#58 - I was wrong about AI

I feel incredibly nervous starting to film this.

I have been working on this video, like writing the points and stuff down for over a week now,

thinking about it constantly, putting it off, but I just have to post this, post this, and make it now.

I just came back from the gym and I'm just like, okay, but yeah, that was a really bad hook.

Anyway, this video is about AI and how I'm scared about the world,

but a surprising realization and a lesson that I've had about how we can actually set ourselves up

to, you know, survive, not even thrive in this kind of world.

So I'll begin by saying hello for those who don't know me.

My name is Amy. As you can see, my channel name, and on this channel,

used to primarily make videos targeted towards students helping them succeed sustainably.

Now talking more broadly about self-improvement and self-care, particularly for women,

because I'm a woman. This is already being weird and bad, but I'm just gonna keep going because

that's the point of this video. It's more of a raw video type thing as far as background

and why I'm half naked. It's pretty hot out today.

I graduated from Caltech with a degree in chemical engineering.

My first job was in business management consulting.

Did that for a year and a half while doing business management consulting, which is

if you guys don't know a really, really busy demanding job, I worked on this YouTube channel

at the same time. Fortunately, about four or five months after grad, five months after leaving

consulting, this channel finally blew up and I was able to keep growing it so that this

basically the thing that puts money on the table now.

Okay. The first time I heard of large language models and chat to BT was when my college roommate

asked me to help her with her startup. So she told me, oh, chat to BT, this thing, blah, blah, blah.

This was in the beginning of 2023 and I looked it up and I was like, oh my gosh, this is crazy stuff.

Didn't think much of it and I didn't use it myself. But then once it became more mainstream and

people were saying how it was saving a lot of time for their tasks. In 2024, I was applying

again to Harvard Business School and that darn word count. I wrote everything myself.

But then, oh my gosh, the word count was just so tough. So I put parts of my little essays

for the application into what I thought was chat to BT and I had it help me shrink down the words.

The crazy thing is that a month later when my husband Sean was essentially reviewing the essays

helping me with the application before I submitted, he was like, yeah, just use chat to BT

for this part, improve this line. I was like, all right, bet. I open up what I thought was chat to

BT and then I'm like, yeah, I've been using it but they have this prompt to limit to, you know,

I can only send 10 messages a day and he's like, what? That doesn't happen for me. Let me look at

what you're using. I'm like, yeah, it's right here. He's like, pro, this is chatgpt.org. This is not

the real chatgpt. I'm like, oh, I find this tends to happen to me a lot where I want to be ahead of

the times and I want to use the most efficient tools and tech and stuff and it's very embarrassing

considering how I literally graduated from Caltech. Sorry, admissions officers, you got me wrong

there by letting me in and I'm just a boomer exposing myself there. That's when I realized, oh,

let me switch to chatgpt, the real thing. When I started using it, it was like, holy crap, this thing

is so, so insane. It's so helpful and it just went, when this kind of tool and technology first

comes out, you're just like, this is going to change everything quickly enough. I learned that

chatgpt, my biggest usage of the real thing I started using it for was my therapist kind of,

I would just like dictate, I love the dictate function and it just spill a bunch of things I'm

struggling with or different decisions and the ways I'm thinking about it literally just spill

my brains and then have it synthesize and just the synthesize, synthesize, synthesize, just the

synthesizing, just the synthesis by itself was really helpful to me in getting clarity and to

make decisions faster and so it was just, it really improved my life a lot. However, despite

starting to use the real thing, starting at the end of 2024, it's safer a long, long time,

I don't remember how long, every time I sent a prompt with chatgpt, I felt really guilty because

I have been hearing whispers and things on social media, even though I kind of live under a rock,

I kind of had this, I understand the sentiment about chatgpt or AI in general being like bad

because it uses water and like the environment and stuff and as someone who has always felt

as a type 1 anti-gram, like I'm just always like, oh, like I need to be doing the right thing,

I sort out my recycles meticulously, I take time to rinse out my peanut butter jars to recycle,

but then I feel guilty about using water, wasting water in order to rinse out the peanut butter jar,

to recycle it, I would research for two hours back when we lived in SoCal about how to recycle

our textiles and how to recycle our appliances where the things would actually be reused rather than

just dumped into a landfill, like that's the kind of thing I would do. So that's why I always

felt this kind of guilt, but at the same time I knew it was helpful, but I just really tried to

reduce my usage of chatgpt, now I'm going to continue, I'm going to look at the side sometimes because

I have a lot of points I wrote down that I wanted to cover, compiled from the past week or so.

