• SoyViking [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    If you can't use it for porn and you can't use it to make pictures of powerful people in unflattering situations then what is the use case for AI?

  • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    Good. The viability of creative jobs is more important than letting some dweebs LARP as artists and make bespoke porn for themselves .

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      Amazing that we live in year 2024, and there are still people out there who don't get the importance of keeping technology open.

      • KeenFlame@feddit.nu
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        4 months ago

        They understand.

        They want to take money.

        Everyone intuitively knows what is best for humanity

        Most people even know that money won't bring happiness

        But most are bought in and the hunter gatherer competitive instincts are stronger than reason

    • TheLastHero [none/use name]
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      4 months ago

      artists aren't excused from technological proletarianization. Yes it hurts, you are going to get the value of your labor stolen by Disney and you will have to work in AI prompt generator mines. Billions of artisans, peasants and petty bourgeois in history have suffered the same indignity of being forced into wage labor. The bourgeoisie strips of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the writer, the scientist, into its paid wage labourers. Now it is the artist's turn. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and humans are compelled to face with sober senses their real conditions of life, and their relations with their kind. So do not expect the bourgeoisie or their governments to provide you or or your occupation with special protections, they don't care, they exist to make profit and they will crush you into dust as soon it's profitable to do so.

      The solution is and has always been class consciousness followed by proletarian revolution. If there is any upside to proletarianization it is that more people are introduced into the only revolutionary class. Put your artistic talents to use and create some agitprop, but don't expect to be paid for it. Every reward we get has to be fought for.

    • InputZero@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Protecting creative jobs is extremely important, full stop. AI generation is a destabilizing development, I don't want to see it locked up in walled gardens or thrown away though. What I hope to see is a new generation of artists pushing the boundaries with open source AI tools. Yeah a lot of that's going to be bespoke porn... What am I even saying...?

      We're just apes with fancy tools afterall. The same things were said about photoshop and digital art. We'll be fine, just get stocked up with some brain bleach.

      • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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        4 months ago

        Every non artist who doesn’t know shit about any creative workflow always regurgitates this “it’s a tool that will empower artists” line. Every working artist who understands what they’re talking about says this will lead to the elimination of 90% of jobs and just leave one underpaid guy churning out stolen artwork at a breakneck pace.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
          hexagon
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          4 months ago

          Artists had the exact same reaction when photography was invented. Simply taking what artists say as gospel isn't any more rational because artists also have their own biases. Meanwhile, the problem with jobs doesn't come from the technology but from the capitalist system of relations. Maybe we shouldn't be structuring society in a way where people have to do work for the sake of doing work.

          • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            4 months ago

            As the photographic industry was the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies, this universal infatuation bore not only the mark of a blindness, an imbecility, but had also the air of a vengeance. I do not believe, or at least I do not wish to believe, in the absolute success of such a brutish conspiracy, in which, as in all others, one finds both fools and knaves; but I am convinced that the ill-applied developments of photography, like all other purely material developments of progress, have contrib­uted much to the impoverishment of the French artistic genius, which is already so scarce. It is nonetheless obvious that this industry, by invading the territories of art, has become art’s most mor­tal enemy, and that the confusion of their several func­tions prevents any of them from being properly fulfilled.

            ― Charles Baudelaire, On Photography, from The Salon of 1859

            • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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              4 months ago

              Similar things were also said about CG in general particularly in 90's and 2000's when it spreaded from a niche to places like big cinema. And speaking of cinema...

              • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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                4 months ago

                The rise of CG did eliminate jobs in the SFX area. Make up, costumes, set dec, stop motion animation, animatronics, etc. But whereas someone in animatronics can retrain to use CG, there’s nowhere for an artist being replaced by a neural learning program to go. The program produces a finished end product. There is no pipeline for it to fit into. I feel like pro A.I. people are deliberately obtuse about this.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
                  hexagon
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                  4 months ago

                  If you ever actually tried using these tools you'd realize that what you're saying is complete and utter nonsense. The workflows for generating stuff with AI tools are already getting very complex. This technology isn't magic, it's just a different way to produce art where the tool takes care of the mechanical aspects. A human is still very much needed to direct what's actually produced.

          • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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            4 months ago

            Simply taking what artists say as gospel isn't any more rational

            How about knowing what you’re talking about, is that more rational? Making a painting and taking a photograph have separate and distinct end products, so of course they’re going to fall into separate niches. If a VFX artist working for 70k a year and an AI tool that costs a 2k yearly license produce identical results, than obviously the artist’s job is going to be eliminated to reduce overhead.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
                  hexagon
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                  4 months ago

                  How is it a deflection? The technology exists, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube at this point. Might as well start engaging with reality. And not sure what pointing out that capitalism is the problem has to do with accelerationism. You're being incoherent here.

