Fuck AI

IIRC that "You wouldn't download a car!" piracy screen used it's music and font without a license.

It's selfishness, not any sort of consistent belief system. AI that undermines me is the worst thing ever, but I'll use AI that shits on other people without a second thought.

Rather than seeing themselves as members of a creative class, they see themselves as free floating individuals in the marketplace of ideas. They don't unite together to gain a stronger bargaining position, they tear each other down for even the slightest edge.

See also: People who HATE AI, but still use it to make/upscale their "memes." Was somewhat common in reddit the "this is the only good use of AI" crowd.

it’s interesting how many creatives and professionals see ai as being perfectly able to replace anyone’s work who isn’t theirs, but unable to replace them. i remember seeing a post about storyboarders thinking ai was unfit for storyboards, but good for concept art, and concept artists thinking ai was unfit for concept art, but fine for storyboards.

everyone sees the value in their work, but many can’t see the value of other people’s work, and think an ai-generated approximation that’s "good enough" is fine to replace it… it’s kinda sad, really

the exception is software developers, who are more than eager to replace their own work with ai-generated garbage. i don’t know why so many software devs have so little respect for themselves and their work, but i can’t say i’m surprised honestly.

If you don't follow limebar hes on peertube and his music fuckin slaps

Could it be a symptom of everybody being broke af and not wanting to ask someone to work for exposure? Because a lot of artists are lucky enough to make enough money to cover their expenses for doing the art, let alone anything else.

I would love to see more collaborations and rejection of AI for everything but the tasks that are actually a decent use case (preliminary searches and compiling massive pools of data) and I think one of the best way to start is to just pay people a living wage.

If I see an AI image for a song on spotify, there's a 90% the music is too.

Unfortunately I'm pessimistic it will ever happen. AI rewards you with what you want (or a mimic of it anyway) for not talking to people. Which feeds the largest insecurity all artists have, expressing themselves and connecting with others outside their art.

Ehhhh sorta? There's always been some cynical people who aren't really about the art. Like, I remember reading tutorials on how to churn out bullshit self-help books to make money on amazon before the LLM craze. They weren't really artists, and those are the people I mostly associate with using AI-generated book covers.

When it comes to games, the people using AI-generated assets are mostly the kinds of people who slopped together pre-made assets before, or would have, anyway.

There are some people who turned to the dark side so to speak but they're kinda the exception. AI is a pretty good marker of a trash product. Like, people who actually write well or make good games or music usually don't use Ai generated bullshit for their products.

I was thinking about something..

Like text books used to have illustrated artist rendition depictions of things. They weren't the real thing but people kind of accept them as the real thing in a way. I guess like ancient times and dinosaurs... A lot of how it's presented in artist rendition. But now Ai does it... So it like a photo copy of a photo copy. It adds another layer of not being real.

I started thinking about this because I did a search on YouTube recently and almost everything was ai created.

It's getting fucked up fast.

I have an old buddy who’s a pretty accomplished tattoo artist, and as goes is also a pretty good artist in many other ways- pen/ink, paint, etc. We have a few of his hand drawn or painted pieces hanging on our walls.

I saw sometime last year that he was proudly telling everyone about his AI art shop on Etsy…selling art he was just having AI generated and printed via whatever those shops that just print whatever you want on whatever you want and drop shipped to you. …so sad…