#ai generated slop should not be fucking acceptable

[dedded-by-glamour]

dear god dont put any faith in the stupid fucking ai generated slop cat game. that's so fucking infuriating that an ai crypto scam paid the game awards to show their garbage instead of the game awards giving it to something that might've really deserved it. fuck off catly (game) they're already selling what looks like nfts and they dont even have screenshots of anything actually in game. fuck this game, and i genuinely hope it fails. i mean that.

[gloriousburden]

So much fucking AI generated content on Pinterest. It’s every single image when you search something up at this point. It’d be a lot less insufferable (albeit, still insufferable) if it were mandatory for people who “create” and post that shit to put a disclaimer/somehow sort it under AI generated so it could be hidden/filtered through by those who have no interest in it.

If AI generated content HAS to be a thing, it should be organized in a separate division from everyone else. They “create” and enjoy their AI shit amongst their own crowd, and we don’t have to see it. We need restrictions and regulations on it ASAP.

It shouldn’t be mainstream and heavily accepted especially in such an early stage where it is ever evolving, and all these apps/websites should stop pandering. Especially on apps/websites like Pinterest where human creativity and authenticity is supposed to thrive. We’re all supposed to connect due to our shared love of everything from recipes, to anime girl fanart, and AI takes that away.

AI should not replace human passion. It should not replace human creativity and human skills. Learning skills is not an inconvenience, and it is ALWAYS rewarding. Learning how to draw and getting to see your practice and hard work come into fruition is rewarding.

Writing stories/fanfiction and finally getting to start off the plot line you were most excited for after finishing writing the plot line you were becoming really bored with, is rewarding. You learn, and you grow from these experiences, Even “boring” work/practice is rewarding whether you realize it at the moment or not.

Lyrics from one of my favorite Björk songs:

“Lust for comfort

suffocates the soul

Relentless restlessness

Liberates me (Sets me free)

I feel at home

Whenever the unknown surrounds me”

You have to do things that are “boring.” You have to do things that are uncomfortable and foreign. That’s how you learn. Not every part of acquiring new skills or learning something new is going to be easy or make sense immediately.

If some experiences were not boring, then the other experiences would not be enjoyable. If you are constantly comfortable, comfortability loses its appeal. We’ve gotten too reliant on comfortability and instant gratification. (Insert Tom Hiddleston talking about delayed gratification on Sesame Street)

What would be the point if there were no challenges? It would all be quite unfulfilling, and you’d stay the same. You wouldn’t learn to look at things differently and challenge yourself.

And I saw someone selling earrings with AI generated images on them without disclosing the fact that the images were made with AI. It’s kind of a scummy thing to do when people are likely buying your shit because they value authenticity and would like to support a likeminded person with creative passions rather than supporting corporations who mass produce shit with no passion except a passion for greed.

How do corporations nowadays have more passion than someone selling something on a site like Etsy where self made items, diy, and creativity are the main focus? Why stoop that low?

Remember, you’re supposed to be the alternative to PURE greed.

Let’s bring back being passionate about creative hobbies and let’s bring back mastering skills out of love for said skill. Out of love for creativity and expressing yourself through what you created. Let’s bring back authenticity and wanting to share your own authenticity with others.

How does this not scare people? That others are no longer passionate about anything? That human beings have become so fucking lazy, that even some of the most fulfilling things you can do in life are too much work?

So lazy, that they’d be more satisfied with typing prompts into a website so a machine can generate literal internet slop made from preexisting art/images on the internet rather than them creating something themselves and getting to make all the creative choices and have every last detail be theirs to decide.

And I didn’t even get into how fucked up it is that AI has little to no regulation/restriction. It’s fucked up that images can be made depicting public figures of any kind. Anything, and anyone. Singers, Actors, Comedians, Politicians, literally everyone.

It’s fucked up that voices can be made to say anything. To sing anything. To declare anything.