          • InputZero@lemmy.ml
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            4 months ago

            Couldn't agree more! Capitalism sucks! Also to add on to that, artist haven't come to many consensies about generative AI. The only one I think everyone can agree on is that it'll be disruptive, and makes the future for people who earn a living creating art even more uncertain than it already was. Whether that future is good or bad is entirely up for debate, although I think it'll land somewhere in the middle. Regardless of any of that, Pandora's box is open and it can't be closed.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
              hexagon
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              4 months ago

              Exactly, this is a disruptive technology that will change the way art is created going forward. There will be positive and negative aspects associated with it just like every new technology. One positive aspect I can definitely see is that it will allow a lot of people who lack technical skills for producing visual art to express themselves.

              And it's also worth noting that the workflows are already getting fairly sophisticated. It's not just a matter of typing in a prompt and getting an image back. People are using stuff like control nets to pose the characters in the scene, inpaint specific details, etc. It's a different set of skills from traditional art, but it still requires expertise to produce a particular result you're looking for.

              The way I look at it is that this tech will help automate a lot of tedious work involved in creating art, but it still takes a person with good taste to produce art that's interesting and engaging. In this sense it's quite similar to photography. Anybody can pick up a camera and start shooting pictures, but it takes an artists to create interesting pictures that people find meaningful. This is no different.

            • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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              4 months ago

              artist haven't come to many consensies about generative AI

              If you posted or read anything in any artist spaces whatsoever you would know this is untrue

              • InputZero@lemmy.ml
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                4 months ago

                I have, and it's pretty presumptuous of you to speak for an entire group of diverse people like that. Artist can't agree on what art is let alone if any one method is superior to another. I will say I've perceived there is a lot more anxiety than excitement over Generative AI but it would be foolish to assume that there is a consensus.

                Artist is probably the second most diverse term for a group of people I can think of, behind the word people. Off the top of my head Corridor Digital embrace AI. They're pushing it's boundaries and are acutely aware that AI is destabilizing. Unless you don't consider them artists. I am not implying that they speak for all artists, or even that their opinion is aligned with the majority opinion. I'm merely providing an example of positive discourse on the subject.

      • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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        4 months ago

        AI tech bros don’t create anything and probably never will. The merchant who said “please paint a picture of my wife here’s some money” didn’t create the Mona Lisa. Da Vinci, the guy who actually painted it, created the Mona Lisa.

        • brainw0rms [they/them]
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          4 months ago

          Somehow I doubt da Vinci and a modern digital artist toiling away in Photoshop would be able to agree on the definition of, or criteria for, what it means to be an artist...

          • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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            4 months ago

            Again, another thing that sounds good unless you know what you’re talking about. I paint digitally and with acrylic and oil, which isn’t that different from the methods Da Vinci would have utilized. If you wanted to paint the Mona Lisa in photoshop the expertise required is the same minus only color mixing and physical preparation and finishing. Regardless of method, saying “paint this picture for me” isn’t making art. The claim is on its face absurd. If I go to the hospital and say “heal this person” am I now a doctor?

            Weird how all it takes to turn an ostensible leftist into a sneering lib condescending to an entire classification of worker is to insult their little toy.

            • brainw0rms [they/them]
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              4 months ago

              I paint digitally and with acrylic and oil, which isn’t that different from the methods Da Vinci would have utilized. If you wanted to paint the Mona Lisa in photoshop the expertise required is the same minus only color mixing and physical preparation and finishing.

              So, you're really saying the expertise required is not the same, then?

              Regardless of method, saying “paint this picture for me” isn’t making art. The claim is on its face absurd.

              Who is claiming that? Not me. Anyone who has used a generative AI tool for more than 10 seconds knows this isn't true.

              If I go to the hospital and say “heal this person” am I now a doctor?

              This is a bad analogy. If in some far off future we had some magical "auto-doc" device that could heal injuries, etc., but still required someone with sufficient knowledge to operate the device, I would call them a doctor, or perhaps a medical engineer. Yes.

              Weird how all it takes to turn an ostensible leftist into a sneering lib condescending to an entire classification of worker is to insult their little toy.

              What did you mean by this? The only one sneering and condescending here is you lol.

              • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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                4 months ago

                This is a bad analogy. If in some far off future we had some magical "auto-doc" device that could heal injuries, etc., but still required someone with sufficient knowledge to operate the device, I would call them a doctor, or perhaps a medical engineer. Yes.

                “Text goes in images come out” is the central conceit of the entire technology, what the hell are you talking about. The entire thing is meant to be super easy. I have used it, it does not require any special expertise.

  • bazingabrain [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    Lol I always love AI discussions, it invariably involves sides of people not affected by it flinging shit at each other. Very crunchy popcorn, scrumptious, even.