…a.i. problems >>>> a.i. solutions…it is going to hurt us way more than it will save or embetter us…and i say us knowing that so many working on it will definitely be materially better/stronger/faster because of it…but me…luddite…people person…i don’t get a choice about not using it or having it belittle and destroy what little money i made in art because of it…we should never forget that the first problems a.i. chose to solve were art, music, photography, and writing…they chose to focus on creativity as the first target of their mirth…it’s funny because most people wouldn’t want to be bit by a vampire…but they will dangle a dozen different ways what a.i. has done and how it did it as noble and novel…righteous and valuable…then i try to find an old record online and the only search results are fake bands pretending to be real…the fact that barely anyone calls their ai creativity “ai creativity” speaks to it as a replacer, not its own thing…just this week a friend who uses suno told me he makes music now…i’m sorry but it is just a fax, a xerox, and another way technologists seek to dehumanize this experience…end rant…as one of the many bitten by this tech i feel confident and comfortable in saying loudly… A.I. SUCKS …
If anyone put me in the position of holding the cord in the wall to all of AI I’d give it a permanent yank without a moment’s hesitation. On behalf of the male side that cares, I am so sorry you face the careless deployment of the tool. My only personal recourse is not to use it. Thank you for your beautifully written, articulate and powerful article.
Thank you Rick! For now, not using it might be a solution, but sadly i don't see the world going back on it. Hopefully we'll manage to fix some of the issues!
yes. thank you for writing this. breaks my heart even as the trajectory of tech use is banal, predictable, unimaginative. I still puzzle over how we got here though I lived through the shift from 80s-style rapiness (a single example: the music video for Come On Eileen) to internet surveillance, drones, and hyper-convenience. I did send it to a C-suite tech guy, old family friend, I will bug him to read it, too. glad of your writing even though it's super hard.
Thank you Ed, that's very kind of you. It's always so interesting to hear from people who have lived through several generations of AI research! I was barely a kid when Facebook arrived ahah, I don't have that much perspective :)
Frightening. An utterly terrifying confluence of the toxic misuse of technology, toxic masculinity, and a toxic work environment, that women will unfortunately be forced to face and fight against. Reading your detailed description, it’s like revenge porn without the revenge. Just appropriating women’s…and, sadly, kids’ (for all the pedophiles out there)…faces and bodies for all sorts of ill and ought-to-be illegal purposes. Just goes to show how far behind the law is in prosecuting to protect those who need to be protected already. Such serious life-destroying consequences for victims, when AI develops faster than our society’s capacity for wisdom.
…a.i. problems >>>> a.i. solutions…it is going to hurt us way more than it will save or embetter us…and i say us knowing that so many working on it will definitely be materially better/stronger/faster because of it…but me…luddite…people person…i don’t get a choice about not using it or having it belittle and destroy what little money i made in art because of it…we should never forget that the first problems a.i. chose to solve were art, music, photography, and writing…they chose to focus on creativity as the first target of their mirth…it’s funny because most people wouldn’t want to be bit by a vampire…but they will dangle a dozen different ways what a.i. has done and how it did it as noble and novel…righteous and valuable…then i try to find an old record online and the only search results are fake bands pretending to be real…the fact that barely anyone calls their ai creativity “ai creativity” speaks to it as a replacer, not its own thing…just this week a friend who uses suno told me he makes music now…i’m sorry but it is just a fax, a xerox, and another way technologists seek to dehumanize this experience…end rant…as one of the many bitten by this tech i feel confident and comfortable in saying loudly… A.I. SUCKS …
If anyone put me in the position of holding the cord in the wall to all of AI I’d give it a permanent yank without a moment’s hesitation. On behalf of the male side that cares, I am so sorry you face the careless deployment of the tool. My only personal recourse is not to use it. Thank you for your beautifully written, articulate and powerful article.
Thank you Rick! For now, not using it might be a solution, but sadly i don't see the world going back on it. Hopefully we'll manage to fix some of the issues!
yes. thank you for writing this. breaks my heart even as the trajectory of tech use is banal, predictable, unimaginative. I still puzzle over how we got here though I lived through the shift from 80s-style rapiness (a single example: the music video for Come On Eileen) to internet surveillance, drones, and hyper-convenience. I did send it to a C-suite tech guy, old family friend, I will bug him to read it, too. glad of your writing even though it's super hard.
Thank you Ed, that's very kind of you. It's always so interesting to hear from people who have lived through several generations of AI research! I was barely a kid when Facebook arrived ahah, I don't have that much perspective :)
Frightening. An utterly terrifying confluence of the toxic misuse of technology, toxic masculinity, and a toxic work environment, that women will unfortunately be forced to face and fight against. Reading your detailed description, it’s like revenge porn without the revenge. Just appropriating women’s…and, sadly, kids’ (for all the pedophiles out there)…faces and bodies for all sorts of ill and ought-to-be illegal purposes. Just goes to show how far behind the law is in prosecuting to protect those who need to be protected already. Such serious life-destroying consequences for victims, when AI develops faster than our society’s capacity for wisdom.