You donāt learn math by punching numbers into a calculator, but once youāve 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 donāt tell my clients, please)
On a societal level, generativeAI in particular is a nightmare. I canāt imagine using a dating app at this point, for example.
Maybe it should be like alcohol - you canāt use it until youāre 21
May 24, 2025
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I like this take! Iām in STEM so it feels wrong to be as morally opposed to AI as I am in its current state, but Iām just so grossed out by its abuse. Then I remember ways I dreamt software could optimize itself to my specific needs without a human having to analyse and then code on my individual behaviours before AI was a thing and hope for a future where itās regulated and focused on those menial tasks a human shouldnāt have to do.
May 25, 2025
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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 thereās 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 donāt 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 donāt 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 youāre still picking up a stylus and physically doing the work yourself and not just typing in a prompt. And this isnāt even getting into the libraries that AI trains on and if everything in there was acquired correctly or if itās stolenā¦
May 24, 2025
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.
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