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Well, local AI trained only on data willingly provided for that purpose by its creators and in an environment where there is Universal Basic Income and good quality free Adult Education, has almost zero ethical concerns.
Of course this excludes most of the Machine Learning stuff, including all of the "AI" being pushed in this bubble (either not local or requires so much training data that it's definitelly not the case that all data is "willingly provided for that purpose by its creators") plus the broader societal environment we live in means that people who lose their livelihoods when replaced by even those limited purpose AIs are fucked.
Yeah, and living in a fantasy castle made of clouds in Imagination Land has no ethical concerns either, what's your point?
People losing jobs to AI is also an ethical concern, not just the sourcing of the data for training AI or the dependency on 3rd parties (i.e. non-local).
One one side, that means that for some kinds of Machine Learning were the other ethical concerns do not apply, there are still ethical concerns against their use.
On the other side, if that one too was addressed, then the whole "artists are loosing their jobs" concern might become a non-issue (practicing Art as a job is generally a "have to" situation, not a "chose to") at which point some further kinds of ML would be acceptable.
A blanket "X is bad, period!" rejection of all Machine Learning is simplistic and reductionist.