I agree with you as long as things are at a small scale. But at a large scale, these things reshape society and what it means to be human. Social networks start

I agree with you as long as things are at a small scale. But at a large scale, these things reshape society and what it means to be human. Social networks started out[1] as almost wholly good. The negative effects came from scale. Same with advertisement-funded websites and tons of other things that started out as being overall positive for the commons and ended up being highly negative. You can't just stick your fingers in your ears and ignore what is happening in reality. > Anthropic is crowing about this achievement because they are afraid of the dirt cheap AI models coming out of China and eventually other places impacting their valuation. Full stop. It's the "full stop" that I'm disagreeing with. Yes, you can make valid arguments about the motivations behind this, or the effectiveness of it, or whatever. You can even conclude that it's a net negative. That's my current leaning. But "computers are tools that exist to serve" is an excuse, a conscious decision to abandon responsibility. Hammers, nails, social media, biological weapons, and date rape drugs are tools that exist to serve. [1] Ok, fine, at least one started out as a sleazy way to talk about people's physical attractiveness and behavior anonymously with repercussions, in a way where the victims would have no meaningful recourse. For the sake of my argument, pretend we're talking about Friendster instead of Facebook, please?