Well actually there’s been MANY studies in the effects the technology we use everyday has on the environment, including VR and “Metaverse” computing:
Digital Technology is NOT clean-- AI is some of the heaviest to sustain-- But all of what we do has an effect, and we often overlook their wider consequences of our actions online and their environmental costs-- While hyper focusing on others that we find more pressing. I personally mostly think it’s predicted on bias rather than the specific impacts they have (Though ofc that’s opinionated and person to person.)
And for one thing, I never brought up the “Creative like a human argument” in the first place-- You’re arguing with yourself in that one lol. Secondly though-- The idea that AI HAS been caught directly mimicking doesn’t inherently tarnish ALL of AI, and is more a mistake of the process than an intentional thing (Unless someone DOES purposefully do it)-- That’s where the idea of “Handle things at a case by case basis” thing comes in, that actually HAVE mentioned, unlike the Creativity thing lol.
I also frequently talk about my opinion on how dismissal and harassment of users using AI is actually GIVING AI to the corporations, since they have no moral qualms and will abuse Any technology or methods they can to scrape some money off the top-- They did the same thing historically with Many, Many technologies-- Including things like CGI and Digital Art, both used in the early days by corporations to cut costs, times AND employees by making things that were done by several people much more easily achievable by much smaller teams, if not individuals;
Note: Many of those technologies we actually use TODAY to be more independent as artists and assist us, at the same time as corporations do in fact still use them to cut costs and employees-- Our advanced and packed art programs don’t just help us, they generally make things more achievable with less people, that inherently does have an effect that we often dismiss because… Well, we like these tools and can see their value, and don’t (Nowadays) instantly attribute loss of work to them.
If you’ve actually read anything I’ve said so far, and think I’m a corporate boot licker-- Then that’s your prerogative-- It’s antithetical to my actual opinions and ideologies, but I can’t force you to accept that, and if you inherently view my perspective of AI as Morally bankrupt and without any nuance, then again, I can’t do much for that.
(Also sorry VRC Team for delving back in, but being called a bootlicker by people who’ve obviously not read most my words or are unwilling to engage with my actual opinions struck a nerve lol.)