Back when I was a child, before AI took over society, it was a robot takeover like those fiction sci-fi movies that I never watched and only heard of. However, my logical idea of AI was a little robot helping me do irritating chores around my house or help doing hard and dangerous labor to protect the lives of those forced to work those jobs. I have a hunch that this is what most people thought of when we said we wanted AI. We wanted something that could help us do the hard part so we have time to do things we enjoy, like being with family, indulging in the arts, or going out. Now, what was supposed to be a useful helping hand in human society has become nothing but a useless feature on every device ever that is forcefully shoved down my throat during every waking moment.
If you know me at all, you will know that I violently hate AI. Yes, I know that some forms of artificial intelligence have helped make great strides in some technology used for good, such as making diagnoses in the healthcare field and spotting diseases quickly before they do damage. How accurate those AIs are is beyond me and is a whole other conversation to have with people who are in those professions. However, in my personal day-to-day life, AI is pretty much useless. My hate for AI originated with the uptick of AI-generated images, or more specifically, AI art and the consistent use of ChatGPT, which this article was originally supposed to be about. But my loathing for AI knows no bounds, and now this is a consecutive list of every single thing I hate about AI.
AI “Art” |
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I fucking hate AI art. It’s an abomination and torment to my eyes. I mean, of course I would think that; I'm an artist, why wouldn't I hate AI “art”? It might seem like such a small problem to somebody who doesn't value art. I mean, who cares, right? All that matters is the result, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
There's the obvious reasons: corporations using AI so they don't have to spend hundreds hiring an artist, animator, writer, graphic designer, and etc. (even though they're often underpaid anyways), people posting and selling AI slop just to make a profit, the undervaluing of art that is made by humans. Art being created by AI not only makes the art pretty much worthless, but it takes away any joy and care that could've been there if it was made by a real person and not a prompt.
The devaluation of art has long existed before the rise of AI had begun. Just the phrase “maybe the curtains are just blue” has seriously damaged media literacy when it comes to all forms of art. People don’t know what actual art is, even if it violently punched them in the face.
People only care about the result, not the process. The process is what makes art valuable. People pay thousands of dollars for the skill, talent, time, care, and effort put into a piece, but none of that exists if it was just some dude putting prompts into an AI until it creates something that is somewhat worthwhile. It steals the hard work of artists.
Also, AI art is just ugly, it’s genuinely so hideous. It’s horribly polished and a horrible amalgamation of so many stolen art styles that it doesn’t know what to do with itself. But despite the 6 fingers, disfigured eyes, fucked up line art, and illogical proportions in the subject and background, the unfortunate reality is that AI art is progressing. Even my own eyes can’t differentiate between what is real and what is fake, and I look at a lot of art as an artist. This doesn’t just go for AI art, it goes for all generative AI. There are fake crochet and sewing patterns that are infiltrating Pinterest, the AI voices that imitate real voice actors, animation, videos, real life images and so much more. I can’t go a few minutes without seeing it while doom scrolling
MisinformatioN |
Recently, after being off Twitter, I decided to take a browse because I needed to do a bit of catching up with some of my favorite artists. After scrolling through for about 5 minutes, I found an inappropriate AI-generated image of a Democratic politician. Of course, I could very clearly tell that it was AI-generated because I've been online enough to know the difference; however, we have to remember some can't. A great example of this is everywhere on Facebook. People's grandfathers and grandmothers believe shocking headlines like a horse walking into a hospital to take care of sick children.
Although we find it completely stupid, these things cause serious harm. It's unfortunate to say, but good AI has become so advanced that most people can't tell the difference between that and real life. I don't think many people realize how terrifying it is to see politicians spending misinformation using AI to further their campaign and gain more voters, or knowing that somebody could generate revenge porn on somebody for the fun of it. It is becoming believable, even to the people who know how to tell the difference.
Although we find it completely stupid, these things cause serious harm. It's unfortunate to say, but good AI has become so advanced that most people can't tell the difference between that and real life. I don't think many people realize how terrifying it is to see politicians spending misinformation using AI to further their campaign and gain more voters, or knowing that somebody could generate revenge porn on somebody for the fun of it. It is becoming believable, even to the people who know how to tell the difference.
