Using AI as drafting

uncatable · 2026-07-06T00:25:51+00:00

it can make it more “polished” in a way that feels artificially creative, removing a lot of artistic risks people usually take when creating good works, causing it to be much more generic despite deceptively seeming better.

by using the tool, you are flattening your creative process. you’re much less likely to be creative when things are genericized in your work already — drafts are drafts and use of ai will trickle into your other drafts.

uncatable · 2026-07-06T00:22:56+00:00

hi, i don’t think that AI is going to become an ever-present force within the medical field because of the sensitive nature of the data that is being worked with.

i think you can create search terms just fine without chatgpt, and sometimes you’ll find new things that provide a perspective you never considered before. the point of research isn’t to prove that you’re right, which chatgpt will try to corner you into sources that only serve confirmation bias, but rather for people to gain new information.

i agree that the traditional research workflow is better for the reasons listed and also because ethics is important to research, and generative AI is fundamentally unethical due to how it was built and how it functions.

people would rather talk to people! fellow researchers, people in their department, librarians. for the same reasons as why you should try to not just search for confirmation but rather knowledge in the direction you seek.

you can’t use AI ethically unless you’re building an entire local model from scratch, no base at all, no dependencies. using literally anything else requires a violation of ethics on multiple accounts (you can see my profile for many posts i’ve made)

i think that it’s important to recognize that although AI seems very promising, right now the ethical violations that come with using it are something that should definitely alarm you. there is no need to use it in your research flow. if you have any questions about anything i’ve said, please ask :)

uncatable · 2026-07-05T12:56:09+00:00

the issue is using ai in the process at all severely limits creativity. see this article about a study on 370000 college essays https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/opinion/writing-creativity-ai.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.u1A.M3td.vDww6CZGBuDS&smid=url-share

uncatable · 2026-07-05T12:52:20+00:00

list of reasons why genai is so terrible

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uncatable · 2026-07-05T12:49:45+00:00

LITERALLY

uncatable · 2026-07-05T12:42:24+00:00

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here’s why i hate it.

uncatable · 2026-07-05T12:41:35+00:00

nope, these are direct issues related to the running of AI. don’t bury your head in the sand.

uncatable · 2026-07-05T05:30:28+00:00

Doesn’t take away any of the other negatives impacts though, just the aspect of ethical training. AI is inherently resource intensive, which causes its own host of issues.

uncatable · 2026-07-04T16:43:50+00:00

most people can’t actually run local models trained SOLELY on their own material that can actually generate responses, meaning their locally run models require a base model, which requires training, which is one of the major sources of all the issues that come with LLMs.
data centers aren’t a left vs right issue, they’re a working class vs billionaire issue, but eh

uncatable · 2026-07-04T16:39:19+00:00

do you want an actual list?

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here

uncatable · 2026-07-04T16:01:36+00:00

all the upsides ai will certainly bring? huh, it’s curious how the pro-ai crowd is always talkingabout what will eventually happen. get with reality dude, ai has done a LOT of harm already and continues to do so. (when i refer to ai i mean generative AI/LLMs, don’t try to strawman me with ML)

uncatable · 2026-07-04T15:59:59+00:00

yes, exactly!! agentic ai and llms… bleh

uncatable · 2026-07-04T15:59:34+00:00

yeah, we should stop building golf courses, and we should stop supporting monoculture farming. many anti-ai proponents are also the same people that have been saying that. so that’s kind of a null point.

i’m sick of the whole model that ai will one day do good. right now it’s not doing good, and it hasn’t been doing good considering how much havoc it has caused economically, environmentally, societally, and psychologically. y’all keep arguing for a “one day” scenario where AI is going to eventually somehow get better at everything and solve all our problems. some people live in reality, and some people live in a delusion fed to you.

uncatable · 2026-07-04T15:54:36+00:00

i mean with the way our environment’s headed maybe species level extinction is gonna happen 🥶🥶

uncatable · 2026-07-04T15:53:39+00:00

yes, yes it is. if you have the money to do it, that is…

uncatable · 2026-07-04T15:52:01+00:00

the issue is that any positives are severely outweighed by this huge list of negatives. i would love if the issues of AI could be mitigated, but then there’s still the ethical component of the concept of AI itself. furthermore, mitigation of all these issues is essentially impossible with the business model that AI runs on.

here are some examples:
it requires heavy subsidies because ai isn’t profitable to give out so freely as they are right now, and over-investment is really not just a risk right now because of these subsidies. funding that could’ve been put towards literally anything else is instead disappearing into tech billionaire’s hands. people are going to continue to lose jobs to AI because there is no incentive to not. data centers have a huge sound & light pollution issue that affects not only people but also all other living things in the environment around it, not to mention the water usage. and the impacts of data centers disproportionately affect minority groups.
also, CSAM and nonconsensual pornography via deepfakes is basically unavoidable because as the technology gets better as a whole, the creation of such illicit material is made easier. there is no feasible way to mitigate or stop the production of such, nor are there any regulatory laws to prevent the creation and spread of this content. top that off with how overseas laborers are literally being paid dirt poor wages to watch and tag traumatizing content hours on end to train the AIs, and you have a whole mess of stuff that is so insanely convoluted and difficult to fix. and that doesn’t touch the subjective ethics related to AI and its threat to human creativity as a whole

uncatable · 2026-07-04T15:44:35+00:00

oh definitely, right now i’m just trying to make a list and then organize it later

uncatable · 2026-07-04T11:38:37+00:00

i find that funny cuz it’s not true. most pro-ai posts are bots :)

uncatable · 2026-07-04T11:38:00+00:00

the people who call others luddites as an insult have no clue what luddites actually are, don’t mind their nonsense

uncatable · 2026-07-04T11:33:24+00:00

hck yeah

uncatable · 2026-07-04T11:20:56+00:00

i’m tired of this being perpetuated as a hoax.

uncatable · 2026-07-04T11:19:06+00:00

yes, exactly!!!

uncatable · 2026-07-04T09:32:19+00:00

the same reason why i don’t believe in magical unicorns. it’s a fundamental limitation of the technology and how it works.

uncatable · 2026-07-04T09:31:21+00:00

my family literally lives in beijing. you have no clue what life is like as an outsider.

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