Hi. I’m a generative AI hater. I don’t think its pros outweigh its environmental destruction. Small towns in the States are being exploited for their water just to cool server farms. Actual farmers are going to struggle, as will the people living in these more remote places. I also cringe at people’s dependence on it in general. It’s overly biased towards certain demographics because the people teaching the language learning model have their own unchecked -isms. Men will use it for therapy and learn to be more misogynistic as a result. Back in my day we’d just ask Reddit anonymously how to fix our hyper specific situations.

I won’t treat GenAI as a tool for these reasons. I also don’t think people who choose to use it deserve condemnation. A lot of AI haters treat people who have used it as already being “morally tainted.” Discouragement doesn’t have to come in the form admonishment. But I do think there’s a point where you have to draw a line with technology in general, and many people are too codependent to recognize the line anymore.

-SS