#Why are people using AI

[khepiari]

Why are so many creative people using AI?

So, a few days back, I ran into multiple people having a meltdown on Twitter about a seasoned and reputed artist who had been using AI tools and experimenting with them to create new works. Most of these people were hurt because this artist person is an icon and has impacted many young people.

The most common QTs that I read had more or less the same dilemma framed as a question, which when paraphrased boils down to: It’s hard to understand why amazing artists are turning to using AI?

The answer that many are seeking isn't that hard to find: IT IS CAPITALISM.

Isn’t it simple: the physical and mental labour behind an original work does not yield the money these talented and hard-working artists deserve. So if something makes their life easier and pays the same for less effort, why will they not use the latest tech? Which in their case is the AI. To many artists, using AI for certain aspects of their work is like using Grammarly for us copyeditors, they see it as a tool.

Art is labour-intensive, that’s why you demand better pay or watch your heroes doom.

Instead of screaming from a moral high ground and calling out, understand why talented people are tempted to use AI. They are not slithering to the Dark Side because they lack artistic integrity, they are slowly being made to feel that playing by the set rules is not in their favour. And I am not talking about AI prompters calling themselves artists here at all, those parasites can fall off the face of the planet. I am talking about actual artists with years of training and learning using AI because of poor pay-scale, unfair working conditions and unethical practices in IP Laws.

Likewise, I have said this before, AI is not limited to just gen AI like Chatgpt, Sora or the one used in Midjourney. AI has existed for a while in many industries. It is extremely helpful in healthcare, accounting, agriculture, and cancer research, albeit its usefulness can be exploited by people with money and power and copyright and patent. And who are these people; they mostly work for the tech companies. These companies and industries monopolize each field of knowledge for profit and will use AI and anything that comes after it to squeeze out profit at any cost. Many artists have understood this and are quit-quitting on their efforts, and can we blame them? Why do I know this, as a former book-editor I know many book-cover designers, who are refusing to stretch their creative selves for new work. AI-developing companies have stolen their work to train their systems, so they are using those AI tools to cut down on the raw material called the thinking process. Eventually, it will become a cycle where the snake eats its tail, only with the presence of AI rendering the snake might not look like a snake, but what an individual’s idea of a snake-form! “Twice removed thrice placed” like Plato said.

So before calling out individual artists: CALL OUT CORPORATIONS! They are making the creative and innovative fields hostile to originality and harming the most important factor of creation; the need for time to think. Everyone and everything is being churned, good art and good results come with patience. Capitalistic demand for everything instantly is destroying not only our attention span but the long process of conceiving an idea, planning the project and executing the idea and deliverance! Because remember, talented people not from only art but also from other branches will and are using AI. If they find the value of their hard-work is undermined. They will use AI to get by. Thinking and doing creative work is an exhausting process. So if clients and giant companies can’t respect that, more and more people will become frustrated or just decide to use any tech that helps.

And do not bring environmental issues here just to call out artists. Yes, we have every right to be angry at what the use of AI does to the planet. But having a public meltdown on social media, and harassing underpaid exhausted artists, is not the answer.

The problem of environmental safety again lies with big tech, Fortune 500 and the oil companies who are fucking the planet at the very moment while the entire human population sits tied, bound and gagged to a chair like a hostage.

It's sad, I can understand that it hurts to see your creative heroes sell out and go to the other side, but these are consequences of long-term inaction.

Hence, bring out the sticks, stones, and boulders and riot. Grieve out openly and make it a headache for organizations who are replacing the human workforce with AI.

P.S: Before you call me pro-AI, I am not. I am someone who is currently unemployed because AI literally took over my job. I am trying to be sensible and make sense of the bigger picture, which is beyond the 280 character count.

[chappellrroan]

repeat after me: ai p*rn/nudes of anyone is disgusting, gross and vile and illegal thing to do. this shouldn't happen in the first place. it does not matter if you hate the person or how privileged or popular they are, this shouldn't happen to anyone.

[inkskinned]

the rise of AI art isn't surprising to us. for our entire lives, the attitude towards our skills has always been - that's not a real thing. it has been consistently, repeatedly devalued.

people treat art - all forms of it - as if it could exist by accident, by rote. they don't understand how much art is in the world. someone designed your home. someone designed the sign inside of your local grocery store. when you quote a character or line from something in media, that's a line a real person wrote.

