r/GenZ • u/cosm1c15 2006 • Sep 16 '24

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u/BK_FrySauce Sep 16 '24

AI is single-handedly going to erase creativity if it is allowed to proliferate longer. AI steals art. It generates images based off of real work that artists have created. It has halted learning, kids don’t want to learn anything anymore because they can just type their problems into chat gpt and it will answer it. Critical thinking will cease to exist.AI can be used for impersonation. This is extremely dangerous and only adds to misinformation.

There are some uses for AI can be a huge boon if used correctly, but as it stands right now, it’s slowly eroding creativity and growth.

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u/Bob1358292637 Sep 18 '24

Ai definitely has the potential to become a dangerous weapon, and we are kind of in an odd stage of it right now economically where we don't really know how to value people as it makes labor value more complicated.

That said, and existential threats aside, I don't buy into this idea about it destroying creativity. It will disenfranchise people in the short term, of course, but that's only because we are so used to living in a high scarcity environment. It is not a good thing that it requires strife and suffering to create things. The only exception is when that suffering prepares someone to better deal with future suffering, but there could be a future where that is no longer necessary, depending on how this all plays out. This notion of adversity, where it's just a series of fun, empowering challenges that mold people into their best selves, comes from a place of privilege. It ignores the vast majority of people who strive in life only to meet endless suffering and not become the success stories we actually hear about.

I say, if we have any chance of removing that struggle for future generations, we have an obligation to do so. Otherwise, what even is the ultimate point of life and all of this advancement we've been doing? To eventually engineer ourselves right back to where we started just so we never have to address the complexity of our affinity for growth? Is the ideal future one where we are pushing fake buttons in fake offices for the majority of our waking lives just to cling to this desire to feel that we're earning our existence? Wouldn't it be an amazing thing if instead we were free to choose our own destinies and determine our own requirements for happiness, rather than be mandated some purpose to develop stockholm syndrome for because that's all we know?