It's funny because you express exactly what the author said: > As Abeba Birhane and Deb Raji documented recently, the responses of members of the Generative AI

It's funny because you express exactly what the author said: > As Abeba Birhane and Deb Raji documented recently, the responses of members of the Generative AI communities to criticism are, to put it mildly, less than generous. Your view is as simplistic as you make his to be. When you are unable to take the author's point of view, and read between the lines, and take things into context - then you do exactly what the author is worried about : you emulate AI, and lose your human nature. When the author talks about "nihilism" I think he refers to the dangers that Ian McGilchrist has been talking about at lenghts, in "The Divided Brain". Very roughly, that we are dangerously going out of balance, over-using the left-hemisphere's view on reality, as a collection of "things". Generative AI amplifies exactly all the issues Gilchrist has been talking in his books and numerous interviews you can find on YouTube. AI produces content that has no purpose, no meaning. It IS nihilist if you think about it in the sense that it will soon feed on its own output, and therefore simply produce more and more extremist / "highlly specific" content. Again, the exact kind of issues Gilchrist has talked about : a view of the world as a collection of "things", and looking at things without sufficient context. Art has always been something that engages the right hemisphere, and these more unconscious parts of us. For example, music affects us in way words can't. But that content is produced by humans for other humans to resonate with. The real delusion here, is when you elevate AI's output as something equal or someday "equal or even better" to what humans can do, completely forgetting that AI would produce ZERO interesting results if it were not for the input. How is that not obvious at all? THe author also has every right to call the attention on how, just like with Bezos and Elon and Bill Gates, etc. it is the richest people, with a certain kind of a view on the world, that pulls the strings. It IS really dangerous and concerning that software engineers tell the world how to see the world, since they already themselves have a great propensity to reduce the world to a collection of "things" that can be exploited... eg. Zuckerberg and all the Facebook shenanigans. AI has some real and useful applications in helping code generation and whatnot, but it also has a ton of destructive potential unless people really see it for what it is and your initial reaction is not helping.