I agree that individuals should not be expected to carry the entire responsibility for addressing the problems created by big tech and AI. However, I believe that changing public attitudes and educating people about alternatives can give individuals more power to make meaningful choices. Even when people are already dependent on these technologies, taking smaller steps to reduce their harms can still encourage larger institutions to reconsider how they use them. For example, recently there has been a shift in the limits of how students can use AI. At first, there was a zero tolerance for AI usage in academic work, and that is now shifting towards the allowance of AI with proper citation. Ultimately, individual choices may seem small, but they can help contribute to broader cultural and institutional change.

The use of AI to generate content is a topic that I find rather frustrating. Social media platforms are being flooded with mindless content that is almost exclusively AI generated. These creators are now making money to generate short videos that present information and in many case the creator really has no knowledge regarding the content. It just blows my mind that people are making money by spitting out endless short videos with no real background knowledge.

It is interesting to consider the lack of consent or compensation that occurs from AI content summaries. Often times there are no links provided to where this information has come from. I feel like this creates issues with citing work especially at a university or high school level, where individuals use information provided by AI, but to not know where to find academic articles where they can give credit to the researcher / authors. Furthermore, the AI content can come from a broad variety of sources, making it complicated to narrow it to specific research.