What counts as “AI” on this website?

Last Updated on August 12, 2026 by o

GenAI requires vast servers to constantly run 24-7, kicking up harmful fumes which are killing people, absorbing hospital energy, vast amounts of water, and generally killing the planet using data stolen from real people. This is bad.

Large Language Models (LLMs) require huge, huge land to build data centers. Anything used to farm for these Large Language models are listed on the website as bad.

Algorithms I’ve gone into detail before what they are and how they work on my post about Why Spell Check is not GenAI. Click the link. Too long for here.

AI tools run on your computer and are programmed using your power, not external servers. It depends on your RAM. It’s not taken with stolen data from other users. Things like Gaussian Blur, etc might borderline be considered AI to some people (though not really) and things like smart tools (smart lasso), but this is not equal to GenAI in an ethics violation. So environmental impact depends on where you live, but certainly isn’t purposefully giving other people cancer because they want a picture of Miyazaki-style selfie of themselves while totally being ignorant of the meaning of Miyazaki’s films making people want to bash them over the head with a clue stick. These tools CAN run on large servers, but most scientists aren’t running say, how to find the next prime number on vast huge servers in poor communities. GenAI, which is being used for cancer cure stuff, etc is in poor communities. Chess AI is run locally on your computer, but doesn’t have as huge ethics issues. Tools the save time, but don’t kill people isn’t an ethics problem.

As such these lists focuses on GenAI and LLMs, itself and the servers it runs on being an ethical violation on so many fronts.