I always felt irresponsible, but just like we should all do and I technically did too late,

like the moment I felt this guilt and not really understanding the truth behind the water usage and

the environment and impact and everything, I should have looked it up sooner, but my point is

so I looked it up and what I found completely changed how I think about this and it allowed me to

use chatgpt more freely, which in turn helped me be able to make more content and faster. Don't

worry, I have so many ideas up here, I'm using chatgpt for any ideation because as you know,

if you see my channel literally everything I share is like from my own experiences and I share

personal stories a lot, but it just like really again helps synthesize and like organize

different points, help me improve like hook maybe, if I am just brain dumping right. I share

this backstory because I think that a lot of you also have good intentions and also hear whispers

and we're also in the same position as I was, maybe you use it religiously, maybe you use it

sparingly with guilt every time like I did or maybe you refuse to use it at all and you

hate on everyone who does inside. Yeah, I just want to talk about this topic because our world is

changing a lot and maybe I just keep up with the AI news a little too much because it's like

honestly scaring me every day, but I just really want to talk about this and also as in line with

the brand of my channel, I want to talk about how that affects your life to future prove yourself.

All of us, like what we can do to still survive and do on this age and also at the end of the day,

be more productive and self-improve and just achieve our dreams, right? The first thing that I want

to say is that what did I find when I looked it up? Well, the average typical text prompt that you

would put into any model, the energy that uses is the equivalent of around watching nine seconds of

TV. I always worry when I share these tasks because I'm like oh what if I just pulled it from some

wrong place, but across the board what I found is like it's actually not that much of an impact,

when we use it as an individual, especially prompting these like text things, but even more

important than that fact actually, like regardless of the energy consumption by hearing that first

or reading that research that is, that gave me permission to use it more and then what resulted

from that is realizing that I have actually been hurting myself this whole time by not using AI

as much as that it could have been. I realized that I was quietly giving myself a disadvantage

every day, giving myself more friction than what was needed in this day and age while other people

moved faster. And see that's one thing too, that sucks, right? It feels like it's always the more

mindful people who fall behind or like get in a worse situation, but what we'll go into all those

like ethics and worlds and like how the world works and systems and fairness and all that later.

What I do know is that when I started integrating AI more into my routine and in particular

clawed because clawed instead of just telling you what to do or how to do it, they can connect to

your slack and your notion and do the things for you and they can connect to your iCloud notes.

So as someone who literally has over 1,000 iCloud notes, I have not sorted through them yet.

All with like video ideas, things that I can do in the business, mostly video ideas.

This is just a game changer. I can work in clawed co-work and integrate all these different

apps and I can ask, oh based on all my slack messages with my team members, what patterns and issues

keep arising that we should add into the SOPs and then clawed will go automatically put those into

the relevant documentation in notion and then I'm like, oh what are the ideas I've had recently

in iCloud notes? Can you please help transfer them into the correct compound board in notion so

that I can make it a video? And for me, I constantly have this stress that I'm just like not doing

enough in the limited time I have because I don't know if this is irrational, but I just want to

make the business and the content creation as smooth of a machine as possible and as sustainable

as a machine as possible. So then by the time I have kids, which I hope is in a few years,

we'll see in this kind of world, I can maximize my time with them and I can just want to be able to

give them the opportunities that I might have not had or just like if they have some dream,

I want to be able to have the resources to help them achieve that dream to the best of my ability

and it's just I constantly think about my family and that regard like my future and my past one,

so with my parents working so hard to come to the US and then I know how much they had suffered

previously, I won't get into that because that's not what it this video is about, but like maybe

it's like the Asian immigrant guilt that like if you are Asian immigrant kid, you know what I'm

talking about, but that's why I'm always like, oh I need to make more money, I need to like do

these things and then I can you know get back to my family and you know take my grandma and

on good experiences and like so this stress it makes me feel like I have all these ideas,

but I just don't have the resources or capital to deploy to execute you know all of them and to

execute as quickly as I would like. So what AI helped me do is that currently I'm still like working

out how to do the prompting and everything and setting up the automations, but it dramatically

decreases the time from idea to execution, which just makes me so happy and so relieved,

so I can also you know make more content for you know the people watching my awesome community.

