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+date = '2025-09-12T23:08:15+02:00'
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+Recently I have read a blog post by [Jamie Zawinski](https://www.jwz.org/) on [Anthony Moser's opinion](https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html) about the current developments in AI. 
+Now I want to try to formulate my own arguments against the overwhelming reliance on AI nowadays.
+It's been my point of view for a while, however I would like to now clearly state why I think the direction the technology world is heading is wrong. 
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+AI, although currently being hyped beyond reason, has been around since the previous century. 
+However, with the release of ChatGPT to the public, generative models have entered the lives of everyone.
+As a Computer Science student I have first hand witnessed the effects of a paradigm shift in many domains, and after 2 years I believe that relying on content generated by artificial intelligence is simply harmful.
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+As an avid fan of english literature I really like reading well-written books. 
+It is a great feeling to be able to appreciate the intricacies of the language and the craftsmanship of the author, who has taken the time (sometimes decades) to write about a certain topic. 
+If you read a lot, you can often tell a well-written book from a poorly constructed one, and if enough people realize this, the society awards great writers with prizes and honors.
+However, with the rise of large language models, essays, books, novels and much more can be created with a single prompt to the model. 
+While the quality of such writing can often be questionable, it's important to realize that this takes away the very essence and purpose of writing in the first place. 
+When you put pen to paper you both try to advance your own thinking and convey your feelings and views to a broader audience. 
+It is your opinion and findings that matter, and this is by no means a trivial process. 
+Using artificial intelligence to write for you, or help you write, or correct your writing defeats the purpose of writing something in the first place. 
+This is also the right moment to point out the current concerns regarding this for the book authors and artist of any other kind as well. 
+AI is slowly getting better and better at this kind of work, rendering virtually impossible for me right now to distinguish e.g., electronic music generated by AI and created by humans. 
+This poses a threat to the literature and artistic community, and by proxy, to readers and everyone interested in art. 
+I consciously cannot use such technology knowing that it displaces the very people I admire the work of.
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+What is even more interesting is that many large language models are trained on books, which are later completely discarded and thrown out. 
+Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI model, has destroyed millions of print books to train their AI.
+[Here](https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/) is a very good article about this.
+In essence, to train the AI, one must scan the books first, preferably quickly. 
+According to Anthropic, the most efficient way to go about this is to strip the books of their cover, rip out the pages and scan just the printed paper. 
+This irreversibly destroys the books, which are later thrown out. 
+It's a good moment to ask oneself -- is this what I'd like to happen to my book, if I ever wrote one?
+I will not raise the ethics concerns behind such actions, it's also not my aim to start a debate about this. 
+However, I think the question above is worth asking to yourself.
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+I think the point made by [Hayao Miyazaki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki), the studio Ghibli founder behind some of the best animated movies of the last century summarizes it pretty well. 
+Recently there has been a viral video going on of him saying in 2016 how he believes AI to be _an insult to life itself_. 
+As strong of an opinion as it is, I sympathize with his standpoint of view. 
+Being an artist and designer, seeing your life's work being completely overtaken by soulless software must be terrifying.