As a person who’s job is threatened by AI, I still refuse to blame the technology. The problem with AI is capitalism, and any ire directed at the technology is just a distraction. If all our needs were meet and we had better limits on environmental destruction, it’d only be aesthetically bad instead of morally bad.
Technological advancement without social advancement risks oblivion
we’re way past “risk”
Just gonna drop the fact that This link is a tech demo by sight engine that lets you upload a photo and is pretty effective at detecting AI slop.
Here’s an example using a recent locked post that was AI slop:
The most egregious thing with pretty much all the AI memes I’ve seen so far has to be that it’s not even that hard to find (or heck, piece images together to make) a meme template that would have worked with 5 minutes of effort.
It’s nothing but fake eyecandy for a mediocre joke.
I don’t have a problem with the preference for human art and the shunning of generated images as like just a taste thing or whatever, but I can’t understand the originality/creativity/effort argument when meme templates are acceptable. Presumably a human came up with the idea to willfully misinterpret the quote as a joke, and I don’t understand why it matters whether they stick their idea onto an image they stole from someone vs an image a computer program stole for them.
That’s actually a valid point. I guess for me personally, I have a line somewhere between using a meme template (especially when it’s actually used in such a relevant manner) over typing “Hey ChatGPT, make a meme about how a TV presenter says autistic people will never pay taxes with an autistic child watching, and in the next pane have said autistic child dance around happily with money flying around in the background”
That being said, that line is only of my personal preference and isn’t really based on a hard logical rule.
thads a rlli gud way to put it :o
Anyone knows about a foss tool to detect more than 2000 pics a month ? https://sightengine.com/pricing Pricing is too damn high !
Do you accept shitty, half-assed, sticky-note doodles?
Doodle and story behind it
I drew this doodle after getting another from a different artist. A little over a year ago, an artist I was following decided to put up a small sticker shop, so I went ahead and got one to show her a little support. The sticker was nice enough when it arrived of course, but alongside it was a personal thank you doodle from her. That gesture of a pure and personal desire to communicate through art is something I treasure dearly. To this day, that doodle is stuck to my computer desk alongside the sticker, and I’m gonna hold onto that little doodle for the rest of my life if I can.
At the time, the doodle inspired me to try and very quickly make something of my own. In my head I imagined maybe spending a minute or so without erasing anything, so I ended up with this. Despite the result, I love seeing it, and I actually stuck him on my door. It was never about the quality, but about the events, emotions, and process that lead to what I expressed. When I see it, I am reminded of that fact every day. I do not lament art being “bad,” I am grateful for everyone who wishes to express themselves through art.
That looks more like a paper towel than a napkin though
Woot, an other gatekeeping “meme” so we can all argue in the comments with each other.
gatekeepin? water u talkin bout? ~
im genuinli curious,-.-,
They think hating AI art is gatekeeping because apparently they can’t draw real art and NEED an AI to do it for them
which is a weird point to me because. everyone can do real art. that’s what the meme is saying!
The meme is saying to make black and white judgements about any image you see, and disregard it completely depending on what was used to create it. It’s closer to hate then encouragement imo.
oki i thinksies ur goin a bit too far with ur assumption here… or rathr - thads vrri agrssiv cuz we dun kno if oc evn is ai kindsa prsn… u kno?
i agee with their
arguingpoint… so i guess tahds fair -n i cn alsu kindsa see their point - lik all dis anti-image-gen stuffsies seems to be mostli pushd by artists themselvs - bt alsu i cn obv the artists point -
so yea - i duno whaddtosay - i jus wantd to babbl smol bit-
i jus… i jus dun lik it when peeps r lik “dis prsn said not bad thing about thad thing i think i s bad! im prtti sur theyr not an artist n cnt do stuff on their own!!” lik - i feel dis is kindsa… overli … evil-…–
I realise I was a little aggressive and there is no way to know if OC is an AI “artist”. The automatic hate for specifically image generators is fair though, since nothing about them is good. They are trained with stolen art, a lot of the people who make it are trying to make real artists obsolete with it and it is contributing to the internet becoming less and less human.
Hating all AI universally is a bit silly though, especially models like AlphaFold, which have saved lots of lives with the work it and its creators have done.
Hating all AI universally is a bit silly though, especially models like AlphaFold, which have saved lots of lives with the work it and its creators have done.
I’m glad we’re in agreement about this. I don’t like corporate AI like openAI or Anthropic because they are corporate monsters who only desire money and power, and who ultimately will screw us over in the end.
I don’t agree entirely though with the idea about copyright respect and all that jazz as I’m a pirate through and through and pirating training data to train a local AI is no different to me than pirating movies, TV, or Music. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for pro-copyright sentiment due to the fact that it’s really fake ownership of physical ideas, and gatekeeping who can access them. Copyrights aren’t owned the way you can own pants, piracy doesn’t steal from you and I refuse to call copyright piracy theft.
AIs really should be open-source and self-hostable, if the Replika incident taught me anything it’s that something like this should be in your control, they will screw you over for money otherwise. Whether you get permission or pirate the material is really up to you honestly.
Is anyone hating all AI? All of the hate for AI i have seen appeared after the popularity of good image and text generation.
High-profile applications of AI include advanced web search engines (e.g., Google Search); recommendation systems (used by YouTube, Amazon, and Netflix); virtual assistants (e.g., Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa); autonomous vehicles (e.g., Waymo); generative and creative tools (e.g., ChatGPT and AI art); and superhuman play and analysis in strategy games (e.g., chess and Go)
Source: wikipedia
