Although this website is made with the help of AI, all the design and idea and structure is human-made and thought about! The back-end and some optimization is done with the help of AI, some content are improved with AI and this article is by no means an anti-artificial intelligence blog post. I'm not a hypocrite and I acknowledge the use of AI in building my projects and porfolio and its obvious help in my daily life but more of a warning and my opinion on how we should tame AI and where we should allow it to operate and the borders in which we should allow AI to operate for us and not instead of us. Therefore, this blog post and probably the next few are completely or partially written by me and I actually took the time to think and write these. (It is also crazy that I have to mention that I actually sat down and wrote a blog article. Who would have thought!?)
When I first started using AI, it felt like a dream, a scene from a futuristic Sci-Fi movie. I got to use it more and more in my work as well as my daily life. I soon found myself asking ai to do everything for me. Think instead of me, write me prompts that I will then feed to AI again to do certain things, build this section of this website, create this, help me solve that.
It was only then I realized a harsh truth. AI was replacing me, not facilitating what I do. It is true that by doing things faster, I'd gotten more time to focus on my own things and to be myself more but what is it to be me? I realized that all the struggles, all the imperfect ways I came up with in order to solve my problems, all the searching and finding and thinking and taking action was me! It was everything that made me be me and differentiated me from another.
AI's place is just as a tool that helps speed up things. It is not a replacement for human creativity. It should not be taken serious enough to replace all human work.
Imagine a world where every creative work is AI generated. Every article, every picture, every design, every video you see is a result of a prompt. How would that make us feel, as a human? When everything seems like a remix of everything else you have ever seen. It is all repetitive boring, too perfect to be real, without any character and stale, lifeless and gray. AI produces this perfect product and sometimes even considers the things that might not have crossed our minds. In theory, this sounds so good, right? Except at this point, anyone can produce a perfect result using AI and when the time comes, how are we to differentiate between good and bad products? What would really be the value of a good product? What would make us choose one thing over another?
Now why does being perfect and accurate not necessarily a good thing you might ask? We are humans, not robots. We don't require perfect results. We need authentic and intentional signatures across the products we consume. With the emergence of technology past 2000s, I strongly believe that human life has become dull and soulless. But imagine what it could look like 20 years from now when we let AI take over. I also acknowledge that it is inevitable but I find it my duty to write something regarding this matter hoping that I can wake up as many of the people surrounding me to this harsh reality so when the time comes, I wouldn't be alone in that kind of world!
As a creator, a musician, a graphic content designer I see the type of products we consume right now in the world, and looking at them critically, they have no artistic value. They are taking over because they are simply cheaper. AI generated music, AI generated videos, AI generated this and that. It is all over the place. They are just financially preferred by the people in charge of huge corporates and everything is becoming numbers, money and stock. If it is cheaper and faster it has to be automated.
In the end, this was just a way for me to get out the frustration that has been adding up inside of me. I will be writing more related stuff to the stack that I use and the scenarios I have faced in my work.