I think a lot of very good points have been brought up in this thread – a really interesting read. I’m low-key less of an AI-hater than many people I interact with (it probably has a place… somewhere?) but I definitely don’t want to interact with it, despite what my (over) use of em-dashes imply (I just love all kinds of punctuation, especially if it lets me cram even more stuff into my already overflowing sentences lmao)
I’ve seen different takes on most of the issues, ranging from that the environmental issues are a bit overblown (I personally have no clue and am not looking into it since I already don’t use AI*) and that it’s not melting our brains any more than books did lol. I do know that a lot of the big AI companies are connected to highly unethical companies in the war industry (from my understanding at least) and that’s where it really falls apart for me. Hell no.
As for interacting with AI, I just have no interest in seeing what someone couldn’t be bothered to make. Like no, I don’t want to follow your AI-generated slop page, thanks. I’d rather be, say, on the indie web looking at something that someone took the time to make themselves, because they cared.
As for the learning thing i think it connects beautifully to the “Question about technical skills and creativity”-thread. Yup, learning kinda sucks. I agree. But as someone who’s been doing frustrating hobbies my entire life, having learned is amazing. It was really difficult to find the info I needed at first, but then I learned and now I can find the right keywords much easier. Or I can’t!! and I make some jumbled mess that me-in-three-years will think is horrid and be able to fix. Idk I think I just adore the learning process too much for it to even have an appeal.
*I did use it once for an assignment where they forced me to. I have never been so frustrated before in my life, lol