It’s disappointing how many people and places that should know better are viciously anti-AI, such as most of the commenters on Ars Technica.

They are little better than the Bluesky screechers. They seem to think if they keep repeating “plagiarism machine,” “fraud engine” (whatever the fuck that means), “slop” and related slogans they can turn back the tide. But of course, no, they will in fact not be able to reverse the progress of the most consequential computing technology in 40 years.

AI is here. It is not going anywhere. The choice is not to roll back the clock or not. News flash: the clock is not gonna roll back. It’s just not. It’s too late. To add even more clichés, the cat is out of the bag, Pandora’s box has been opened and the dogs have been let out. There is no reversing that. None, short of nuclear war and the collapse of civilization. Even if every major AI lab shut down tomorrow, capable open-weight models would still be sitting on hard drives and running on consumer GPUs all across the world.

So, what is their game? Virtue signaling and fear, mostly, I think. They have to demonstrate their virtuous “resistance” against a novel and unexpected thing that legitimately threatens many of their livelihoods. It’s all about mood affiliation. I don’t think 1 in 10 of them actually believe that AI is a “plagiarism machine” or that it is illegitimate in the ways they claim.

Their stances and approach means they will have no voice in the future, and will be rendered irrelevant. And that is just fine with me.