In the 50 odd years after WW2, we saw them frame civil rights as communism and use the war on drugs to bomb and destroy black neighborhoods.

This is conservatism.

When someone can produce an LLM that doesn't use more power than entire small nations to spew out bullshit, then we can start inviting nuance. Unfortunately, we have to be pragmatic here; and the consequences of lots of GenAI are way worse than returning to no GenAI.

Obviously, this doesn't include pattern recognition or protein folding AI.

That local LLM?

Still uses that power. Still used the power for training. Still exploited workers. Swing and a miss.