Musical Creation
The sounds and music in this track ended up personifying precious childhood memories. This is reminiscent of long summer nights staying up at my grandparents house as a kid.
It reminds me of sitting listening to my family playing instruments as a storm rolled outside and the ever present trains of rural Alabama roll past.
Alternative AI Assignment
AI is not only a technology that we do not know the full scope of long-term negative impacts because it is such a new technology, but the proven negative impacts it has are numerous. The use of precious resources like water and energy. The amount of strain that tech facilities now put on our grid and local water systems is alarming. It is leaving thousands of people all over the world in an artificially created drought. The over reliance on AI for both simple and complex tasks has shown to lower people's critical thinking and multitasking skills, especially on those with developing brains like children and teenagers. Some people are even using AI as a therapist, which has actually led to multiple cases of psychosis and complete social isolation due to said breaks from reality. Image generation software is constantly recycling and stealing from current and past artists, writers and researchers, and threatens creative fields not because it is better, but because it is typically cheaper for corporations. Another worry is that image generation is getting so good that it can be used to falsify images which can be Weaponized personally, monetarily, or politically. This relates to the dead Internet theory that eventually artificial content and bots relying too said artificially generated content, will be all that exist on the Internet.
