“With AI you never have to draw, paint or write again!” Why does that prospect excite you? We were put on this earth to think and create. Some people are so eager to be liberated from joy.
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Whenever tech bros get all smug about how AI will replace low wage workers, I think about the time when I used to work at KFC and how all of our computers puked on us during lunch rush hour.
I have doubts, I think it’s snake oil. (This post will come back to haunt me won’t it?) If writers could be replicated so easy, they would have been by now by humans. They haven’t because they can’t. You can make a copy of a Da Vinci but you can’t fake a new one from him.
When I think of tech I think of Concorde and pigs in blankets. Concorde is still one of the fastest air engines ever built, so why aren’t we using Concorde? And then making pigs in blankets can’t be automated. It’s too difficult the machinery can’t be made. Funny how tech monopolies all sell Ai
This is like those promoters of meal replacement shakes or pills. "You never have to eat a meal again!" Food as fuel instead of fuel as a source of enjoyment, eating together as a way of building community, etc.
The overall ethos of Silicon Valley has become anti-human, I fear. There’s a character in Brave New World who raves ecstatically about how people have been freed from the burden of having to create. These tech boosters don’t read, so they can’t see the parallels.
If we follow the course of technology, we've used it as another tool. Photography is not evil. Video is not evil. Digital paint programs are not evil. Neither is conversing with ai. But use it as a tool, not a crutch.
I think one doesn't cancel the other. We used to waste time arguing about motion picture film vs video. Or using Xerox machines to turn pencil animation into ink cells for cartoons. Art is art.
We - generationally speaking, perhaps - want something for nothing. We don't want to do hard things any more. We want to be close to perfect right out of the gate.
I can't imagine not having experienced laying down a perfect line in graphite, or mixing just the right hue for a painting.
Not having the scents of linseed oil and turpentine built into my synapses - even though I haven't done any work in oils in like forever, I'd be less without them in my archiv
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Ah cool, so these BS tech companies don't even know what their product is for
Just result. No work!
But if you want AI to do everything why do you need more babi- oh right humans are cheaper manual labor than figuring out robots
imo, ofc
Not having the scents of linseed oil and turpentine built into my synapses - even though I haven't done any work in oils in like forever, I'd be less without them in my archiv
I already paid TO play it, back at the store.