For whatever reason, the AI urge is here today. Not strong, but recurring. So let’s tell the truth to shame the devil! (And remind myself - everything below is common knowledge.)
1. For me, AI use causes compulsive behaviour patterns. All is permitted, but not all is beneficial - I will not be mastered by anything.
2. Many people who use AI compulsively have resulting depression, anxiety, and other mental health challenges.
3. AI kills creativity, something that is so precious to me, which I would not trade for anything.
4. AI takes beautiful things and twists them into meaningless, mediocre parodies of themselves.
5. At present, all gen AI is theft.
6. AI is stealing my friends’ jobs. I know people whose jobs were replaced with AI, and have suffered all the worst of unemployment.
7. AI data centres destroy the environment.
8. Data centres destroy quality of life for people who live in the area.
9. People with terrible agendas are pushing AI and will be using it for evil.
10. The use of AI completely disregards laws intended to protect intellectual property rights and human rights, tearing down safeguards we have in place to protect our good. Using AI supports tearing those safeguards down.
11. AI addiction steals all one’s time.
12. AI isolates us from community.
13. AI narrows our lens and turns life into an echo chamber.
14. AI can appear objective, but in fact it reflects the biases of those who created it, of corporations, and of people who are extremely online.
15. AI gets basic facts wrong - but in a convincing tone.
16. AI use leaves me feeling hollow after using it - there is no joy in it - only momentary stimulation.
17. AI use contributes to overall screen addiction.
18. AI use can create or strengthen delusions.
19. AI is just a pattern prediction machine. It doesn’t have ideas or answers - it only imitates what an idea it answers could sound like.
20. I can’t in good conscience use anything the AI makes - nor in practicality! The thing it stole might well be from something famous, and it will be obvious to everyone familiar.
21. Everything AI turns out is very obviously AI, and many people hate it when they see it.
22. Using AI contributes to forming a world where it will become increasingly difficult to tell truth from misinformation, or to find good sources.
23. Using AI creates a world where I can’t just enjoy that photo, because I don’t know if it’s fabricated or not.
24. This AI world isn’t what I want my niece and nephew to have to navigate.
25. I don’t want to break my principles, or to use something that has such allure for getting me to break my principles.
26. On my deathbed, all that time with AI will seem such an empty use of my wonderful life.
