THIS motivated the "current largest labor action in USA"? Not the countless other reasons but THIS?
US petty burgies at Sigliberalism are apparently mad their comission-fueled comfortable life are being endangered and are trying to twist Marx to defend it. Also they suddenly started to love IP and cry crocodile tears about poor artists being ripped.
Also lol the donwnvotes in this thread are something entirely else, guy just shared his (admittely non-40k style) pics and every positivity for him is being dogpiled.
Why are people freaking out about AI so much? It's literally just statistical probability and the manipulation of stock images.
Depend what freaking out you mean, i didn't noticed much of the tinfoil skynet paranoia, but this one which i see in the internet very much is actually pretty real - the western "freelance" artists living from commissions do have much to fear, since they are very replaceable by AI - even if not now, someday in rather not very distant future. What they fear is that average Joe will not pay them for pics for their new RPG campaign or for porn but make his own with a simple tool.
it's their own class interest, they are just trying to mask it as the proletarian class interest.
And that demographics is hugely overrepresented online, especially in communities dealing with hobbies like traditional gaming, fantasy, sci-fi, furry etc.
Makes sense. Color me surprised, though -- I'd kind of assumed that the "furry Darth Sidious screwing gender-swapped Captain Kirk in Bag End while dressed as Gandalf" stuff you run into online was already auto-generated in some way, hence the mechanical look of it. You learn something new every day.
I can't say i have much knowledge about it, but i do believe that every concievable kind of ridiculously stupid fetish do exist online.
it's not manipulation of images -- they use them as training data and then create new images, like a simplified approximation of a human neural network
I get that's the theoretical framework, but all the images I've seen seem weirdly recycled -- like those of a second-rate art student who spends his time making pastiches of better artists' work. I imagine it's because the machine, unlike the human artist, is basically limited by the dataset, and as a result the images it produces don't look unique in our eyes?
I will say the Juche scholar in me revolts whenever I hear people in the industry use words like "intelligence" and "training" -- human concepts -- in talking about machines. No machine is ever truly intelligent, because it does not possess what Kim Jong-Il describes as "independence:" the ability to act in a way that is not predetermined by some basic perimeters like instinct. Calling the thing AI still reeks to me of tech industry hype.
Yes, it's definitely premature to call it AI, and it have entire mountain of discussions behind the issue, but that box is already open and the term sticked. The fact it was always very nebulous didn't helped.