You’re actively making everyone’s lives worse by using it. If it was a simple dislike of something that was harmless, that would be one thing, live and let live.
But it’s doing irreparable harm to our environment, to our communities, to our arts, to our jobs, to truth, and our minds.
You think you’re making your life better but you’re really just taking a shortcut because you don’t want to put in the work to get better.
You do know that just being alive pollutes the environment as well. Nearly everything we do does harm to the environment. Farming, livestock, driving, watching tv, using the device you are using to post this, flying, bathing, shitting, breathing… so are you disgusted by yourself?
AI’s impact on the environment is popular to talk about right now, but it pales in comparison to the impact of the oil industry. The impact of my driving my kid to sports practice is likely more significan than my use of AI to generate images.
As for arts, jobs, truth, and everyone elses minds. I’m not that important. My use impacts none of those.
Oh so other things are bad so it’s ok to do theoretically less bad things. What stupid logic. So it’s ok to hack off someone’s arm because murder happens elsewhere? We shouldn’t bother to cut back on pollution because there’s bigger pollution elsewhere? “But Billy stole a bunch of the cookies so it’s ok for me to steal one” is some infant level logic.
Supporting a thing and using it definitely contributes, whether you like it or not. Your use does impact those other things. Your use does enable it. Your use is causing constant droning in an infants ear in a community that didn’t ask for it. You use is sucking up water.
“I’m only a drop in the bucket” is a poor excuse, and just admitting you’re doing something shitty, just on a small scale.
You’re doing the wrong thing, you know it, but you don’t care. Selfish.
You’re actively making everyone’s lives worse by using it. If it was a simple dislike of something that was harmless, that would be one thing, live and let live.
But it’s doing irreparable harm to our environment, to our communities, to our arts, to our jobs, to truth, and our minds.
You think you’re making your life better but you’re really just taking a shortcut because you don’t want to put in the work to get better.
Your attitude is disgusting and selfish.
You do know that just being alive pollutes the environment as well. Nearly everything we do does harm to the environment. Farming, livestock, driving, watching tv, using the device you are using to post this, flying, bathing, shitting, breathing… so are you disgusted by yourself? AI’s impact on the environment is popular to talk about right now, but it pales in comparison to the impact of the oil industry. The impact of my driving my kid to sports practice is likely more significan than my use of AI to generate images.
As for arts, jobs, truth, and everyone elses minds. I’m not that important. My use impacts none of those.
Oh so other things are bad so it’s ok to do theoretically less bad things. What stupid logic. So it’s ok to hack off someone’s arm because murder happens elsewhere? We shouldn’t bother to cut back on pollution because there’s bigger pollution elsewhere? “But Billy stole a bunch of the cookies so it’s ok for me to steal one” is some infant level logic.
Supporting a thing and using it definitely contributes, whether you like it or not. Your use does impact those other things. Your use does enable it. Your use is causing constant droning in an infants ear in a community that didn’t ask for it. You use is sucking up water.
“I’m only a drop in the bucket” is a poor excuse, and just admitting you’re doing something shitty, just on a small scale.
You’re doing the wrong thing, you know it, but you don’t care. Selfish.