Is this still ethical?

Hi everyone. Something has been bothering me for a few days now, and I'm not sure how to handle it. I have been interested in artificial intelligence for quite some time and experiment with it passionately. I've developed an online platform where I use AI to write blog posts and articles. These writings are original and not plagiarized; they are generated by combining the data on which the AI has been trained to produce unique text pieces. I publish these articles on my blog or website, which receives a decent amount of traffic, and I'll soon be eligible for on-page advertisements. This means I could potentially earn money from content I didn't write myself. However, it's not straightforward to create such articles; it requires time and expertise to set the right instructions, parameters, and conditions for the AI software. A concern is the potentially harmful use of AI technology in the future. I wonder if my use of AI contributes to the development of a "monster" that could cause great harm or even loss of life. A thought that frequently crosses my mind is how I can justify continuing to use AI. One rationalization I often tell myself is that the more I understand about artificial intelligence, the better equipped I'll be to counter its negative impacts if it ever becomes a threat to me or my environment. By engaging with AI, I get to know its dangers more intimately. But then another thought occurs to me: if I were to compare this situation to a different period in our history, say World War II, what would the ethical implications be? Imagine if someone knew one of the major criminals of that era, understood the potential dangers he posed, but chose to benefit financially from his rise to power by supporting his political party or producing goods that would help him directly or indirectly. If that person then fled the country when things got dangerous, capitalizing on their intimate knowledge of the situation, would that be ethical? Knowing the risks associated with that person and then fleeing right before things escalated? I draw a parallel with my current situation; I see potential future dangers. Is it ethically responsible for me to continue utilizing this technology? Something like this also happened with me in the past. I used to love making electric house music, was quite good at it aswell. But suddenly got the thought: what if my house music makes people on a house party want to take drugs (as I have done myself in the past). Even since that moment ive been having trouble creating music even tough i coule definitely do it for a income. I just dropped it with many many and i mean many hours and a lot of money invested in it. Same is happening right now with AI. poured alot of hours into it, learning to program aswell, and am at the brink of dumping this one also because in potential it could be used for very very bad purposes by the wrong people which i am sure already is being used in harmfull ways, and me making money of some technology that can do harm to others in the wrong hands feels like im some kind of bad person. Because even tough my data should be 'safe' at their database their model gets trained ont the way people communicate with it and so speeding up the development of ai and then contributing to a smarter and more complex technology that again in the wrong hands could be used and will be used for bad things... on the other side of things, dont we use alot of technology that can also be used by bad people? Why dont i feel bad about that yet? Maybe because im not yet aware of it? Been getting work requests (writing scripts for people etc) which i used to use ai for and now im too scared / guilty feeling to use it. And cannot fulfill incoming requests by customers. I just realized that I've also been paying for their services for almost a year now. 20 x 12 is 240 euros that is being used to improve ai and therefore improve the possible or more so the fact that it some day or already is being used in malicious ways. Ive read online that ai in the wrong hands can be used in dirty war tactics, biochemical weapons and so on and on. I found a website that works an getting ai to be safer and you can donate to them. I feel i need to donate the equivalent of 240 euros to their cause just to even the part of paying for ai services out. would this be a compulsion?

@sum1

Date posted: 2y

the pattern of ocd and overthinking is clear here, for example, the house music is no longer house music, your mind has developed a story with a feared consequence - in this case related to harm, and the same with a.i. Rather than focusing on a good outcome, e.g someone being positively influenced by house music, your mind has chosen to focus on a negative 'what if'. Sounds like you are a creative individual, and positively using your talents could actually help somebody if done correctly and with good intent

777Q

Date posted: 2y

Personally if it was me and I had that genius level creativity that you seem to possess and since it is largely untapped areas with development of these cutting edge technologies I would contact a lawyer especially there could be the potential of making it big and you can cover your bases .

