I feel very similarly. I am also studying comp sci atm and I feel I am one of only a handful of students who are morally opposed to the damages of the AI ecosystem.

I use it at a complete minimum, opting to read documentation thoroughly and hand-rolling my own code. I have also seen studies showing that gen AI tools make people Less productive as they have to spend more time fixing the code of the model and also make it so they don't learn the underlying systems of what they're creating.

I think generative AI also feeds into the hustle culture of capitalism, it's all just Go Go Go and nothing about putting love into your creations. My coding projects are my art, they are how I breathe my life into this world, and it sucks to feel like you have to rush for no good reason.

I love this world dearly. I feel crazy because everyone around me is all-in on this technology, but I cannot, in good faith, use these tools given the damage they are causing and will continue to cause.