I hate AI, actually.

The environmental impact of generative AI is gross and terrifying, and in addition to that, AI just rips off of art, media, and writing that already exists, resulting in everything looking and sounding the same.

Generative AI gives people who are not creative or eloquent the illusion of creativity and eloquence, meanwhile that real, human element of creative work, in my opinion, is what makes said creative work so good. You cannot prompt the type of authentic voice that someone had to go to hell and back for, with messy Xanga posts, angsty teenage diary entries, and typo-riddled text messages paving the way brick by brick.

Dolly Parton had to go through the very human emotions she went through in order to write both “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” in the same day, and if you think about it, Glitter and A Star Is Born are the exact same movies. The difference is in how each story was told—not how they were prompted.

AI sucks at pop culture references, by the way, and I just want to call out my correct use of the em dash in the above paragraph. I know you don’t think AI made that shit up (Gabrielle Union from Bring It On voice).

AI flyers look like trash, saying “thank you” in the comments of an AI slop rendering of yourself is not healthy behavior, and don’t even get me started on the people who could barely parse out a “thx” in Slack pre-ChatGPT but are suddenly getting weird and verbose as they overuse the “It’s not delivery, it’s DiGiorno” sentence structure. Girl, I know that is not your writing!!

If you use AI and love it, then whatever, I’m not going to sit here and fight with you and I really don’t care what your AI therapist/boyfriend/replacement for a human role in your life told you, but I don’t think generative AI belongs in the creative space and I don’t use it in my process whatsoever.