"i could do that." sure, but you didn't. there's this joke where a plumber comes over to a house and twists a single knob. charges the guy 10k. the guy, furious, asks how the hell the bill is so high. the plumber says - "turning the knob was a dollar. the knowledge is the rest of the money."

the trouble is that nobody believes artists have knowledge. that we actively study. that we work hard, beyond doing our scales and occasionally writing a poem. the trouble is that unless you are already framed in a museum or have a book on a shelf or some kind of product, you aren't really an artist. hell, because of where i post my work, i'll never be considered a poet.

the thing that makes you an artist is choice. the thing that makes all art is choice. AI art is the fetid belief that art is instead an equation. that it must answer a specific question. Even with machine learning, AI cannot make a choice the way we can - because the choices we make have always been personal, complicated. our skills cannot be confined to "prompt and execution." what we are "solving" isn't just a system of numbers - it is how we process our entire existence. it isn't just "2 and 2 is 4", it's staring hard at the numbers and making the four into an alligator. it's rearranging the letters to say ow and it is the ugly drawing we make in the margin.

at some point, you will be able to write something by feeding my work into a machine. it will be perfectly legible and even might sound like me. but a machine doesn't understand why i do these things. it can be taught preferences, habits, statistical probability. it doesn't know why certain vowels sound good to me. it doesn't know the private rules i keep. it doesn't know how to keep evolving.

"but i want something to exist that doesn't exist yet." great. i'm glad you feel creative. go ahead and pay a fucking artist for it.

this is all saying something we all already knew. the sad fucking truth: we have to die to remind you. only when we're gone do we suddenly finally fucking mean something to you. artists are not replicable. we each genuinely have a skill, talent, and process that makes us unique. and there's actual quiet power in everything we do.

[ganondoodle]

the company i work for decided that its switching from the german formal "You"(Sie) to the informal "you" (Du) in all of our websites so now we have to scour the entire database to change it and i quite frankly hate that, not just bc the unecessary extra work but especially bc its such a weird and unecessary change

i bet its bc everything here is getting englishfied (both literally and culturally it feels like, when my new boss talks its half in english bc every second german word is just replaced by an english one despite there being perfectly fine words for it in german too, its so annoying) and bc they want to sound more personal in hopes of getting more clients bc 'company is your fwiend uwu!!', i know this here is the amercian tm site so you wouldnt understand really but i do not want to be greeted with 'du' by companies, no, thats too personal, you dont know me and im not giving you my data, stay away!!

i guess thats how i would describe it .. the formal you is like a polite distance, like someone you dont know staying outside your personal space, but when its the informal 'you' it feels invasive unless i told you you can call me that, and that goes double for companies

maybe its a small thing that doesnt seem important but i cant stand it, im just a little part time worker doing data work so i got no say in it but the companies founder also announced hes giving his post to his kids some time ago so ...... since then theres been alot of changes and new projects that solely aim to imitate whats popular and whats done by other companies, despite ours being one that is, or used to be, intentionally different, like, that was the POINT, but i guess chasing trends is just too appealing for CEOs

[sadkachow]

You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still actively seeking out and using AI.

Once again.

You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still using generative AI, no matter the reason.

(Bold/italicized text: You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still using generative AI, no matter the reason.)

Even if you’re just using it to make fun of it or show how bad it is.

Even if it’s only for your personal use, and you don’t plan on sharing it with anyone.

Even if you’re “just” roleplaying on Character AI.

If you are willing to justify your usage of a system created and profiting off of stealing from artists and writers, a symstem that is destroying the Earth, then you were never as “against that system” as you think you were. Being anti-AI isn’t something that exists only in name. You can’t claim to be against AI if you are willing and able to use it as soon as it benefits you. You can’t say you’re for writers’ and artists’ rights if you’re using the very thing that is causing them harm. You can’t claim to care about climate change and saving the Earth if you are participating in the system that is destroying it.

There is no middle ground here.

There is no “Oh, but I-“.

If you have the knowledge of what generative AI is doing, of how it is hurting people, and you choose to use it anyway, you aren’t  against it. You aren’t fighting against that system, you’re upholding it.

You can say how much you hate AI and how horrible you think it is, if you choose to use it anyway, then your actions and your words are not lining up, and the former reveals so much more than the latter.

Stop pretending like AI is something you can condemn only in name, while using it to your heart’s content in your free time. All it does it tells writers and artists that you don’t really care about us, and that any actions you claim to be taking to protect us are performative at best and lies or even outright malicious at worst.

You are—and I mean this in the kindest way possible, even with the fury that generative AI invokes in me—a complete and utter hypocrite. AI is not your friend. It is a tool, and it is a tool that steals from writers and artists in order to function. It is a tool that is using levels of energy and emitting amounts of polution in order to be maintained that are actively damaging the Earth. No matter how much you try to justify using it to yourself, that doesn’t change.

Stop hiding under the guise of being anti-AI while continuing to use it yourself.

