I have begun relying on AI and I don’t know how I feel about it.

[Tusktusk]

So far this month I have used AI to:

Analyse my colours (thanks MN) and suggest outfits

Create a menu of packed lunches around my dietary requirements and preferences, complete with a shopping list

Plan a holiday itinerary

Save me hours and hours of work and stress by suggesting really useful ways to overcome very particular work difficulties, having been thrown into an out of my comfort zone situation. I have used AI for this on a daily basis this week

Tonight, instead of posting my current family dilemma on mumsnet I chatted about it with Claude. The responses were really good. Wise, thoughtful, non judgemental, practical, understanding… like the best mumsnetters.

Am I starting to rely on it too much?

What have you been using it for?

Absolutely agree x some of the most innovative and expressionist art has come from times of great struggle, tragedy and uncertainty. It helps inform both hope and suffering.

As that well known meme states "Earth without art is just Eh."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/24/police-live-facial-recognition-cameras-england-and-wales

Another adjacent issue.

Very sympathetic and helpful and saves all the gossip and stress of sharing with others

I've never used it, the same way I've never used spellcheck. My fear is - don't use it, you lose it!

Crikey this is amazing music creator much better than Suno www.mureka.ai?invite_code=mmAZF3

A machine without emotions made up of 1’s and 0’s can’t be genuinely sympathetic.

It’s not ‘sympathetic’. It can’t be. It’s not sentient.

It beats being slagged of by county faces

Honestly it's just to good for not using!
Claude, chatGPT, NotebookLM, Google Studio, Gemini, absolutely any of these and more, there's so many! I currently pay a monthly subscription to chatgpt so it's usually my go to, because it already knows me. 6 months ago it helped me get my promotion at work preparing me for the interview, mock interview, making my notes straight to the point, succinctly and non repetitive. It's not the AI ideas I'm using. It's all my thoughts, ideas, leveraged to excellence.

The other day I had a profound conversation following a disturbing dream I had and it felt as good as chatting with a therapist, right there, at the tip of my fingers as soon as I woke up.

Currently I am completing my sons ASD assessment form for his referral and it's helping me to be concise, organising my thoughts and feelings, non judgemental and very pragmatic helping me to realise important details.

Just as someone has said and I feel the same, I am a much better professional working as a Team with AI, super confident because it isn't AIs hallucinating, these are my thoughts leveraged, my ideas exposed with direct analyses to what are the pros, the cons, the strengths and weaknesses.

And those that refuse to use it, they're stuck for now in their minds and soon within society and they'll be losing out, guaranteed!

So many posts praising AI sound like they’ve been written by AI.

Bear in mind AI is developing by constantly mining information from the Internet. While we may think it's anonymous it may well be within the realms of possibility to track the source.

I know VPN things exist where you can obfuscate your IP address, but once thongs are out there, it's almost impossible to completely scrub them.

Hypothetically if you write a frustrated rant against something that goes against the zeitgeist of the day, it could be flagged far more easily with AI algorithms.

The cry "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is often used, but goal posts change in social policy every day, and a relatively uncontroversial subject could become contentious extremely quickly if it suits exploitation for monetary, financial or power dynamic reasons.

China has it's Social Credit system which penalises political activists and journalists - "re-education" is a real concept.

I refer again to the fictional series "The Capture" which is based around the idea of altering video footage in real time to create desired outcomes in areas such as counter-terrorism. It's a few years old, but I doubt the technology isn't being developed.

One might argue that government's don't have the funds, manpower or infrastructure to conduct surveillance on such a scale that would impact average Joe, however, this is probably the biggest growth industry in the world, and the "tech bros" are embedded in government via corporate collaboration. We have an object lesson in the dangers of this in Musk and Trump.

I'm currently watching the full episode of Diary of a CEO referenced in a video posted earlier. It's worth a watch.

Seems like 2027 is the conflunce of them all - ASI - artificial super intelligence where their growth becomes runaway and even their creators don't know where that's going. That said a lot of them are worried about the speed of innovation. It's like the blast from a huge bomb heading out from it's centre destroying everything in its blast wave. The zenith of evolution where a small cohort of tech humans made something greater and more awful than themselves.

In elections to come it will be difficult to determine truth from artifice and a constructed lie will travel much faster than inelegant , pesky facts. The system needs reform not Reform but I suspect we will get the latter and God helps us all.

I use it to plan courses, find answers, spell check. It's begun knowing my voice.

We're still social creatures, that's how we're naturally made, however who wants judgement when they just need a clear plan out of the situation their in.

That is some dystopian shit.

The unlearning machine knows you voice. Jesus.

Yes that was on Claude. I asked if it could do it and it said yes and asked me to upload a photo with head and shoulders, no makeup in good natural light.

I don’t have the paid version of Claude, just the free one.

More food for thought.

A Telegraph opinion piece / conversation.

Presumably you never get in a plane then. Or a car. Or buy jeans.

Half way through - very intersting and dystopian - tldr ; best case scenario most of us don't have jobs but society is rich enough to give universal benefits most to keep them happy. Worse case - AI takes over and kills us all as being redundant - in the same way we destroy a wasp's nest.

Flying abroad once will use more energy than you’ll use in a lifetime of AI. Such a weird thing to get your knickers in a twist about. These companies don’t just give out power for free, it’s all priced in. It’s not like they’re going to be using £50 of electricity to service your £10 subscription is it! So it pales in significance to any other energy usage in your life.

Ugh. I'm a translator. AI has at once robbed me of my livelihood and made the work I still have a whole lot harder: it doesn't understand context so it churns out sh*t that a human would have sorted out in version 1, not still be getting wrong in version 4. It's soul destroying.

No I don’t fly but yes to the other two. Thing is though - I have decided that those things in my life are needed. Since I have managed fine without AI up to now - it’s no burden to stop using it. We got an account set up for us at work. Used it a few times to make some worksheets then thought it wasn’t worth it. My life is definitely not as good for the environment as it could be so little things I can do easily like recycling, walking where possible and not using AI are at least a start.

The problem is in the aggregate. Most people don't fly but if AI becomes ubiquitous for trivial shit like doing your colours then it will add strain to the system. It already is. Alongside creating pollution spikes and draining aquifers. And that is even before we get to the plagiarism and misinformation and all the other risks.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/20/ai-art-concerns-originality-connection

Further thoughts around AI and art.

With the rise of mass AI tools for songwriting, music, and video creation, many users may increasingly get lost in a world they seemingly create one where a perfect version of themselves stars in countless adventures and accomplishes amazing things, essentially living in their own movie. As a result, users will probably gravitate more toward their AI-generated “art,” produced in seconds, and become enthralled by it rather than staying curious about and engaging with the real world. The more I study this the darker it gets.