alt Hacker NewsThis is a horrible take if for no other reason that digital intelligence is one of humanity's greatest achievements. It took thousands of years of advancements across chemistry, physics, material science to reach the point in the tech tree we are today.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with using AI and it's something we should be celebrating.
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Pesticides represent a great achievement. People still pay more for organic though.
> There's absolutely nothing wrong with using AI and it's something we should be celebrating.
In many cases, there are clear disadvantages to using AI, be it the effect on human psyche, the considerable resource consumption, the style of the output, or the fact that the resulting work was not authored by a person, which is a very subjective preference, but one that many people have nevertheless.
I agree that AI is a great technological achievement, but it’s not as if great technological achievements don’t come with any downsides. Celebrating them is reasonable, but also situational.
Horrible? You could have argued that celebrating both things is fine. But you didn't. The implication is simply the opposite: That I should be ashamed if I enjoy or am proud to have made something by hand.
Technology is not a universal good. That's a simplistic idea. We have taken thousands of years to develop all sorts of horrible shit with more downsides than upsides - things that only exist because they are inevitable, not because they are purely beneficial to the spirit or even the practical wellbeing of humanity.
> There's absolutely nothing wrong with using AI and it's something we should be celebrating.
Ok, but there's also nothing wrong with celebrating not using AI.