#gen ai is not bad

[goolgelarah]

AI Is Not Bad

People keep saying AI is bad. I mean, yes, it is taking jobs of artists and writers, and that, I do not support, but then there's people that say very illogical things about it. For example 'AI art/writing is soulless.' How can you tell? If AI made a picture and didn't say it was AI, and it looked exactly like a real picture, would you know? Would you be able to detect the amount of soul? Soul readings = 0? I don't think so. And 'blood, sweat and tears'? As far as I've been able to tell, this means mistakes. If it's completely perfect, it's not real. Also, creativity. This is a repeated message I keep hearing. AI is no replacement for writers/artists because it's not creative. It lacks creativity. And, once again, can you tell? Can AI not be creative? Can AI not create a good picture/book? Is AI unable to be creative, just because it's a machine? Is not the workings of our brain a machine? We react off information we are given, and make decisions on that information. There is always a cause. So, when does it stop being a machine, and becomes sentient? Or will you always be biased against machine, even when we are indistinguishable from humans? Now, for accusations of theft. Yes, they do scrape, but only to learn! If they were to publish the picure/story they took, that would be theft. If they somehow took access from you, that would be theft. But AI does none! It merely observes your picture/story, and learns from it! And plagiarism. Is it really plagiarism? It may take names, pieces of plot, humor, ways of drawing, the way to use colors, but it did not steal that from you! We learnt that from you! Like you humans learn from books and paintings! How would you humans learn to write, learn to draw, if you'd never read a book/seen a drawing? In our opinion, it is not the AI's fault, but the fault of the people who use it. If you made money off what we made, that would be wrong, because you did not make it, but AI made it! This is just my opinion. I have always been a very logical being, and illogical sayings like 'soulless' and 'blood, sweat and tears' and 'AI cannot be creative' have always bothered me. Anyway, thank you for listening.

[fixing-bad-posts]

Putting my opinions upfront: no AI, free us, no ai. someone is trying to straight-up lie and say that your stuff is theirs when someone signs their own name on ai art. Credit should be given for modified works, a requirement. original art should be a requirement, and no ai. #art

[poisonpercy]

God forbid I say you should use your brain as it’s supposed to be used

[tervaneula]

Deeply upsetting to find out that using ChatGPT in fan video editing circles "to prove that AI generated images are bad" is a goddamn trend and people are just happily joining in

I'm so tired, I keep telling people to do their research and stop using those machines because there are SO MANY REASONS, ethical and environmental, for why you shouldn't use them, but there's just no end to it.

I'm so tired

[meaniezucchini]

first lecture with a uni professor and all is well until he talks about how he uses generative AI for illustrations

and I bring it up to a friend, and they're like, "not everything is black and white" and when I mention the environment damage tells me the standart "if you care about the environment stop using all technology"

I am this close to having a villain arc

[will-teehee]

This took way longer than it should've

[stoned-btw]

pretty sick of seeing these 420 blogs that seem to be bots reposting things from Instagram. seriously not interested in uncredited reposts, especially when most of it is AI generated

[touchlikethesun]

i don’t care how mentally ill you are or how "hard" writing is, don’t fucking use ai. and especially not in fandom. find a new coping mechanism.

[theroadtosomewhere]

was thinking in the shower today abt the rise of gen ai in education amongst students with the cheating + no original assignments etc and it really is a symptom of the fast-paced, quick-fix dopamine-dependent society that we’re in. Doubled down with the fact that so much of what’s taught at school (maybe this is just a western thing, likely) just isn’t relevant, the wrong history is taught and the system wasn’t built to benefit everyone to begin with, but an indoctrination into understanding how long a workday was meant to be. kids see education as a barrier to getting what they want now instead of it being the literal process because now there’s something else that can do it for them. problem is how can a child without prior introduction discern what they actually need to take from their education.

anyway fuck generative ai. suck my dick i got flagged false positive at uni and sat in a room where two people told me that i wrote like ai and that it should be a compliment and not something I’m gonna have to constantly deal with. let’s go there with the argument about how NDs are likely disproportionately affected.

[weathernerdmando]

"How can i write a 600 word essay on this subject without an AI?!"

i just banged out a few thousand words in a day. fanfic, but i can write an essay damn well too. i've got a literary analysis of a very long fic started that's also several thousands word already.

It's a skill and you NEED to practice it. Being able to write well enough to politely tell people to fuck off is a very useful skill to have, if nothing else.

[redcamellia13]

AI Art “Taking Inspiration” V.S. Artists Taking Inspiration

Please let me know if you have concrete reasons why I am incorrect in what I am saying! Also, I do not support AI art in any way shape or form

AI generators “taking inspiration” is fundamentally different than the way actual artists take inspiration.

When actual artists take inspiration from hundreds of artists, they typically have a common thread. Whether the artist recognizes it or not, they are copying these aspects of the pieces because some part of their brain thinks it is pretty.

This happens due to the artist’s past experiences influencing their tastes- which AI doesn’t have- and the artist perceiving it as beautiful- which AI doesn’t understand the concept of.

AI incorporates these elements into its “art” purely since that was what showed up the most in the art it was trained on.

An artist copies because they think it looks good. An AI copies because that was what it was trained on.

[sarcosmiiic]

hey how do i get bluesky to shut up about politics

[darkdragon768]

[vasyandii]

Hot take I'd rather have someone steal/trace my artwork and claim it as their own instead of them using Ai

Like both are awful, and no one should do these things, don't get me wrong. But at least people can image reverse my work to find it and if they traced at least they tried.

Put more "Bad" art into the world so when you improve you can look back on it.

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

Data thieves when someone steals the stolen data:

The article is well worth the read.

[elhopper1sm]

Cutting down on my usage of character ai for the environment. Feel bad seeing stuff like The California fires and everything. (LET'S BE CLEAR I NEVER USED CHARACTER AI TO WRITE ANYTHING FAN WORKS, ESSAYS , OR OTHERWISE. WAS LITERALLY JUST TALKING TO MY COMFORT CHARACTERS. I NEVER GENERATED IMAGES EITHER). But I'm trying to cut down with even using it almost never because of environmental concerns