Comment on Upset about progress

• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do you really need to have a list of why people are sick of Ai slop?

  Ai is literally making people dumber:

  microsoft.com/…/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_sur…

  www.theregister.com/…/is_ai_changing_our_brains/

  They are a massive privacy risk:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zoP-JOg&t=3015s

  theconversation.com/ai-tools-collect-and-store-da…

  Are being used to push fascist ideologies into every aspect of the internet:

  …org.uk/…/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

  And they are a massive environmental disaster:

  news.mit.edu/…/explained-generative-ai-environmen…

  forbes.com/…/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-s…

  If you are unable to make the content yourself then it’s not worth making. Either pass the ideas onto someone that can or learn to draw and stop destroying the environment with this slop.

  source

  • lemmy_acct_id_8647@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    👏👏👏

    source
• Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you can’t see why people don’t like AI slop, you are either in denial or completely oblivious.

  source
• Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So it must be banned just like the books at the library that republicans deem harmful.

  This is like the worst false equivalence I have ever seen.

  source
• edinbruh@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Even if AIs weren’t inherently harmful, the companies that make them are. And by utilising, publicising, and integrating in your workflow their product you are pumping their value and giving them both more means and more reasons to fuck people over. And because making and selling an AI requires a giant mega corporation, there cannot be a free (as in freedom) alternative.

  On top of this, the AI is actually harmful. First of all, they are building their value by stealing other people’s work. They also use psychological tricks to try to give you dependency, that’s why AIs are always overly cheerful, always complimenting questions, and why companies try to humanise the product, they do this to convince you to integrate their AI in your workflow, and once it’s done, your business becomes dependent on them, and that makes them money. And if that wasn’t enough, everything you tell the AI is both used to improve the AI, and to profile for advertising.

  source
• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The internet is dead when every content is AI generated, so yes we’re heading that way.

  source
• medgremlin@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The environmental impact of using generative AI is obscene. I don’t have the source for the claim, but I’ve seen an estimate that an AI generated image creates as much damage as a gallon of gasoline being burned for substantially less actual use.

  source