Moving Away From AI

Moving Away From AI

We have heard from many of you and are beginning the shift away from using AI for artwork and writing. Although it has at times been useful, the technology is ultimately too unsustainable, causing terrible damage to the environment, and siphoning away money from society into extremely wasteful computing.

The problems with AI are extensive and difficult to cover in one article alone. There is a writer who has written in-depth and summarized the major issues. Note that they are male, but the information is valid.

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To put the true unsustainability of AI into perspective, in order to actually make money, OpenAI would likely have to charge $800 a month for ChatGPT, not $20 a month. In fact, they were losing more money on the $200 per month tier versus the $20 a month one, because users would generate so much video content. Eventually, this system has to collapse, and generative AI will begin to fade away. There’s no better time for us to return to human-based creation than now.

Unfortunately, growing up around male software culture in San Francisco, I was blind to the true problems of AI. I wanted to believe that it was a useful technology, but I was unwilling to see past the flaws. What really opened my mind was seeing how many women raised issues with AI, while men were the ones promoting it and profiting from it. We want to side with women over technological elitest males, no matter how fun making AI art was.

We are capable of writing, and we are capable of creating artwork. Using AI has therefore put an unnecessary damper on our human abilities. I believe that using AI in the past led us to put quantity over quality at times. From reading human-written content by women on Substack, we realized that these women were writing real in-depth, quality articles with sources and external links. We want to do quality writing of this kind in the future as well.

What will we do moving forward? We have artists on our staff that will begin to replace the AI artwork on our site with human-drawn artwork. This will take some time, but we are committed to the process. We will also begin to rewrite some of our older content that was used with AI. For photos, we will utilize stock photos that are taken by women.

We are also having discussions with female writers and artists who can assist us with content creation for 2026. It’s time to break away from male-led industries that disregard our humanity, and to build a world of women supporting women. ♀

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez