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+title: "'Responsible AI Use'"
+description: "A reflection on AI slop"
+pubDate: "2025-08-12"
+tags: ["ai", "opinion"]
+---
+
+# Tl;dr
+
+There is no such thing as responsible AI use. None. Zero. That's it. If you want more nuance, read on.
+
+# Houston, we have a problem
+
+Generative AI is cancer that grows ever stronger, and I've just about had enough. From people who have 0 creative abilities claiming the 15-fingered monstrosities they generate constitute "art" to the "developers" getting paid to vibe code, it's all pure insanity. No actual work was put into these creations. No real thought. No creativity. No soul. Just slightly more advanced autocomplete engine spitting out soul-less garbage we seem to collectively celebrate.
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+What confuses me about this whole thing is how the people using this have allowed their skills to atrophy, specifically developers. Any skill needs repetition to keep current and to maintain, and the same is true for programming. Vibe coding is an excellent way to prevent you from doing the things that actually grow your skillset: trial and error, reading docs, parsing stack traces, using a debugger, etc.
+
+# Copywrong
+
+And then there is, of course, the issue of intellectual property. We are all aware of the obvious ethical implications of a machine learning model trained on billions of copyrighted works being used to generate "new" without attribution or compensation to the original creators. But really, the entire legal framework around copyright, fair use, and ownership is imploding.
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+Artists, writers, musicians are actively having their livelihoods undermined by algorithms that take their work and compete against them. The very concept of originality is being eroded. Why would someone, other than being a generally good person, commission a painter when a "prompt engineer" can generate 100 variations in an hour? Why pay a writer when ChatGPT can generate blog posts in an instant? Human creation is losing its value.
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+# The Desecration of Creation
+
+Proponents of GenAI will go on and on about "democratizing creativity" or "lowering the barrier to entry." All it's doing is flooding the market with slop, making it even harder for people who put hard work into developing their crafts to stand out. Ultimately, it's not about empowering more people to create; it's about empowering people to pretend they've created something, without any time, effort, and passion that real creation demands.
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+What we're doing is fostering a culture of instant gratification and superficiality. Why bother learning to draw when you can prompt MidJourney? Why spend years perfecting your craft when a model can spit out something "good enough"? This is not progress; it's intellectual laziness on a massive scale. We are actively choosing to outsource our most human qualities to machines, which is just outright shameful.
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+So, no. There is no responsible AI use. Not when its very foundation is built on the stolen work of skilled individuals and not when it devalues the very essence of human creativity.