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Pretty much. While I get the general vibe against using too much AI, many are over correcting.

krapp 1mo ago
I saw a story recently about a school in Kentucky that published student agendas with AI and apparently no human supervision, and it had hallucinated states and elements on the periodic table and the like[0]. This shouldn't happen, even with the most optimistic estimates of AI's capabilities being true, yet there is a cultlike mentality around it that leads people to lose their minds and throw even basic common sense out the window. It's being used to publish garbage scientific papers [1] and rewrite the historical narrative [2]. AI is being used everywhere, with abandon, and seemingly little to no oversight or plan to manage the inevitable consequences of the flood of slop and bullshit that it creates. And then on top of that there is the environmental and economic impact of data centers, the social alienation, deskilling and intellectual rot its use creates, and the fact that the big AI companies all seem to be run by a cult of technofascist psychopaths. And the cherry on the dystopian sundae being that we're told we have no choice, that it's inevitable regardless of the consequences and we just have to adapt to whatever future these psychopaths create for us and whatever role they decide we have in it. I don't think it's overcorrection so much as a proportional backlash against society losing its mind over this thing. [0] https://www.fox5vegas.com/2026/08/14/middle-school-student-agendas-contain-misspelled-states-science-errors-raising-ai-questions/ https://www.fox5vegas.com/2026/08/14/middle-school-student-a... [1] https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2024/02/15/the-rat-with-the-big-balls-and-enormous-penis-how-frontiers-published-a-paper-with-botched-ai-generated-images/ https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2024/02/15/the-rat-with-t... [2] https://marinaamaral.substack.com/p/ai-is-creating-fake-historical-photos https://marinaamaral.substack.com/p/ai-is-creating-fake-hist...
- karmakurtisaani 1mo ago
  Yeah, we're all aware of these drawbacks. Does it mean I deserve all the hate in the world if I use AI to make graphics for my hobbyist video game? Without AI, I would simply just not make the game, so no graphic designer is losing their income here.
  - krapp 1mo ago
    If you're aware of all of the negative externalities of using AI and just don't care as long as you get some mediocre and badly designed graphics for a game you aren't even trying to sell because you refuse to pay someone or take advantage of the universe of free assets out there then yes, I think you deserve some criticism. Hobbyist game development existed before AI and people still managed without the Torment Nexus.
    - karmakurtisaani 1mo ago
      I hope you are as passionately against other harmful things like flying and animal agriculture. Otherwise this is just blind fanaticism, exactly the same phenomenon we were discussing.
      - krapp 1mo ago
        I don't think that choosing not using an AI to generate game code and graphics versus using existing tools and talent is "blind fanaticism" but clearly for some reason you consider doing so to be the moral high ground. I don't know why this is a hill you want to die on but I'll leave you to it.
        karmakurtisaani 1mo ago
        Mate, just trying to argue for moderation and perspective in AI hate.

krapp 1mo ago

I saw a story recently about a school in Kentucky that published student agendas with AI and apparently no human supervision, and it had hallucinated states and elements on the periodic table and the like[0]. This shouldn't happen, even with the most optimistic estimates of AI's capabilities being true, yet there is a cultlike mentality around it that leads people to lose their minds and throw even basic common sense out the window. It's being used to publish garbage scientific papers [1] and rewrite the historical narrative [2]. AI is being used everywhere, with abandon, and seemingly little to no oversight or plan to manage the inevitable consequences of the flood of slop and bullshit that it creates. And then on top of that there is the environmental and economic impact of data centers, the social alienation, deskilling and intellectual rot its use creates, and the fact that the big AI companies all seem to be run by a cult of technofascist psychopaths. And the cherry on the dystopian sundae being that we're told we have no choice, that it's inevitable regardless of the consequences and we just have to adapt to whatever future these psychopaths create for us and whatever role they decide we have in it. I don't think it's overcorrection so much as a proportional backlash against society losing its mind over this thing. [0] https://www.fox5vegas.com/2026/08/14/middle-school-student-agendas-contain-misspelled-states-science-errors-raising-ai-questions/ https://www.fox5vegas.com/2026/08/14/middle-school-student-a... [1] https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2024/02/15/the-rat-with-the-big-balls-and-enormous-penis-how-frontiers-published-a-paper-with-botched-ai-generated-images/ https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2024/02/15/the-rat-with-t... [2] https://marinaamaral.substack.com/p/ai-is-creating-fake-historical-photos https://marinaamaral.substack.com/p/ai-is-creating-fake-hist...

karmakurtisaani 1mo ago
Yeah, we're all aware of these drawbacks. Does it mean I deserve all the hate in the world if I use AI to make graphics for my hobbyist video game? Without AI, I would simply just not make the game, so no graphic designer is losing their income here.
- krapp 1mo ago
  If you're aware of all of the negative externalities of using AI and just don't care as long as you get some mediocre and badly designed graphics for a game you aren't even trying to sell because you refuse to pay someone or take advantage of the universe of free assets out there then yes, I think you deserve some criticism. Hobbyist game development existed before AI and people still managed without the Torment Nexus.
  - karmakurtisaani 1mo ago
    I hope you are as passionately against other harmful things like flying and animal agriculture. Otherwise this is just blind fanaticism, exactly the same phenomenon we were discussing.
    - krapp 1mo ago
      I don't think that choosing not using an AI to generate game code and graphics versus using existing tools and talent is "blind fanaticism" but clearly for some reason you consider doing so to be the moral high ground. I don't know why this is a hill you want to die on but I'll leave you to it.
      - karmakurtisaani 1mo ago
        Mate, just trying to argue for moderation and perspective in AI hate.