I'm tired of AI images, their gauziness, which I assume is there to sidestep copyright on the photographs and images they use, just looks like a crapy artist trying to cover up poor technique.
And writers, AI is being used in your jobs. A colleague recently lost a position working in marketing to AI. She's had decades of experience and been part of editorial teams working on bestselling books.
I review books on my Substack, and publishers send me their wares for review. Some of these books are produced, in part, with AI. The first chapter reads just fine, then, starting with the second chapter, I can tell that AI was used for much of the rest of the book. Sure signs are a slight change in tone, the overuse and misuse of the rule of three, and a sameness of paragraph construction. I won't review these books.
I have a client (whom I love!) who uses AI images to illustrate every story I wrote for them. I have wondered if I should say something about it because it made me uncomfortable: Your post galvanizes me to bring it up. Thank you.
Just joined the platform and the first 5 accounts I came across all contained AI generated images. But not only that, but the I ran the text through multiple AI detectors and found the written content to be 100% AI generated. What's disturbing is that these are accounts with 10s of thousands of followers, and people seem to genuinely engage with the content, writing comments. Something about that just stinks.
That’s truly concerning! Concerning that readers aren’t even picking up that the words expressed are straight from a machine. Someone else pointed out to me recently some substack posts that all read as AI generated and I honestly couldn’t believe that this substack space would resort to that! There should be some tag that states the percentage of an article scripted by AI haha, for those who can’t tell the difference which as I said before is very concerning in itself.
I love love loved this post, Lloyd. You put into words an ineffable feeling I've been having more and more lately, as my various feeds drown in versions of the message "if you're not using AI, you're doing it wrong."
I believe "I would rather take a photo of a pile of garbage than use an AI image" is a quote for the ages (and would make a nice alternate title for the piece!
I totally share your abhorrence of the AI generated image with every post. Personally, on my blog website if I don't have a relevant image of my own and use an image from my photo library of a beautiful place that I've been.
There is always something very creepy about these AI images
I worked in the CAD/CAM industry in the 80s and 90s and thought we were developing high tech solutions that increased productivity. Looking back, I’m not sure if it was worth the loss of jobs. You might argue that the increased accuracy of the computer makes better products but unless you’re designing for the aerospace industry, extreme accuracy isn’t needed. Even so, they can still find ways to mess things up, just look at Boeing. So I look back at my career and wonder how it worked out for all the draftsman and machinists who were eventually let go. Or, all the potential skilled tech workers who never had a chance.
Boeing - It started down that slippery slope when it swallowed McDonald-Douglas and moved from being an engineering company to "biz oriented" one (think bean counters). Similar thing happened at DEC (I was there at the time - they refused to realize that they were no longer a hardware company but a software company and paid the price for it).
Automation is no different than outsourcing when it comes to jobs—the belief is that it allows a company to be more lean and efficient, i.e. higher profit margins for the investor class. A.I. and robotics are the next iteration in this evolution but one has to ask what the ultimate goal of all this is—if human labor is rendered superfluous, what kind of job will they have to afford the products that automation, robotics, and A.I. are making? UBI (universal basic income) will NOT be enough, nor is it sustainable. And what would happen if an entire region that's dependent on a single source of manufacturing—say Bangladesh, the way it's reliant on the textile industry—suddenly loses its ability to economically compete against a factory full of robots? What does an entire country do when its population has been made obsolete? What's going to be the socioeconomic fallout? No one discusses the potential answers, and that's too bad.
I wonder about these exact things too! What will we all be doing with this extra “leisure time” because we’ve become obsolete to robots and AI? How will we be earning an income to afford the basic cost of living and so far all this tech ain’t cheap either, like I heard a Tesla robot will cost about $30k. The disparity between the have nots and those who have, is just going to get wider, while the majority are going to loose access to technology. And what will we be doing with all this spare time? It’s not like we will be pursing creative hobbies because AI is taking that over too, in the creative space. So I see a huge existential crisis in the future for humans, in our purpose, that’s not to say I agree with the notion that your job is your identify, but there’s not denying what we do does form a small part of who we are.
