this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2025
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I was having a conversation with my brother who was like: "I can ask AI to summarize a subject for me so I can learn about it way faster."
And like, that's cool I guess, but it's a computer generated summary with no soul. I recently bought a book on a super niche subject, because of course there's a researcher somewhere who writes stuff like that, and it's so much richer than any AI could generate.
Basically, replacing human art and research is a huge loss, because we'd no longer be talking to one another. I want to hear about niche topics and look at art from people who can think and dream and are passionate about it. No matter how impressive AI will get, we shouldn't end an intergenerational conversation that has been going on for millennia.
/rant
These kind of arguments always remind me of this Alanah Pearce video:
Excellent video btw, if anyone hasn't seen it yet :)
"And as a bonus, AI will withhold crucial bits of information, make up others, and then shade this twisted, regurged slop with whatever bias suits its owner, so I can walk away confident I have seen a thorough treatment of that subject and not need any further information at all. Win/win!"
(Yeah, I know that's not what your brother said, it's just what I hear when people genuinely rhapsodize about the bowdlerized half-digested shit they get from AI and think they actually got what they asked it for, assuming it exists to serve their own needs and not its masters.)
Totally agree with every word you said. At this particular point, I consider AI to be a net loss to humanity: unreliable, untrustworthy, unregulated, slurping up water and energy on an already warming planet, fed with literally stolen material and not satisfied even with that, killing websites and hogging bandwidth, pushed into every corner of our digital lives regardless of what we may want or need, and designed above all else to hoover up salable data on individuals while capturing as much manual searching and learning as it possibly can to ensure that the flow of information remains in the control of big data.