“Let AI do it for you.” This phrase is being bandied about more and more by huge, out-of-touch companies that’d rather fire their own employees if it meant making an extra buck using AI replacements. These same companies, who blindly wade through bouts of public outrage, continue to sprinkle their “AI-enhanced services” with bouts of glitter and polish, hoping, praying the people won’t see the spoiled, rotten nature underneath. Despite their efforts, many still see through the flaws AI poses. Its work is soulless, lifeless, lacking in effort, and steals from expert artists who took years to hone their skills. AI models are also extremely wasteful, consuming up to 5 million gallons of water per day. That output dramatically increases carbon emissions, hurting our planet and the life within it.
AI isn’t just bad for the environment, but for the people who use it. Allowing an AI bot to think for you will ultimately deteriorate the mind and make it harder for one to learn and make quick, educated decisions. When someone asks a bot to do their homework or write an essay for them, how much thought have they contributed to its answer? None. Not an ounce of effort from their part. Simply feeding a model instructions and then plagiarizing the output. And that’s a huge issue when the entire point of those assignments is for students to learn and retain something. Just because it is done doesn’t mean it is done right.
AI chatbots, the services companies sprinkle in glitter to seem safe and revolutionary, have similar problems. An AI does not have human emotions. It does not care about you. It procedurally generates a response based on what is most likely to come next. And yet a startling number of people prefer these bots over real human relations. Because it specifically caters to you. They entice you, feed you words of praise and vehement agreement that keep you coming back. Don’t fall victim to this loop. Don’t use AI.
