Talk:Artificial intelligence

Scope?

This article is wordy and I'm not sure how it's directly relevant to consumer rights. Scraping the internet and data collection may be seen as unethical, but they're pretty run-of-the-mill at this point. Beanie Bo (talk) 01:56, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

I agree that the article needs significant revision. It has more detail than needed on some areas (e.g. web scraping), and totally misses other important areas.

I see AI more as a theme/background article. AI is so pervasive now, and affects people in so many ways, that I think it makes sense to have at least one article on it.

Things that I think such an article should cover include:

Data centers - environmental impacts, community impacts, energy demand and subsidy by electricity and water rate payers, and how many of these agreements are made in secret, even in nominally democratic/open governmental systems. In the US data centers are often located in marginalized communities, where people are not as organized to protect their community . (This is not exclusively an AI thing might be worth a separate article about data centers in general, covering crypto mining operations, etc.)

Control of information - Use of LLM in place of search is decimating independent information sources (taking away advertising revenue, taking away views). LLM make a poor substitute for human written product reviews. (Inaccurate, praises whatever the user wants - even products that don't exist.)

Intellectual property - piracy in training data (using stolen data), use of output.

Privacy and security - data poisoning, ease of subverting guardrails, gathering data for training, revealing prompts, law enforcement review of chatbot prompts and outputs, etc.

Concerns about possible effects on users - AI psychosis, etc.

Labor concerns - conditions of labelers/piece workers.

Liability - LLM are often inaccurate, what happens when the AI harms people (libel, suicide, etc.)

I have sources for a bunch of this, will be adding them to the article talk page as time permits. Drakeula (talk) 18:27, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Appeal posted re proposed deletion

I posted an appeal request regarding article deletion. Things I would like to see in this article are listed under scope. I think easier to edit existing article than start new one. If you have an opinion one-way or the other, please add on to the appeal discussion on the moderator page (wouldn't want multiple appeals). Thanks. Drakeula (talk) 18:41, 4 September 2025 (UTC)