I have yet to find a use for Generative AI and continue to read about all the problems arising from the major purveyors of these tools.
Drew Wilson provides dozens of examples of AI gone wrong in Drew Wilson was Right: Carney’s AI Push Leads to AI Hallucinations.
Leaving it all to AI and just expecting some magical money saving result that’s better than ever before is a recipe for disaster. It’s burned so many people as shown above and will continue to burn people. This no matter how many times people swear up and down that AI is ‘improving’ and ‘practically perfect’. It’s nowhere near that and requires human intervention.
Canadian Senator Paula Simons calls the current situation an AI Fever Dream.
What worries me isn’t smart computers—it’s stupid humans, using the crudest energy-sucking generative AI tools to make themselves dumber, debase creativity and undermine the very concept of truth itself … When I see governments and businesses pushing people to use AI to answer every email, goose every online search or even draft official documents, I can only hope this fever dream will pass, that it will become fashionable again to write and create and think for ourselves.
Finally, Karl Bode says that The Problem with AI is Shitty Human Beings and these problems are ignored by the mainstream media.
There’s no mention of Elon Musk’s AI data centers generating pollution illegally aimed directly at the city’s minority populations. There’s no mention of how the immense power consumption of AI has resulted in companies discarding their already tepid-climate goals, threatening foundational human existence, something that (as always) will hit the vulnerable and marginalized the hardest.
There’s no discussion about how the extraction class sees AI as central to their plans to destroy organized labor, or that rushed AI adoption in fields like journalism have been profoundly disastrous both in the degradation of existing journalism and the propping up of cheaply-produced autocratic propaganda.
I don’t care how convenient these tools may be for many people. They make no sense to me.
