I don’t count productivity or coding as a net good for what it’s worth. Fun, sure, but it’s truly incredible how the influx of AI hasn’t been used to create a more efficient way to distribute resources irl

Tech bros are a scourge on humanity and I truly wish for nothing but the worst for them

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        The way actual AI art functions now is as an extension of human artists, not a replacement. You can't just wind up the algo and watch it go, not only does it require curation and inpainting and touch ups, but it also requires an artistic vision that can only come from an artist. Without an artist it just churns out bland content, inherently derivative and filled with errors.

        My only problem with AI-assisted art is that people who don't have any artistic taste, like managers, think that it's good enough to replace artists. That's not the technology's fault, though.

          • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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            6 months ago

            I don't see why an AI couldn't be trained on specifically non-Western/counter-cultural/marginalized art. It seems trivial?

            The bigger problem I see is that it can never make anything truly new, which is why it's important for artists to keep making new art. I just think that AI, as a tool used carefully by artists to enhance their work or to take shortcuts on repetitive work, is fine.

            As you said, companies are happy with AI goop that's "good enough" and do not care about art, but that's not the technologies fault.

            EDIT Well wait, no, actually the way the plagiarism machine seeks to reduce all artwork into data points is also kind of bad since there's no mechanism to force these AI companies to actually compensate artists.

      • bigboopballs [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        it would be great as a way to basically "cover" for disabled people though, allowing us to be a primarily non-automated society that also doesn't have to make decisions about what sick or disabled people to care for (we could care for all of them)

        we've always been able to do that, we don't need the power of A.I. to automate even more labor

    • Hohsia [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Just another reason the Luddites were right