watched this video earlier today and loved it! it was very well made and i felt like i could relate to the author's story about his school and how it impacted his mental health.
im an artist and i've felt such an overwhelming sense of dread for the last 6 months because of ai, since it is literally everywhere. everyone's talking about it, it's in my phone and pc, everyone's using it and trying to make me use it - but i don't want to. the reasons why i don't want to use generative ai are so numerous and have been said by dozens of people, but the majority of those around me irl don't really understand that. and when i see another ai generated picture in a nearby store on the packaging of anything, i feel so down in the dumps. like. i know it's easier and cheaper for the companies. but i feel like we've lost the plot... we forgot that we're doing all of that for other people, for ourselves, we forgot about the importance of human connection and human culture. i would prefer to buy a slightly ugly postcard with an illustration that a human made over any ai generated post cards. i would listen to someone's poem even if it didn't rhyme well, but i will always skip ai generated text. i will always prefer human art, human work over ai, because i want to be connected to people.
our society has been pushing us into individualism for so long that people are now finally realising how lonely they are because of it and as the author said we need to combat that. to tell people that they're loved and needed, that their work is not useless, that they're not alone. i really want to see things get better and i hope that the future will be full of friends, art and love.