#anti ai

[ghostieking]

me and my homies support real artists who put their passion into their pieces instead of a machine who rips off the hard work of talented peeps

[peflavoredtictac]

Fun fact I’ve deadass never used chat gpt in my entire life. Crazy to think people my age are just straight up using it to write whole essays, ESPECIALLY without fact-checking it. Honestly shameful to my generation vro.

Side note, I’m pretty anti-ai, I dislike it and don’t use it unless I have to for a school assignment (which, so far I’ve had to use a bit in English and quite a lot in social studies).

I also heavily dislike the creation of AI images (something that is also heavily used in my social studies class), especially because of the fact that it puts a lot of artists down, seeing as how they see AI make some “art” and think it’s so much better than theirs atm, which is a lie, no matter how far you’ve progressed in your art style.

I feel so bad whenever younger artists get discouraged, because right now in this world, if anything we need more artists. Art brings joy to the creator and the viewers of it, everything from beautiful masterpieces that took years to create to just a simple sketch. Art has always been able to bring people together and spread joy and love, whether it be in the form of music, painting, writing, sculpture, or some other medium.

AI is soulless and will always be, it will never be able to replicate the original style of humans, no matter how advanced it gets or how many art styles it learns to perfect- it will never be able to replicate something coming from a humans heart. Words put into paintings, meaning in every stroke of the brush. AI is just another algorithm, learning where to place brush strokes to make the piece look “optimal”.

Humans will always make art more lively than AI. They will write poems and sonnets and stories from their hearts.

They will create wonderful sculptures of their loved ones in their honor, creating something soft out of a hard surface.

They will make paintings of the most beautiful landscapes, and capture the feeling of a fleeting moment in paint.

the generational gap between me and the people my age who use chat gpt

[feminist-space]

[life-in-toontown]

:C

I’m so fucking sick of AI

[thelocalmuffin]

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

[lio-the-chaotic-nonbeanie-weenie]

Girl, you should be grateful you only have to write 600 works and get to work. It says a lot that you can’t even be bothered to type 600 words.

When I was in high school, my teachers had me doing 5000 word essays. One time we even had almost ten pages to write including the cover page and the works cited page. Was it grueling each time? Did it suck that we couldn’t just use wikipedia? YES.

Guess what? we still did it. We pulled all nighters and ruined sleep schedules just for a couple thousand words. And it was all worth it. Not only did I earn a decent grade, I did it all on my own! Plus, my writing improved along with my typing speed. Here I am now, several years later with the ability to write stories and fanfics that over 10,000 words. Did AI help me do that? Nope.

Hell, I had to do a ten page essay again and it was twice for my art history classes. It felt so good when I aced the second essay. I spent several days and nights on that one, going to bed at almost 3am when I finally finished it and turned it in.

Meanwhile girly pop here is complaining that they’re still failing. At a 600 word essay.

[lnaliazmcithilien]

every time I do a web search, right at the top I have AI info dumping on me

just give me the top result please

[chastainromanova]

ai does not belong in creative spaces. period.

[machetesquirrel]

I’m just going to leave this here

[sunlightthroughtrees1]

Stop using ai to do assessments and making art, it’s literally causing climate change. Not to mention you can get better ideas without using ai

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

chatgpt is the coward's way out. if you have a paper due in 40 minutes you should be chugging six energy drinks, blasting frantic circus music so loud you shatter an eardrum, and typing the most dogshit essay mankind has ever seen with your own carpel tunnel laden hands

[victusinveritas]

For those not in the know, this is one of the Amanita mushrooms referred to as a Destroying Angel. Never, ever, ever, ever forage with an app. Especially for mushrooms.

[itsclydebitches]

Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.

[berrycake99]

AI wasn't created because what it offers "doesn't exist already", most, if not all, very much exists in other forms, it was created to produce it faster. The point is literally for corporations to cut costs and produce cheaper even if shittier, and for lazy people to "bother less" to do something themselves. Don't get me wrong, I'm really not some "old snob", as pro-AI crowd likes to call it. I know that this is how most stuff we use today was also created. But you're not getting the full picture. The full picture is - AI was made to sell you more stuff and rend you more isolated and addicted to it. Just look at all the options it offers - it's not a one-purpose program. It can literally be your therapist, your girlfriend, do work for you, produce art for you... They already started putting prices on it it's not even free anymore already.

People know templates exist, they know art programs exist, they know... But all of technology we had so far still required some work from the user's side. And this is the main problem I have with AI "art" in any form, it's not even like my grandma thinks, that "digiral art is not real" because she doesn't really know how it works, it's not art because you don't produce anything. You don't create anything.

And you know what's really sad? I had many debates with pro-AI people, and their argument is always that the slop AI produces is "good enough" or "they don't see how it's bad". People who don't do art don't value art anymore, in any form. A six finger uneven alien-like mutant "drawing" looks good enough to them. They don't care how it was produced. Art is less and less valued in today's world. People actually care more to get something "faster" and will accept it with less quality.

Not to mention the unethical destruction and absolutely ridiculous waste of environment, again, by choice of "cheaper" .

Nobody cares because people became dulled by fast producing slop content. I can see how AI could be used ethically and be useful in some ways if was done right, unfortunately I don't think it was created for the sake of "advancing humanity" or whatever bullshit they advertise it with.

It was created by, and for capitalism.

I think a lot of what pro-AI people are really wanting is stuff that already exists but they don't know it's out there like

can't format a work email? templates

don't know how to write a resume? templates

writing a thank you card or a condolences card or a wedding invitation? templates templates templates

not sure how to format your citations in MLA or whatever format? citationmachine.net

summary of something you're reading for school/work? cliffnotes.com

recipe based on ingredients in your fridge? whatsintherefrigerator.com

there's a million more like, guys, we don't need AI, we never needed generative AI

[sailorsally]

Unpopular opinion but if you don't enjoy the process you should find a different thing to do.

And I think this is true in general but now I'm talking about it in the context of AI.

If you don't enjoy making art and only care about the end piece and how it'll look and how much traction it"lol get online then making art is not something for you, find something you enjoy from start to finish.

Same goes for writing: if you do not enjoy writing and rewriting and then some more and instead want AI to write for you, being a writer is not something you should pursue.

Sure, not every part of creative process is going to be equally enjoyable but you should get satisfaction from solving the problems along the way and you should get a sense of accomplishment on your way of "making the piece yours" and you should have a sense of ownership once you are done.

None of these things will come from typing in a prompt into chatGPT. And I am sad to see so many people are missing on the opportunity to experience the joy of making something with their own hands and brains.

Just give it a try and if you don't like it don't do it again.

But also don't let the expectations of it coming out perfect ruin the fun you are having while making the thing. Because what if I told you this: having fun while creating is the actual purpose of the creative process, not whatever comes out of it.