using gen ai isn't harmless. the context does not matter. it doesn't matter if vernon uses it to write lyrics or 'just' to get feedback. the use of chatgpt in our daily life is accelerating the death of media literacy and critical thinking - and we weren't doing so great in the first place.
gen ai is a massive polluter, it's an ecological disaster on its own. the energy and ressources used to generate his goddamn feedback and that stupid little essay you could have written by reading a bit and coming up with your own arguments instead of asking the Plagiat Machine, could have gone somewhere else.
the workers paid dust in piss poor conditions to train gen ai models aren't a detail.
the countries torn apart by climate change aren't a detail.
the child abuse material these models train themselves on isn't a detail.
the artists, researchers, writers, scientifics who spent years working only for their work to be cheaply ripped off by a machine that doesn't give a fuck about intellectual property and copyright laws aren't a detail.
the stupid machine that gives back wrong answers half of the time at best, and who spreads false information with no evidence (or worse, actually makes they up) isn't a detail.
the corporations laying off their employees and replacing them with a copycat machine aren't a detail.
the increasing difficulty to find historical evidence and work not touched by ai isn't a detail.
your ability to critically think, articulate a thought, understand something on your own, deal with frustration, find the information you're looking for in a long ass paper, determine what is and isn't a credible source, DO THE WORK isn't a detail.
fascism feeding off ignorance, laziness, and lack of critical thinking isn't a detail.
the 20th century witnessed multiple genocides and wars against intellectualism, and gave us 1984, brave new world and farenheit 451.
it's 2025 and you're actively contributing to the systems they were desperately warning us about.
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