But go on, keep feeding the machine because you were too lazy to pick up a fucking pencil to draw one of your OCs. See where your laziness and lack of passion gets us all.

Mind you, people used to be happy to draw their own OCs. Putting them in new outfits and such and maybe even giving them new haircuts. We have lost every plot, because people are too busy acting out those plot lines out with AI chat bots instead of with other human beings. They’re too busy feeding prompts to a machine before they could even think for themselves about how they would want the plot to go.

TL;DR: FUCK AI!!

[here-there-were-dragons]

(screenshotting because i don't want to start shit in the notes of the original post)

posts like this always deeply piss me off.

for one, it's painfully clear they come from people in a much more secure off position in life who have room to think they'll be isolated from the consequences of how they're perceived by others and can't begin to comprehend the danger of being seen isn't all in everyone else's head too.

for us here in reality this is literally a one way ticket to being beaten to death by maga-ers and normies in general, especially right now. "fear of being seen" if you are any but a very very small and increasingly narrow range of things is in fact a very valid and real fear to have. humanity is dangerous and humanity is hateful. this is a fact. the world we should be living in is not the one we are in now, unfortunately will likely not ever be the one we are in "now", and in the one we are now, advice like this is dangerous, and unless you are in a fairly secure position in life, it will get you killed.

as much as i hate using the term for what a watered-down pile of thought-terminating slop glued to a shaming cudgel it often is, people need to get it through to their insufferble madatory-positivity vomiting skulls that the ability and security to be able to be "out and proud" about anything-anything from queerness to neurodivergence to medical issues to fandom to fucking facial features and what your favorite flavor of jolly rancher candy is-is, for lack of a better word, a privilege, that basically nobody outside a VERY VERY NARROW range of "acceptable" Normal Human tm has.

Their message is, ironically, completely worthless for anyone who actually *is* different in any meaningful way whatsoever, and instead only functions as further encouragement for Acceptable Normal People TM go keep going on being Acceptable Normal and acting like they're transgressive revolutionary freaks for it. The supposed intended targets of messages like this are the ones that would be most endangered by following this kind of advice. but they don't really care-people who post things like this mostly just want to feel good about themselves and look like a good person for being Positive tm and have never once actually put any real thought into what it would really be like to live as someone who truly is Out There in any way greater than the most bland aesthetically pleasing never-inconvenient effectively-neurotypical Hollywood Wholesome Weirdo That Likes Bright Colors And Pranks And Like One Or Two "Quirky" Hobbies And Is In All Other Ways A Standard Cookie Cutter Successful Adult Normal Person With Normaltm Opinions And Thoughts at most, because we don't register as within the bounds of Real People to them so their brain fails to even generate the possibility that we exist and count in any meaningful way in the first place.

the world is not the happy place of justice and light at the end of the tunnel that you think it is. no matter what you or i think the world should be, for us, this is what it is now, and trying to pretend the dark forest isn't there is doing us no fucking favors. It is unjust that we have to hide or die. but that's the current truth. it's very likely at this point that it will always be the truth, barring some sudden miracle advances in neurology and gene editing technology that allow us to reprogram ourselves on a base level and shed our hateful animal nature into a kind of biological ai singularity or some weird shit. Pretending we're living in the just version of the world we should be in isn't going to change the fact that we don't. Pretending there's somewhere to run isn't going to make it be true. The universe doesn't see itself as owing us an Upside to all of this. All we can do is hide. It is very likely that all we will ever be able to do is hide. If you are more than the tiniest most surface level inconsequential amount of "different", coming out into the sun will be how you die. Maybe some would rather burn out fast and bright that way. But don't go around acting like everyone left of Normal owes it to you to put on a swan song show, because what you're functionally asking for here, especially in the current climate, is martyrdom for what will nearly always in the end amount to nothing. nothing but a blip of entertainment for the Normal to sadly shake their heads at, at kindest.

