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I can think of a few situations... Like when it's flooding your board / group with ultra-low-effort crap, or when it's clearly a barely-digested regurgitation o
by mandmandam 2y ago
I can think of a few situations... Like when it's flooding your board / group with ultra-low-effort crap, or when it's clearly a barely-digested regurgitation of an artist's style that they spent decades developing at great personal cost. When it's used to scam people, or when it's used to smear them.
I find it upsetting that a company can steal the essence of thousands / millions of people's life's work, "transform" it with an algorithm, and then sell it to people without any recognition of the theft whatsoever. I don't like that a generation of creatives is being undercut, all during a time when inequality and wealth capture are rampant due to out-of-control mega-corporations - which immediately make moves to buy and/or copy said company...
Like, I love creativity. I love AI. I think AI will be a part of our future whether we moan about it or not. At the same time, the world is awash with the worst type of scams, to the point where making a living is hard even if you work a steady 9-5. Even if you work two.
Damn near every artist, writer, musician is scrabbling ridiculously hard to stay afloat as it is. Some aren't making it. I can see why they're pissed. And I think that for the most part, being angry at 'AI' is pointless, except as a means to distract from the true parasites of our age.