Terminal Tilt

AI Is Not A Tool. It’s A Weapon.

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Silicon Valley wants to automate every part of your life, but that convenience has a dark reality. In this video, I explain why I refuse to use generative “AI.” We look at the exploitation of global workers, the theft of creative work, the environmental impact of data centers, and the loss of human agency.

AI is not progress, it is a trap. It is a system built on theft, exploitation, and deceit. Here is the actual cost.

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    • PRIMARY SOURCES & RESEARCH

    Labor & Exploitation

    • WSJ: The Hidden Workforce Filtering Violence
    • Time: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers for <$2/hr
    • The Guardian: Meta Ordered to Care for Kenyan Moderators

      • Theft & Copyright

      • Settlement: Anthropic $1.5B Settlement (Bartz v. Anthropic)
      • Dataset: The Books3 Dataset and Copyright
      • NPR: Authors vs Anthropic Settlement
      • Good Law Project: AI Giants Stealing Work

        • Technical Collapse & Environment

        • Nature: Model Collapse from Recursive Data
        • Cornell: AI Data Center Environmental Impact (Nov 2025)
        • MIT: AI's Environmental Footprint
        • The Register: Microsoft Water Usage Spike

          • Agency, Bias & Truth

          • Workday Lawsuit: AI Hiring Bias Certification (May 2025)
          • CBS News: UnitedHealth Faulty AI Denials
          • KFF: Insurance Denial Appeals Study
          • Axios: Deepfakes as Trial Evidence

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