"Letting yourself be seen as you are" is all well and good when what you are is perceived generally by most as hedgemonically ideal, it's fucking worthless advice if "what you really are" is not. "Be yourself", whether the people saying it realize it or not, means and has always truly meant "Show us that your inner self is Normal, Consumable, and Ideal". "Be Yourself" means in practice "Subsume all but the most consumable aesthetic parts of yourself or be punished by unpersoning".

and i can't ever fucking talk about any of this without people thinking i'm the unreasonable lunatic spouting dangerous nonsense!

[lifefindsaj]

AI has no place in the creative space!

For class, I had to create AI images. This is the piece of shit I created.

It's a new era! Computers have graduated from manual document creations and calculators, into havens for computer generated slop. With the right combination of words, any image can be generated. That image can then be processed into video. All using what is considered today as Artificial Intelligence.

In class, we used CoPilot to create an image out of text. Then, we used Runway to make the image into a video. Presenters talked about how novel the concept still is, how generating images is "art," and how creating AI "art" can cost money to generate. There were other points, but I had zero fucking interest. It boiled down to this: AI is a great way to create "art."

Art is a human expression through creativity derived from experience and emotion. This AI "art" is total bullshit.

To elaborate, art is an expression of self through skill, training, and technique. It's a dialogue between artist and consumer, not just a product. It requires trial and error to understand oneself. AI generation is a complete lack of all that. Yes, prompts require repetition to get right, but I highly doubt it's a complete expression of self. Sure, you created a list of commands to reflect the image you want, but this is not an artist's technique. It's an instruction manual for computers to compute. You have removed the human element from the "art" and made nothing. The computer did it all, not you! You created the prompt, and it probably took 20 minutes to get it right, but playing a video game is essentially the same concept. You press buttons through trial and error, to get the command you want. Is playing video games an artform? Is it creative expression by the player? I love playing video games, but I have to say the act of playing not artful. The developers did the art, much like the artists AI rips off.

Now, my title explained: I strongly feel AI generation has no place in the creative space. That includes still, motion, or audio art, and literature. I feel that AI prompt generation is talentless slop of word diarrhea and the execution of an ability to see something you didn't exactly desire, but accepting it because it's "close enough." Even the most advanced AI experts can not customize every stroke with AI, pressure, intention of motion, and honest personal flairs are also absent.

Using AI for inspiration is also ridiculous. We live in a rich and vibrant world with endless cultures, histories, communities, and beliefs. We have created centuries of honest art and literature to draw from. To confine oneself into a box that strictly generates AI "art," I see it as a lack of imagination. Why do you need to falsify and corrupt your perspective with lies where reality offers so much more substance? And I'm talking in creating, not consuming. Why not flex that creative muscle and do the work, even if it doesn't turn out the way you want? You'll develop skills, patience, and abilities via trial and error, a skill that requires few tools and no computer. Should society collapse, you won't lose that skill and ability.

I have yet to encounter AI in art which is honest and product of the artist's talents. All I see are a jumble of words used to derive samples from established real artists, to create a falsehood in seconds, which has no communication between artist and consumer, nor does it express the heart of the artist.

Now, am I against all AI? Hell, no! I understand AI in the technical and business space. It can translate, it can automate, it can streamline services. I still think there are better methods which involves people instead of machines, but I won't deny that AI can make some services simpler for consumers.

My point is to AI in the creative space. To generate a screenplay with AI should not bear your name as credit, but the credit belongs to your AI tool. You didn't write it, despite how many prompts or images you fed a machine. It's not your writing, it's technological nonsense. There may be a plot, dialogue, characters, and such, but without the human intention, the screenplay is devoid of meaning and conversation, even if you wanted to give it meaning. What are you going to say when someone asks your process? "I typed so and so prompts and generated it?"

Again, AI helps in some fields. The medical field comes to mind in developing medicine and processing data. And I'm sure there are many other applications which benefit humanity. But this AI in art? It's a bastardization of humanity.