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Okay this is fucking bullshit. First question: like many things they can be made sustainable and ethical when done right, and some are made more ethically than others. Second question: AIs aren't just LLMs and stable diffusion, though those too have legitimate uses. AI and ML includes data mining algorithms used to process medical and scientific data for all kinds of purposes including developing new treatments and tests for things like cancer, or for keeping track of our ecosystem and what effects human activities are having on it. Third question: honestly it depends. A lot of AI research is actually done by universities for benevolent reasons. Other people are just trying to make a quick buck and don't care about the consequences. Some uses are actively evil. You can't paint an entire field of research as if it's one thing or only has one single application. If you read all this and still think AI is universally bad then you either should stop voting, forming political opinions and having any influence on research, or you should actually do some research and/or suck my dick. Your choice.