1. I don't think using power for AI is more unethical than any other non-life-critical usage of the same amount of power. Since data centers use electricity, there are already many green technologies which can power them. People are just porting this argument from blockchain where it was much more valid. The hard parts of making the planet carbon-neutral lie elsewhere.

2. ??? This just seems like you're complaining about your impression about annoying AI posters on Twitter or whatever. Also nobody is stopping anybody from developing a cheaper AI or whatever, and that would be a very valuable thing to do.

3. I don't think its disrespectful to say you've made it easier to make art or whatever, and I also don't think it's unethical to "disrespect" "hard earned skills".

4. Yes, it would be unethical to develop an AI to lie to people. It's not unethical to develop an AI that might be wrong sometimes, especially if you tell people about that very clearly.

5. If the complaint is just that you don't like particular companies, OK, fine. I don't really find that to be a very interesting discussion. I was talking about whether using LLMs was ethical, which is the title of the post.

> AI has been used for controlling masses

What's this conspiracy theory?