Generative Artificial Intelligence

"If you don't use it, you lose it"

I have heard this phrase most of my life regarding basic math skills to muscles. People who knew a second language but don't speak it forget how to speak it, and so much more of the human experience. What Generative Artificial Intelligence is doing is implementing that phrase on a global scale. It is in the process of taking human creativity out of every sector of our lives under the guise of helping and accessibility, when the process of making has been with humanity since our beginning.

While it looks like these algorithms generate things with the smallest of key presses and inputs, it has a nefarious source. The databases are built on has been stolen from every picture, poem, drawing, image, and book ever created by a human that has been put on the internet. By trawling Wikipedia, Facebook, Instagram, DeviantArt, Tumblr, national gallery - if it is on the internet, it has been stolen - to "train" these algorithms. Anything these "services" have made has been plagurized.

In plagurization; it is insincere, feigned, and disingenuous. It has not created anything. The process of creating is the process of trying to make sense of the world. Be it to make the world easier to navigate through making tools and shelters, or communities to share ideas. Creating art is to fill our world with the beauty of our emotions. We all have a view point that is unique. No one else is going to have your eyes and brain and understanding of the world as you experience it. When you create art, you are sharing your experiences with everyone else. To do that, to want to experience the world as someone else sees it is anything but artificial.

When a maker does something a certain way, there is a reason for it. Whether that reason is experimenting or knowledge passed down through millennia of masters, there is an deeper understanding of why it was done that way. For example, when I take a picture, I control where the light goes and how the shadow falls off. A carpenter puts a brace where it should be for structure and decorates it for beauty. We know this because we have put in the effort to understand and learn why. These "services" lack that underlying foundation. It puts 1s and 0s in an order based off of a mathematical reason because it has only skimmed the surface. It lacks intention and thus impact.

The people who are using these "services" are doing a disservice to themselves. They lose the ability to think critically, to make sense of the world around them, to avoid the work in means of a short term gain. In using it, the people around them suffer too. We miss out on their unique view of the world. We have to constantly be vigilant on what we read in view, how it affects our politics and the simple joys of life, being duped by artificiality. By using these plagues on humanity, our collective soul is stolen.