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I worked in a lab that used machine learning to identity things about cells and tissues that would take a human years just due to how time consuming it would be to count and compute by hand. Other science applications are potentially finding cancer earlier and earlier for better outcomes. People also sometimes clown on people who need chatgpt to make a grocery list for them, but I think assisting people with ADLs could be really beneficial too (though there’s getting to be some tricky nuance with people using it for too much instead of letting themselves be challenged a little and idk where to draw that line). I just don’t want restaurants to use AI generated photos on their menus, I get uneasy with people submitting photos of themselves to be transformed with AI, and I don’t think art, poetry, literature, etc should use AI. The whole point of being creative is to do the creating, not to get a computer to do it for you lol. And people said similar things about digital art, but with that you’re still picking up a stylus and physically doing the work yourself and not just typing in a prompt. And this isn’t even getting into the libraries that AI trains on and if everything in there was acquired correctly or if it’s stolen…
May 24, 2025

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this is my take too, it’s such a useful scientific/ research/ data analysis tool! AI can sort through so much information faster than a human ever could, and that’s so exciting! but people using it generatively makes me a little sad
May 25, 2025
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oh cool what kinda research does your lab do?
May 24, 2025
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oooo thank you for sharing your perspective on this since you have a scientific background!
May 24, 2025
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Things I think it’s ok to use AI for:
1. Helping blind people navigate the world 2. Separating vocals for sampling 3. Making sports video game commentators have dynamic dialogue (no one’s done this yet I don’t think, but they should. It’s not like you’re taking a job, Kirk Herbstreet still gets paid the same. He probably hates doing all those readings anyways) 4. Those pictures of JD Vance or Elon sucking toes and stuff (they make my parents happy)
Things I think AI should not be used for:
1. Pretty much everything else but I’m sure there’s more like the blind people one, I’ve just heard about those being life savers specifically
Things you should feel deep, all encompassing shame after using ai for:
1. Creative writing. The arts in general really but using ai to write anything creative is an intellectual and spiritual war crime to me
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Why not go through the process of blending those images yourself? Why not use process as an experiment? Why AI? What part are you playing? What makes it yours? I think AI is impersonal. I think it is unethical when it has relied on the theft of actual people’s actual physical (and because of the nature of art, often time emotional) labor. I also think it is unnecessary in creating art. I also think the environmental impacts are atrocious. I also think AI’s biggest supporters are being maliciously ignorant because it’s a fun new toy. Is it ease? Is it efficiency? People talk about accessibility as if children don’t use crayons and stickers! As if graffiti artists don’t use postal labels as sticker, as if sand mandalas don’t exist, as if cardboard and tape aren’t in over abundance.
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You don’t learn math by punching numbers into a calculator, but once you’ve learned how to math a calculator is very useful and allows you to do far more.
On a professional level as a graphic designer, there are a lot of repetitive tasks that I can imagine AI making much easier and faster. (Just don’t tell my clients, please)
On a societal level, generativeAI in particular is a nightmare. I can’t imagine using a dating app at this point, for example.
Maybe it should be like alcohol - you can’t use it until you’re 21
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