One random example: where I work, CVs are being filtered by an AI before they are opened by a human reducing the volume to a 20% of potentially good candidates. In that 20% there is always someone to hire, so it doesn't matter if a good candidate is lost in the AI filter. Failing to optimize the CV for AI literally means being left behind.
The short answer is copyright theft, energy consumption, and job displacement. While all those issues are 100% correct, there is also a huge unspoken factor of "you must be against it otherwise you are a brainwashed idiot" because, let's be honest, the hive mind is real.
Most of the modern no-AI luddites fail to understand that AI has been around for decades in various forms and this is just the last, most visible incarnation. It is here to stay, and it will grow as well. At this rate of adoption, in a few years it will be as normal as having a mobile phone (they weren't around only 20 years ago).
My humble prediction is that all the concerns around AI will be addressed with time by better hardware, better cooling mechanism, better energy production, different jobs that will leverage AI instead of competing with it, and surely also the copyright will find a new balance (just like MP3, Napster, and Spotify did not kill the music industry).
By the way, AI doesn't spy on you. An AI model is immutable once it's trained. The software using the model is spying on you, but that's true for any scumbag-driven software you use. It is essentially the same typing your secrets in Google Docs or in ChatGPT.
Please remember that every time he announces something, even if doesn’t happen, the market fluctuates. If you know in advance, you can profit. The Trump administrator is constantly committing insider trading.
It can be toxic here too. I had my misadventure with a bunch of "experts" absolutely sure that the future is communism and "stupid you brainwashed fool" if you don't get it.
It's very disappointing if you wanted a strong response for an ephemeral short term win. In the long run, the 15% tariffs alone will harm the US while the EU will diversify more its market.
The only explanation I have is that in his (and Musk's) mind all intellectual jobs will be replaced by AI, and the US will need to shift everybody to manual jobs to assemble stuff. It's so stupid and dystopic that it may even be true.
Apple has an history of resisting surveillance and that's true. However, it's subject to regulations, they lower security in some countries (see UK), it's based in the US which is definitely not encouraging, and... it may just end becoming like Google in the span of a few years.
That said, I prefer Apple to most of the other brands.
Except that even if you buy 100% American products, those selling them may not. When inflation happens, it happens for everyone.
Unless of course you talk about the perfect MAGA in a self-sufficient farm in the middle of nowhere, with a tinfoil hat and a cork in his ass against alien probes.
Ironically you just said that artists are wrong to be concerned.