns, collectively & universally, in exchange for what was stolen.

I completely agree and this I believe is the most important conclusion that can come out of these AI debates. You can not stop AI from existing now that it has been implemented so widely and there are open source/weight models out etc, this technology is going to survive even if the big companies that started it die off.

The big contradiction of our times is yet again, the private ownership of the means of production. Within capitalism, AI can never be a positive thing since at best it's going to eradicate so many working positions and at worst it can further destroy our planet etc. At the same time, there is nothing you can do to stop it from existing. The only thing that can truly solve the contradiction is socialism, restructuring society in a way that people don't have to struggle against each other for a job position just because capitalists want to pay the minimum amount on wages, and production will not be done for profit but simply for making life better for everyone. And if there truly is nothing useful left to be done from humans, then they can freely be artists, scientists, athletes or whatever without the system letting them starve for not being a machine cog.