I am pretty vocal IRL that I’m Anti- AI, specifically generative AI from the mass learning model. The type that has been fed stolen content to teach it how to respond. I don’t think AI is creative or even a creative tool when it’s source is stolen work and words.

I’m pro limited models- the closed style of AI that doctor’s offices use and small individual AI. Personally I’d like to build my own LLM (limited learning model) from my own writing and add in editing rules. I would then use this to edit my own writing for clarity and also grammar.

Which to be completely honest, is the ONLY way I use AI currently. I use it to edit emails and writing for work for grammar and clarity. Occasionally I’ll ask it to soften my tone. (I have been told repeatedly that my matter of fact and very direct emails are received as aggressive. I have many thoughts on this but that’s not for this pot.) But I think I could use my own work to do this.

I know that my blog has already been scanned and used by ChatGPT to train it and for it to answer questions. I know this because it gives references to my blog.

So to be clear- I am against generative AI when it is from a mass language model. At this point I’m not sure that there are ANY MLM that aren’t generated and trained on stolen content. As a creative creator of content, I can’t ethically get behind that sort of use. It feels icky to have your work stolen and used. How can I perpetuate that feeling for others? I cannot.

Further as a therapist, I will NEVER enter a client’s health info into a MLM AI. It’s not ethical. I also don’t believe it is ethical to ask ChatGPT to create treatment plans based off a client’s health info EVEN if their private health info is not detailed. It is not hard to figure out WHO a client is with very very slim information.

I could rant about this for ages. But I think AI is dumbing down our society, it’s reducing human creativity, and it’s bad for humanity.

I could also go on and on and on about the effects of AI on the environment but this isn’t the place for it. But let’s just say, I don’t like it.

Also, I hate that it’s getting shoved down my throat on my phone, my personal laptop, tablet, eReader (working on getting that issues solved) and my work tools. I REALLY REALLY wish I could block it every where. My phone really wants me to use it. Despite my best efforts, it keeps popping up. (Yes I’ve shut it off. I’ve turned off my phone’s special double clicky button thing, but it keeps getting turned back on.)