Iām going to try and keep this short but I took a class about the ethics of AI recently and have too many opinions about it.
I firmly believe it can be a really useful tool but a lot of people are not using it in good faith.
I think making generative AI so readily available online is a big mistake. Thereās too many people trying to make a business out of AI art they didnāt make. Passing off AI work as their own. Not to mention the deep fake stuff. The huge companies trying to integrate AI into everything and not allowing consumers to opt out? Looking at you Google.
May 24, 2025
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Thereās been multiple reports of AI taking up lots of energy to generate things and we donāt need more energy being wasted to produce a soulless, computer generated piece of AI art (Idk how others feel about AI art but whenever I look at it I feel sick and my heart sinks because it just feels so empty) so thatās one thing. Another issue is all these horrific deepfake scandals, to an incident that happened to at least 1 girl at the high school I went to (Iām not gonna say their names or anything because theyāve already been through so much shit) to South Koreaās recent crackdown on deepfake p0rn which revealed just how rampant it was throughout the country (and I just know shit like this is happening worldwide itās not just their country). Thereās also social media manipulation, biases in AI (only 100/7,000 of this worldās languages being used in chatbot training which only contributes further to languages being endangered), the very real threat of AI to be used to create more inequality, etc. While it looks like generative AI is flopping in some areas now (thank god) Iām still very concerned about it
Oct 2, 2024
AI is garbage for so many reasons and none of us should be using it.
that includes making art as well as seemingly mundane corporate tasks.
itās atrocious for the planet, itās horrific for the uncredited workers who labor to power it, it bulldozes all notions of āprivacyā and further fast-tracks the commodification of humanity, and itās fueling the dumpster fire that is an entire generation of brains raised in the cesspool of the internet.
Jan 13, 2025
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Apologies if this is strongly worded, but I'm pretty passionate about this. In addition to the functions public-facing AI tools have, we have to consider what the goal of AI is for corporations. This is an old clichƩ, but it's a useful one: follow the money. When we see some of the biggest tech companies in the world going all-in on this stuff, alarm bells should be going off. We're seeing a complete buy in by Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and even Meta suddenly pivoted to AI and seems to be quietly abandoning their beloved Metaverse. For decades, the goal of all these companies has always been infinite growth, taking a bigger share of the market, and making a bigger profit. When these are the main motivators, the workforce that carries out the labor supporting an industry is what inevitably suffers. People are told to do more with less, and cuts are made where C-suite executives see fit at the detriment of everyone down the hierarchy. Where AI is unique to other tangible products is that it is an efficiency beast in so many different ways. I have personally seen it affect my job as part of a larger cost-cutting measure. Microsoft's latest IT solutions are designed to automate as much as possible in favor of having actual people carry out typically client-facing tasks. Copy writers/editors inevitably won't be hired if people could instead type a prompt into ChatGPT to spit out a product description. Already, there are so many publications and Substacks that use AI image generators to create attention-grabbing header and link images - before this, an artist could have been paid to create something that might afford them food for the week. All this is to say that we will see a widening discrepancy between the ultra-wealthy and the working class, and the socio-economic structure we're in actively encourages consolidation of power. There are other moral implications with it that I could go on about, but they're kind of subjective. In relation to art, dedicating oneself to a craft often lends itself to fostering a community for support in one's journey, and if we collectively lean on AI more instead of other people, we risk isolating ourselves further in an environment that is already designed to do that. In my opinion, we shouldn't try to co-exist with something that is made to make our physical and emotional work obsolete.
Mar 24, 2024
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Sure it has a few funny bits but itās well past its prime. I havenāt seen an actually funny sketch in ages.
Can we talk about how theyāve been milking that terrible Domingo sketch for months now? Where is the joke?
Not to mention that terrible white lotus bit making fun of Aimee Lou Woodās teeth. Tasteless.
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