From d9870d7e9875a79a18409e78fd1acb1df96d3931 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lynxize Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:31:18 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] edits --- content/blog/im-sick-of-ai.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/blog/im-sick-of-ai.md b/content/blog/im-sick-of-ai.md index fbdbb21..b7a7063 100644 --- a/content/blog/im-sick-of-ai.md +++ b/content/blog/im-sick-of-ai.md @@ -45,28 +45,30 @@ We can not be building our education, our society, around OpenAI's inscrutable m This is pointless. Actually, no, this is worse than pointless, it's actively harmful. -It's like those AI email generation tools, that send emails to people who don't read them, instead just summarize them with AI. +It's like those AI email generation tools that send emails to people who don't read them, and instead just summarize them with a different AI tool. It's just a shitty form of lossy anti-compression. It's introducing a middleman that does not need to be there. ***It doesn't need to be this way.*** This doesn't help *anyone*. - + {% note() %} Arguably, it helps the companies behind the AI-as-a-service stuff. Have you read any of their privacy policies lately? They're farming you for both training data and profit. And *nobody* cares. {% end %} -Am I just backwards and stuck in the past? Maybe. I know some people would say so. +Am I just backwards and stuck in the past? Maybe. I know some people would say so. +Most people seem to be able to embrace it. Maybe it's just necessary practice. Maybe AI crammed into every aspect of life is the inevitable future we're heading toward, and I need to get used to it, adapt, embrace it. But AAAAAAAAAAAAAA I *REALLY* DON'T WANT TO. -- AI is being shoved into *everything*, and we're supposed to pretend that's a good thing? -- It's trained on questionably-obtained source material, and we're supposed to pretend that's a good thing? -- The power consumption is astronomical, and we're supposed to pretend that's a good thing? -- It (well, ChatGPT at least) is controlled by giant companies, and we're supposed to pretend that's a good thing? +We're supposed to pretend that this is *good*? This is *human progress*? +- AI is being shoved into *everything*, where it doesn't even provide any actual benefit +- It's trained on questionably-obtained source material (copyright, anyone?) +- The computing resource consumption is astronomical +- It (well, ChatGPT at least) is controlled by giant companies -We've jumped headfirst into this without stopping to consider the consequences. +We've jumped headfirst into this AI mess without stopping to consider the consequences. Generative AI has valid uses, but obfuscating human-to-human communication should not be one of them. Creating slop that nobody wants to read or look at should not be one of them. @@ -89,14 +91,17 @@ A week or so ago, my dad sent me an article comparing and contrasting different It was obviously AI generated. I don't think he *cared*. Generative AI is integral to too much at this point. We **can't** go back. It's too late for that. -Legislature can not and will not fix this. I don't think most people *want* to "fix" this. +Legislature can not and will not fix this. I don't think most people *want* to fix this. +I have no idea what it will look like five or ten years into the future, but I doubt it'll be better. When I was in high school, I watched AI take over writing essays in English classes. -And now in college, I'm watching AI take over teaching too. +And now in college, I'm watching AI take over the teaching side too. It's taken over online search results, it's taken over communication apps. We are wayyy beyond going back to how it was before. -I don't want to be second-guessing whether something was written by a machine, and not a human. +Something's being lost here, though I can't quantify it. + +I don't want to keep having to second-guess whether something was written by a machine, and not a human. Because yes, for some stupid reason, that still matters to me. I'd rather read an actual person's broken, disorganized, messy pile of words than some perfect Idealized Text™ from a machine. @@ -121,7 +126,7 @@ Oh also, go watch [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opBifFfsMY). This will (hopefully) be the only time I write anything like this. I don't like being upset, I just wanted to get this off my chest. -I plan to go right back to sticking my head in the sand and pretending this isn't a problem, and try my best to just ignore it. +I plan to go right back to sticking my head in the sand and pretending the constant bombardment of everything with AI isn't a problem, and try my best to just ignore it. I really don't know what else I can do at this point.