It harms the environment, it harms actual developers, it introduces all sorts of legal issues where copyright is only one of them, it locks you in to a vendor, it makes you dependent of giant tech companies that steal your data and want to monetize your work.

Could you elaborate on this a little? I came here as I'm not very knowledgable when it comes to AI and am genuinely curious. Sadly you're the only person I've seen so far that has made coherent (even if broad) arguments against AI.

I know the environment argument is probably the enormous power demand of AI, and as far as the copyright thing goes, I've seen first hand how people abuse voice actors' livelihoods with shitty imitations of their voices that are also completely devoid of anything resembling skill. But how does AI harm developers, lock you in to a specific vendor or make you dependant on giant tech companies?

LLMs and machine learning techniques are just a tool. This iteration of frontier AI was harmfully developed by bad people. IMO it’s important to recognize the underlying technology as being useful while focusing on the current crop of products and companies as the problem.