Here's the real facts right, firstly you know I has literally been beneficial to me on an individual

level and to my friends who have been using it also as creators and business owners and people

who literally have the same goals as me, I find myself very grateful and lucky to have been able

to surround myself with other people in New York who think the same way as me where like we want to

build not only because we enjoy building, but it's always thinking about like for our future

family or like whatever. The fact is that by using more AI, I can now go to the gym a lot more

consistently than I did before. My mental health has improved. These are all real things and not

to mention when I promoted Thia in three to four videos last year through sponsorships, the reason

I did I was like this is a freaking awesome platform. This is literally an AI tutor that students from

all over the from all over the world can use and it levels the playing field and it turned out to be

true like I've gotten so so many comments that say Amy I'm so grateful you show you showed me

Thia I'm using it all the time I'm studying way better people from four parts of the world just like

thank you so much I couldn't afford tutoring but now I can actually learn just like my peers.

It's just undeniable benefit of these tools but you know a lot of things can coexist right so

we'll get into that but another point is that my friend who runs his business who that helps

students get jobs in software engineering. He also discovered Colotte at around the same time as me.

He set up a meeting team meeting with several of his team members or employees I don't know the

formality and he demoed Colotte. He was like screen screen sharing showing how they should connect

Colotte with their emails their notions their other tools to save them time. He saw on Zoom visibly

every single team member look both shocked and extremely relieved at the same time. In fact one of

his team members was like he sat back and he's like this is going to cut the time that it takes me

to do the documentation each day down like tenfold and I can finally spend more time with my wife

like how beautiful is that it's like it truly can create these great things on an individual level

right. The great thing too is that what I've realized as someone who grew up having a scarcity mindset

and this conditioning that I'm trying to fight against every day in order to you know do better

my business invest in tools and stuff is that like I first found that it was a good thing that I'm

able to now you know invest in editors invest in an EA invest in whatever right I was able to do

that starting from the money that I earned in consulting and then by continuing to reinvest what I

what I earned because even though it's been kind of a rough few years with Sean in business school

so we're like not the best on cash flow I I'm not a big spender like consumer like I just in general

I don't buy like a single luxury thing because this is not my thing and I just like well thousands

of dollars like I'm all reinvesting that into my business right so what I find interesting is that

I became a more able to invest in people to help my business but I still cringe at like oh my

gosh like a hundred dollar per month subscription because it's a subscription it's a subscription

you know we're all like complaining about I don't know Netflix increasing their subscription

by a dollar every year or something but then I realized this is so cheap AI is so so cheap

personally like a tutor right I don't know I used to charge even like in high school $20

an hour or something well your AI could be $20 a month and it could be like your AI tutor that

you can access at any time just like when people were thanking me about Thea with a cloud right

like I'm on the max plan of the $100 per month like this is so cheap because it does this

tasks that could would have taken literally five hours like my really messy files my folders that

I've just been too busy grinding on new content for new sponsors or new whatever

too sort like a lot of those maintenance stuff has just been left there it would take myself maybe

honestly like 10 hours it was just a lot bark at higher my like an EA for like $20 an hour

it would take them 10 hours so that's like $200 that's already more than cloud $100 per month

and that's not the only task that cloud it's gonna do like cloud's gonna organize your files it's

gonna write your SOPs is going to do all these things right so I'm just learning to that wow

like these tools make me feel like my creative desires and the world is just more open to me

because of the way that it's just this resource that I didn't think I could afford before like

I can't hire like this many people you know so that is the first thing I'm sorry about I'm genuinely

sorry I did not start using these tools earlier whether it's trashybt even though trashybt is bad

now don't use them it's kind of weird right it's like there's always some bad things and some good

things and it's like oh should I use this and give all my data well I guess it's okay because

everyone has all our data anyway so I might as well use this tool to help me with my everyday

tasks and live a good life while I'm still here but like cloud co-work I'm really sorry it did

not discover cloud earlier this also kind of goes into my second sorry I'm sorry to those who hate

