I feel the same way about AI as I do with the blockchain; The underlying technology is really cool, but the way it's been utilized by big tech, be it trying to "reinvent" ownership or trying to remove humans from the process of making art just makes me roll my eyes back in utter frustration
Yup it's getting so obnoxious, I've tried finding fandom groups on Facebook for the different franchises that I like to do art for but most are just filled with so much ai garbo. Luckly there's a few that outright ban ai users.
I just had one yesterday. You know about King's choice? Yeah, a whole freaking AI ad where their bodies & items morph into mire hideous shit than they were already. Yuk!
Tech companies just want to haves a way to control the narrative to influence the market, im thinking about just buying a flip phone and putting cable tv just to rod my brain to something less annoying
No kidding. The 1st thing my computer did this morning is try to sell me on using its new features to refine my experience by letting it track and "personalize" my experience. My answer was the same as when my son asked me if I wanted an Alexis spy device for Yule one year. I don't trust big tech.
My kids wanted to give me Alexa a couple of years ago. I said no way. Even if they hear everything from our phones, I still don’t want a creepy robot talking at me.
The listening to me is what freaked me out. Tech is not eavesdropping on us for our own good. They are doing it for their own greed. It's bad enough that big brother really is watching, inviting it into your home when big tech bros' have all jumped in bed with tRUMP & his fascist regime is insane.
the most infuriating example to me is within Adobe Illustrator, which I use to produce actual drawings. It regularly prompts me to try their new generative features rather than drawing things myself. It begs the question, why would any illustrator buy it?
I sense and understand your concern about the tech. Tech has always been apart of art and impacted it. This is the worst ai will ever be. Art has adapted to all prior technological advancement and will adapt again.
No, you don't understand my concern at all. If you did, you'd understand that this isn't a matter of someone moving from a canvas to a tablet. Generative AI isn't a tool, it's a plagiarism that is diametrically opposed to what art is, thus anything produced by it will never be art-
Maybe I don’t understand. Trying to. I am not looking for conflict or to argue. I am just sharing my perspective (maybe you don’t care). I think technology is out of the box and we can put safe guards on it but that will require us knowing what it is and using it.
Just because it exists that doesn't mean it can't be rejected. NFTs exist and they were touted to be the future of all media by the same brain dead techbro fucks that want to push generative AI, but they were rejected.
The printing press, while initially feared for devaluing original art, ultimately expanded access to art and fostered new forms of artistic expression. Distribution of art increased with printing press.
The invention of the camera caused a great deal of concern among artists. Many felt that photography would render painting obsolete, as cameras could capture images with greater realism and speed. However, photography eventually became a tool for artists, influencing new styles and techniques.
AI definitely feels like one of those things where companies are going to slap it onto everything, people realise that it's fucking useless in most things, and it'll go to being a chatbot and medical tool. We don't need goddamn AI powered fridges.
LinkedIn is practically beating me over the head with AI pushing promptbots. I turned in a resume, had the app decide it needed to give me a bunch of entirely useless AI prompts that I couldn't click out of, had to shut it all down to rid myself of it. Unfortunately, I can't quit this app because $$
If I see a company uses ai art I immediately lose all respect for them. One, it’s ugly, Two, I just know an artist/designer lost out on a potential job. My friends boss once told her he was switching to AI art so she can focus more on production instead of the actual design part. It’s disgusting
This is just one of the many reasons I binned off Microsoft, especially Windows 11. I'd like to say I had a foreshadowing of this happening and therefore moved to a Linux desktop, but I never anticipated it'd get to a level whereby every company is pretty much ramming AI down users' throats 😬
Mood. I found one on a business, so my first response was just to laugh at the guy and tell him it looked cheap. Plus I offered details on why I think it looked cheap.
I'm hoping I can nudge him into something a lot less awkward. Man, that art was like a flash bang of sheen.
Even the "not a robot" verification for using this app had me select AI images. If a robot made the images, how does me identifying them prove I'm not one?
Even as a person who sees the usefulness of AI art (sometimes) I still find it funny that these companies have overproduced and released SO much slop that now wehen they steal from art platforms to train art bots they're being trained on mostly shitty AI art because of it's overproduction.
AI this, AI that, how about the AI "artists" learn how to actually freaking draw for once?!?! AI slop is a parasite for the society. It really makes me sick seeing it literally EVERYWHERE. I also really hope bluesky bans AI generated content COMPLETELY sometime soon.
That's not the path. The path is dependence, then raise the price. The companies thinking they can lay lots of people off and make more money will be regretting that when 1 prices get jacked and 2 their customers all lose their jobs to an AI recession.
You’re absolutely right! VR can be quite expensive and requires a lot of setup, which limits accessibility for many people. On the other hand, AI is much more accessible and convenient, especially since it’s available at the click of a button.
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The fatal flaw has already revealed itself. Humans create AI & billionaires control them. What they capture in the process of "helping" you is reported back to their evil masters.
I got a glimpse of this when I was a kid watching the Jetsons. The boss installed Uniblab - a back-stabbing robot.
Humans are being removed from human communication. The broligarchy’s intention is to automate all work/jobs. They’ve been assigned the task and will begin work Jan 20. We will have no power or agency without resources.
"every company on earth" nah rename that to Microsoft, they LOVE shoving AI to everyone's faces on both Windows 10 and Windows 11, they always focus on Copilot and nothing else
My otherwise intelligent company is really pushing us to incorporate AI in our work. I tried taking the free linkedin courses but it's a whole lotta blah blah blah. Not useful.
