I am anti-AI. In fact, I do not even like to call it AI because too many people actually think these LLMs are intelligent. I believe that the way most of society is currently handling AI–treating it like some kind of savior that can do anything and everything, outsourcing thinking to it–is not sustainable and will produce gullible, easy to control people.

I will be fully transparent: I work in an industry where I have to use AI, so I do for work as much as I have to. In addition, text-based LLMs are incredibly helpful to me when I want to figure out a) Excel formulas or b) Linux problems. I always vet their answers, but they have yielded much better results than I could have ever hoped for through a search engine. And yes, I have tried.

In my private life, I otherwise try to stay as far away from AI as possible–when I do use it, I use Le Chat by Mistral. I would never again use LLMs to generate “art” for me, and none of my text outputs have ever been touched by LLMs.

However, as you can see on my website, I used to use AI for picture generation. Like many people, I tried Midjourney when it was starting to gain traction, and I found it very helpful to generate content for my social media pages. I have since then realised that LLMs can only work because they stole/steal from artists, and I want no part in this if I can help it. The pictures are still on my website because they have already been created; deleting them to me is a bit like throwing out a perfectly good device because it is US made and you want to support EU. It absolutely is part of my long-term plan to replace any “art” I have ever generated with human made art, but it is not currently in the cards to do so all at once.

I strive to be better and more conscientious every day, but I also believe that ‘perfect is the enemy of good’.