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The US doesn't manufacture RAM. But becoming reliant on a country so hellbent on dismantling democracy would be unwise.

actively destroying our planet

Hey, my little GTX 3070ti is only passively destroying the planet.

That only exists through the theft and destruction of the creative works of others?

No, I use models trained on public domain and open source works. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm

Which is responsible for atrophying the critical thinking skills of the population?

I've been learning so much about microelectronics, soldering, voltage, current, components, programming, libraries, that I never would have been able to learn before, because I need to be able to ask a million tiny stupid questions, because I'm just that autistic. Before, I'd need to wait a few hours for someone on Stack Overflow to tell me it's already been asked, and then link to the wrong answer.

There's a reason you've been trained to knee-jerk hate AI, who benefits?

It's because it's western. That's it. AI is a western product so the internet propaganda bots are telling you to hate it.