We are not as powerless as you claim we are. There are billions of dollars of capital being allocated toward building AI systems, the most abundant sources of w

We are not as powerless as you claim we are. There are billions of dollars of capital being allocated toward building AI systems, the most abundant sources of which like to view (or at minimum present) themselves as above-board, legal and operating within some ethical framework. If there is visible pushback and attention to the harms of AI, whether they are visited on the creators used for training or moderators standing in the way of blatant negative outputs, this can alter that investment. When we throw up our hands and believe that development of this technology in the most exploitative and unscrupulous way is inevitable, we politically disarm ourselves.