In today’s day and age, it seems like no one can escape the cold grip of AI. New AI models are being made for a plethora of uses, from helping with homework to making resumes. However, AI is constricting the air out of human creativity and is replacing ingenuity with automated slop that could replace genuine family and friend connections in the future.
With literacy rates already in decline across all of the states in the U.S according to the Harvard Gazette., AI has just added fuel to the fire that might be the nail in the coffin of academic integrity. With these new AI tools, children do not have to worry about actually reading the books they are assigned and understanding the nuances in literature, when the easy way out guarantees them a good grade and more free time in their already chaotic lives. But, this hollow understanding of the curriculum students experience in high school is the foundation on which most degrees are built. The next generation will not know a world where AI does not exist, so when there are more accessible AI options, it sweeps away the foundation they were supposed to get through their education. People will start falling through the cracks later in life when they do not know important skills they would have been taught.
This AI plague has not only spread to students, but it has already infected the educators the next generation depends on. A professor at Northeastern University was found using generative AI to make parts of their lesson. The students at Northeastern University complained about wanting to receive their tuition payments back since they are not allowed to use AI without heavy consequences and repercussions. This should be a slap in the face to educators and students across the globe. College is already putting young adults into financial debt by the American college system; they are now being put into intellectual debt by the people who are supposed to guide them through their education.
The rise of AI art and videos has been a catastrophic thing to witness in the last couple of years. With the advent of AI, artists are having their livelihoods stripped from them in the name of corporate gain. People’s artwork has been stolen without their consent, and fed to train these AI art bots so that they can recreate slop that butchers the artist’s original image. In just a few years. AI-generated art has gotten so out of hand that people have to second-guess every piece of art they see, since there is a good chance that the person posting put zero real effort into making that art, and instead took the easy way out. The people who benefit from AI art the most are greedy corporations that have realized that they do not have to commission artists to make art for them anymore, and can instead use AI to protect their bottom line.
Personalized AI chatbots have risen to fame recently with swarms of people preferring to chat with a robot that agrees with everything they say. With AI replacing human interaction,people, especially kids who missed out on crucial years to form social skills never learnt those skills after the pandemic ended. Who knows how much this affects people’s ability to talk to other people. When people talk to an AI chatbot, they are the center of attention and they do not have to care about what the other side of the conversation thinks. People don’t have to tune themselves into another person’s personality. This is a very dangerous line to cross because in the future there will be pockets of people who do not entirely know how to properly socialize due to their reliance on Artificial Intelligence from such a young age.
Since we live in an ever growing technological world, the only way Artificial Intelligence will not break the ground on which we stand is if we, the people, decide not to use AI as a crutch in our daily lives.
