akin to evil

(In the interest of clarity … akin meaning "essentially similar, related, or compatible" ^* and evil being something "Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful."^*)

• the data used to feed it was stolen. Before you say a court has ruled it wasn’t stolen, please remember any court ruling you disagree with in principle. A court ruling doesn’t make something right, only legal.
• data centers are ecological disasters. Would you want one built next door to where you live? In your neighborhood? Community? Town?
• are you comfortable with having the data centers built next to people and families who can’t afford to fight back?
• I’m not worried about AI becoming sentient and destroying/enslaving mankind. With mankind’s proclivity to cut corners, it’s much more likely that an AI armageddon comes about by way of an accident with unexpected consequences. (Actually, hundreds of accidents, their effect building up too quickly to be mitigated.)
• the veracity of facts (formerly known as truth) will be eroded ever more quickly, with greater ease, becoming increasingly difficult to detect. Science, which relies on incremental changes in knowledge, will have to expend limited resources on determining which studies are real; politics will be won by those who control the untruth best; independent journalism will be a thing of the past.

I could go on. If you’ve looked, you know that.
In future, I will be able to add evil effects that haven’t been listed yet.

If you say it’s pointless to maintain this stance, that AI is here and has already won, I might be inclined to agree. But isn’t that like saying discrimination, corruption, and genocide have already won, so why fight them?

No reason, except that I choose to do so.