AI for commerce, sure… but for creativity—I’m AI— Angry and Incensed. In 2024 all the chat was about ChatGPT. Will we sink further into fake-hood?

Illustration/Uday Mohite

And so, as 2024 came to a close, and we rang in 2025… five things stood out for me these last 365 days.

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AQI was as much of a concern for me as was AI. Air Quality in our city was appalling.. no no, that was always a Delhi problem, not us. Mumbaikars/Bombayites have a way of believing that there’s always something rotten in the state of Delhi— well now, we share a common “rotten”—a smorgasbord of smog. If the skies were polluted, with the AQI out of control, the airwaves are “polluted” with AI—Artificial Intelligence as the term suggests isn’t a fallacy anymore, it’s the replacement of real. And worst of all its rushed, seeking to eschew risks, individual thought is somehow replaced by robots, the easy way out. Sure, I’m cynical, but when aesthetics are sacrificed at the altar of artificiality, I’m out.........

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