Thanks for writing this. I work in communications for a nonprofit and find myself feeling queasy at the pace with which “AI” is being added to every tool I use and pushed in so many workshops, with little thought to the repercussions and ethics of these tools. After reading your work for years, I also wonder at the massive amounts energy and infrastructure needed to power generative AI tools at a time when we need to be consuming much less.
When do people find out they are more creative than computers or A1?
Can't find the science fiction story of a pilot who finds they are in a draw with their opponents. That is until, he recalculates his machine (so to speak) with his own thoughts and finds his opponents are not prepared for his approach.
The human mind is a marvelous being within you that has the ability and creativity to think beyond what A1 or computers do. We are not locked in so to speak and are allowed to think beyond the confines.
One of the saddest things about AI is that some really good artists that I have followed for years have switched to using AI. What? Do you think we haven’t noticed? Another thing I find in the graphics world is that a designer will admit to 3 or 4 AI derived images and imply that his remaining 2367 images are his own work. Sheesh. I used to be happy to live in the digital age in spite of some so the problems that came with it. I am NOT happy to live in the age of AI.
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I retired last from teaching middle school English, and a big part of my decision was that admins and other teachers were pushing it so much. A principal told us to become experts at “AI” so we could teach our students how to use it. I told my students I would give them a zero on anything they did using AI. I also had my students read articles that criticized AI-nothing positive. I could tell my colleagues didn’t like my position on AI and how I would criticize it in meetings.
Anyone here read “The Coming Wave” by Mustafa Suleyman?
I am currently reading it and it’s vert insightful.
Also, I am an early “self publishing author of novels” building my fan base with a 6 year strategy that requires time to turn a profit and the AI cover art is alluring as the cost of paying a graphic artist to do the work is quite high when the margin on book sales is so low in the beginning. AI is a potentially powerful tool for me. I would use it for images for every post, but it is a conundrum.
I'm tired of AI images, their gauziness, which I assume is there to sidestep copyright on the photographs and images they use, just looks like a crapy artist trying to cover up poor technique.
And writers, AI is being used in your jobs. A colleague recently lost a position working in marketing to AI. She's had decades of experience and been part of editorial teams working on bestselling books.
I review books on my Substack, and publishers send me their wares for review. Some of these books are produced, in part, with AI. The first chapter reads just fine, then, starting with the second chapter, I can tell that AI was used for much of the rest of the book. Sure signs are a slight change in tone, the overuse and misuse of the rule of three, and a sameness of paragraph construction. I won't review these books.
I have a client (whom I love!) who uses AI images to illustrate every story I wrote for them. I have wondered if I should say something about it because it made me uncomfortable: Your post galvanizes me to bring it up. Thank you.
Just joined the platform and the first 5 accounts I came across all contained AI generated images. But not only that, but the I ran the text through multiple AI detectors and found the written content to be 100% AI generated. What's disturbing is that these are accounts with 10s of thousands of followers, and people seem to genuinely engage with the content, writing comments. Something about that just stinks.
That’s truly concerning! Concerning that readers aren’t even picking up that the words expressed are straight from a machine. Someone else pointed out to me recently some substack posts that all read as AI generated and I honestly couldn’t believe that this substack space would resort to that! There should be some tag that states the percentage of an article scripted by AI haha, for those who can’t tell the difference which as I said before is very concerning in itself.
I love love loved this post, Lloyd. You put into words an ineffable feeling I've been having more and more lately, as my various feeds drown in versions of the message "if you're not using AI, you're doing it wrong."
I believe "I would rather take a photo of a pile of garbage than use an AI image" is a quote for the ages (and would make a nice alternate title for the piece!
Thank you for this.
I totally share your abhorrence of the AI generated image with every post. Personally, on my blog website if I don't have a relevant image of my own and use an image from my photo library of a beautiful place that I've been.
