illuvium

there's very little i hate more than use of generative ai. anyone you speak to in real life that knows me will know of my hatred for all things chatgpt. it's hard to see a benefit in chatgpt or in any one of those art-stealing soulless ai art generators and it drives me up a wall whenever i see someone in my classes or in the cafeteria on chatgpt. it can't be that hard to use your brain, can it?

using chatgpt to study reads as super lame to me. you've your own brain, just use that, & if you're looking for question banks or practice problems or whatever, nine times out of ten there will be an accurate set of practice problems online for you to use since ai fundamentally regurgitates whatever it's stealing from online sources. you tell ai to say something and it will say something, even if it's wrong, because all ai does is repeat stuff it's scraped together from other sources. that's what people are trusting more than their own ability to think. it's frankly embarrassing, to say the least.

the culture around chatgpt is even more embarrassing, though. on social media, i keep seeing people proudly posting about how they don't understand how people could live without ai or chatgpt or whatever else. shame needs to make a comeback, because i don't understand how people can flex that they're not using their brains and that they can't be made to use their brains. there's a joke circulating about these ai users being our future doctors and lawyers, and i honestly think it's super startling and true. god forbid these people go into the real world and be put in situations where they have to synthesize their own conclusions after years of relying on the worlds of some faulty and high-cost artificial "intelligence"

speaking of synthesis of your own conclusions and ideas, generative ai applied onto the arts is potentially the worst thing that could've happened. ai-written fanfic, ai-generated art... all of it is gross and again, such a disappointment. i hate all the developments in here. ai does not write anything. ai steals the work of human authors online and gives you back a facsimile of their writing skill. what it does not return is any of the intent behind the work of a real person, behind the product of their thoughts & life experiences. the same applies onto ai-generated art. i do not see how people can be so proud of the "progress" of these programs, at the development of how good the ai-generated art looks. ai does not progress. what progresses is the stealing of works by real artists online and the insertion of the culmination of their efforts into a lifeless program. it's revolting, quite frankly. when i write, it's a product of lots of thought. i think about the characters and what they'd say, what their situations are, what limitations to their actions would be, all of that. ai does nothing of the sort. it's as if you ran a prompt generator with a bunch of characters. there's lots of outcomes, but at the end of the day, you'd be loath to find a prompt that fit those characters to a t, since it's a source with a finite amount of universally applicable tropes. ai does that, but worse. ai writing is an embarrassment, and so is ai-generated art. i fail to see the purpose in relegating creative tasks to a robot. what makes you different from chatgpt is that you have actual experiences in the back of your mind, books you've read, things you've watched, music you've listened to that all builds part of who you are and thus what your art looks like. chatgpt and these other ai image-generating programs lacks all of that by virtue of being what they are.

in any case, that's not even the full extent of my issue with ai. aside from the clear promotion of mental deterioration, things such as chatgpt have actual absurd energy costs. the water costs for a single search with chatgpt or honestly any other generative ai are not worth and will never be worth the quality of answers they provide. ai is nothing short of a scourge on humanity. as if it wasn't enough already, you're speeding up the destruction of the planet for what? to study, which you can do perfectly fine on your own using your very fine brain? to write, which would lack all intent and be a grey and dead copy of millions of works of real writers both on and offline? to draw, which you can practice on your own, since there's no shortage of free materials available online to teach you how to? all of these things are things that you should be doing with your own brain. it's so lazy to use chatgpt and it incenses me that i have to even consider the notion that people will think that i've used ai since i actually do my work with care. ai cannot develop without the thoughts of real people and will never be able to develop without the thoughts and work of real people. it's stunted and without intent and i find it so disturbing that it's grown to be such a large thing. i feel such derision seeing people use chatgpt. seriously. take the bad grade, write poorly, make bad art. at least you'll know that you've done all of that without the aid of some thieving leech.