Please read to educate yourself about AI

I told

I would post only once about the harms caused by AI. Because I realize most of you don’t want to hear about this, but I must speak up (and now I will drop the topic unless someone sends me a personal chat).

Please look at these links so you are aware, even if you continue to be a fan. Links to environmental concerns, thought leadership and excellence concerns, effects on visual art copyright concerns:

1- These first 3 links are an example of the kinds of articles Gerry McGovern on LinkedIn is sharing, sometimes multiple articles/day on environmental impact. He also posts on the issues of disposal of poisonous electronic waste, the harms of rare earth mining (for digital devices) in poor countries, harms and resistance of indigenous people all over the world to mining, dumping of waste, and data centre construction to fuel AI and crypto. This is an ecological disaster (on top of the one we already had!)

https://www.ndtvprofit.com/science/water-wars-now-compete-with-data-centres-to-access-water

https://www.techpolicy.press/as-data-centers-push-into-states-lawmakers-are-pushing-right-back/

https://undark.org/2024/10/17/opinion-irony-of-powering-ai-on-atomic-energy/

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2- Alyssa Phillips Downey gave me permission to link to this newsletter she recently sent (that I love). She agreed to send link to share with this group. She is a wonderful service based Graphic Artist and website/branding designer.

It starts with: Hi Friend!

How do I use AI in my branding design work? I don't. I use my brain.

(Click this link This link should work.)

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3- This is a Google search for The Human Intelligence Movement:

https://bit.ly/421JCFH

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4- New AI that easily mimics artist styles:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14548163/Artists-issue-game-copyright-warning-new-ChatGPT-tool-mimic-style-seconds.html Thank you for reading !

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