Nov 24, 2025

My 2 Cents on AI

Emily F

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779 Words 3 Minutes, 32 Seconds

2025-11-24 20:04 +0000

Background

I am just a random Senior Software Developer that started learning programming for fun when I was about 15. When I went to college one of my classes was on Artificial Inteligence, where we studied stuff like neural networks and different algorithms for machine learning etc. I implemented a neural network system in C at some point, I really enjoyed this topic, it was very fun to learn how to teach your computer do basic stuff like recognise a dog in an image.

But I am not only a developer, I am also a human. I love art, I love seeing, watching, reading, listening to and experiencing what other humans’ minds are capable of creating with only the power of imagination and a few skills.

This post is just a brief overview of my position on AI.

The problems

I think one of the most fundamental problems is that people have no fucking idea what AI even is, nowadays people simply assume AI is “generative AI” and forget all of the 60 years of studies and developments that stuff like chat bots and video games AI had. In this post I will focus on “generative AI”, so from now on, if I mention “AI” read generative AI.

Running and especially trainning a large model isn’t cheap nor evironmentaly friendly. AI data centers consume vast quantity of water and energy, while some companies are financing cleaner energy alternatives, truth is that most of the energy consumed still comes from fossil fuel.

Cities where those data centers have been installed have long lists of complaints about the problems they bring to the communities, a lot of the times rural communities. Some of the problems around those data centers include increased electricity and water bill, problems with energy and water supply, air pollution, altered landscapes and entire neighbourhoods destroyed. Living close to one of those is just like hell on Earth.

AI steals from humans. That’s it. Nothing AI “generates” is original, it’s all stolen from a human that drew a picture, wrote a music, researched and wrote a thesis. Thousands of years of evolution in different fields of human knowledge and art are currently being stolen to make your life “easier”. No, you are not an artist or a musician or a writer just because you wrote a prompt.

AI is making you dumb. A lot of the learning comes from knowing how to search for the information, reading source materials, etc. having a chat bot spew the information to you will impact you negatively (and I’m not even talking about all the wrong information the AIs halucinate).

I have seen people take extremly simple tasks (should be simple for someone who has worked for more than a decade with technology) and instead of doing so, ask the AI to do it. For example: a colleague of mine had to convert a PDF into images, this is a very easy task, you just open your PDF in any image manipulation program, like GIMP or Photoshop and it allows you to save it as an image with all the quality settings you need. Instead of doing this, he uploaded the PDF to an AI, asked it to convert to an image and downloaded the resulting images.

AI is afecting your mental health. There are multiple cases of suicide and psychosis fueled by AI. AI is making people devolep psychosis, and no, I’m not talking about people already prone to psychosis before starting to use AI. Healthy people, that start using AI “only as a tool” are developing psychosis.

Possible solutions

One simple solution would be to burn all the data centers and shoot any capitalist pig trying to push this bullshit again. Sadly, it’s not that easy to do this.

As that won’t work, some things we can tho is to not use any corporate public facing tools, if you want to use it, host your own, it isn’t hard to self-host and can be done with some relatively cheap hardware, you can control the model how you want.

Also, teach people about the dangers of AI, how to use it, how to self-host it.

Is there any use?

The only ways I actually think generative AI should actually be used for are ways in that the user does not interacte directly with the AI. Fuck those chat bots.

Some stuff cool stuff that can use this technology are: a better auto-complete for coding (not talking about generating code with prompts, just LSP-completion-like functionality); image manipulation software using it to auto-fill and select objects; parsing and extracting stuff from documents; translation;

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