On the acceptance of GenAI

Joep Schuurkes

By using GenAI:

I accept the models were trained on stolen data.

I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers.

I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models.

I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company.

I accept these companies don’t have a viable business model.

I accept that I am granting more power to big tech and their vision for the world.

I accept that I am granting more power to the United States.

I accept that all this effort could have been spent elsewhere.

If any of these facts are new to you, you haven’t been doing your due diligence.

I have the deepest respect and sympathy for people who are forced by circumstances to accept these things.

I acknowledge the people’s ethical behavior is neither deterministic, nor consistent.

But yeah, GenAI radicalized me.