If you ever wonder what's the harm of AI because you don't believe destroying the environment is harmful enough to justify anti-ai sentiments (p.s. what are you even doing with your life at this point??), then let me tell you a story.
One stormy night, my grandfather was watching a homesteading YouTube channel. The person was using a chainsaw to clear the brush. The act itself made me remember a part of women's history, so I dared my grandfather to look up the original use of the chainsaw.
"What's the original use of the chainsaw?" He asked the AI Assistant.
"To cut lumber." It responded in short.
I knew he would ask his AI Assistant, and I knew it would not give him the correct answer.
"That's incorrect." I told him, shaking my head.
My heart sank a little with the first response, but I wanted to give it some benefit of the doubt since maybe the chainsaw was by another name originally. So, I asked the same basic question in a different way.
"Why was the chainsaw originally invented?"
It responded, "To assist in surgical procedures."
That was only a half truth, so I told my grandfather what the chainsaw was originally used for. He was horrified.
Giving the AI one last chance, I asked, "Was the chainsaw originally used to assist in childbirth?"
It was a yes or no question.
I asked this same basic question in three different ways, and each time it gave the exact same response:
"I'm sorry; I don't know how to answer that."
My victory against this one AI Assistant was bittersweet. On the one hand, my theory was proven right. On the other hand, my theory was that history could be erased so easily with false information and half truths. People trust AI just as they trust real people who do the same thing. Except now they seem to trust AI more. They won't do their own research nor learn how to do things for themselves. History will be erased faster and easier than it ever has been before, and the erasure of history was already a huge problem.
Learn how to do your own research. Learn about the past that people would sooner forget. History is important.
Learn how to do things yourself. Make real friends. Be in the moment.
AI will not do this for you and it shouldn't. It will destroy your humanity.
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