I know I know, I’m not publishing so much on here, so is this meta and cliché article even necessary when there’s no new content anyway?
I think so.
I want to clarify some things, I want it to be very clear.
As an artist, as a dev and as a human I’m strongly against gen AI for many reasons. This little article is here to cite a few of them, but mostly to say that no gen AI will be used here.
I did use gen AI
Mostly for code, a bit for proofreading (even for here), and a little bit for advice.
It was okay, I mean it sometimes worked fine.
I won’t use gen AI anymore
Fun
It killed ALL the fun I had coding. I started coding to have fun, working for people killed that a little. Gen AI completely killed any remains of fun. Even the side projects became boring.
I always knew that in coding, the process is what I enjoy. Not the result. Gen AI abstracts the process in favor of results.
Ethics
Above the fun, gen AI comes with many ethics concerns that CAN’T be ignored.
This is a quick article, but mostly the issues I currently have are:
- the terrible ecological cost for something so futile
- the fact that it’s used to replace the creative stuff instead of the boring stuff
- the fact that no one understands the implications of AI nor it’s limits
- the training based on stealing
- the enshitification of every single product that includes AI
- the core usage encourages stealing by providing generations based on someone else’s work, often copying it with added errors
- the misinformation and confidence that it serves
- the fact that it poisons the rest of the web
All of this is on the top of my head, and of course there’s many more arguments.