by Addison Jayne Bennett

One of the words for the 2025 “word of the year” was “AI Slop”. Many people use this word to describe the use of generated images and other artistic works. People say AI is awful, it’s bad for the environment, bad for your health and just plain bad for you. Period.

And I agree.

Taking this on a personal matter, I am a person of creative insight. along with creating and listening to music, I love to write and I love to paint and draw. With the growing use of AI, especially in 2025, original and human-made creative ideas in the artistic area have fallen. Art being generated by people simply putting in an AI prompt is soulless, heartless and overall idiotic.

Think….Just take a moment to think. Think of all the real artists, writers and musicians that put their heart and soul into their creations, and then comes along a “slopper” which is what we call a person we using AI to generate images. They just place in some words into a type bar and call it a day. 

Let the AI work it out. Let AI do the thinking. Let AI do thing us humans created and find passion in.

Not only is this form of “art” hurtful to the real people who love creating, but it is also harmful in so many areas of art.. Inappropriate images can be generated with this technology which can lead to severe mental health problems. 

In the past years, AI has been used by sick people to create nudifed picture of women and men. Images also made of both adults and children. 

Adults, teens and children posting or being posted on the internet have no idea if they will be safe. These sick people can use your picture to create images and videos of sexual context, abuse and other inappropriate content. This is already a growing problem, and there are already cases unraveling around this form of blackmail.

Some may say that at least AI isn’t harming the environment, and they would be wrong.

AI infrastructures use water for cooling data centers. These infrastructures use a single 100 megawatt of data per day, 2 million liters of water are used in these sites per day. In the year 2027 scientist have predicted that over 4.2 to possibly 6.6 billion liters of water will be used up due to AI. This amount used up can and will be the leading cause of environmental decay all over the world.

Overall, my point is clear. AI is not a thing to be celebrated or looked at favorably. Think twice before you pick up your phone and use ChatGPT for that English essay.

For once, think for yourself, be creative and let your imagination run for a moment. Write something down, draw a little doodle, it doesn’t have to be good, and hey, remember that instrument or that song you really wanted to learn? You should pick that instrument up and sing your unique song.

Put the phone down and live in the moment.