Adobe's AI push is obnoxious enough... it goes away as soon as you make it clear it needs to eff off, but Microsoft Word actually trying to force me to write with Word by making me dig through menus to turn that crap off? A pox on their house. Again.
So, a different example: I took my adult offspring to an expensive dinner during the holidays and left a glowing review for the restaurant with an analysis of the cuisine. I received a reply that was generated by AI. It was simply insincere..regurgitating my words and made me feel quite meh. AI sux.
I know this is a poor example, I’m an artist and musician as well. This was the first time being directly “touched” by AI and I feel kinda gross and a mildly violated by a robot.
Honestly I'd call or send them an email & let them know going in that direction is having the opposite effect of what they want. You felt positively, the AI exchange changed that to a negative.
You’re right and I’ve considered that. I’m uncertain they’d change their mind about it. Other recent responses were human. Maybe mine was the first AI attempt and they could nip it in the bud. Thanks, I’ll deliberate for a short time further about how to word that properly. Maybe AI could help me…
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Businesses will likely test out AI & keep it if they don't hear it is to the detriment of their bottom line.
I'm also not happy with AI & worried about where that can go, my husband not so much. It's frustrating.
Can't even get automated phone systems working right but jumping in with bots. How about replace board members with bots and distribute the fortunes amongst the 99%
What they want to do with it is replace the people in the loop. The biz perspective is that employees cost money and a prone to complaining about poor working conditions.
The goal is for AI to be "just good enough" that people don't recoil from the uncanny valley nature of it.
Llama can't train without pirated books, chatGPT can't train without pirated everything, Stable diffusion can't train without stolen art/video/imagery, hunyuan is the same as SD for this.
If they could train off of Project Gutenberg and public domain though...
You know that mascot horror game Don't Fret was made with AI? Characters where designed with it. I mean, they where programmed in and built up by real artists, but still feels cheap.
It's... a lot. It took me a few minutes of me blocking elements and then refreshing to see what was blocked and what still needed to be blocked. I don't really know the specific ones
I wish this had like a thousand little forks and spoons offering the slop.
Then, like a panopticon there’s myriad different people and some are eating.
For the wider internet as a whole, I'm afraid it already is. We need to start acting like it's the 90s again. Keep our internet circles relatively small. This will help protect us and starve the AI.
If you're interested, https://Wiby.org will help you browse what's left of the old web. Telegram is a good tool as well. Ecosia is a good alternative to Google. Neocities is also a good place.
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It is useful in terms of learning, but there’s just so much misuse out there.
Perhaps these are just teething issues, though. I guess we shall see.
- Sam Altman probably
Unfortunately some people have let it loose on the Internet and it is destroying all the information accumulated over the last 30 years.
I'm mad as hell.
they are using it to decide whether its ok to drop bombs on a given address.
Fuck. That.
The human race has amply demonstrated that it wants to kill its fellow men with or without external help... ⛵️
Always from my experience, we act for utility.
Faced with this, unfortunately, history is there to prove: Philippe IVº “Le Beux” and the Cathars... ⛵️
Some recent swaps I've made (not perfect):
Microsoft Office > Libre Office, Proton Drive
Outlook > Thunderbird (Mozilla), Proton Mail
Adobe Suite > Affinity, DocuSeal, DaVinci Resolve
+ Donate to these teams when you can to show your support.
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Only AI prompt I’m aware of that got deleted
There are good uses for it. However, it should never be used to cheat the system or be a cheap out.
I'm hoping I can nudge him into something a lot less awkward. Man, that art was like a flash bang of sheen.
AI was supposed to make life easier, make us more productive, and give us more time…
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Yea fuck AI art.
Inwardly estimates put the cost as high as 20-30¢ per query.
Outwardly they consume so much power tech firms are lobbying the government to get their own nuclear reactors to power it all.
At scale a normal Google Search, or serving a tweet cost fractions of a cent.
AI costs fractions of a dollar and allegedly some of the larger scale reinforcement models they want to try need even more compute power.
If the AI ends up being fairly expensive and you still have to pay some amount of employees to babysit them they lose efficacy real quick.
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I got a glimpse of this when I was a kid watching the Jetsons. The boss installed Uniblab - a back-stabbing robot.
Businesses will likely test out AI & keep it if they don't hear it is to the detriment of their bottom line.
I'm also not happy with AI & worried about where that can go, my husband not so much. It's frustrating.
Go back ~30 to the first internet bubble and the wacky stuff people tried… it took time for it to mature.
The goal is for AI to be "just good enough" that people don't recoil from the uncanny valley nature of it.
Llama can't train without pirated books, chatGPT can't train without pirated everything, Stable diffusion can't train without stolen art/video/imagery, hunyuan is the same as SD for this.
If they could train off of Project Gutenberg and public domain though...
What does work is RAG, which is that you use LLM to read articles or knowledge base, and then have it build responses based on that.
Also skips the plagiarism issue, since you know what you use.
The problem is using that stolen content. So building a language model by all means, but don’t use the training set directly.
The important is not to use Google for other than getting URLs since it gives only 4 line snippets nowadays.
So feed the model with full vetted information and results are so much better.
Adobe uses either own, licensed or out of copyright materials, so fanatics howling about plagiarism can go and talk to Adobe, I am sure they listen.
https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly/discover/firefly-vs-stable-diffusion.html#:~:text=So%2C%20what%20content%20does%20Adobe,content%20with%20an%20expired%20copyright.
Grok AI is a nightmare that can develop false images of Biden, Trump, Musk and other political figures. Firefly can possibly make a hand if it tries.
it hurts.
Also, you just read in Polish.
Then, like a panopticon there’s myriad different people and some are eating.