#when we're all supposed to just jump onto theft because 'it's the current thing in tech'

[theliterarywolf]

It's a shame since algorithms could be useful tools for life and art but unfortunately every commercially available one is built off data scraping and theft. Like imagine an artist with their own algorithm trained on only their art using it to provide lower price point commissions en masse to supplement their income between the more expensive self done one.

AND THAT'S THE FUCKING THING

It's just like Cryptocurrency! There are ways for these things to be both ethical AND functional!

But, unfortunately, we have too many Silicon Valley wills and shills who either have no notion of contingency plans or who are working as psy-ops to make these technologies look bad.

Because Crypto should have been an accepted method of payment in the face of marketplaces (particularly online marketplaces) deciding they should be the governing force of consumer lives.

What it has turned into is the smoldering, soggy remains of worthless monkey JPEGs.

Algorithmic Learning should have been based as a tool for creators and educators to make production easier. The notion of artists training software to replicate their coloring methods, line strokes, etc., to help out with large scale projects and productions. It should be a tool for writers who, upon trying to experiment with their style, to have a guide on how to combine their old with their new.

What it has turned into is marketplaces being glutted with Cronenberg's abominations of regurgitated text and 'remixed' images.

Also, just as an addendum, for all of the AI Bros out there who will insist that the adoption of AI is a choice, there is a crapload of them want to brute-force it onto people.

Including this fucking shill they just had do this seminar at my job-site.