#as ted chiang said: we are nowhere near having real ai and what we call ai is just a tool of capitalism i don't fear ai i fear capitalism

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against ai

the end of art: an argument against image ai

a good explainer. a selection of people's comments below.

— "I spent decades of my life learning foreign languages, only to see the translation industry destroyed by AI. The inferiority of the machine translations a few years back did not stop the destruction of the industry. The machine translation cost nothing, and so the price for all translation came crashing down, because the bottom feeders used machine translation. I found myself paid half price to 'just edit' (as if it was less work) a translation done by machine which was basically unintelligible so that I had to go back to the original and translate it myself. Most clients, the bottom of the pyramid that kept the industry going, did not care about the quality of the translation. If we expect that clients prizing human made products will save industries we are being very delusional. ... the vast majority of clients will go for the process that costs less."

— "Data-laundering has got to be the most accurate keyword for this discussion. Very well spoken"

— "I was really on the edge about AI art. I'm not an artist at all, I'm a programmer who commissions artists every now and again. It's such a cool ldea but it's unethical and actively stagnates creativity in its current form. Like, if you think of the sum of all human creation as a quantifiable mass, we're not adding anything by blending it up like this without true creative input. Disseminating the technology incentivizes adding less to that mass. This tech hasn't peaked, but there is a tremendous difference between this and a machine with the capability to truly add to that mass."

— "the thing that steven gets that i think other videos don’t highlight enough is that it’s not about the ai. the ai is just the product. it’s about the developers, companies, businessmen, and capitalists behind it who will take a mile if you give them an inch. we’re being bogged down by technicalities and arguments but they’re just distractions. it’s never about the tool, it’s about the people behind the tool and what their agendas are."

— "If they take away the ability and the incentive to create, we will only have the desire to consume. And deep down, it's just that, consumption and more consumption. This is a strong step towards a less "human" humanity. Not to mention that there will be fewer and fewer jobs in which one can learn and enjoy what they do. This is horrendous, almost straight out of a sci fi horror movie. Excellent video and beautiful illustration!"