When a lot of people use it, it does. When only one person uses it, no. We damage the environment in many more ways. Hell, actual art might even be more damaging than ai art.
The Mona Lisa is a famous piece of artwork. Let's use something like that as our control. Quite a few people will generate ai images incorporating this painting, so it's pretty realistic.
Someone looking to recreate the Mona Lisa would have to use paints, lighting, paintbrushes, a canvas, etc. Each of those emits carbon in the making of it. I'm no scientist, so I'll just ask ai how much carbon it emits. I'll ask Chat GPT-5 and Gemini to have accurate results too. The results varied wildly, with Chat GPT saying 2.1 kg and Gemini saying 30 kg of carbon emissions, but both agreed that ai prompting emitted much less carbon, around 2 grams per image)
So, the environmental argument weirdly backfires horribly and pushes us to use sources with much less carbon footprint, ie ai.
I mean, humans use much more carbon to make their own art. And if you say entertainment is unnecessary, than I guess they should be too.
For making people worse at writing, I will admit it is. I mean, it's the kids fault for using ai /jk. Honestly, that is a problem.
For hallucination, yeah that also is a problem. Although ai is getting better and better, it has regurgitated incorrect information, as I have seen firsthand. Regulation is the best solution.
Yes, I do very much care.