If AI helps one person create something that otherwise would never exist, that’s a net positive for creativity. I respect people who dislike or reject AI-generated art, but I see AI as just another creative tool, no different from game engines or digital editing software. What matters to me is the final result and the passion behind the project.
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Not aimed at you, but it's the utter blindness to the physical damage we're causing the world that bothers me. You can see smoke from a factory chimney, but AI damage is invisible to someone who doesn't live in the direct local area of the data centre. It's magnitudes of devastation above what corps will admit, because then people wouldn't buy their products, or "tokens".
An algorithm is fine, but what's being touted as modern day AI - where things are calculated off-device - is utterly awful.
I wasn't claiming that AI is immaterial or that it has no environmental cost. My point was simply that, as a creator, I use it as a tool to help bring ideas to life.
The environmental impact of computing is a legitimate discussion, but it also applies to game engines, cloud services, streaming platforms, social media, and the devices we're all using right now. If we're talking about the costs of modern technology, that's a much broader conversation than AI alone.