#sorry like i was saying i do indeed have a long running ai hyperfixation

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the fear comes less in the fact that ai will "replace" artists and definitely not that its "stealing" from them (dall e 3's original generative abilities in particular makes an extremely good example of the fact that diffusion algorithms were never about "cutting and pasting parts from different artists" like people pretend it was and more about a statistical assumption of what should and should not be in an image) because i do believe that corporations will always exploit artists for a profit and artists will always continue to exist and thrive in spite of that thats just kind of how its worked since the beginning of time really and even if corporations have a new "tool" to do it with ai would have to get far more advanced in order for that to be a real possibility (and also, far less resource intensive - a lot of people might not realize that for a company to run these types of algorithms on their own software/servers to replace artists than just hiring an artist LOL. dall e 3 probably takes 10 times the computing power of something like stable diffusion especially since it relies on LLM integration). like, corporations want strict control over the way everything looks in terms of graphic design and art, the only ones who dont care are tiny lazy ripoff type companies that make bootleg shit like that little mermaid by the asylum LOL. so if a corporation was going to use a hypothetical future ai with extreme control in order to save time on say, a graphic design rather than spending the time in adobe illustrator making it by hand, they would still have to hire a graphic designer with graphic design sense to actually use that ai LOL. anyways jesus christ i forgot the point of the first sentence of this paragraph what i was going to say was that my fear is mostly in the fact that inevitably even if it takes a long time there's going to be an open-source competitor that either matches or exceeds the capabilities of dall-e 3 made by somebody without a lot of ethical restraint (just like the original stable diffusion was to dall-e 2) and while generally open sourceness is good i do think thats going to have a lot of fallout in terms of the lack of censorship and control considering how realistic, consistent, and easy to direct dall e 3 is. it'll also just increase the whole phenomenon of looking at something and being forced to wonder "wait is that ai or real?" a million times worse. it's not that i think the development of this ai (in general) is a bad thing, but i do think that we're going to have to prepare in advance for how much everything is going to change because of it, in the same way we never really saw coming the consequences of the shift to smartphones in the 2010s and how much that changed literally all of world culture and politics