AI because it's no longer a matter of choice but it's a matter of survival what I'm trying to say is

that I'm sorry to those who don't like AI because you're gonna have to use it if you want to survive

in this new world the thing is that AI is not necessarily replacing people it's replacing

people who don't use AI because people will be the ones using the tools at the end of the day

if you are someone who like me has to continue working in your life you're gonna have to use it

to stay competitive like staying competitive is just not an option so unless you watching this

or someone who'd never has to work a single additional day in your life

you're gonna have to use AI you're gonna have to learn the skills and you better learn prompt

engineering as soon as possible because all this all this stuff and agreed upon by top entrepreneurs

and you know the other other visionaries of the world this is all table stakes now all the tools

out there all the productivity tools that are reaching out to me even once that didn't have AI

before like you know Adobe Acrobat has been around for ages all of these have AI integrated right

now if you're still using tools the old way without AI well that's just like that's like you

choosing to gallop around the country on a horse instead of driving a car besides the survival

and table stakes part that could sound scary and daunting well like I alluded to earlier it can also

AI can also be something that excites us a little in terms of how it can help us at the individual

level of achieving our dreams because maybe you didn't have resources to make some kind of idea

you had to come to life and now you can for a lot cheaper so for example I really really love

Avatar James Cameron's Avatar the Blue people movie I think I've watched I've definitely watched

the third one two times now and the other is like I don't know five times but I saw a YouTube pop

up this video that said Verong's backstory so if you don't know Verong is one of the villains in

the third movie she's really cool I was like oh my gosh I click this YouTube video it's beautiful

it moved me it like the story of Verong made me cry I was tearing up just like

this is so beautiful and guess what I looked down in the comments this was completely generated

with AI you know again we'll get into the actual environmental stuff and like the ethics stuff later

but then I look into this person's profile it seems like this person has always had this

creative eye ability to direct and put together a story to story tell this person with his

YouTube channel who made this video that is literally James Cameron level content they might have

never been able to create a video like this ever in their lives because it's really hard I assumed

to break into Hollywood as anything let alone you know directing an entire movie to this scale and

again quality of the video but with AI this person was able to achieve their dreams

another thing is that for myself right I have always wanted to make an app but I really gave up on

that because I just don't have time to code or learn coding besides my lovely cow's XCS1 class so

I was like ah whatever just continue doing the stuff that I have at least experience in it's too bad

I didn't study CS now you not using any kind of computer game but then last year but that sound

last year I got an email from studio.com they're saying that oh we're helping creators build their own

AI coaching apps and guess what I don't actually need to code at all all I need to do is use

English language and turn my ideas for my app into reality I still spent like months and months

and hours on it but because this option this open to me I actually was able to now make an app

and that's so cool so that's why I built XEC and it's not promo for XEC but just an example of like

wow you can achieve things you never thought possible before looking back at my notion doc now I'm

gonna say a few phrases that I wrote down word for word that I think are nice so in that case of

that YouTube video that was describing earlier that person could have never made that video at a

traditional production budget but the tools made it possible and AI didn't replace the storyteller

it gave the storyteller access so what I really support is AI super charging humans to do what they

couldn't have done before and it's actually allowing us to be more human like it's allowing

my friends and employee to spend more time with his wife it's allowing me to go to the gym or

take care of my mental health and lives the actual human being instead of being like on this hamster

wheel of producing all the time and it's allowing in some case like artists like this aspiring director

to actually make their art come to life and again look back to like the art uh and like the

downsides right that's what I hope is the actual future of AI creativity is not replacing artists

but removing the financial gatekeeping that was always there I know that's different for

different industries and I don't know this line is not like fully okay that's why this is a video

that's more like a discussion rather than me just like telling you things even though the one thing

that I do have conviction about again is that we need to use AI like every single person needs to

use and learn AI but anyway next what I do want to say what I do want to say as if this whole video

hasn't been just saying things I want to say I mentioned I wanted to use AI sooner right but I do

feel like it's really difficult to acquire new skills at the expense of your time and effort

to doing the work that puts food on the table currently right so what I mean is like previously

because I'm running on this hamster wheel I don't have the time to learn AI tools that would

help me not run on the hamster wheel so much does that make sense it's like there there could be

some struggle of oh I know I need to learn AI I know I need to develop these tools and was

prompt engineering but I work a full-time job and I have my family to take care of they're just

aren't hours in the day when I can take out and learn this new skill right I definitely felt

that too and that's why I just constantly felt so stressed and I still feel stressed I'm not learning

