One of the things that I resent most about AI is that it makes uncreative people think that THEY created something, so let's normalize reminding these people that they just used a dumb robot to steal someone else's creativity.
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@Alice While I don't disagree with the fundamental point, the framing here seems a bit superior and exclusive?
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Apologies for the repost, even if apt here:
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@Alice 100% agree! That was the sentiment behind https://ruby.social/@camertron/116460284593917158
@Alice Same with coding.
@Alice always reminds me of terrible knock off pop culture t shirts you’d get in the 70s in tourist shops.
@Alice I don't like the idea of being mean to people. I think that can drive them deeper in the LLM well. Just to spite the person being a dick to them.
But I can agree with, kindly, not pretending the generated image is their's. And with not commenting in the image's quality. If only to avoid the temptation of putting my frustration on them. And deny the possibility of them getting the unearned compliment they are looking for.
Oh! This woman at work is exactly like that! She walks in to the lunch room with her phone blaring some generic metalcore nonsense and, without being asked, goes "I wrote this. Yeah, AI...." and that's about where I tune out whatever is being said next.
Everything about it is obnoxious
It reminds me of that garbage knockoff Banksy-adjacent guy called Mr. Brainwash who just thought of a bunch of dumb ideas and then had actual artists create it.
And the robot didn't even do a good job, bro.
@Alice I was starting to read some guides to creative writing and it struck me how it's exactly the practices such guides recommend that "generative AI" eliminates.
It's exactly in the agonizing process of trying to write your thoughts and finding the gaps, and of revision after revision because it's not quite right, your meaning still isn't coming through, that you actually create meaning.
It's part of my fundamental objection to "AI", that these are tools invented by people who are actively hostile to subjective experience.
@Alice Exactly. It’s all so…averaged.
That they don’t get why that feels gross to people indicates they know nothing about art.
@Alice AI is essentially crappy trace paper