There is always something very creepy about these AI images
I worked in the CAD/CAM industry in the 80s and 90s and thought we were developing high tech solutions that increased productivity. Looking back, I’m not sure if it was worth the loss of jobs. You might argue that the increased accuracy of the computer makes better products but unless you’re designing for the aerospace industry, extreme accuracy isn’t needed. Even so, they can still find ways to mess things up, just look at Boeing. So I look back at my career and wonder how it worked out for all the draftsman and machinists who were eventually let go. Or, all the potential skilled tech workers who never had a chance.
Boeing - It started down that slippery slope when it swallowed McDonald-Douglas and moved from being an engineering company to "biz oriented" one (think bean counters). Similar thing happened at DEC (I was there at the time - they refused to realize that they were no longer a hardware company but a software company and paid the price for it).
Automation is no different than outsourcing when it comes to jobs—the belief is that it allows a company to be more lean and efficient, i.e. higher profit margins for the investor class. A.I. and robotics are the next iteration in this evolution but one has to ask what the ultimate goal of all this is—if human labor is rendered superfluous, what kind of job will they have to afford the products that automation, robotics, and A.I. are making? UBI (universal basic income) will NOT be enough, nor is it sustainable. And what would happen if an entire region that's dependent on a single source of manufacturing—say Bangladesh, the way it's reliant on the textile industry—suddenly loses its ability to economically compete against a factory full of robots? What does an entire country do when its population has been made obsolete? What's going to be the socioeconomic fallout? No one discusses the potential answers, and that's too bad.
I wonder about these exact things too! What will we all be doing with this extra “leisure time” because we’ve become obsolete to robots and AI? How will we be earning an income to afford the basic cost of living and so far all this tech ain’t cheap either, like I heard a Tesla robot will cost about $30k. The disparity between the have nots and those who have, is just going to get wider, while the majority are going to loose access to technology. And what will we be doing with all this spare time? It’s not like we will be pursing creative hobbies because AI is taking that over too, in the creative space. So I see a huge existential crisis in the future for humans, in our purpose, that’s not to say I agree with the notion that your job is your identify, but there’s not denying what we do does form a small part of who we are.
Thanks for writing this. I work in communications for a nonprofit and find myself feeling queasy at the pace with which “AI” is being added to every tool I use and pushed in so many workshops, with little thought to the repercussions and ethics of these tools. After reading your work for years, I also wonder at the massive amounts energy and infrastructure needed to power generative AI tools at a time when we need to be consuming much less.
Lloyd:
When do people find out they are more creative than computers or A1?
Can't find the science fiction story of a pilot who finds they are in a draw with their opponents. That is until, he recalculates his machine (so to speak) with his own thoughts and finds his opponents are not prepared for his approach.
The human mind is a marvelous being within you that has the ability and creativity to think beyond what A1 or computers do. We are not locked in so to speak and are allowed to think beyond the confines.
You are on the right track.
One of the saddest things about AI is that some really good artists that I have followed for years have switched to using AI. What? Do you think we haven’t noticed? Another thing I find in the graphics world is that a designer will admit to 3 or 4 AI derived images and imply that his remaining 2367 images are his own work. Sheesh. I used to be happy to live in the digital age in spite of some so the problems that came with it. I am NOT happy to live in the age of AI.
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I retired last from teaching middle school English, and a big part of my decision was that admins and other teachers were pushing it so much. A principal told us to become experts at “AI” so we could teach our students how to use it. I told my students I would give them a zero on anything they did using AI. I also had my students read articles that criticized AI-nothing positive. I could tell my colleagues didn’t like my position on AI and how I would criticize it in meetings.
Anyone here read “The Coming Wave” by Mustafa Suleyman?
I am currently reading it and it’s vert insightful.
Also, I am an early “self publishing author of novels” building my fan base with a 6 year strategy that requires time to turn a profit and the AI cover art is alluring as the cost of paying a graphic artist to do the work is quite high when the margin on book sales is so low in the beginning. AI is a potentially powerful tool for me. I would use it for images for every post, but it is a conundrum.
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