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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Rebecca Shaw

I don’t want AI - give me books written by complicated people, drawings by sweet idiots, songs by those who feel

AI robot painting
‘It feels to me like we are stepping away from what makes us human, stripping ourselves of the capacity to think and feel that took us eons to evolve.’ Photograph: demaerre/Getty Images

Generative AI has gone too far. Many have said it, but I need to add my human voice to the cacophony.

There are many reasons I dislike the growing use of generative AI. It is environmentally disastrous, necessitating massive, water-guzzling datacentres. In a world where many people do not have access to clean water and where countries like Australia suffer worsening droughts, people are unthinkingly wasting it to carry out basic tasks like sending an email or writing a grocery list.

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