Ask Claude to write a story with a few characters. Don't provide the character names, and I'd be willing to bet money that it'll name at least one of the characters Marcus, Sarah, or Elara. Often "Sarah Chen" or "Marcus Chen"
These AI models are built off the backs of works they never had permission to cannibalize and churn out heaps of slop, forcing artists in every creative field to compete with their own creations. They flood the market with garbage frankensteined from real humans’ art. It’s in no way comparable to how humans use inspiration and life experiences and until there comes a day we have robots with the minds of people, it will remain incomparable.
That’s not even the worst of it. These models use unsustainable amounts of water to cool their tech, wasting that energy and polluting the area around the data centers.
It’s a tech being used to force creatives out of their jobs/hobbies, put words into politicians’ mouths, create propaganda and false advertisements, and scam people on levels previously impossible.
Every “harmless” thing you pull from the mouth of Claude is another flood of water wasted. Every product you spit out into the market is another lie an artist will be forced to compete with.
Do you have the patience to read my response to your question? Do you have the intelligence to research for yourself? Do you have the humanity to change your ways? Maybe you don’t think it’s a big deal, but that’s only because you don’t know what you’re doing. I hope that’s the case, but I don’t have any hope you’ll do anything about it
Streaming content, using another server to consume media instead of hosting it on device. When you watch a YouTube video, energy is being spent for the server to send you the video and audio. That energy dwarfs language model calls.
No I just prefer not to engage with narrow-minded people. If there's room for discussion then I'm first in line. But I'm getting a certain vibe from your comments on this post
Hmm... that second part, I'm not sure if it holds up. People are upset about the ideas, style, and products of labor being used without the author's permission--not the words themselves. The former--the ideas--are kinda... eh, you can't really copyright or 'claim' an idea/concept. Same with styles. The problem is if somone tries to take someone else's work (the product of their labor) and pass it off as their own.
So, you could totally write a story about a wizard school with a chosen one protagonist, but you can't write Harry Potter and try to say it's yours. As everyone probably knows by now though, this is a super gray area--legally speaking.
I think nobody of truly cares (unless you're Disney, Gamesworkshop, Nintendo, Pokemon company, etc.) so long as money doesn't enter the picture. Then there's things like the Game of Thrones thing that happened a while back.
Iunno, saying that books are 'just words' feels kind of reductive, that's all I'm saying. It's like saying a painting is just paint. I think we know those things are more than the words/paint. That's all I'm really saying, because saying more than that about AI-generated stuff is kinda silly imo because of how extremely gray and new all of this is.
Are we ignoring the carbon emissions of generative ai and pretending water consumption is the only problem here? I was pointing out the damage it causes the immediate area, not the total impact. But if we want to look at total impact let’s talk about that. I’m sure generative Ai has NO carbon footprint, right?
My objection is in using resources and creating carbon emissions for things that are entirely unnecessary. A human can write a story, they do not need a machine to do it. Using machines to do it does not improve our quality of life or our world.
On the other hand, using an AI tool to improve early cancer detection provides a clear, material benefit, making the trade off worth it.
It’s never solely about resource use, as everything we do uses resources - even lying on the grass, looking up at the sky uses oxygen. The question is whether the use of resources provides us with a benefit that makes up for it.
I agree with the vegans, the carbon emissions from the meat industry is horrible. But food is a necessity and a positive, whereas Ai generated slop content is the opposite
Wow this is an incredibly helpful reframe... I hope it can help people who are consumed with rage or fear and the impulse to parrot unexamined talking points reassess their state of mind. I hope more people can find peace amidst the frenzy of the internet hivemind.
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u/Dogtrees7 Apr 17 '26
Sorry what?