I Worked in AI for 20 Years. I Hate What It’s Become.

I’ve worked in machine learning and AI for over two decades, including in fields where the technology clearly helps people. I was optimistic about generative AI at first and even used it in my own creative projects. But as AI scaled faster than governance, ethics, or accountability, something broke. This video isn’t about fear of technology or nostalgia for the past. It’s about how AI—driven by profit, power, and attention extraction—has reshaped art, online spaces, politics, and creativity in ways that feel deeply dehumanizing. I talk about: Why the real problem isn’t AI, but incentives How AI slop and bots have poisoned online spaces Why creativity feels hollow at scale Why I’ve retreated to physical, slower, human-scale systems And what a healthier relationship with technology might look like This isn’t a call to ban AI. It’s a call to reclaim meaning, responsibility, and agency. #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI #AIEthics #TechCulture #FutureOfTechnology #AIandArt #InternetCulture #SocialMedia #CreativeBurnout #TechCommentary #Engineering #DigitalMinimalism #HumanCenteredTech