No More AI

So I started tinkering with AI in the early days, when it was a clunky add on to a photo-editing app. I watched it grow and tested whether it could handle diversity, disability, and joy. Never trying to replace reality.

But my mind changed. Once I learned how invasive data centers are, and how the companies are forcing them into neighborhoods, and the greedy way they devour water and resources, that’s it. Done.

I was tempted to delete the references to AI, take down blog posts, erase that it had ever caught my curiousity. But I also feel that it is important to show growth. We can change our minds, about many things. I will take down the coloring book, even though I went through the images meticulously in other software to repair and sort details in the images, and I want the child-centered images of play-based fairyland. My disabled hands won’t be able to draw them, but I refuse to support or endorse ai in any way.

The forest is a place of imagination. It’s connected to nature and our human lives. The forest is alive. It’s everything valuable.

I wanted to educate and create, contribute a voice for under-represented diversity. Now, it’s not worth feeding the machine. I still believe that the majority of ai data is used by corporations and government, but I don’t want to endorse it in any way, shape, or form. Using old books, destroying them, to feed into data collections? No. Nope. I’m out.

Thank you for being patient with my experimental side quest. Rest assured that you will not see any ai generated content here anymore.

Fairy magic doesn’t need artificial intelligence. It simply needs us to believe in ourselves.