this might be a spicy one but I don’t care, I’m being genuine.

aren’t you tired of your social media feeds being like "LOOK AT THIS AI SLOP! LOOK AT THIS AI SLOP! LOOK AT THIS AI SLOP! GET MAD ABOUT IT! GET MAD ABOUT IT NOW!" all the time?

idk, I don’t need to be convinced anymore. It was obvious very early on that it was used by people who were creatively bankrupt and not a new vessel for creativity. And I imagine many people in our circles are like that too.

I feel like anti-AI people on social media expose me to more AI sludge than I would ever see if I just isolated myself. They talk about AI in games I wasn’t interested in ever checking out in the first place. I just don’t have the energy for it.

Does it really make you feel alive? Doesn’t it make you feel more dead inside?

Cause I don’t need to be the one you’re arguing this with. It’s not fair. I’m not the one you should be trying to make miserable.

I feel like the people who are the target of those "public shame" campaigns don’t see 10% of it and don’t give a shit as they’re just gassing each other up in their own circles.

Idk can’t you go argue on their linkedins or patreons or whatever? show some courage? step out of the zone that makes you feel like anybody with common sense MUST agree with you? do something less short-sighted, like organize fighting the capitalist system that AI hype is just a symptom of?

Sorry if that’s abrasive. It’s hard to be in a good headspace these days.

idk when we’re at the point where you’re like "haha you’re like those stupid lazy fat people in wheelchairs" (who are victims of the ai-enabled system they were born in btw) sounds like le funny epic inspiring clapback I think you should maybe be asking yourselves some questions

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@Siph I also feel that complaining about obviously sub-par art acts as a distraction against the risks from things that AI is actually good at.

For example I was researching if an area near me really had a worryingly large amount of road traffic collisions caused by DUI.

An AI search turned up *accurate* figures and details of cases *including individuals involved*. Of course I could have found those going through the local news (which is what the AI clearly did), and I did cross check the info for accuracy but it was all there in front of me within seconds.

This is the same level of surveillance resources an actual Police detective would have access to, that *any* civillian now is able to deploy..

@Siph the AI behaved just like the sterotypical movie detective with his whiteboard and ribbons connecting pictures/notes on the wall, but it got 90% of the details right (it did incorrectly add an incident across a county border but it was directly in the border area and you need local knowledge not to get confused )

It worries me that someone else with less progressive views could easily also use something like this to keep track of left-wing activists or LGBT+ folk (especially those who are notable or widely active on social media) and moaning about poor quality art takes the spotlight away from other more effective use cases of AI like this..

@Siph a better insult would’ve been “you’re like buy-n-large” lolol