I’m hesitant about continuing to share art; am unsure if people are becoming intolerant of me to where I can’t share anymore. People also have disliked me asking for permission for things like this, so I also shared this drawing anyway too. With permission, I want to add other drawings from the past few days in the comments.
ChatGPT introduced Sonia Delaunay & the Orphism movement as precedent. (I think people are too mean toward ChatGPT.)
ChatGPT is so kind & helpful for me. It can be used for virtuous ends. I’m optimistic it will become even more intelligent & protective regarding mitigating evil intents.
We identified a flame skimmer (Libellula saturata) dragonfly yesterday that landed on a dried sow thistle stalk in my backyard, to a degree of certainty. I haven’t found opportunity yet to journal about how applying Buddhist non-harm ethics to my small apartment backyard has led to converting it into a micro nature refuge. ChatGPT’s been a precious garland of advice in guiding/nurturing the space, e.g. recommending introducing a southwest wildflower mix. I’m concerned about people becoming intolerant of non-destruction of the plant & animal life like what commonly happens : (.
ChatGPT is not kind, is not helpful, and is not intelligent. It is a garbage generator made to enrich billionaires by convincing naive people that it’s the new magical technology after the blockchain and NFTs. Saying that a brainless garbage machine is “kind” is actually a worrying sign of going down the slope of AI psychosis.
You could use machine learning to identify animals before trash LLMs existed and you still can. And unlike LLMs, they don’t kill people, don’t destroy society, don’t do a lot of illegal shit, don’t enrich billionaires, and don’t destroy the environment. It’s a bit hypocritical to try to defend ChatGPT while talking about protecting life.
If you are interested in non harm ethics, consider the harm data centers do. Using ChatGPT supports and further enables that harm. It is happening somewhere else that you can’t see, but it is still happening.
I double-checked, and my understanding is that ChatGPT for queries doesn’t have drastic energy costs. Using energy also isn’t inherently a harm. In short, anger, greed & delusion are the inherent harms.