ChatGPT (derogatory) |
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I know the person reading this has used ChatGPT at least once, and that’s only if they're its biggest fan like most students I know. I understand the initial hype around it, it was supposed to be a great search engine tool for looking for things we don’t have time to do like searching for sources for an essay due at 11:59 pm or to help with a math problem that you can't seem to grasp. However, for a lot of students, I fear what was supposed to be a helping tool has taken over school life completely.
When talking about the downfall of education, media literacy rates, and complex thinking skills, it's a much bigger problem that has to be addressed with numerous causes with how effective the school system is, how short form content has lowered our attention spans, how society and the government is affecting children’s learning, and many more things. But I do feel the need to put some of the blame on AI chatbots such as ChatGPT.
When has it become normal to generate whole essays on a book your class spent months reading and talking about? Why do you need an AI’s opinion on what a motif in a piece of media means when the whole point is to come up with a meaning for it YOURSELF? Why can't you answer the easiest of questions without desperately searching for an AI to answer it for you? At some point, thinking for yourself is easier than asking an AI to do it for you. The people using ChatGPT to do their homework for them are our future lawyers, surgeons, politicians, and etc., are we going to be forced to trust someone who AI’d their entire way through the education that cost tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of dollars that's important to doing their job correctly?
It's also important to mention the fact that you can't ask ChatGPT everything. It is a chatbot, not an all knowing being that knows every single thing ever. If you're not careful, you're going to get an answer that was taken off of The Onion or a reddit shitpost from 10 years ago, and it'll give you that answer with the confidence of a dude mansplaining how a car works to a woman. Unless you're fact-checking every single source ChatGPT gives you, how would you know the information you've been given is completely true? If you are doing that, how is that easier than just looking it up on Google and searching for viable sources yourself? It’s almost as if it’s a tool and not something to rely your all A’s on…
When talking about the downfall of education, media literacy rates, and complex thinking skills, it's a much bigger problem that has to be addressed with numerous causes with how effective the school system is, how short form content has lowered our attention spans, how society and the government is affecting children’s learning, and many more things. But I do feel the need to put some of the blame on AI chatbots such as ChatGPT.
When has it become normal to generate whole essays on a book your class spent months reading and talking about? Why do you need an AI’s opinion on what a motif in a piece of media means when the whole point is to come up with a meaning for it YOURSELF? Why can't you answer the easiest of questions without desperately searching for an AI to answer it for you? At some point, thinking for yourself is easier than asking an AI to do it for you. The people using ChatGPT to do their homework for them are our future lawyers, surgeons, politicians, and etc., are we going to be forced to trust someone who AI’d their entire way through the education that cost tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of dollars that's important to doing their job correctly?
It's also important to mention the fact that you can't ask ChatGPT everything. It is a chatbot, not an all knowing being that knows every single thing ever. If you're not careful, you're going to get an answer that was taken off of The Onion or a reddit shitpost from 10 years ago, and it'll give you that answer with the confidence of a dude mansplaining how a car works to a woman. Unless you're fact-checking every single source ChatGPT gives you, how would you know the information you've been given is completely true? If you are doing that, how is that easier than just looking it up on Google and searching for viable sources yourself? It’s almost as if it’s a tool and not something to rely your all A’s on…
AI botS |
No like actually, the dead internet theory is real. Everywhere I turn, there’s a bot rage baiting and engagement farming for some quick cash. I can’t go to a single place on social media apps where there isn’t an AI voice over some Subway or Minecraft parkour gameplay reading an AI generated Reddit story that’s unnecessarily broken up into eleven 30 seconds to 1 minute parts that could’ve easily fit into a singular video, or a bot with a suggestive picture of some woman as their profile picture posting whatever so people can see their posts and click on their profile to see a link to an advertised OnlyFans.
