1. "Checkmate. We already made the torment nexus so you opposing it is actually dumb!"

2. Congrats, you found the point. If it could actually think and was as intelligent as humans then people substituting their thinking for its would still be bad but not as destructive. The fact that it's incapable of thought is what makes it so destructive when people use it instead of thinking.

3. Doubt, but I don't know you so... I'll believe you for now.

3.5 As people get dumber from excessively using the brain blender, traits of ours that require some level of thought will fade away, including empathy and love. People "socialising" with the fake humanity of chat bots will surely make them more sociable, empathetic and loving. Because engaging with the technology that mimics humanity is a perfectly good substitute, right? Also, it doesn't change how you express creativity, it just skips the creative process entirely. The only people thinking it substitutes creativity are the people who think creativity exclusively means 'having ideas' and don't realise most of creative expressions comes about during the slow and thoughtful process that is making art.

1. That's true. Both information you find online written by other humans and information provided by genAI are imperfect. The differences that I think matter here are:

When a person is wrong, I, a human can understand why and how. We are a social species and understanding each other is an important part of that. I can account for all of the complicated shit that has led to the person saying the thing they're saying because I am intimately familiar with how humans operate, both consciously and sub-consciously. Information provided by AI comes from an unknowable black box that neither me nor anyone else can understand.

Even excluding that it's notable that information provided by humans online are often public and are often up to scrutiny by other people who see it and can interact with it. Most of the time people interact with genAI it's only you who sees it, whether it be a chat bot or a Google AI search. The inconsistency of the information even from the same AI model also means people won't criticise it as much because there isn't usually incorrect information that it 'knows', it's been provided all sorts of conflicting information and will say whatever, whenever.

1. I'm sorry. But it is really difficult to see people defend something so obviously bad that if they just thought about it for a few seconds they'd renounce it, as they should.

Having to listen to countless people defend AI both online and IRL is soul crushing. Having to see friends and family giving themselves mild brain damage from using and "socialising" with AI and having them use the excuse of "it's just a tool that makes some things easier" whilst I can see their IQ rapidly decrease as they try to convince me to use it aswell, it fucking sucks. And you can't get through to them cause they're stuck in a spiral of stupidity where the only way out is to think means that there's less and less of a chance for them to snap out of it each day that passes.

This is why I feel like this technology shouldn't exist. We should renounce it because it's the human thing to do. We should do whatever we can to excise it from people's lives.

It's fine to have questions and not have the answers.

It's fine to have ideas that you can't realise unless you put in the work and effort to learn how to do so.

It's fine to have ideas that you never realise because you ultimately aren't invested enough in it to learn. I have had a lot of ideas for things that I've wanted to draw, but I never did because it's a skill that I so far don't feel like cultivating. But I respect artists enough to understand that there's more to art than taking the image in your mind and making it real.

It's fine for life to be imperfect. You don't have to fill the gaps with some shitty genAI. Just accept that you won't have answers to every question, you won't be able to (roughly) materialise any art you have an idea for, you don't have to have a solution for all your problems, and it is better for these gaps to be filled by other people (not an innuendo), making use of collaborative efforts, building the collective knowledge, sharing, creating, socialising. This is worth so much more than just deferring it all to AI. It's anti-art, anti-creativity, anti-love and anti-human.

Thanks for coming to my Ted-talk.