There are many companies selling AI products and they have invested over trillion dollars WITHOUT any return.
The fact that they only cost money should be reason enough to stop the AI data centers.
It will be a waste of water, energy and other resources.
Within the programming community, the senior programmers see AI as slop generators.
AI can not make products with sufficient quality.
In the past there were “expert-systems” that helped with programming, but turned out to be slop generators as well.
They seem to work in small programs, but as a project grows, they become unmaintainable.
Many programmers and “elite” do believe that AI will become smarter,
but that is mathematically proven to be false.
(the “halting problem” states: a program can not understand itself. So it can not improve itself.)
So by mathematical law it is a waste of resources, and researchers are slowly learning the ultimate limits.
Additionally: The AI is already using its own generated data to train itself.
This means that it is polluting itself with slop. Which will lead to more slop.
The musicians and artists are the real victims of AI.
Business do not want top quality, but something cheap quickly.
There is a copyright problem though.
While AI seems to make something original, it is just copying other works (training data).
It mixes many works together using statistics and a noise generator.
Artists try to copyright-protect their work from AI.