Generative AI Policy

Throughout history, there have always been those who despise technological advancements. Computers are hated because we're not writing by hand, just as paper was hated because we stopped writing on slate. There's value in tradition, in the "old ways", and in having a broad array of skills both manual and automated, digital and analog. There's also a point at which you become an old man yelling at the clouds.   I hope that, one day, generative AI and other LLMs will be simply another tool we can use if it suits us to do so. At this time, they're not that.   Today's genAI systems are trained off stolen content, use obscene amounts of energy, cause harm to the environment, provide incorrect and misleading information, all to produce meaningless and generic content. Relying on genAI hampers our abilities to reason, learn, socialize, and create.   For these reasons, and more, I don't use LLMs for any part of my creative workflow - not in research, writing, coding, or imagery - and I avoid work that does. My opinions are apt to change as the technology and politics around it does, but this is my current stance.   Creating art of all forms is difficult and frightening, but incredibly worthwhile. You are the only person who can create your art. Why outsource that to something else?