AI hurts creativity

AI has become prevalent in practically every digital front, implemented and utilized in every way. But, perhaps, is it too much?

Aside from the intense environmental impacts AI datacenters can have, AI particularly hurts creative fields, such as writing, art, and music, the complaints of its effects easily found in creative communities. I have found it to be far too easy to stumble upon an AI written article these days, which interrupts my schoolwork studying with potentially false content.

However, it is relatively simple to detect AI’s “style” if the user didn’t clean it up beforehand, as I have found; AI overuses certain phrases, styles, and EM dashes (—).

“It’s not just <topic>— it’s <related info>, <related> <related>.”

The EM dash is a writer’s dash that they use to cut to different sentences like- lorem ipsum -so. It’s often used in published books as the ‘professional’ and formal way. AI determines that as a professional, intelligent tone and thus overuses EM dashes, possibly being 1-2 per few sentences.

I have noticed AI uses sets of threes frequently, especially in comparisons, and often uses the “it’s not just” phrase. It additionally frequently uses the ‘it’s like <topic>’ phrase. For more examples and information, review the Wikipedia article about it.

I cannot give proper advice on detecting AI art, as I’m not an artist, but I can direct you to Nightshade, a filter that you can apply to your art to make it harder for AI models to use and even damage some models.

For AI music, try noticing the uncanny lyrics. Good musicians can put a lot of minute detail into their music, and AI music has none of it, being a bland front.

My personal opinion is concerned with how much it’s being pushed. If you browse through just a few news articles on the lesser publishers, you will find AI generated articles and often AI generated thumbnails. If they don’t care about making their article, why should I care to read it?

Additionally, as a musician with writing and drawing friends, I despise AI use in the creative industries. No matter what facade an AI user believes themselves in, the only real one is that it screws up creatives… and some AI users believe that.

Now, a disclaimer: AI has good and novel uses, but just not in the creative industry. Creativity is what makes us human, and are we supposed to just give it up to a machine?

Those good uses are things like using it to detect cancer and other diseases. You can blindly hate AI as much as you want, but you can’t say it saving lives is a bad thing!