i literally dont care what your excuse for using AI is. if you didnt put your own effort into making it im not putting my own effort into interacting with it.
“buhbub uhbubuh its just a tool!!” yeah youd know about being a tool wouldnt you
The only valid reasons to use AI I can think of are incredibly niche: stuff like climatologists building increasingly sophisticated models of the global climate system (all models are wrong but some models are less wrong than others. scientists are constantly making models more detailed and accurate as they get more info/as computers advance and are more able to process massive amounts of data, but this already requires massive computing power. climate modelling is not my area of expertise, so I’m not sure exactly how or even if AI would be useful in refining existing climate models. but my sense is that being able to understand human impact on the global climate system and downscale that information from global to local and predict how our communities might change in the coming decades based off different possible actions, would be a net good either way.)
the thing is, what we’re seeing rolled out as AI right now is categorically Not That. the scenarios where it might make sense to use AI are not something the vast majority of people will ever experience. AI on social media, using chat gpt to write your emails, using AI art to make a profile picture, having it do your homework terribly and usually incorrectly… these things are silly and lowkey embarrassing. sorry not sorry, the slop produced by your resource-intensive plagiarism machine is a net negative on society and the planet, except for maybe a vanishingly small number of exceptions.
it’s fuck generative AI in this household always and forever!! if gen AI has no haters I’m dead
amhrancas 