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Denounce AI

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Recently I have read a blog post by Jamie Zawinski on Anthony Moser’s opinion 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 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, 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.

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