I hear you, Kirstin. I’m making a concerted effort to learn more about AI this year but it’s quite overwhelming on multiple levels. I use ChatGPT some for editing, but haven’t found many other uses for it yet. (However, I remember when personal computers first came out, and I distinctly said, “I don’t need one of those things at home!” haha. Now I can’t live without it.) We did plan a vacation using AI, and it was very helpful. But also not totally accurate. I now know I should “trust but verify” with AI.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Julie. I’ve been looking over a book on AI and it, too, mentioned the hallucinations of AI (I’d never heard that until you mentioned it!). It definitely still has flaws and we need to stay aware of that. I’m conflicted, too, about its ability to create art; I’d much rather see art created by humans too–even if it’s not “perfect.” I hope AI’s creators will continue to wrestle with it on many levels!

I hear you, Linda. I dabble with AI, but as a supplement to fine-tune things I’ve already done. I totally understand why artists, writers, creators, etc., are up in arms about what AI has the potential to do to our creative work. It is disturbing indeed.

Definitely, Natalie. Because AI is such an energy hog, I find it interesting for Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) to say that despite it costing so much money in electricity costs for people to be polite to AI [and I’ll add, also at great cost to our climate!] that it is “tens of millions of dollars well spent.” No thank you to that. It’ll be interested to see how it plays out over the next few years.

I don’t like the creepy listening-in either, Jennifer! I know it’s a common thing, and I’m not happy about it. 🙁

You’re so right, Mona. The environmental impact of AI is bad; it’s an energy hog. And depending on the source of that energy, we are worsening our already bad climate crisis. It bothers me. And I feel a little guilty every time I ask ChatGPT a question. That’s one reason I’m at least trying to stop responding to AI after I’m finished with a project; I don’t need to send it an expensive “thank you.” It’s too costly!