Today, AI is the voice in the drive-thru that can't hear our orders. It's killing the livelihood of creative workers. It's the thing you have to do at work, whether you like it or not. It's making search engines unusable. It's a justification for corporate layoffs. It's plagiarism. It's killing information access. It's taking credit for the work of visual effects artists. It's a serial liar. It's harming our critical thinking and memory skills. It's mecha-Hitler. It's the really annoying popup. It's wealth inequality. It's a crutch for the loneliness epidemic. It's the industrial polluter. It's the scammer faking your voice for predatory phone calls. It's the military-industrial complex. It's the book that could kill you. It's exploiting social media algorithms with fake content.

These problems all existed before generative AI boom, but they were never all the same problem. Sure, you could trace some of those issues back to unregulated capitalism, but the perpetrators were usually not honest and upfront about that. Now, everything from daily mild annoyances to society-destroying problems have the same "AI" label. It's a corporate self-own on the level of a thousand Pepsi Kendall Jenner advertisements, but it's happening much more slowly.

We hate AI because it's everything we hate

This is insightful. AI is now a stand-in for a lot of negative things associated with technology.