The AI Thread

[MusicGirl99]

The virtual elephant in the room. What are your thoughts on it? How consciously do you use it?

[Sirius]

I don’t use it. I think it has its uses in science and for accessibility, but it should have never been made into the monster it is right now. There is no need for people to ask ‘how many Rs are in strawberry’ when you can just write it or look it up in a dictionary.
The downsides are too many and it’s destroying our planet even faster, without even considering the ethics of it being made off the backs of stolen art.

[rock.n.yarn]

Agree 100% with @Sirius. I hate it and avoid it whenever possible (I’m sure it’s integrated into just about everything at this point so I end up using it without realizing it, but I never use it to answer questions or generate things for me, I have Apple Intelligence turned off on my phone, etc). I’m an artist and graphic designer, and I hate that it is “trained” by stealing other artists’ work. It seems that every business in my town has the same, ugly AI posters plastered on their doors and Instagram accounts, it just reeks of cheapness and corner-cutting, and it’s hard for me to justify supporting a local business who is not, in turn, supporting THEIR local designers. I hate the environmental impact. I hate that we constantly have to question if videos are real, and I REALLY hate that one of the true joys of the internet, funny animal videos, has been ruined forever because of this lol.

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