#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

[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

[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.

[sarcosmiiic]

hey how do i get bluesky to shut up about politics

[local-queer-classicist]

Had to ask for a religious/ethical exemption for a digital art assignment to get out of having to use genAI. On an assignment. In university. I feel like I’m going insane.

The professor said he “wasn’t aware that there was any ethical issues with AI”, but that he had no problem coming up with an alternative assignment for me to do. Like I’m glad he’s accommodating but. Sir.

Ok. I understand some rando on the streets not being aware of the ethical issues surrounding genAI. Most people do not have the time and energy to devote to giving a fuck about things that don’t directly affect them and I can respect that. It’s rough out there. But you are a professional graphic designer, and a college professor, in digital art. How. How do you not know. How are you requiring your students to do this in class and just not knowing. Why are you shocked that a student might object to being required to use the Art Theft Glacier Melter 9000 for a grade. This should not be a surprise to you. Why is this a surprise. Am I fucking crazy

[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.

[aromanticannibal]

the "disabled people need it!" argument for generative AI is insane because it completely misses the point. like yeah, i get it, it could be great if disabled people who genuinely cannot bring themselves to type or hold a pencil could have a way to create anyway. I really do understand why that's an attractive idea, I am aware that some disabled people just can't draw or paint or write and it's not their fault and there's nothing they can do about it. That doesn't make gen AI use ethical. The problem isn't that your art becomes soulless and Bad because you didn't put your blood sweat and tears into it (I don't like gen AI art for this reason too but I am aware it's subjective and don't use it as an argument), the problem is that generative AI is killing the environment, stealing from artists who never gave their permission to have models trained on them, and the democratization of gen AI is just asking for misinfo and propaganda to be more common (it's already bad enough).

[lucys-knight]

i wish people had genuine nuanced convos on ai and their effects rather than lumping every single thing as bad and evil

[bucketofcrows]

overheard someone talking about their ai chatbots or whatever it is which is already bad but she said something along the lines of "yeah i use it to talk with characters from shows i haven't watched to see if it's something i'd like :)" and i'm like ?!? the level of brainrot has truly reached unprecedented levels

[anirudhpisharody]

once again i think this site's whole "never touch gen ai it's the devil's work" sentiment is just as stupid and harmful as the people who rely on it to write their grocery lists

[sonicenvy]

just turned in a grad school project that I completely and utterly bullshitted because the instructions made no sense and I'm too neurodivergent to play academic guessing games about unclear directions (I just work myself into an anxious tizzy overthinking stupid shit instead! yay!). I would care more if I didn't also kinda hate my professor because he's kind of a jerk.

[grymoria]

People are hating on Gen Z and Gen Alpha when the actual Gen we should be hating on is Gen AI.

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

Data thieves when someone steals the stolen data:

The article is well worth the read.

[size-two-shrimp]

I loooooove trying to find a picture of a certain fish's fins because they're so hard to see and multiple images are both AI generated and completely fucking wrong!