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| author | mjkwiatkowski <mati.rewa@gmail.com> | 2025-12-21 12:28:33 +0100 |
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| committer | mjkwiatkowski <mati.rewa@gmail.com> | 2025-12-21 12:28:33 +0100 |
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diff --git a/public/posts/:w b/public/posts/:w deleted file mode 100644 index f53d870..0000000 --- a/public/posts/:w +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -+++ -date = '2025-09-12T23:08:15+02:00' -draft = false -title = 'Denounce AI' -+++ - -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. - -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. - -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. - -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 paper itself. -This 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 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. - -I will probably be updating this blog post to review my arguments and add on top of everything. -Maybe who knows, one day I might change my mind, but if it happens so, I will for sure write another post about it. -Thanks for reading! - |
