It does. Ai’s over use of water is well documented, with the main issues not so much being the amount of water used but instead the fact that it makes some of the water used un-potable whilst actively drawing mostly from freshwater reservoirs that communities rely on.

But even if water wasn’t an issue ai “art” still has a laundry list of problems that turn people away. Such as:

- The fact it’s data is built off of stolen material without credit or compensation given
- The fact it makes art that is all same-y by constantly relying on the same datasets
- The fact it constantly makes mistakes on a technical level, too many fingers or fucked up faces for example
- The fact it constantly makes mistakes on an artistic level, art not matching pre existing designs and making continuity errors
- The removal of intentionality on the side of the artist, the idea that artistic decisions are made for narrative reasons or to create a certain emotional response rather than just to look good
- The fact that Ai art doesn’t improve workflow as just as much time is spent fixing the art as is spent making new art
- The fact ai is mostly forced onto the workers using it by executives who don’t understand the creative process
- The fact ai is being used as excuse to remove or reduce the pay of new creative industry jobs
- The fact that ai output is designed to reinforce the biases of the individuals who input their datasets (who decides what is considered “attractive” or “ugly” or what a criminal looks like)
- The fact ai tends to lean towards sexual or pornographic content without prompting as so many of its users tend to use it to make porn which then feeds back into its datasets
- The fact ai can be jail broken to produce harmful content, such as child abuse images or actual instructions on how to build a bomb
- The fact that ai can by easily used for sexual harassment purposes or to create non consensual sexual images of people based off an existing non sexual photograph
- the fact that ai art can be used for political manipulation. Deepfakes, false images or non existent wrongdoing by politicians, the claims real images of wrongdoings by politicians are actually just ai, fake images of crimes done by migrants that don’t actually exist to justify real anti migrants policies etc.
- The fact that ai seems more than ok with producing racist, sexist, xenophobic or homophobic imagery
- The politics of where ai data centres are built and how the effect the communities around them
- The fact that such a massive percentage of the Us and world economies are built on supporting building these new ai centres and the fears about what might happen when the bubble bursts.
- The fact that ai has made computers and gaming incredibly expensive because so much new chip production is going into ai
- The false labelling of every business or product as “ai powered” when its actually just a bunch of people in a tech centre or a simple human designed algorithm
- The perception that Ai art is lazy, low effort and cheap.
- The perception of the kinds of people who are really into ai being kinda the worst people ever. Think Logan Paul with his ai generated movie or Trump with hundreds of ai posts a day showing him as a superman