PRIV8

Date posted: 12w

Working with Ai

I want to ask your opinion about this cause I start to feel bad and not enjoying my hobby. I like music and I'm currently learning to play on a guitar but I don't really have time to do it every day just for now but I would like to be able to play music. For a while now I write lyrics, I really enjoy it, I started doing it when I was in 10th grade, so like 6-7 years, and I really enjoy it, and a year ago I found out about Ai and that you can make music with it. So I tried it and since then I made alot of songs and I really enjoyed it, it helps me to use my writing talent as for now, until I learn to play on an instrument, but to be fair, for some songs I would need a band to set it into music cause I can't do all that, and findig a band is hard. I uploaded some songs, I made videoclips too and that was my work, I did it, the only thing that I used ai for was setting my lyrics into music. And the problem is that I got alot of hate cause now it's a trend that you have to hate ai(while everyone is using chatgpt...) and some way I understand it, I don't want ai to take people's jobs, and some people use ai for bad things, just go on facebook and you will see alot of stupid things, but I feel like what I do is much different cause I use my talent, and the lyrics are written by me. If that would be written by ai too then you could say that its pretty untalented. I say this btw cause I got called untalented by someone and it really made me feel bad... So because of this hate towards ai content I don't feel motivated to do any songs and I feel like i'm a bad person cause i'm support something that takes other people jobs... I want to hear your opinion about this. BTW: My plan is that if I ever get a band or learn to play on many instruments, I want to redo these songs so it will be played by a real person, not ai. I'm also open to give it to others, I would like to be a music producer, and writing lyrics to people, but as for now I can't do these things... But I think Ai really helped me using my talent...

veinsoul

Date posted: 6w

overwhelmed by morals

tw just in case. don’t know what to put but just proceed with caution. I’ve been obsessed with brands/companies to boycott for palestine and have been using two sources for when I shop. I am in the BDS subreddit and every time there’s a new thing and it just limits what I can buy. I’ve successfully avoided products/restaurants but I have so many questions. for example, I know coca cola is being boycotted. I have this question: what if local restaurants (which is encouraged over big names) offer coke products? do u boycott the entire restaurant, especially when they say they proudly serve it? or when u want a drink with ur combo and anything except water has a product that’s being boycotted or is from a company that’s boycotted. do u just drink water all the time? maybe these are stupid questions but I wonder all the time. I feel like it can get hard especially living in the US with many products having to be boycotted. anyway, I read posts on the BDS subreddit and I have wondered about snacks and a lot of the snacks come from boycotted companies that are all over the stores. sometimes I just want a snack especially after a long day & mental exhaustion. but then 90% of the products in store are not safe to buy. I saw comments on these types of posts of companies/snacks to avoid and people usually go “who figured giving up z!0n!$t products would make me healthier/lose weight” or “the products aren’t healthy to consume anyway. you’re better off without those products in your diet” and while they’re right, wouldn’t the same be said for safe snack products? they’re not healthy either. but yeah, finding snacks can be a hassle sometimes. and then worrying which grocery store to boycott because it’s on the list. I have donated to victims in gaza and have been trying to boycott what I can. I don’t know why but I feel bad for feeling frustrated when I find out a restaurant/company/product is on the boycott list. it’s a constant thing. now I wonder about people who buy these products? should I assume anyone who buys from these companies to be evil? for example, the company I work for has had a history of controversies with the lgbtq+ community. we get a bunch of customers everyday and I wonder if these people know? do they even care? won’t be surprised since the company is christian owned. I feel like a fraud for having spent money buying stuff at my job. all of the times were because I was just hungry. while the company stopped making donations that harmed lgbtq+, I then found out that the owner donated to something that harms the community that made me feel disgusted. ever since then, I haven’t spent a penny at work. I have been budgeting my meal allowance and that is all. I’m just so preoccupied with the what ifs and everything I buy. I’m overwhelmed and I feel like by saying this, people will say something like “u feel like this is a chore? well imagine the many kids and innocent people dying from choices like yours. you aren’t dying for boycotting this product/company.” I feel overstimulated from this. it just feels a lot with other things I have on my mind. dealing with undiagnosed mental illness and fatigue while trying my best to make ethical choices is exhausting. I don’t know if this is a case of “you need to get off the internet” or just take a break. I’m always worried about being a bad person nowadays. I feel like I over fixate on actions I feel like should’ve been avoided. ughhhhh my brain is overloaded.

ivefailed.

Date posted: 17d

what do you think of AI?

It's a damn shame that those instruments are good for studying as it creates flashcards of subjects and explain stuff you dont understand very well... but upon reading how they're relying on cobalt mining in congo it feels iffy, like Google is involved in a case with child labor in Congo, as well as chatGPT as they all rely on cobalt. I really want to use it to enter in university but i'm torn from the moral side. It's not like if i stop anything is gonna change, the rise of AI is inevitable. i don't know if i should sacrifice a part of my conscience so that i enter in the university and i can help people afterwards to atone.

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