AI and the Negative Impacts
With the rise of AI over the past five or so years, it has become prominent to everyday life. With sites such as ChatGPT, Character AI, CICI, Google AI and many more AI based data bases, AI has flooded peoples devices and lives, rendering people dependent on the services. Along with this, it has raised a lot of concerns with the fact people are lacking the ability to write or draw themselves, once again being very dependent on AI, alongside the fact that AI is also actively hurting the environment in the process. Finally, another few reasons why AI has been under fire is for the fact that it is actively being prompted by users to spit out the final 'project' of what it was prompted to do, stealing actual artists and writers' work to create these pieces. So, today, I am going to talk about why the use of AI is not only awful, but how it impacts people's creativity, the search for jobs, harming the environment, and how it actively steals from those who create art in the sense of music, drawings and paintings, literature and photography in order to spit out its content.
AI and The Job Market
The first thing I want to talk about when it comes to AI is how it can affect the job market. Just from experience alone looking on both Indeed and LinkedIn, I have seen a decent amount of remote jobs within the writing sector of the job market. This along with the amount of writing jobs based around cryptocurrency, I find it appalling that the use of AI is being used in the job market whilst also hiring people to help train the AI to help run a business. Some of the main reasons on why AI is bad for the job search is for the following:
The fact that recruiters have warned that overusing AI can reduce the candidates' odds of success in finding a potential job, résumés that were written with AI tend to feature the same formatting, buzzwords, plus factual inconsistencies that most résumés have and finally some of the job hunters have appeared to be using AI during video interviews, sneaking peeks at their phones throughout the interviews.
Whilst it can be frustrating for people looking for jobs, it can also be frustrating for recruiters as they find that during the interviewing aspect of a job hunt, it's shown that recruiters are saying that they're getting stuck with robotic-sounding résumés and applicants who appear to be cheating during video interviews along with people are using ChatGPT to cut corners and so many people using other AI tools to use to again, cut corners when it comes to the job world.
AI and the Environmental Impacts
Next, I want to talk about how AI affects the environment. With 82% of the world using AI, it adds up and the effects of AI build up on the environment. For example, everytime you use ChatGPT, which is using 4 grams of CO2, it gets emitted into the atmosphere as a result of the 30,000 GPUs in order to keep the servers online. To keep in mind, there are an estimated 123.5 million users per day using things like ChatGPT. To put it into perspective, that's 494 billion grams of CO2 released just from people using ChatGPT alone. This means that it is equivalent to 2,090 average car trips. This means that due to the amount of people using AI, this means that the amount of water it takes to cool the servers, it can be seriously damaging to the environment. Through the amount of CO2 that gets released, it damages the environment that way, but also, the amount of water that gets used also damages the environment that way as a lot of the water is focused on cooling down the servers that get used to train AI, especially when talking to ChatGPT.
AI and Its Impact on Artists and Writers
On this next point, I want to talk about how AI is actively stealing people's work, such as people's writing and physical art. There's a lot of limitations when it comes to using AI to 'create' art, for example, using ChatGPT to write a story or using an AI to generate an image. This means you are training AI to not only become better at what it does, but you're also actively training the AI to actively steal photos, art and writing from photos and writing that are published online.
Whilst you usually can tell that an image or 'art' is AI, and it goes the same with writing as well, as the 'art' and imagery are usually seemingly odd in someway, as things blend together, other things don't line up, extra body parts are added, it's usually pretty easy to tell in some cases. With writing, it may be easier to identify something in regards to it being written by AI, since a lot of the time, it's long and has non-commital answers, which is great for optimising for search engines.
My Thoughts
Finally, I want to talk about how AI has evolved. AI has evolved in a way that it's become harder to identify sometimes. Especially when it comes to things like 'photographs' and 'art'. Whilst it can be easily identifiable in human 'art' and 'photos' due to them being more smooth in the skin, or they have extra fingers, but in some other way, there's AI 'art' and 'photography' the main subject of the said AI generated image is usually in a way that would make no sense to the average person or to an actual artist. With actual artists, they have the sense of creating pieces that work well. Whether you're a traditional artist, or digital artist, or a photographer or a writer (like myself), make sure to always check to see what's AI and what's not AI. Again, whilst AI generated stuff like imagery might be easy to tell that it's AI, writing might be a bit harder, even with the discrepancies that it may hold in the fact that a lot of it won't make sense.
Whilst some may argue that AI is great for those who are disabled as it can help them produce work, it still doesn't give someone the right to use AI as previously mentioned, it has harm to the environment and to people who create actual art, actual photography, actual writing.
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