Within other topical posts in which I have participated with regard to AI, I have opposed the general use of that tech. While I recognize there may be valid use of AI, I have several concerns that it represents potential for harm. Here are my resins of opposition:
In later junior high school [8th, 9th grade] I began writing reports, essays, term papers, etcd, and also later in high school and college, which were seriously researched, which meant, then, frequenting my local library. We did not yet have the Internet in the 60s when I was in school, graduating from high school, and beginning college. While it would have been easy to plagiarize, even then, not having the facility of copy/paste, unless by the laborious re-write, I always cited my sources when not enlightened by personal written record of my own thinking. I determined early on that plagiarism would not represent my efforts fairly. I did not fool myself that others original thoughts will never be used by me without citation for their effort. Ignoring all that, just to get a paper written, is easier accomplished today, even without use of AI. With AI, the effort is easier still, but I cannot ignore that it amounts to cheating my own education if I indulge in it, even now. I will not do it.
I wasn't paid for my education efforts of writing such essays and reports ion school. I am paid today for the books and articles that I write, but I will never indulge the use of AI to do my thinking and writing for me simply because it is not representative of my own thinking. I cannot, in good conscience, take payment for printed or online publication over my name. I will not do it. Nor will I do it even when I am ghostwriting for another to publish over their name. They are paying me for that service, but I will not be paid for others' thinking, even if it is merely an artificial brain.
The same is true of illustration, which AI can now do, for the very same reason.
There is another concern. Once I have published anything with my name under it, I have announced publicly that it is my work. Even if what is written or illustrated is merely personally opinion, particularly when about another person, or about a specific point of view that I may not personally share, I have opened myself to legal consequence if it is considered libel or slander. If I have done so by use oof AI, who else knows that is the source, and not me, personally. I am still libelous or slanderous and can suffer the legal consequences. I will not do it.
