I don't care if this makes me a dinosaur. If I found out that a writer had used a solitary line of AI I would never read them again. If I thought someone had used AI in an email to me, I would never respond or indeed respect them again.
youtu.be/CsQtUSTSX40?...
I'm so sorry
AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: - data centers pollute our environment - energy use drives up costs - content theft robs creators of income - the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages - using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence - the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
Doesn’t matter if it’s awful
Doesn’t matter if it’s nice
If it confirms your bias, check it twice!
::clap clap::
Can we not just delete ChatGPT instead?
We use a self-hosted install of WordPress for around £18 a month. It's very customisable, but it helps if you're comfortable with some basic coding. Or you could hire someone to create the layout, then just update the content yourself.
I haven't seen it yet (still need to watch the last episode of the BBC boyband documentary), but that's pretty much what I was expecting :(
"Woke" just means widening your circle of empathy, which is the precise opposite of fascism.