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- <h2>Denounce AI</h2>
- <p>Recently I have read a blog post by <a href="https://www.jwz.org/">Jamie Zawinski</a> on <a href="https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html">Anthony Moser&rsquo;s opinion</a> about the current developments in AI.
-Now I want to try to formulate my own arguments against the overwhelming reliance on AI nowadays.
-It&rsquo;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.</p>
-<p>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.</p>
-<p>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&rsquo;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.</p>
-<p>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.
-<a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/">Here</a> 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&rsquo;s a good moment to ask oneself &ndash; is this what I&rsquo;d like to happen to my book, if I ever wrote one?
-I will not raise the ethics concerns behind such actions, it&rsquo;s also not my aim to start a debate about this.
-However, I think the question above is worth asking to yourself.</p>
-<p>I think the point made by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki">Hayao Miyazaki</a>, 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 <em>an insult to life itself</em>.
-As strong of an opinion as it is, I sympathize with his standpoint of view.
-Being an artist and designer, seeing your life&rsquo;s work being completely overtaken by soulless software must be terrifying.</p>
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