"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
I'm not trying to be an ass, but the genie is out of the bottle. You'd have as much luck campaigning to shut down the internet in the 90's.
Trust me on this one... Put your energy toward navigating a world -with- AI. As long as money is relevant, those who have it will dictate the course of civilization, and there is far too much money behind AI.
thank you. this is the correct answer. if you hide from technology, it will find you eventually and you'll be completely unprepared for how to deal with it and it will be in the hands of the wrong people.
i'm an artist. i use AI artwork IN my art. i also use photoshop. i don't see a difference between the two things in the big picture.
Ah yes, because we knows that if everyone does it and a lot of money is invested in it an act clearly known to be wrong will suddenly become right; like systematically hoarding labor as content and than reselling it on their behalf without having to get their consent or paying them.
I didn't say anything about right or wrong. I'm talking about what is and why it will remain so.
Why people should be allowed to knowingly do wrong things out in the open? If they can't justify what they are doing how will they get away with keep doing so in the long term? Why give them a shield?
I don't think people should be allowed to, and I never said as much.
The bad things being done are being done -with- AI, not because of it. My stance is one of accepting that it's a thing that exists in the world and it will not go away. Any energy you put into erasing it is going to be wasted. It's here.
The humans gatekeeping the AI are the problem, not the AI.
The fact that most of humanity has given our inherent power to money, and that money (in the hands of the few) controls the world is another problem.
The absolute best thing we can do as individuals is embrace AI. The more you understand it, the more influence you will have over the path it takes, but it will not go away without some global extinction level event.
The bad things being done are being done -with- AI, not because of it.
Is there a difference between that? If this tech wasn't handed to the members of public without any checks people would not have a way to harass both small and established artists and force them into taking a defensive stand. With our because of it, the few companies who gave away what they stole cause this and some people are complicit in the act, even defending it. It's bad being done very willfully.
When you claim "There is nothing you can do about bad things in the world" do you realize that the natural conclusion of that is closing of the advocacy groups? Yeah, let's accept bad as it is, not like people know how to change their behavior if they are thought the consequences of it. Not like slavery, corruption or labor extortion will go away by itself.
Just say it as it is, you want this stuff to exists because either it benefits you or doesn't harms any of the groups or thing you are into so you want to give it a leeway.
There's a big difference. You don't blame the hammer used to assault someone. There had to be a human to initiate the action.
AI seems to be directly impacting your life in a way that it doesn't for me. But I agree with you 100% that the way they're training AI right now is immoral and amounts to intellectual theft.
And I can't think of the terms right now, but I've heard of methods to essentially poison training data by running images through some software that leaves watermarks that are virtually imperceptible by humans. I think that's cool as fuck and I love to see it happening. Hit the fuckers in the training data. Which will then hit their bank accounts.
Lets take something that is meaningful to me though; US Politics.
Yeah, I'm angry right now, but if I let that anger interfere with how I see and interact with the political landscape, I'll be fighting ghosts and boogymen while the real monsters are free to do as they please.
Same goes for AI, same goes for any just cause.
Know your enemy, not the boogyman sent to distract you.
The "tech isn't inherently evil" is a tired argument and doesn't applies. Current models have been developed with hoarded data that was taken without consent of it's creators to be used to compete directly against them, all knowingly (with proof) and anyone who defends the practice is complacent in the act, there is no way to recreate it without the mass amounts of data- just the creation of it involves and immoral act not to mention the handing of it to the public all willy-nilly. You started the discussion by basically claiming that tech has to exist now because it's out and is (somehow) untouchable. You are trying to take the easy road out because, just like you said, feel like it doesn't effects you in a personal way and thus trying to talk others who are trying to speak up into being content with what was done. I can't think of a position that lacks compassion this much. You don't sound angry either.
We are poisoning the well, we are in the politics around the globe, we are trying to bring social change while some people are sitting back and saying "nothing we can do I guess" while the solution requires us to be visible. Don't be okay with the wrong. Your stance is also a part of the problem as it just accounts to "Deal with it." which amounts to nothing in this this discussion.
You're completely missing my point.
"It's already invented" is not a point.
"Nothing can be done about it" is also not a point.
"Tech is neutral" is also not a thing.
Nothing wrong with AI itself. Intellectual property and copyright are what props up capitalism, anything that undermines it in a way that democratizes it is progressive
“Gold, yellow, glittering, precious gold! Thus much of this, will make black white; foul, fair; Wrong, right; base, noble; old, young; coward, valiant. ... What this, you gods? Why, this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides; Pluck stout men’s pillows from below their heads; This yellow slave Will knit and break religions; bless the accurs’d; Make the hoar leprosy ador’d; place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation, With senators on the bench; this is it, That makes the wappen’d widow wed again: ... Come damned earth, Though common whore of mankind.” (Shakespeare: Timon of Athens.)
I'm sure you'll do a great job as mod. Thanks for starting this community.
Thank you for making this community. I'm here for it.
If there are communities for artists, let me know!
Text Generating AI makes mistakes when I ask it questions that I can verify the answer to. This is why I am here... Maybe I will post some of the stupid (and funny) mistakes it makes (GPT-4 & Google Bard (Gemini) & LLAMA tested)