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> active sense of disdain for artists amongst many people pushing AI I feel as if this was spawned by many artists' disdain for so-called "tech bros." Most pro
by ronsor 4y ago
> active sense of disdain for artists amongst many people pushing AI
I feel as if this was spawned by many artists' disdain for so-called "tech bros." Most pro-AI people didn't seem to have any hostility before that.
> example of AI being used as a hammer and everything becoming a nail
I don't quite get it. AI image generation has its own niche.
> disappointed that people have expended so much effort to automate art instead of some of the awful manual jobs there are on this planet
Truth be told, the reason many of those jobs (I'm assuming mining, certain factory jobs, etc.), haven't been taken by robots is because the problem is much harder and more expensive than getting a diffusion model to spit out images.
Overall, this situation isn't too different from past situations. The Luddites were actually skilled craftsmen! Technology improves, certain jobs go away or decline—that's the story of the past few centuries.
I do agree that a framework needs to be created to handle the soon rapidly declining number of jobs in society.
- superchroma 4y agoBecause, watching twitter, I see many people trying AI everywhere. One person used it to make an insensitive tribute to an artist. Another guy is badly reimagining pixelated sprites from retro games into raster renditions of the subject matter. Another is using it to process blender render frames to create foam on water. Not all problems are solved by AI. All these things are nifty, but I wouldn't have called any of them a potential commercial success.
- ronsor 4y ago"To find out what if" is a good purpose on its own. Not everything needs to be practical; it just must be interesting, even for a short while. That aside, you often can't be sure of the effectiveness of a tool for a purpose without you or someone else trying to use it.
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- eurasiantiger 4y agoIt’s hard to not have disdain for the tech bros considering how many dumpster fires have been lit using their apparatuses.
- ronsor 4y agoMaybe, but what even are "tech bros" anymore? The way it's being used now and recently seems to just mean "anyone who does technology-related work." It's become a vague pejorative like geek and nerd used to be. I assure you most of people complaining about AI aren't referring to Zuckerberg, Musk, or any of the traditional "tech bro" types.