AI fast enough a lot of stress and I feel like it just sucks because it feels like it

rich people just always have the advantage right they can choose to stop working right now

if they wanted to and they can actually technically choose not to learn AI skills if they want to

but if they so choose they actually have the ability to set aside a lot of time per day to develop

those skills right yeah they they have the time to learn AI because they don't have to work and so

for myself most of my friends we're too busy doing the thing that puts food on the table then to

learn stuff that seems outside of it but just is just as important so what I will say that for

myself what I'm trying to do and what I think that we can do is that we can use AI in the moment

to do the tasks we already have to do anyway and that way we're kind of you know learning by doing

as I say in my academic content videos okay going into effects around AI I will emits

I had a lot of help me find these so I hope they're I hope they're accurate but I did cross-search

cross-search a lot of them like mentioned before one AI text prompt is about the energy equivalent

around nine seconds of TV so you know if you're streaming Netflix also know that Netflix and all

these companies Spotify Google whatever they're all using data centers these data centers all take

energy and require water to cool down and everything right so you know iCloud too they're all running

on the same infrastructure all US data centers combined they're approximately 4% of US electricity

in 2024 and AI is a subset of that and also again as consumers right like sometimes I just

feel like oh man why are we like nagging on the individual consumer who's like trying to use AI to

like improve their lives on an individual level when firstly their impact is not nearly as much as

what when people are developing the AI models right and what I was there's so much I can say on

this but I hope that people get it but just worry that no matter how thorough I am there's always

going to be something coming at me but that that's something I've been trying to develop myself

anyway just character wise or strength wise I don't know just that being on the internet means that

everyone's going to have an opinion and it's inevitable that if you have strong enough conviction

on one thing then there's going to be other people on the other side of the line so okay whatever

just full send so yeah AI is not uniquely worse it's just the newest visible target I want to caveat

that again I do not use AI for generating ideas creative decisions thinking through concepts I do

use AI for summarizing organizing drafting emails research synthesis admin admin so for me AI handles

the infrastructure but I handle the substance and that's the way I love it like me I mean that's why

I started YouTube in the first place I never made content because I want to be a content creator and

I never made content because I want followers I just had a lot to say and I still have so much to

say every day that's why my iCloud notes has 1000 iCloud notes because when I'm at the gym

I'm walking in the New York streets I think of things and I just have to write it down so you know

they're from my own brain from my own life and experiences I think of using AI

I was using like a calculator to multiply two really huge numbers together right so I personally

still to this day I try to do as much mental math as possible because I did math competitions

before and I know that you know a strength is my brain and it makes me feel guilty that I feel

like I'm getting dumber day by day in the math at least you know um what I realized too

as an aside is that while I feel like often still guilty about the sunk cost of like having

study engineering and not using those skills well there's a different kind of intelligence and I

think it's you know like I'm saying my video is a lot like soft skills and like now like creativity

anyway guys um unrelated but with math right a calculator helps you multiply big numbers that could

be tedious to do now you could and you know hopefully how to multiply numbers so you could do it

by paper by hand do you like uh write out these numbers okay multiply carry the digits blah blah

blah right but you're gonna use a calculator because it's just way easier and faster and so like

for me right I could you know take 10 hours and organize my files but I know that someone else

now someone I know that hey I can do it for me so I'm gonna let the calculator do that tedious

maths you know I just realized this video comes out of good timing because although I have been

promoting AI tools in the past like year and a half this week I do have a video that's more

that's dedicated so fair warning but it's with a cool partner that I actually mentioned already

in this video I does know that people are gonna already you know come at me in some way but you know

