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The tools are trash not because they are unreliable but because they are actively destroying human society and culture. They are destroying art, science, journalism, open source software, the internet at large, and the environment we all live in. It wouldn't matter if the generative models were accurate, they would still be garbage.
The fact that they are unreliable just serves to highlight what a colossally destructive waste of time and resources this entire exercise has been.
Eh, the art industry destroyed itself when it became nothing but sellouts. This happened decades ago.
The fact is AI can make as-good or better art than most "artists" because most "art" is just cookie-cutter shit for morons.
😂😂😂
I said the art industry.
This is an obvious misstatement. If you actually believe this then you're not qualified to have opinions on art in general.
"AI" (in this context meaning generative algorithms, because there is no intelligence) can no more "make art" than it can think, or care.
In computer science Artificial Intelligence refers to any system designed to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. That includes everything from playing chess to recognizing patterns, translating languages, or generating text.
The first ever AI system was Logic Theorist written by Allen Newell in 1956.
Trying to redefine terms is not helpful. GenAI is AI. It's not misuse of the term.
"At this point, the only thing that makes money is garbage. It’s just fascinating. It makes a fortune, and that’s the bottom line,"
"writers have been trained to eat and make the garbage too. As long as they are in that arena making that shit, then you might as well have AI do it,”
-Charlie Kaufman
https://deadline.com/2023/08/charlie-kaufman-ai-wga-strike-hollywood-sarajevo-1235498089/
spoiler
You're probably one of the people that enjoys cookie-cutter art which is why you get defensive when someone says AI can make it.Not sure at what point will you realize that what you quoted/said has absolutely nothing to do with the actual topic.
Probably never.
Learn to read.
Could you define what you mean when you say the word “art”? I think this may be a semantic disagreement. I think the people you’re arguing with are using a definition similar to “human creative expression” while you seem to mean something different.