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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” ― William Gibson, Neuromancer.
I’ll admit that the AI trend is somewhat alluring. There are slivers of real utility, but AI is steeped in marketing drivel, built upon theft, and intent on replacing our creative output with a depressingly shallow imitation. AI is lacking in the intelligence and shamelessly leaning on the artificial.
AI has become an assault on human creativity with the wholesale theft of “content” — art, code, words — which is infuriating. AI apologists say it’s not copyright infringement but “fair use”. It sure looks like license washing to me.
AI developers are keen to smother our creations with their hogwash. AI generated guff that has random characteristics of human creativity with non of the understanding. AI smugly consumes and regurgitates and we think you’re going to love it™.
Am I a Luddite? Living in north-west England I see the remnants of the Industrial Revolution every day. I walk past the now derelict textile mills the Luddites once fought to protect against automated machinery.
That local history may be why Jeremy Keith’s call to arms resonates with me:
I want to do more. I don’t just want to prevent my words being sucked up. I want to throw a spanner in the works. If my words are going to be snatched away, I want them to be poison pills.
The Luddites literally threw “a spanner in the works.” Unfortunately their fight was lost, the world moved on, and they were reduced to a pejorative. That doesn’t mean we should give in. The fight against AI bots isn’t just about employment. Although jobs are being lost. It’s about defending human creation, including the web.
I’m not anti-technology, I just don’t want to be drowned in slop. I don’t even have strong morals; I can be bought. Figuratively too, distract me with something shiny and I’ll turn a blind eye to the planet burning. But this AI — it’s all just so disappointingly shite, isn’t it?
AI advocates are bent on filling the web with AI pollution. Our creations are being chewed up and spat back in our faces. The web is being churned into static noise. And we’re still squinting at CAPTCHAs — fat lot of good those proved to be. AI may be inevitable, but this AI should be fought. They’re not playing fair, why should we?
This content originally appeared on dbushell.com and was authored by dbushell.com
dbushell.com | Sciencx (2024-06-17T10:00:00+00:00) AI Pollution. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2024/06/17/ai-pollution/
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