You donāt learn math by punching numbers into a calculator, but once youāve learned how to math a calculator is very useful and allows you to do far more.
On a professional level as a graphic designer, there are a lot of repetitive tasks that I can imagine AI making much easier and faster. (Just donāt tell my clients, please)
On a societal level, generativeAI in particular is a nightmare. I canāt imagine using a dating app at this point, for example.
Maybe it should be like alcohol - you canāt use it until youāre 21
May 24, 2025
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I like this take! Iām in STEM so it feels wrong to be as morally opposed to AI as I am in its current state, but Iām just so grossed out by its abuse. Then I remember ways I dreamt software could optimize itself to my specific needs without a human having to analyse and then code on my individual behaviours before AI was a thing and hope for a future where itās regulated and focused on those menial tasks a human shouldnāt have to do.
May 25, 2025
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I worked in a lab that used machine learning to identity things about cells and tissues that would take a human years just due to how time consuming it would be to count and compute by hand. Other science applications are potentially finding cancer earlier and earlier for better outcomes. People also sometimes clown on people who need chatgpt to make a grocery list for them, but I think assisting people with ADLs could be really beneficial too (though thereās getting to be some tricky nuance with people using it for too much instead of letting themselves be challenged a little and idk where to draw that line). I just donāt want restaurants to use AI generated photos on their menus, I get uneasy with people submitting photos of themselves to be transformed with AI, and I donāt think art, poetry, literature, etc should use AI. The whole point of being creative is to do the creating, not to get a computer to do it for you lol. And people said similar things about digital art, but with that youāre still picking up a stylus and physically doing the work yourself and not just typing in a prompt. And this isnāt even getting into the libraries that AI trains on and if everything in there was acquired correctly or if itās stolenā¦
May 24, 2025
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nah, i wouldn't use it like that, and i'd strongly recommend that no one does. there have been various pieces written about AI inducing what is essentially religious/spiritual psychosis in people, some of which have even lead to divorce. but, even aside from that, replacing human interaction, companionship or therapy, with a hyper-advanced predictive text chat bot will do nothing but further alienate people, especially under capitalism.
i think using it to talk to someone that's deceased isn't quite as bad as the latter, but is still very bad. understanding and coping with mortality is something that humans have been doing the entire time we've existed, and a key part of the way we process death involves not being able to talk to the deceased person anymore. aside from completely removing that aspect of the experience of losing a loved one, what are the ethical implications of this, and how would one even feasibly "get their loved one into the LLM?" would you have to upload their all of their diaries to some cloud based AI service? would you have to painstakingly write their biography into the prompt field yourself?
i think a lot of people are using "AI" (i hate that its even called that) for things that it should never have been used for. use it as a tool to summarize your emails and make lists, not as a therapist or girlfriend.
Jun 12, 2025
AI is garbage for so many reasons and none of us should be using it.
that includes making art as well as seemingly mundane corporate tasks.
itās atrocious for the planet, itās horrific for the uncredited workers who labor to power it, it bulldozes all notions of āprivacyā and further fast-tracks the commodification of humanity, and itās fueling the dumpster fire that is an entire generation of brains raised in the cesspool of the internet.
Jan 13, 2025
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Iām not sure why, I guess things ending are sad. Hereās a self portrait I made in charcoal. The proportions are wonky but it kinda looks like me!
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The occupation persists, the oppression persists, the torture persists.
The occupiers are psychotic and their work is never finished.
People whoāve paid attention wonāt be surprised by this photo from Gaza.
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