Comment by int_19h

> What exactly is the moral dilemma with AI? We are all reading this message on devices built off of far more ethically questionable operations.

The main difference is that for those devices, the people negatively affected by operations are far away in another country, and we're already conditioned to accept their exploitation as "that's just how the world works" or "they're better off that way". With AI, the people affected - those whose work was used to train, and those who lose jobs because of it - are much closer. For software engineers in particular, these are often colleagues and friends.