Don't Push AI Down Our Throats
AI is being done wrong.
It's being pushed down our throats. It’s in our search bars, our operating systems, and even our creative tools, whether we asked for it or not. It feels less like an upgrade and more like a force-feeding.
It doesn’t need to be this way. Technology can be adopted slowly. Organically. One piece at a time.
Right now, the frantic pace of deployment isn't about utility; it's about liquidity. It’s being shoved down our throats because some billionaires need to make some more billions before they die.
We don't owe them anything.
It is time to do AI the right way. The honeymoon phase of the hype cycle is over. We now know the limitations. We see the hallucinations. We see the errors. Let's pick the things which work and slowly integrate it into our lives. We don't need to do it this quarter just because some startup has to do an earnings call. We will do it if it helps us.
And let’s be clear: We don't need AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). We don't need a digital god. We just need software that works.
If the current models don't work? No problem. Let the researchers go back to the lab and do their jobs. We will continue doing ours. We might even generate more data for them in the process—but this time, we do it correctly. We will work with the creators, writers, and artists, instead of ripping off their life's work to feed the model.
I hear the complaints from the tech giants already: "But we bought too many GPUs! We spent billions on infrastructure! They have to be put to work!"
Not my problem.
I will use what creates value for me. I will not buy anything that is of no use to me.
I hear that’s called capitalism.
There are plenty of legitimate use cases for AI and enough places to make money without force-feeding the market. But I will not allow AI to be pushed down my throat just to justify your bad investment.
Who, exactly, is pushing "AI" down your throat? Better would be to say that many humans are using this technology for many purposes, some opportune, some not. It appears that you used generative AI to make the image for this post. Was that opportune? Would it have been better if you made it in a different way? As an artist, my answer is yes: that image, like most AI, looks generic. But you didn't push it down my throat. I chose to read it.
The problem is that tech giants are not going to read that.
Artists and writers will read and second that, but they are already concerned and protesting.
I hate AI slop, especially the kind that big companies started to churn out instead of keeping their own unique style and paying artists.
But for now it seems like the will be lost - just like DVDs lost to streaming, like CDs lost to Spotify and like translators lost to machine pre-translation.