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The only thing that is going to stop generative AI is companies using it not making as much money as they expected. It's probably going to take a crash and anot

by krapp 2y ago

The only thing that is going to stop generative AI is companies using it not making as much money as they expected. It's probably going to take a crash and another AI winter. Maybe I'm too blackpilled on AI already but I absolutely believe companies will just keep throwing money at it until it's literally existentially impossible to do so, just because the promise of the capitalist version of free energy (delusional as it may be) is just too great to resist. The degree to which our culture is already largely controlled and manufactured by corporations and sold to us without our input or consent is a separate conversation we should have, collectively, because AI is just pissing harder into an already pissed in pool in that regard.

ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> because AI is just pissing harder into an already pissed in pool in that regard. It is, and I agree. But I suspect you agree with me that this is not how people feel. If you see someone lying on the street, bloodied, and you don't help, expect to be judged by that person about as harshly as they judge the person who beat them up. Corporate culture has never come for art and writing as dismissively and callously as generative AI does. This isn't pop stars and TV. This is coming to the artist who has self-taught oil paintings, the photographer who has built their own artistic camera, the pencil sketch artist who has learned photorealistic sketching and saying "hey, I know your work is almost impossible to share with people already and sharing it is the thing that makes you feel good... but I'm going to make that worse by drowning it in autogenerated shit. Oh and hey, you know how you developed a style and sold a couple of things? I've trained my system so that your customers can just generate work in your style without even giving you money, so that should make you happy, right? Happy customers are good." This is not a mere extension of corporate culture. This is a callous, systematically careless, dismissive kick in the face to people on the ground. And we all feel it, either on our own behalf as creative people, or for those artists we admire.

by krapp 2y ago

ecjhdnc2025 2y ago

> because AI is just pissing harder into an already pissed in pool in that regard. It is, and I agree. But I suspect you agree with me that this is not how people feel. If you see someone lying on the street, bloodied, and you don't help, expect to be judged by that person about as harshly as they judge the person who beat them up. Corporate culture has never come for art and writing as dismissively and callously as generative AI does. This isn't pop stars and TV. This is coming to the artist who has self-taught oil paintings, the photographer who has built their own artistic camera, the pencil sketch artist who has learned photorealistic sketching and saying "hey, I know your work is almost impossible to share with people already and sharing it is the thing that makes you feel good... but I'm going to make that worse by drowning it in autogenerated shit. Oh and hey, you know how you developed a style and sold a couple of things? I've trained my system so that your customers can just generate work in your style without even giving you money, so that should make you happy, right? Happy customers are good." This is not a mere extension of corporate culture. This is a callous, systematically careless, dismissive kick in the face to people on the ground. And we all feel it, either on our own behalf as creative people, or for those artists we admire.