I just just owning it I hope that this makes something's clear and you know I think education and

thinking critically about stuff in the world is more important than anything that you know even

without AI social media has been rotting her brains like the way that humans choose to do things and

the way that they you know reduce critical thinking and they're getting quote unquote like dumber

rice not just because of AI it's because of our choices if anything right don't accept everything

on social media as gospel because that'll be silly so with this brand deal right let me share

you with you about the creator economy reality and why promote what I promote so here's something

nobody wants to say how loud right now the biggest brand deals available for creators are AI brands

so if you create content and you want to keep creating which means you want to continue serving your

audience and not disappear off the face of the earth and keep making the work you need income to do

that you need deals so even as a creator who is doing art who is making something you essentially

have to work with AI sponsors or you're going to fall behind the creators who do and you're not

going to be able to support yourself in the end of homeless not actually but um actually maybe

actually because like I said everyone needs to be involved in AI in some way and so just like I

said earlier AI is becoming table stakes so any tool whether it's you know granularly like I said

Adobe acrobat other tools I can think of right now they all include AI right now like are you

really just not going to take on any tech brand deals any deals that have to do with productivity

because they're going to include AI and so with the creators right you can't keep creating your art

without the money to sustain it I have felt this first hand literally all the deals coming to me now

are like AI I've been telling my um manager so you know the one who helps me negotiate brand deals

I've been like oh do you feel like we're taking too many like AI brand deals right now I think

people are getting mad I see a lot of comments and other creators videos when they promoting AI

and then she's like yeah I've been feeling the same way but you know this is just the way that

the system is right now and probably into the future and um that's all the deals that are coming in

right now so I will say though that I always only accept brand deals with people or with brands that

I like believe in actually you know in fact I'm just going to say it out there I said no to this

therapy brand multiple times when they offered me money that was double my asking price

and I'm going to say that there are a lot of creators that you probably watched that continue

to work with this brand that even though they're unethical they're out there okay you can

you can put it together so yeah when I do take an AI deal it's not because I know choice and

compromised is because the tools are real I use them and it's actually completely on brand

right like please please be more productive and use these AI tools because as an individual again

there's not rich you've got to do anything you can to future-preview yourself because it's your

life your life you need to you need to think about you know your future your kids your family

even so I understand the creators who take deals even if they're less sure about them because

again the alternative is not being able to create at all now if you're a rich creator if you

was already like a millionaire of your pick at any brand deal you want please don't use the

unethical stuff like that therapy company I was talking to you about but at the end of day I'm just

saying like can you really blame someone for doing what they do in order to keep the lights on

like people keep asking oh make more videos can you do this can you do that but then they get

mad at like oh another sponsorship I see those comments all the time even for non-AI brands it's like

do you think we do content as just like a side fun hoppy man like we can make the quality content

that we can otherwise um yeah there's not a dig at you because I don't know the people who are

watching you know what's funny likely the people who are watching this are the people who are

actually reasonable and not the people making those digs at creators because they are actually

rational so yeah sorry sometimes I forget that and it's like it's still hard to imagine you're

like speaking to so many people at once you know even though you know I'm talking to you as an

individual wink because I can't wink so now before I get into this next part I want to flag

something I'm going to bring up some examples that have nothing to do with AI on the surface but

that I have been thinking about for years even before starting my youtube journey what are these

things these are fast fashion luxury influencers they Amazon rainforest and I need you to stay with me

because they are not tangents every single one of them is the same story people with power making

decisions that benefit them and the people with the least power absorbing the consequences that

pattern didn't start with AI it's just that now for a lot of you watching this is the first time

that pattern has landed close enough to feel personal and that's exactly why I think it's worth

talking about firstly fast fashion is the comparison nobody wants to make but everyone should

there's so many fashion creators man I love fashion myself but I can't stand when influencers

promote overconsumption and their praise for it they're rewarded for this behavior

this very rich talk tick talker is contributing a lot to the world diet I'm just saying that okay

so fast fashion 10% of global carbon emissions more than all international flights and maritime

shipping combined she and alone generates 16.7 million tons of CO2 in just 2023 equivalent to

four coal power plants running for a full year Sara Ajanem next pre-mark these brands are flooding

the world with unsealable clothing like I can't oh my god I hate Black Friday and I honestly I

I like struggled to go into malls now ever since watching the documentary called by now the shopping

conspiracy on on Netflix I felt this way before every Black Friday it felt super dystopian to me

but I feel even more it's like all of those clothes all those copies of the same thing there's no one

in this world who needs those clothes there's absolutely no one like where is that all gonna go well

that's how you work goes it goes to Ghana canta Manto sorry I don't know how to pronounce that

this market in Ghana receives 15 million garments every week from the west 40% of it is unsealable

on arrival on enough those girly pop women empowerment self-love creators who talk about

