General Discussion

The ability to create AI graphics exists because graphic art was stolen to feed and train AI programs. The actual artists who produced that art did not consent and were not paid. When you use those AI generators, you are encouraging this practice of stealing from those artists, and encouraging more AI systems to be made.

The ability to type questions into an AI program and get a written response is because those AI programs were fed lots of stolen material. There is currently a lawsuit against Meta/Zuckerberg because they stole MILLIONS of books from authors to train their AI.

Listening to AI books means you're cutting real narrators out of the process and in many cases, those AI narrators many have been trained on voices that were used without permission.

AI is absolutely terrible for the environment. The AI generation centers that are going up use a terrible amount of power, and a terrible amount of water, at a time when we need to be using LESS power and CONSERVING water. So think about that the next time you consider using AI just for a small task. It is literally killing our planet.

There are good uses for AI. I hope it can help us in certain fields. But all of the above uses are bad because they replace THINKING and they replace CREATIVITY or because they replace ART. We as humans should not be using a machine to dumb ourselves down. Let AI be used for better cancer detection rates, or to make navigational systems better. Not to replace THINKING.