Kirameki Statement on the Ethical and Environmental Evils of AI

The AI Business Model is Inherently Unethical and Exploitive

Although arguments have been made that AI scraping of data and learning from things that have been uploaded to the internet is fair, our position is that it is inherently unethical, and that the unlawfulness of scraping data for AI learning becomes clearer when you realize that the "learning" is not only being spit back at users for pay, but is also being used by billionaires to amass wealth.

A serious problem that numbs people to the above-noted evil is the widespread public misconception that things that have been uploaded to the internet and can be freely downloaded are "public domain," when that is simply not the case. Education in this area is called for, but I don't think there is much hope in towing the data theft ship back to port.

AI learning and system operation is a huge environmental burden.

The burden placed on the environment by energy-voracious data centers is out-of-sight from people who ask their favorite AI model questions or ask it to write a killer social media post, but that burden doesn't go away by not thinking about it. It's real and has consequences, but that doesn't appear to be of much concern to the tech broligarchs hoping to amass wealth and secure their positions of power in the new AI world order they envision.