Frustration

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It can be used to take people's jobs,

just for the record, I object to this being framed as unethical. Every advancement in technology has led to the loss of jobs. Cars? no more horse-carriage drivers. the internet has dramatically reduced the need for newspapers and their salesmen. The industrial revolution reduced the handmade textile industry. I could go on. AI is no different in that regard. I wouldn't call any of those advancements immoral, so I don't call AI immoral for that reason. other reasons can still be on the table, but I don't think that "taking jobs" is a valid reason to call something immoral.

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has even convinced people to kill themselves, and fed into insane people's delusions

For the record, the internet + social media combo has done somewhat similar things, but I wouldn't call those inherently immoral.

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Second, while not confirmed, OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT) basically killed someone.

as for this, I think this is an allegation that requires a lot more proof than saying "he didn't like what they were doing and now he's dead so I blame them". Both articles you cited mention that it appeared to be suicide, and that it was confirmed by the city medical examiner to be so. I would need some sort of evidence that OpenAI was behind it before I would be willing to use that as evidence of immorality. (also, the owners of a product being immoral doesn't make the product inherently immoral, and even if it did, this is specifically OpenAI and can't be held against other AIs (Claude, gemini, perplexity, etc.))

In the end, my position on AI is basically "it is what it is, and it will be what it will be".

@Immortal Platypus, Those first to points I conceded do not directly lead to AI being immortal, and that last bit I admit was loose. But did you see the 2nd point (with the IP)?

I did see that. generally I fall in the category of humans will do what they do, and there should be restrictions, but there's only so much we can do. IP is not something I'm an expert in, nor do I pretend to be one, and it generally doesn't affect me that much. Plus, I don't mind terribly mind piracy, so to mind it from AI companies seems disingenuous to me. I totally understand why people see it as immoral, but I don't to the same degree.