you can do whatever you want, but if you really want to hear my opinion on it... at best, ai-art is demoralizing to actual human beings and creates novelty slop that vaugely looks like an art piece, while not harboring any skill in using it. and theres nothing wrong with not wanting to make art fir the skill of it, though. but at worst, it's an environmental and economic disaster, a predatory business model to consumers and customers of AI, and a great way for businessmen to try and take creativity away from us to turn us into cogs in the machine. it's built off of the stolen work of artists who already struggled to make a living, now forced out by a tool that's turned on them with their own work. it can help make propaganda that is virtually unidentifiable, turn victims into deepfakes, and generally evil we have yet to see. and that's just the image side of things, but the cons of all types of ai models overlap.
I've had to watch people throw away their lifelong dreams because of this garbage. it's no coincidence elonely muskrat and every ceo you can think of are obsessed with it - it's a perverse business tool.
I wouldn't mind coexisting with it if it wasn't out to get me. but it is.
I also feel like it's the reason nobody makes fun photobashes or random photoshops anymore. it will never fully phase out human art but I think it's starting to take over the photography world, especially commercially. I'm sick of looking up real places and animals and sorting through fake slop im being told is real.
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Apologies if this is strongly worded, but I'm pretty passionate about this. In addition to the functions public-facing AI tools have, we have to consider what the goal of AI is for corporations. This is an old cliché, but it's a useful one: follow the money. When we see some of the biggest tech companies in the world going all-in on this stuff, alarm bells should be going off. We're seeing a complete buy in by Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and even Meta suddenly pivoted to AI and seems to be quietly abandoning their beloved Metaverse. For decades, the goal of all these companies has always been infinite growth, taking a bigger share of the market, and making a bigger profit. When these are the main motivators, the workforce that carries out the labor supporting an industry is what inevitably suffers. People are told to do more with less, and cuts are made where C-suite executives see fit at the detriment of everyone down the hierarchy. Where AI is unique to other tangible products is that it is an efficiency beast in so many different ways. I have personally seen it affect my job as part of a larger cost-cutting measure. Microsoft's latest IT solutions are designed to automate as much as possible in favor of having actual people carry out typically client-facing tasks. Copy writers/editors inevitably won't be hired if people could instead type a prompt into ChatGPT to spit out a product description. Already, there are so many publications and Substacks that use AI image generators to create attention-grabbing header and link images - before this, an artist could have been paid to create something that might afford them food for the week. All this is to say that we will see a widening discrepancy between the ultra-wealthy and the working class, and the socio-economic structure we're in actively encourages consolidation of power. There are other moral implications with it that I could go on about, but they're kind of subjective. In relation to art, dedicating oneself to a craft often lends itself to fostering a community for support in one's journey, and if we collectively lean on AI more instead of other people, we risk isolating ourselves further in an environment that is already designed to do that. In my opinion, we shouldn't try to co-exist with something that is made to make our physical and emotional work obsolete.
Mar 24, 2024
AI is garbage for so many reasons and none of us should be using it.
that includes making art as well as seemingly mundane corporate tasks.
itâs atrocious for the planet, itâs horrific for the uncredited workers who labor to power it, it bulldozes all notions of âprivacyâ and further fast-tracks the commodification of humanity, and itâs fueling the dumpster fire that is an entire generation of brains raised in the cesspool of the internet.
Jan 13, 2025
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Why not go through the process of blending those images yourself? Why not use process as an experiment? Why AI? What part are you playing? What makes it yours?
I think AI is impersonal. I think it is unethical when it has relied on the theft of actual peopleâs actual physical (and because of the nature of art, often time emotional) labor. I also think it is unnecessary in creating art. I also think the environmental impacts are atrocious. I also think AIâs biggest supporters are being maliciously ignorant because itâs a fun new toy.
Is it ease? Is it efficiency? People talk about accessibility as if children donât use crayons and stickers! As if graffiti artists donât use postal labels as sticker, as if sand mandalas donât exist, as if cardboard and tape arenât in over abundance.
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I think them has a lot of stories that resonate with the more optimistic side of me, even if you're not queer. maybe give this one a try?
 https://www.them.us/story/weird-little-guy-essay-hobbies-trump-administration-singing-collecting-cringe
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I forget the most obvious secret for how this works. hehehehe
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I've tried some nicer pens and fell out out of - I'd like to try them again sometime. but out of everything I am picking up those little bic pens 99% of the time. part of it is for sure that they are everywhere when I'm at work, but they're even creeping into my work at home.
It's mostly the sensitivity - it's devine. a lot of (especially cheaper) pens go from 0 to 100% ink and even leak randomly. but bic has mastered handling really intricate pressure. it's hard to find that in even artist tools...
I want to look for a go-to pen ever since my last microns fizzled out though.
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