The End of an Era
This post will probably the last post you'll see translated by an AI.
Because after engaging a discussion among the American people on Reddit, when I said I used AI as a chatbot and for grammar correction, I was met with a firm disapproval.
I was later informed how unethical these moves that I made. And someone explained to me how AI really just damages the planet really fast.
I knew it the first time then when I've used AI.
This machine will never be a human. It's an intelligent robot but it's not a storyteller.
Especially if the source of the stories this AI got from are stolen from a human sweat and dedication to contribute to literature.
I was skeptical about it back then, but I became tolerant over time about the ethical implications of AI since my own goals superceded my own sense of consideration.
But more conversations among the Americans themselves made me just contemplate on what choice should I make every time I use AI.
AI who uses 10 times more energy than a simple Google Search.
So there's that, it's really not my style to translate a written work that I treat as an art.
Again, I said I grew up with books. I studied creative writing in high school but to be more transparent, my creative writing only consisted two semesters.
When college came, I took up a different program. It's a business-related degree.
And I hated every moment of that in college. It was because I was more drawn to humanities. Such as when we studied Ethics as a general course, I learned more about Bertram and Mill. There's also Aristotle and Aquinas because my school is a conservative Catholic college.
I'm more interested in these things than economics.
It's second nature to me. It's not something I think about any longer of whether I should do or not do, but because I simply absorb many different things in different topics as I read.
Growing up with books and reading many of the classics of literature made me also appreciate the intrinsic literary merit of these greatest works. I'm only sorry to say that my main influences belong to English literature because it's the most accessible stories I have when internet came into my consciousness.
Ever since as an elementary student I love reading stories. I grew up, I read more complicated stories.
I get more older and I appreciate stories that are complex and possess the depth it will make you read over and over again yet you discover something more. Because these are the types of stories that will haunt the rest of my life with many thoughts to ponder.
For example, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, which shocked me when I realized I'm reading the most racist yet conservative American society that practices lynching. A practice where they initiate a killing to any African-American people they don't like.
That novel will forever stay from the rest of my life. This novel also scarred my high school self just by how much America's society has a deeply ingrained racism.
And I always love books like that, I want to write something like that.
With an artistry I've found in the English lyrical quality which influenced me tremendously, no amount of an AI can translate.
This AI who uses water and deplete water sources on every prompt I make.
It will be the last piece you will read. Because it's a choice that I'm also been aware of.
AI is not the one who will write my prose. AI is not the one who controls my language, and definitely AI is not the one who will take the lead towards my own goals.
It will be me, it will be with my own sense of ethical consideration, and it will be with the complex burden of being a human that has a concern with the planet.
From this day onwards, I'll cease my reliance on AI.