It’s especially horrible on Twitter because you literally cannot escape them. They pay for a verified badge so their posts get pushed onto every single person’s feed or under every comments section. They are ALWAYS on some stupid bigot bullshit just to get a couple angry replies and the rogue like from an incel still living in their mom’s basement.
Facebook has to be an AI bot's gathering place because every single AI bot and feature I’ve described so far is all bundled up and put into the app. Facebook is a mangled mess of everything wrong with Meta, besides the fact it's owned by Zuckerberg and that in of itself is horrible. I even decided to open up Facebook for the first time ever just to prove my own point, and I did indeed prove it. There’s ragebait, crappy politicians posting misinformation, AI art being created at lightning speeds, AI videos of puppies and kittens being horrifyingly (and I do mean horrifying) cute, AI bots posting the same fake news headlines of some child creating a masterpiece, the monotone AI voice over the most random videos, Facebook has everything with AI you never asked for!
It’s especially horrible on Twitter because you literally cannot escape them. They pay for a verified badge so their posts get pushed onto every single person’s feed or under every comments section. They are ALWAYS on some stupid bigot bullshit just to get a couple angry replies and the rogue like from an incel still living in their mom’s basement.
Facebook has to be an AI bot's gathering place because every single AI bot and feature I’ve described so far is all bundled up and put into the app. Facebook is a mangled mess of everything wrong with Meta, besides the fact it's owned by Zuckerberg and that in of itself is horrible. I even decided to open up Facebook for the first time ever just to prove my own point, and I did indeed prove it. There’s ragebait, crappy politicians posting misinformation, AI art being created at lightning speeds, AI videos of puppies and kittens being horrifyingly (and I do mean horrifying) cute, AI bots posting the same fake news headlines of some child creating a masterpiece, the monotone AI voice over the most random videos, Facebook has everything with AI you never asked for!
Who fucking asked for this?
It’s replacing things that didn’t need to be replaced. Why have a phone on a fridge when we already have a phone? Why have an AI overview when we already have summarization? Why does every single app feel the need to incorporate AI when it’s basically useless to the function? It doesn’t even add any entertainment factor to the app, it’s just there collecting dust. Can't I traverse through Twitter or Instagram without accidentally awakening some feature not a single person is asking for? Why do I need an AI in my car to tell me if I'm going too fast when the MPH meter is right in front of me? It's making everything unusable.
Everything being digitized for the implementation of AI, while being useless, is extremely not disability-friendly. What could be a dial is on some pure glass touchscreen with no indication of where anything is. A whole touchscreen phone with an AI feature embedded in a car is not a technological stride, that is not only making our lives harder and more at risk because I have to look off the road to go to an app on the oversized car phone to change the temperature. It essentially makes the car unusable for someone who is blind or has low bodily functions. This goes for every single thing being digitized, just because they want a stupid little AI voice to think for you. It’s so incredibly pointless, not a single person besides white tech bros asked for this.
Needless to say, I really fucking hate AI. ❤️
It’s replacing things that didn’t need to be replaced. Why have a phone on a fridge when we already have a phone? Why have an AI overview when we already have summarization? Why does every single app feel the need to incorporate AI when it’s basically useless to the function? It doesn’t even add any entertainment factor to the app, it’s just there collecting dust. Can't I traverse through Twitter or Instagram without accidentally awakening some feature not a single person is asking for? Why do I need an AI in my car to tell me if I'm going too fast when the MPH meter is right in front of me? It's making everything unusable.
Everything being digitized for the implementation of AI, while being useless, is extremely not disability-friendly. What could be a dial is on some pure glass touchscreen with no indication of where anything is. A whole touchscreen phone with an AI feature embedded in a car is not a technological stride, that is not only making our lives harder and more at risk because I have to look off the road to go to an app on the oversized car phone to change the temperature. It essentially makes the car unusable for someone who is blind or has low bodily functions. This goes for every single thing being digitized, just because they want a stupid little AI voice to think for you. It’s so incredibly pointless, not a single person besides white tech bros asked for this.
Needless to say, I really fucking hate AI. ❤️
