I've got so much to say on this, but this guy covers it pretty well, so please... watch this and try to figure out if continuing to use (which means train) AI is worth it.

Expect further updates on this post, as AI continues to ruin literally everything.

I've just come across another concerning characteristic of AI use, which is particularly disturbing for children. I won't summarize, because the article is already short, but I will say that it raises an issue of huge importance and it really needs to be understood at a fundamental level. People using AI are already displaying a noticeable lack of creativity and originality, and they don't seem to have noticed it. That should be of great concern to us all.

Recently, I had a brief discussion with someone on Telegram, who was pushing the idea that 'AI is here to stay, so we should all get good at using it and take advantage of it, otherwise we will all lose out' (paraphrased). While I can see the logic in his position, my argument to that is very much along the lines of energetic compensation. If you give something energy, it will not only grow, but it will take the energy that you give it, and you will no longer have it. If you focus on good outcomes, you get good outcomes more often. If you worry, the things you worry about tend to happen more often, because you give them energy, feeding them into existence. And when it comes to AI, I, personally, do not intend to feed that monster.

This is the reason that I will never use AI for anything, and will not allow guest writers to publish articles on this website that were created by AI.

Anyway, have a look at the article, and if you're using AI for anything at all, please consider cutting that out and returning to reliance on your own brain (use it or lose it).

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study - Time

There's more.
In the last week, I've been trying to find videos about specific locations I'd like to visit. Travel videos have always been based on a predictable format, but then, they aren't supposed to be works of creative genius; they're informational and they're designed to appeal to the widest possible audience within a target demographic. For what they are, they're generally pretty good, if samey. But now, it seems that most of them are created entirely by AI. Get ready for people with extra limbs and mashed up fingers, illegible text, impossible shapes and sudden changes of narrator accent (and even language).

It's not just videos, either. Searching for a photograph of something has already become difficult, with more than half of the results being generated images. Photography will die hard, but AI's giving it a good shot. What it calls 'photo realistic' might stand for some faces and objects, but last time I checked, people didn't often have three six-fingered hands (but one does have to wonder about the numeric coincidence).

AI is single-handedly bastardizing all the graphical content on the internet, both, by flooding the space with garbage and by its blatant copyright infringement of work that actually took time and effort to create. It's trying to kill the artistic part of humanity, and it's doing a good job.

As a former camera operator and video editor, I sympathize with media creators and broadcasters. Their jobs require a lot of skill and labor, heavy equipment, time, manpower and energy. Movies, big and small, take a lot of work to create and polish. AI is just wiping all that away with the same six-fingered hand that's crippling the photographers, writers, musicians, graphic designers, and other creative people.

Even as I use search engines that aren't powered by the usual suspects, I'm finding it harder and harder to discover genuine human talent, as the artificial drowns it all out in a tsunami of plasticized nonsense that doesn't deserve the time it takes to scroll past it. And that time is growing. My last search only yielded AI results. There were no real humans behind any of the crap that came up, and that left me wondering if the internet, as a place to share, is on the way out.