Tech Thought's

My opinion of AI is very mixed. To be honest I was originally going to use an AI image to fit in with the theme of this post, but decided against it as it goes against one of the things I hate about it, (in fact now I feel bad for even considering it now I put my thoughts to paper). I please ask you read though all of this, before making judgements on my views, as while I may sound like a “tech bro” for the first bit I am certainly not.

First, let us talk about what I like about AI before I come off as some progress-hating hermit who scared to learn new things, (though it would probably be much less stressful living like that in some respects).

AI can be extremely useful when used for matter of fact things. Like summarizing data, proof reading (when it doesn’t decide to change the whole meaning of your work), and offering programing help which has been very helpful in times when I hit a dead-end and just can’t work it out.

Of course, this has its downsides, if you become too reliant on AI and never try to understand its output then you never really learn anything. I have made it my personal goal to not use AI for any written/image content on this site, and only as a last resort for anything on the html/coding side of things (not needed it yet). Learning to use AI is (sadly in some respects), going to be a key skill for our future world, without understanding what its spitting out you never really grow. Humanity as a whole could lose very valuable skills if we become a world where we just copy and paste from AI.

Now for what I cannot stand about AI, and that is people, people f***ing suck. Where do I start, CEO’s trying to replace human workers even if it means a worse customer experience, people making horrible AI art built using stolen works, all the AI slop on social media, and of course all the bots now spreading content meant to push certain views(that all goanna say for that rabbit hole on the last point).

Like I know, you always have bad people in the world but so many people seem to just want to use AI to make a quick buck even if it means making stuff worse. Google search now throws AI in your face, making search worse, every new bit of tech is trying throw in AI as a selling point even if 90% people do not want it, just AHHHHHHHHHHHH.

AI eats up so much power and in some cases water for cooling and were using it for, what? Make crappy copies of things a real human can make much better.

I think I will stop here as I am just starting to rant. TLDR AI can be very good, why are people burning the planet to make crappy AI videos designed to seeming to make us lose brain cells. I promise the next post on here will not be as ranty