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AI art steals from the poor and has no place in modern society (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 months ago by AEMarling@slrpnk.net to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

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In a post-scarcity solarpunk future, I could imagine some reasonable uses, but that’s not the world we’re living in yet.

 AI art has already poisoned the creative environment. I commissioned an artist for my latest solarpunk novel, and they used AI without telling me. I had to scrap that illustration. Then the next person I tried to hire claimed they could do the work without AI but in fact they could not.

All that is to say, fuck generative AI and fuck capitalism!

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[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As far as the role of man versus machine, using AI as a tool is more like being a director or composer. You determine the composition. The setting. The subject. The style. Let the machine do the labor of simply outputting, and then you tell it what you don't like about this output.back and forth, until you arrive at whatever finished is. It's as much art as a conductor in a symphony, or a director on a set, simply giving direction to a machine.

Now replace "AI" with an artist, and yourself with any mouth-breathing supervisor, that micro-manages artists.

You are employing something to do the art for you.

Amd my fucking god, comparing entering a prompt to a conductor. Techbros really are high on their own farts.

[–] cmdr_nova@mkultra.monster 1 points 4 months ago

@Prandom_returns @Ookami38 The "I use AI as a tool" people are coping the hardest

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

The fact that you think the only thing you're doing is entering a prompt says enough. There's faaaaaaaar more to the process than simply prompting. You clearly don't want to engage with anything other than the strawman you have in your head, so you have fun with that.