There is a plethora of articles about AI and its benefits and detriments, so I'm not going into that. I'm curious how you, as the everyday person who likes the slow life, or writing, or anything arts-related, feel about it?
I've been an opponent from the beginning. Sure, there may be a few amazing things it can do, like taking any and all information from all over the world and delivering it to you in seconds, but do we really need that? Will science truly thrive from it? Will the world evolve more positively from it?
I don't think so. We already can't navigate our own roads without Google anymore. How is this going to help our brains? It can't.
Music written, composed, and sung by AI? Yep. We don't need musicians or music teachers anymore.
Art created and displayed for the world to ooh and ahh over? Yep, there go the artists.
Actors, acting on television, movies, and in theaters, are created by AI, not actual human beings. No more real people acting. Isn't this the ultimate tragedy Shakespeare never saw coming!
Articles, stories, and books now written and emitted like a factory product, out in seconds? No reason for writers anymore, is there?
And that's why I can't stand AI. Our brains began stagnating with the start of the internet, and now, with AI, we will be perpetually lost. We are not smarter having everything at our fingertips; we've merely placed our brains into autopilot - more realistically, we have turned off our brains - and have stopped learning.
I write regularly for Chicken Soup for the Soul, and one of their "requirements" for a good story is to not use AI. Over the last two years, their wording about AI was rather congenial and said something to the effect of "It doesn't make your words sound that good anyway." How kind of them.
Now? I just looked at that paragraph placed at the end of their story guidelines page, and it says in the boldest letters possible, "DO NOT USE AI AT ALL." My, my, my ... how things have changed.
There is the misconception that using AI will improve a piece. It does not, apparently. I'd like to venture that the same concept can be said for music. Sure, it can spit out a piece of work, but is it that great? Is it not a conglomeration of regurgitated pieces from all over the world?
In my opinion, if a human brain didn't work on it, it's not going to be ideal. It may be pretty, it may be packaged nicely, but it's not real, it's not whole, and it's not complete.
Yet, this is a Pandora's box that has been opened, never to be shut again. I suppose this post is a little too much, a little too late. We can't go back. The revenue generated from AI creation is what will propel AI to keep improving, if that's possible.
But I don't want art, music, acting, or writing from a machine. I want it from a human being. A being who was made in the image of God. AI is a machine made by man... it's a removal of ourselves further from God, more to the world of man-made "freedoms" and "rights."
AI is the dumbing down and numbing down of the whole world. Exactly where "they" want us to be (I'm still not sure who "they" is, but "they" certainly aren't for us.) "Trust AI," they say, "It's here to help you," - and with that, all I have to say is "no." I'm not saying no because I'm getting old and don't want change.
As I'm writing this post, my Grammarly software keeps telling me how to rewrite and "make better" the sentences I'm forming. I don't want that! I want my words. I use this software strictly to correct typos, not to rewrite paragraphs for me. How do I become a better writer if the software is doing it for me?
I'm saying no because by saying yes to AI, to a very powerful entity, it is trying to (and going to) succeed in taking the place of us God-made humans and ultimately, God himself.
We don't need us; we don't need God; we only need AI.
I will write without AI, I will choose to listen to real artists, and I will watch real actors as often as possible. And to all of those others who love AI and will try to convince me otherwise to use it, I kindly but ever-fervently say, in my best Dr. Evil (from Austin Powers) voice, "How about no?"
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