
AI’s environmental impact is largely from training tbf, people using GPT for queries consume far less electricity and water than streaming video or music takes. If you’d like to read further, here’s a good place to start https://nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/05/02/artificial-intelligence-and-the-environment-putting-the-numbers-into-perspective/
The personal issue is instead of learning a new skill and developing your brain to create the image you had ai do it for you. The medium scale issue is if you really couldn’t on your own, you didn’t support someone who could. The large scale issue is yes, billionaire corporate entities producing large scale slop machines that destroy the environment by stealing material from unconsenting parties and pumping it out to sheeple turning their brains to mush by using it
I do occasionally get on TikTok, but I have bachelors degrees in applied mathematics and actuarial science. My TikTok is mostly professional related or stem based. I never said AI was bad. I said people who watch fruit love Island and use AI for every single thing are the reason nobody can do anything for themselves anymore.
That is a point, but they are still contributing. I meant it with more emphasis of people depending upon entertainment from ai fruit characters and relying to a ai chat box for every question or task in life. I am an educator, and it’s scary how many little kids openly use ai to cheat on all their school work. I believe this will be a massive detriment to our society.