And I’ll be honest: if I could set aside the ethical, legal, economic, and environmental issues with generative AI, it’d be pretty damn cool, too. Large language models give us a quantum leap in natural language processing, proofreading, transcription, translation, and summarization. Yes, I know all the ways in which LLMs are “bad” at all those things, but in comparison to the previous state of the art in machine-powered proofing, transcription, translation, and summarization, it’s just no contest. … But of course, you can’t set aside the ethical, legal, economic, and environmental issues with generative AI

This is how I feel, too. Lots of other thoughts around the intersection of generative AI and capitalism worth reading.