IS AI A THREAT?

From “is it cake?” to “is it AI?”, that’s how far we’ve come. Humans have discovered something called AI, is it actually helping us? is it just being a helpful tool for us to incorporate our thoughts into whatever we want it to be? Let me discuss everything in this post.

HUMAN CREATIVITY

A November 2025 study by Deezer and Ipsos revealed that 97% of people cannot distinguish between AI-generated and human-made music, despite 52% feeling uncomfortable with this inability. The survey of 9,000 individuals highlights a demand for transparency, with 80% supporting the labeling of AI-generated music.

So this has happened, people are threatened by AI, people are unable to figure out if something is AI are not.

As of late 2025, the release of AI-generated music has increased dramatically, with estimates suggesting that 50,000 fully AI-generated tracks are uploaded to streaming services every day.

These information can only mean one thing, if this goes on, what about real music? I mean you could argue AI is just a tool and compare it with digital art. But the truth is with AI anyone can create art like this, it will become way too easy. Art is supposed to be hard, if people start vibing to machines singing, then I might go into depression. Well technology grows, I understand, but this is way too much. AI has it’s own usage and it is surely useful in certain industries while not deteriorating human intelligence. But using it in creative space is not acceptable. You know what, my mom who doesn’t know a thing about drawing creates beautiful images with Gemini.

Suno AI generates approximately 7 million songs per day, with user activity producing an amount of music equivalent to the entire Spotify catalog every two weeks. As of February 2026, the platform has surpassed 2 million paid subscribers, driven by over 100 million users generating music via text prompts.

I love music so I will take it as an example, one creates music after days, months are even years of brainstorming, they sit they pull their hairs off, discuss and throw some ideas off and make another and finally creates a song. They create the background music which requires the understanding of music theory, and also should know how to play an instrument. Playing an instrument doesn’t happen in one day, it takes years and if you learn guitar, your hands will bleed and ache a lot. If you are gonna learn piano, you will need control over both your hands independently.

While some only create melodies, they aren’t easy themselves, I want to write songs and I always try to make them in my head, try to sing them. It’s definitely so hard, it doesn’t happen in few days like in the case of AI. These all applies to painting and drawing as well.

The fact that not everyone can create art is the whole point, because that’s what makes the people who can create it great!!

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

AI copyright infringement involves using copyrighted materials to train AI models without permission or generating outputs that are substantially similar to protected works

this is actually something that perturbed many people. Several high-profile lawsuits have been filed against companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Stability AI, alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted content to train their generative AI models. Many companies use other people’s work to train AI without seeking their permission.

This causes it to create art similar to that of other artists ‘cause it is trained using existing works, so it analyzes them and mimics them. It has been accused plagiarism several times. AI is designed to create new compositions in the style of existing artists, the models often "memorize" or overfit to their training data. A phenomenon where the AI reproduces large, recognizable chunks of its training data.

IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT

A lot of fresh water is being used to cool down the AI system, continued rapid expansion of AI is driving significant freshwater consumption for cooling data centers, potentially exacerbating water scarcity by 2030.

For a single image, about 50 to 500 ml of water is being used up, for about a million images 40000 liters of water is used up. A single image, depending on the complexity, can consume as much water as a day’s drinking water for one person, although this is a high-end estimate. Independent research suggests a single chat conversation (10–50 queries) could use around 500 milliliters of water.

AI data centers and model training are placing immense strain on global water resources, with projections indicating the "AI economy" could consume 54 cubic kilometers of water annually by 2050. In United states, AI’s annual water consumption will match their annual water needs by 2030.

Training a single large AI model can emit as much carbon dioxide as the lifetime emissions of five cars, with AI-related emissions expected to grow. Training AI models require such a large amount of electricity.

All of this is a major threat to human beings, water is something very important for humans. While we won’t completely run out of water, we might experience significant decline in fresh water which is only 2.5 to 3 percentage of the earth’s total water. We can’t just stop worrying about this right??

CONCLUSION

While most of the things said are real, the human creativity part is my opinion. So many people argue that it is just a tool and I don’t see it the same way. I see it a threat in so many ways. There is so much positive things about it, but we can’t just keep thinking about the short term benefit and ignore the long term one. We also know how much it affects the employment of how many people. You also know how much it poses threat to our privacy. I won’t say completely dismiss AI, I am just saying use it knowing it’s consequences as well. There are so many things that you can think out yourself but what you do is search for AI. Using it in creative space is unacceptable in my opinion, you are clearly disrespecting the artists and writers.

AI IS A GOOD SERVANT BUT A DANGEROUS MASTER!! keep that in mind and you will make it!!

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