Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, and generally, people that are part of this space along with the general more libre-focused FOSS community are focused on the ethical, environmental and socio-economic effects of Generative AI than most. Currently, it is that this ‘AI’ space is dominated by big tech companies that are not too kind to open source anyway such as Alphabet Google, Microsoft-OpenAI and Claude, and currently, these affect the internet in the English-speaking space the most, which whatever your position is on the tech itself, you agree that there must be ‘something’ done to stem the tide that comes from in general, big tech takeover of our digital space and AI is a part of their destructive practices. These capitalist companies only exasperate the issue anyway, there is some (hotly debated) would-be benefits, especially in programming spaces and generally the LLM part, I don’t have an educated guess so I am not making one but until I personally think, that the veneer of AI / LLMs as this tech brought from the most complex data-centers of multibillion dollar companies into a technology that everyone can understand what it’s useful and what isn’t, and generally democratizing it. I don’t personally use a lot of AI / LLMs, but being in the programming / writing space will make me bump into it and so I eventually learn some quirks and details through that.