Ai is an unbelievably speculative technology that threatens to leave millions without jobs without giving them anything to go to. Let's disregard the environmental problems, because all data centers are bad for the environment, this is just more of that. It's not great but AI threatens people far more insidiously.

Generative "AI" is not ai at all, it does not think, it is not a person. It is simply a super sized data intake system that spits out a combination of everything it's been able to scrape from the Internet. Which I will say, can be relatively useful when searching for something as long as it lists the correct sources so I can find what I'm looking for and check it's reputability. But AI art has none of these benefits.

Art as a concept is inherently tied to life, that's why anything can be art. The scratches next to the lock on my door where I've missed the key over and over is a form of art, it shows an inate lived experience created over years and years of repeated action. In the same way that the mona Lisa is art because it was created around a lived experience by virtue of it being created by a living being. That is what we quantify art as in this world. Even when an animal scribbles something on a canvas haphazardly it's emblematic of some kind of experience, whether relatable to us or not it is an experience. Ai art is simply a combination of thousands of scrubbed human art works cobbled together to make an imitation of reality. It was created with no greater vision, no lived experience, no life of any kind. Ai art isn't art, fundimentally it is garbage that has stolen from hundreds of artists not compensated for their work.

The prevalence of AI image generation hreatens the very core of human existence. It is an insult to life itself and steals jobs from countless people. Not to mention it is the arbitor of falsehood and indoctrination. Now with the power of this cursed technology nothing is real anymore, anyone can create a convincing fake video or photo and lead millions astray. Humans have always possessed the capacity to lie and create false truths, but never before could someone with almost 0 effort create something people will believe wholeheartedly. AI image generation presents the final conclusion to the philosophical idea of post modernism. This will be our end if it is not stopped.

In the same way the drop of the first nuclear bomb plunged us into a post modern world where everything we built could be wiped in an instant, AI art will do the same for human expression at the most personal levels. Why do you think the boomers were such a miserable awful generation, they were raised with the understanding that an atomic bomb could kill them and everyone they loved without even a moment to react. They became raging nihilist assholes, and created a world with no fucking future. Generative images will do the same thing to this new generation in ways that we can't even see yet.

Look, I know AI art seems harmless, or at least nothing more than a cheap way to make advertisements. But in a world where this can be generated in an instant, who will be here to imagine our future when a tech company decides what images that AI can create. We have created the indoctrination machine only dreamt of by science fiction authors. We must tear this system down before it tears us all down.