Sometimes somebody manages to say everything you wanted to say about a topic in the best way possible. Metin Seven did exactly that with his thoughts about Gen “AI”. I have nothing to add, except giving credit to Metin. The following text is sourced from his website and used with his friendly permission.
Please check out his original statement and his amazing artwork here: https://metinseven.nl/#about
“I’m glad generative artificial “intelligence” was not a thing yet during the vast majority of my career. A number of realizations arose while exploring generative Large Language Models… Metin Seven, 2026
Generative AI is based on massive theft from creatives, without consent, credit or compensation. Using gen-AI is asking a chatbot to spit out the combined efforts of ripped-off creatives. It is industrializing and devaluing human expression, artistry and craftsmanship. Creatives are losing their jobs and motivation because tech corporations unscrupulously absorb and exploit their work. If you appreciate art, support the artists, not the thieves of their labor.
Tech corporations are building more and more huge data centers for AI processing, consuming lots of internet bandwidth, energy, water and more, increasing scarcity, prices and emissions, degrading the already fragile environment.
Unless you’re using a fully local AI configuration, every bit of data you submit contributes to the power and reach of corporations and governments, decreasing your privacy and security.
Generative AI enables deepfakes that are widely used for abuse, deception, cybercrime, misinformation and propaganda, polluting justice, science advancement and news report credibility.
Using gen-AI is not creating, it is merely delegating, like regarding the results of an online search as your own creations. To my experience, there’s no exciting challenge, no exploration of your capacities, no rewarding creative trajectory, no fulfilling sense of achievement, no skill development, and no deserved (self-)respect.
AI use outsources your thinking. Challenging your brain is essential to maintain mental agility, and to avoid AI dependency. Increasingly leaving tasks up to chatbots and gen-AI will result in a decline of skills, problem-solving capacity and self-confidence.
I’m not against positive applications of Machine Learning, such as finding patterns and anomalies in large data sets to improve medical science and weather forecasts. I also welcome useful ML tools that merely aid your own work, such as denoising models that allow to reach a proper 3D rendering result in less time, as long as the ML models are efficient and local.”