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Author decries generative AI for environmental waste and ruining authentic online content

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The author argues that generative artificial intelligence has become excessive and harmful, citing its significant environmental impact due to water-intensive data centers. Beyond the ecological concerns, the piece laments that AI-generated content, particularly videos of animals, has diminished the joy and authenticity of real-world content. The pervasive presence of AI-generated media now instills suspicion and disappointment, even when encountering genuine videos, thereby eroding a simple yet meaningful source of human happiness. AI

IMPACT Generative AI's proliferation is diminishing authentic online content and eroding simple human joys.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece discussing the negative impacts of generative AI.

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Author decries generative AI for environmental waste and ruining authentic online content

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  1. The Guardian — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Rebecca Shaw ·

    We don’t need AI videos of fake animals. There are real ones out there and they’re really cute | Rebecca Shaw

    <p>I can’t be delighted by something produced with generative AI. Give me books written by complicated people, drawings by sweet idiots, songs by those who feel</p><p>Generative AI has gone too far. Many have said it, but I need to add my human voice to the cacophony.</p><p>There…

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