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[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I find genAI imagery extremely uncanny and creepy, and I can't condone the usage of a system whose creators yearn for a day where companies won't have to pay human creators anymore and can simply funnel their funds directly into the pockets of giant corporations instead.

Additionally, commercial-scale generative AI is already destroying the environment in communities across the world due to its power use.

It's not something I can accept nor condone, and I will continue to shame people for facilitating the transfer of wealth and destruction of our environment.

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

yhea, you're not wrong.

the funny thing about AI,

I've seen artists use AI to make amazing art, but it takes them hours, and AI is more of a really fancy brush.

however a non artist can arbitrarily create slop.

the key is still love and hard work.

that's what separates soulless slop and someone who just used some AI to fill a background a bit.

Uncreative slop is the problem, and AI makes it trivial to create it.

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[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago*

To be clear, I'm perfectly ok with ethically trained (open-source weights and data set) generative AI being used locally on a small scale, I think generative AI is a double-edged technology like anything else.

It should never be the end product, but simply a tool.

In this picture here, you can see the skeleton is weird and other images and text is a bit wonky, these elements should have been touched up by a human. This is what I consider slop, raw AI output has this look and feel to it that makes it immediately identifiable, it is up to the artist to touch it up and adjust colours. Again, it should never be the final product. Something as simple as text should probably have been created normally.

I'm against Meta, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, MidJourney, etc.'s use of generative AI for the reasons stated above, but small scale genAI on your local device? Go for it.