[netfortius]

> "AI isn't doing things, people and corporations are..."

Where have I heard a similar reasoning? Maybe about guns in the US???

[djoldman]

Guns can and are used to murder people directly in the physical world.

The overwhelming (perhaps complete) use of generative AI is not to murder people. It's to generate text/photo/video/audio.

[RodgerTheGreat]

Generative AI is used to defraud people, to propagandize them, to steal their intellectual property and livelihoods, to systematically deny their health insurance claims, to dangerously misinform them (e.g. illegitimate legal advice or hallucinated mushroom identification ebooks), to drive people to mental health breakdowns via "ai psychosis" and much more. The harm is real and material, and right now is causing unemployment, physical harm, imprisonment, and in some cases death.