I just implied I just said it empowering women I'll have some of promoting tons of overconsumption

guess what those women in those poor places of the world who sort and carry this waste that

those influencers are contributing to and promoting other people to contribute to they are paid

less than one dollar per trip carrying up to 200 pounds on their heads their spines are messed up

and some even die from it and subscribed by the ore foundation as working in modern day slavery

the core I sort of looked up how to pronounce these before this the the core lagoon in Ghana

Ghana's own president called it the most polluted spawner there are places in Southeast Asia that

to get rid of waste not only clothes but a lot of you know plastics that we don't need they're

burning these and emitting these carcinogens into the air nobody goes into the comment section

a bizarre whole video and says a word or any of these consumption creators and I feel like

the reason the world is the way that it is it's because of these patterns it's very easy to go and say

like oh but like AI is bad well why don't we bring that to every area is what I'm saying right

if we put our dollars in our attention where our mouth is maybe we as the people who are the

consumers don't have to continue to give attention and engagement to these already rich influencers

promoting over consumption bottom line the harm has always existed it just used to land far enough

away that people here didn't feel it and thus didn't think about it didn't care about it and

didn't be loud in comments about it further now going into the AI and art thing art has never

been valued the way it deserves AI did not create that there's a reason why it's called starving

artist this starving artist thing has existed for a very very long time society has always consumed art

without paying the people who make it enough now AI generating images from script art is indeed

painful but is the painful extension of something already true humans chronically under value

creative labor and by creative I don't mean like YouTube videos that you know our vlogs or

informational educational content I mean like real real art that exists for the beauty of it

and I thought of this last night here's the most irrefutable proof this isn't about AI if we so

care about art and beauty why are we burning down the Amazon rainforest did you know that we're

cutting down trees so we can eat more burgers on Instagram a lot of people say like oh why are you

always like relating our latest stuff I think this is all related now the most breathtaking

irreplaceable thing on this planet millions of years of natural art destroyed for profit without

a fraction of the outrage directed at a chatbot again this is stuff I've been thinking about for

a long time about why are people not so mad about the bad things that are already happening in the

world way way long before AI existed and I'm not like same myself right still like eat meat

but again as far as the individual we can do our best and like I said I do in the beginning

all try to recycle try to do this xyz reduce my consumption over like I'm I literally don't

every time I shop I think for like days to be like oh is this the best item that I can get where

I never have to buy this thing again and oh my gosh I don't want to buy this new thing that

like Sean tells Sean Sean all the time is telling me like oh you should buy this new thing that's

gonna make your life easier because higher quality and it has these functions and I'm like no I don't

want to because I don't want to throw away the old thing so this is something I think about a lot

and I feel so so sad that like for example the cure to cancer could be in the Amazon rainforest

not only that but have you guys seen those nature documentaries I don't know about you but I grew

up with my parents always playing like the nature documentaries and I read so many nature books

I went to the zoo a lot and I'm just like I just think it's so so sad and with every level

there are things that we can do but you know again people at the top can do the most

and I think that the people at the top and those who are given the platform that I so wish I had

they're again being rewarded for perpetuating the idea of oh you should buy Louis Vuitton

oh you should like get 100 roses for Valentine's Day oh you should XYZ and they're flaunting it

they're essentially flaunting themselves killing the earth in ways that they don't have to you know

like maybe you and I will use AI because now we have to like I said we will eat meat because we

need protein but people are doing things that they don't have to in ways that are much more

impactful if the concern again is generally about protecting beauty and creative work the targets

are wildly misaligned now the most depressing point of all and why I love watching dystopian movies

and movies in general that share about human nature this is all human nature it has always been

human nature and kind of avoided calling it out before but for example actually I'm not going

to use any names but very rich tiktokker who I've heard of and I've seen a few videos about

she always does regular luxury unboxings of Dior Chanel Bogari fanciful narpoles or mes a lot of

things she does a lot of things she celebrated not condemned she has a platform and that's saying a

lot she has literally the platforms like made because she's rich in doing all these things that's