[cent-scratchnsniff]

it was just going to be a few warmup doodles but then she infected the rest of the page like the ever eternal and spreading spores. hod!!! hod. hod :)

[osteochondraldefect]

i love spreading misinformation about what happens in this podcast aka.: bunch of thangs i drew but didnt feel like posting separately

[s2pdoktopus]

There weren't enough fanfics to satisfy my inner GinZura trash so... I drew this...

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

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[crouton-moons]

Zionist.

saying don't fall for scams does not make someone a zionist. tumblr asks are NOT actual calls for aid!

i was just going to delete this ask like i do all scam asks, but i figured id post it just in case other people are getting similar things for... not being gullible? for trying to stop other people from being scammed and sending their money to scammers instead of actual palestinians?

many people in palestine obviously need aid. an obvious bot sending thousands of messages to thousands of people asking for "aid" will not help those people. they aren't from actual victims. they're from random people who are weaponizing the kindness of strangers to make a buck. falling for it helps absolutely no one. critical thinking is even MORE important in a time like this, stop falling for this obvious shit! they're just like the ai porn bots. they're used by the same exact people for the same exact reasons, getting money off those who are gullible. they're scumbags who are weaponizing peoples empathy to make a buck off a genocide. stop. falling. for. it.

they're trying to take advantage of you. they're assuming you're too stupid to think critically about who you think you're helping. stop proving them right.

there are thousands of actual ways to donate to those in need that aren't tumblr ask scams!

[bunny-snot]

i went into dungeon meshi thinking it was about sapphic monsters and elves but came out of it obsessed with Senshi.

also i love Laois and i think if he could eat his freinds without harming them he probably would and that cool, we could always use more cannibals

[soaps-mohawk]

i genuinely can’t think of any advantages to using ai in a creative space. personally i feel ai and robots should be used for manual labor, not creativity. why would you leave the humans to do the soulless work while leaving the robots (with no heart or feelings or just genuine emotion might i add) to do the things that need to have soul in them.

i am currently in college for business admin and after that i’m headed off to pastry school and then to open and own my own bakery (hopefully). Ai hasnt quite transferred over to the pastry arts and i hope it never will. i feel very strongly on this topic and actually wrote my public speaking final on ai in creative spaces. i concluded that there is only one advantage to ai and its speed. that’s it, nothing else. ai writing will pump out heartless and good for nothing media that will take all the joy out of consuming and creating art.

i will always support creatives and if there’s a moment i even think about using ai for creativity purposes my best friend (creative writing major) has full permission to slap me so hard across the face it bruises. and i extent that free slap to all writers.

i will be forever in awe and eternally grateful for creatives, and writers especially. <3

-🍁

AI has its uses and its place, but the creative space is not one of those. If you can't be bothered to take the time and make the art yourself with your hands, then art is not for you. Same with writing. If you can't be bothered to come up with your own ideas, then writing is not for you. That's fine. There's nothing wrong with that.

It's like that Instagram comment that's being circulated about how AI art made them value the human soul because they've seen art without it. Like sure, it's cool that you can put a bunch of words into a computer and have it spit out art, but that doesn't mean it's ethical or it should be used. A computer will never be able to take the trauma of the bombings in Japan during World War 2 and turn them into a 50-meter tall amphibious dinosaur that breathes nuclear fire. AI will never be able to emulate the soul-wrenching emotions of paintings like Anguish by August Friedrich Schenck or Nāve by Janis Rozentāls among many others. Art requires soul and passion and emotion, and there will never be a computer that can emulate that.

It's like the post I just reblogged. I want AI to clean my house and cook meals for me so I can pour more time and energy into the things I enjoy doing, like writing and crochet.

Fuck AI and support creative people.

[vyeoh]

No way two white people went on canadian national TV and said "we don't know what's in boba 🤔🤔" and then asked for 1 million dollars for their whole foods white ass boba and some people on their side??? Y'all are a little too comfortable around East Asian culture

[khepiari]

Just say that you lack creativity and are jealous of people who can express themselves with their chosen medium of expression. There are millions of ways and tools to express oneself, yet you chose AI to do your hard work, which is “the act of creating”. Feel ashamed, not proud.

[sadkachow]

how the fuck did my english class manage to take a semi-positive stance on generative ai

[hana-bobo-finch]

Ai pisses me off so much. Not ai that does basic computing tasks or advances important science, I mean the ai that blends up other people’s work and spits it back up as some hideous slop. Genuinely makes me so mad, I’ll fully admit that I’ve generated some goofy images in the past few years and they’ve been hilariously bad but the more I really stop to think about it no amount of haha funnies can override just how unfair it is. Artists spend years improving and making their own style and then the beep boop robots come in to steal it and put it in a blender before regurgitating it for some ai bro to yap about and try to profit off of. Ai music too, I’m much less into songwriting than I am drawing but just the idea of something that I spend painstaking hours into perfecting and making sound right being scraped and made into slop pisses me off