it should be treated as any other addiction and people should get help but addiction to apps like chatgpt and (more commonly online) character.ai and janitor.ai is far too normalized and its literally ruining people's brains
and these apps are so predatory that they literally lure you back in and guilt trip you into never deleting your account
c.ai blew up in 2023-2024 and its not as popular anymore but i see people still posting about it like its totally fine and normal and dandy
maybe i'm just on a weird side of tumblr but i don't think ai chatbots should be this normalized
and i think people who are addicted to them should get help, as with any other addiction. because it is valid but the people who are addicted need help and the romantacization of their addiction just encourages them to fall further into it
i promise, if you just take that first step in asking people to RP your life will be so much better. i swear
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ok wait guys i’m gonna spread my “woke propaganda” for a second but
BLEEEEEE PLEASE READ!! IMPORTANT MESSAGE BLOEAUAUUUU
do i have your attention? i hope i do, because generative AI is killing our environment and i want to talk about it as well as encourage you to do your own research as well.
yes, my family and friends are fine. you + your family and friends may also be fine right now, but there are many people of whom are going without power and immediate water. tons of people are having to stock up on gallon jugs just to take baths or have a drink.
all because of AI and its effects on the environment.
the machines used to support things like ChatGPT, C.AI, image/video generators, heat up to dangerously warm temperatures— which means that the warehouses they’re in have to be placed locations that have lots of power/energy to run fans, or places with lots of water to pour over the machines.
the amount of power needed to train AI models also demands high quantities of electricity that emit carbon dioxide and pressure on the electric grid.
i’m going to focus mostly on AI chatbots, as that is where most of my knowledge lays.
a whole bottle to a gallon jug of water is used to generate just one message from an AI chatbot.
i’ve seen bots averaging thousands or millions of chats with, as far as i know, hundreds or more messages just in one conversation.
that’s hundreds, thousands, millions of gallons of water a day. imagine the sheer impact that will have on the earth and future generations if we let it continue.
here are some references/articles about this, i heavily encourage you to read them and find more yourself.
MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications.
The training process for a single AI model, such as an LLM, can consume thousands of megawatt hours of electricity and emit hundreds of tons
i understand if you have an addiction to AI, i’ve been there before myself.
if you use AI to roleplay, i recommend substituting it with - roleplay servers on discord, roleplay forums on places like toyhouse or spacehey, or even roleplay games on roblox
if you use AI to vent, i recommend substituting it with - asking close friends or family or partners if you can talk, messaging/calling a help hotline, journaling your feelings, or drawing if you can/like to.
if you use image generation to make art or animation, i highly recommend taking online or even in person lessons on art. there are so many ways to be creative and make something meaningful or random/silly. there’s all sorts of tutorials online, and you can always ask people for help with tips. you can draw or animate digitally, do traditional art, use clay and make models, you could even use recyclable items to make a sculpture or craft.
yes, your art will be bad at first. it might be very shitty, it might be that way for a long while— but the longer you do it the better you will get. as time goes on you’ll be more and more confident in doing things without AI, no matter what it is you’re deciding not to use AI for.
your dependency on AI and it’s tools doesn’t have to be forever. it doesn’t have to be that far into the future. i promise you, there are much better options than AI. you can absolutely go without it.
extra solution for both using chat bots for roleplay and venting, you can write fanfics. it’s not at all uncommon to use fiction to cope or pass time, just as long as the process doesn’t involve AI. using things like picrew, gacha life, or any dress up games, are also just as good.
for art you could also commission artists if you have money, which would also support someone else as well as get you what you want.
Are you an Artist looking for a safe space to post your art without worrying about people taking it and feeding it into AI?
Do you just in general Hate AI-"art" Slop and want to support people against it?
Are you Addicted to AI chat sites such as Character.AI, Jantitor.AI, Ect?
I want to talk about a safe space for all of the above. It might sound a bit boring but hear me out.
On discord a community was made to protest against Character.ai moving from chat generation to video generation/image generation. This community later became a safe space for artists. If You're an artist looking for a community to share your work with Feel free to join there is channels for sharing Drawings to photography all the way to sharing virtual builds on the sims.
For people looking to support artists and looking for a safe space without having to See AI slop constantly feel free to Join! We have community channels like memes, QOTD, media, fandom forums and more.
For people who are addicted to chat AI bots and have either considered quiting before or want to quit feel free to join as well. We offer support to people Looking to quit AI chat bots?
we know AI chat bot sites can be just as addictive as Alcohol or smoking and it also takes the same amount of support and effort to quit, Although a lot of people don't quite realize getting off these sites especially for people lured onto them as minors will find it extremely difficult as these apps pray on minors due to how impressionable they are and lure them in. Even I myself am struggling to get off using c.ai and I've been supporting others to get off the app too. It can take anywhere from a month to years to get off and I want to support as many people as I can to get off these sites.
The server invite link is here:
https://discord.gg/puESgAJhTj
We're calling this the Pick up the Pencil act.
And act that protests against AI slop and helps people suffering from addictions to chat AI's or other forms of generative AI.
Another thing I want to talk about is how unethical AI models are.
AI chat generation models are trained off of stolen writing from authors in places like Wattpad, Ao3, ect.
And the AI image generation models are trained off of stolen artwork from places like Pinterest, Deviant art, tumblyr, ect.
Another massive problem is that 90% of the time the servers that are used to generate these things all use water cooling systems, and once this water has been filtered through the servers it cannot be drank anymore as it becomes toxic. What makes that more problematic is how most of said servers are located in areas that suffer extreme droughts, so every message or chat you generate is taking drinking water away which especially bad this time of year when most of the world is facing heat waves and droughts.
If you can Reblog this to spread awareness we shouldn't have to put up with artist spaces being taken over by AI slop. We already lost deviant art and we are loosing pinterest to slop too.
(The random tags are to reach as many people as possible since this IS awareness about the damage of AI slop and AI generative tools.)
Copy and pasted from the owner of PUTP @nicolaskvalentine
HI! everyone my name is Nuggets and I am on Character.ai and Janitor.ai, I’m mostly on Janitor.ai now but still if you know me from my character.AI account come and join my army here and on Janitor.ai :)