saying a lot it's not enough voices going into those common sections and saying words about the

environmental impact the people at the top won't stop because there have never been consequences

for them ever so why would they why would they and if their lovely viewers and audiences

celebrate them for doing it well then yeah again why would they stop this is not just about AI or

the ultra wealthy it is true at every level of human behavior for example people say they will work

out but they never do until a health consequence forces it by then it's harder and possibly too

late right so with the people pushing AI along just like ha ha ha ha I know this is probably not

a good idea but I'm gonna do it anyway when do they stop I'm like telling them okay Claude is

enough Claude is great you can stop here but they're not going to and by the time the consequences

they're forced to and that's that's actually the part that scares me the most because I do

want to live a long life with my husband and my future family people say they'll get off their

phones study better change their habits but they never do until forced by consequence the powerful

don't stop extracting until consequence arrives that's just what's been shown in every industry

every era every dystopian story we keep telling ourselves in all the movies that already exist

out there AI is not a new problem it is the same problem with a new face now close enough for more

people to feel it the proximity of harm has shifted before it landed in Ghana now it could be someone

two streets down same shape but the distance just as strong now I don't expect you to protest or

walk up to a billionaire's door and be like stop it stop it I don't expect you again as an

individual to stop using their tools because I've already said enough why but if you're going to

write criticism and again the people likely reading watching this video are not the unreasonable folks

if you're going to write criticism in a comment section direct it somewhere it actually makes sense

write that comment on the rich tiktakers video where she buys a new designer bag every week go find

the luxury hall content where the overconsumption is right there visible celebrated fun fact

she know that luxury industries are scam this has been on my video ideas list for so long

and I'm going to make a video about it soon but I just can't believe the number of influencers out

there who who just all like flash this all the time when it's actually making the the their like

audience members feel inadequate and feel like that's what success is when that's actually a really

really bad financial decision if you're going to spend money spend it on and like invest it luxury

is not investment piece did you know that the actual worth of those luxury products is way less it's

marked up 10 times the actual value now that is a scam that we should get mad about and most of

its manufactured in China fun fact all related all related or maybe I'm just weird and

but yeah your energy has a cost too so if you're going to spend it spend it where the actual

harm is proportional to the outrage so what does this actually mean for you

the filming for while and I feel myself getting more and more delirious and my face getting hotter

the world is not a sorry the choice is not world with AI versus world without AI that choice

does not exist the choices do you know how to move in the world as it is or do you fall behind

on principle while everyone else moves forward for anyone who isn't isn't independently wealthy

in a world getting more volatile opting out is not a principled stance it's a disadvantage with no

upside like I said I'm stressed about the urgency every single day this is survival it's just like

you're you're saving up money before an economic downturn or like learning a skill before you

need it a smartphones weren't optional once employers assumed you had one email wasn't optional once

every workplace used it this is that moment as a reminder let me know if you fall into this bucket

but here's the honest truth about who can actually choose to opt out AI only people who will never

have to work another day in their lives if you never need income again never need to compete never

need to keep up fine that choice is available to you it's just not available to me and I assume

not a lot of people watching this video and again you know as I've been doing all these years I'm

very passionate about sharing things so people don't have to learn the hard way and um this video

has been a long time coming by just I don't know who's gonna watch it um but like I said the

reason I create just I just I'm just dying to say something I just just have to get it out you

know where am I uh yeah even if you hate AI even if every single one of your concerns is valid

you just still be using it right now that's not a contradiction that's the reality of the world

we're in you can tell right now that I'm reading more word for word because I'm like well I need to

get this right and yeah honestly this video doesn't even benefit me you know what would benefit me

more is if I never tell you about these tools and I get keep and I'm like never being like oh

yeah I should you say I have your productivity or anything because I could just keep using them

to get ahead but my channel has been always has always been about showing what actually do

and conclusion time I was wrong about AI I thought the responsible thing was to use it less

turns out the most responsible thing for my time for my energy my mental health and my future

was to learn how to use it well if you have been holding back for the same reasons I was go

do the research don't go with the feeling go with the data that is always the move thank you

very much for listening to this different video it's now 636 and I'm hungry so I'm gonna eat dinner now

thank you I didn't know how to end this but all that to say is like um hope to see you around next

year