I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas.
I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.
I know this goes beyond AI a bit, but I hate that a vast majority of new books are only on Amazon. Or the only practical place to get new books. And I can't use anything other than Amazon's proprietary bs to read it. I've had to yo ho books even when I want to pay for them.
And the money gets siphoned up rather than spread around.
There are some alternatives like Baen: https://www.baen.com/ so thats nice
The book thing is absolutely the traditional publishings fault. It's almost impossible to publish unless you're already established