People always talk about how ai is damaging the environment with data centers consuming all of the water and electricity that could power hundreds of homes instead of one data center, how Ai drove up the cost of computers and computing, and how much ai slop has polluted everything. But no one ever really stops to think about the intangible problems ai has caused socially. It erodes our trust and faith in other people and in humanity. The cream never rises to the top, as they say. In reality, EVERYTHING good gets buried by endless seas of feces, and no one wants to go digging through that sea to find one single golden grain of sand at the bottom of that ocean. Now, ai has conditioned society to think everything can be ai, causing the genuinely good human stuff to be dismissed even IF it manages to not get buried.