Anyone that uses AI to compose music or make art is neither a musician, nor an artist- any more than I am a mathematician because I use a calculator.

It’s trash.

The silver lining is: if your nudes ever leak, you can simply claim its deepfake.

I'm ambivalent about it.

On the one hand, it's just math. It's the way reality works for some reason. So may as well get used to it.

On the other hand, capitalism takes what should be a gift to humanity and makes every aspect of it insufferable. From unethical training methods to inefficient, monolithic implementations to offensive marketing to equipment shortages, there's a lot to hate.

I don't think it inherently devalues people or art, though. It's capitalists who are trying to use it for that.

Yeah, I've noticed, it fucking sucks

AI is not art, and typing a few prompts into a chat box is not creativity. It may look like it on the surface but nothing about it genuine.

People fail to see that AI is becoming a middleman for everything that requires thinking and removing the human to human thought-based interactions from our lives. In particular the indirect human to human interactions. This is a massive loss.

The replies here got me typing so much I can't post a proper reply to this. I'll make a post and link you to it, but it will be a long one.

Hey, don't shit on Lego.

The way I see it, genAI only enhances the value of things actually drawn/painted/created by humans. In a world where everyone can generate dogshit toxic waste, a real artist, like my favorite Panda Paco, can create high value art that has infinitely more value just by painting or sketching it without the need for any genAI slop. Same for his digital art.

I am also of the genAI adds negative value to everything it touches camp, if you couldn't tell.

Though, speaking of genAI, I had a thought hours ago that I can almost guarantee most genAI bros in maybe a year or two will be so genAI pilled, so used to not thinking at all, that they'll start saying that anybody who thinks for themselves is ableist. Kinda like how they currently love to claim disabled people need genAI.

I disagree with the premise and find it borderline offensive to call Lego builds "minimal value".

What sucks is that it should be a good thing. I think it could be better and hopefully we will see open source trained things that come out where more thought is put into the inputs to raise the quality.

I don't think that AI devalues art.

Nobody looks at AI products and goes, wow, this is art.

At least not in and of itself. There could be something to be said for using AI as part of a larger artwork, and that does not devalue the artwork, in my opinion, but AI by itself is not art.

Return him the same level of interest that he shows you when he puts up an AI generated "masterpiece". Just a simple - "Oh.. " as a response.

Step back and see what he does, if anything.

I really don't feel that it's devaluing art. Slop has always been slop whether AI or human generated. Real art takes an artist's soul put into it and I don't see AI replicating that. If anything it just highlights the importance of passion in art.

No.

That just because you can use it for bad things doesn’t mean you can’t use it for good things too.

support him? how?

I know people like that. Kind of annoying but some people are addicted to llm slop. Not sure why.

Maybe share some actual human art with them instead. Or talk about how the one thing llms can never do is be authentic (or be non plageuristic)

I'm surprised that I haven't yet seen anyone influential claiming that AI is the Antichrist.

Authenticity is AI's "kryptonite".

AI is THE best brainstorming-help ever invented on Earth, period.

But the majority of users are instead using it to substitute for authenticity, so they can .. I gather there was a movie about that? "fast forward" through their lives ( or was it that "Stainless Mind" movie? .. don't care, personally: don't do movies! )

So, there's a kind of division/segregating going-on, where the ones who prefer inauthenticity & convenience are polarizing ( like your friend ) to AI, whereas others are working at limiting it, & harnessing it, using it for us, instead of using it in place of us, if you see.

Does anybody believe that AI would have produced that magical image of the olympic skating woman jumping so totally happily, on the podium?

Authenticity isn't as fakeable as appearances are, see?

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