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I don't hate AI as much as I hate the nonexistent ethics surrounding LLM's and generative AI tools right now (which is what a lot of people refer to as "AI" at present).
I have friends that openly admit they'd rather use AI to generate "art" and then call people who are upset by this luddites, whiny and butt-hurt that AI "does it better" and is more affordable. People use LLMs as a means to formulate opinions and use as their therapist, but when they encounter real life conversations that have ups and downs they don't know what to do because they're so used to the ultra-positive formulated responses from chatGPT. People use AI to generate work that isn't their own. I've had someone already take my own, genuine written work, copy/paste it into claude, and then tell me they're just "making it more professional for me". In front of me, on a screen share. The output didn't even make structural sense and had conflicting information from the LLM. It was a slap in the face and now I don't want to work with startups because apparently a lot of them are doing this to contractors.
All of these are examples that many people experience with me. They're all examples of the same thing: "AI" as we are calling it is causing disruptions to the human experience because there's nothing to regulate it. Companies are literally pirating your human experience to feed it into LLMs and generative tools, turning around and advertising the results as some revolutionary thing that will be your best friend, doctor, educator, personal artist and more. Going further, another person mentioned this, but it's even weaponized. That same technology is being used to manipulate you, surveil you, and separate you from others to keep you in compliance with your running government, whether it be for good or bad. Not to mention, the ecological impact this has (all so someone can ask Gemini to generate a thank you note). Give the users & the environment more protections and give actual tangible consequences to these companies, and maybe I'll be more receptive to "AI".
Anybody who thinks AI does art "better" is someone whose opinions in all matters, big or small, can be safely dismissed.
You're right; and I do dismiss that opinion quite frequently and have learned at this point to just make no comment and continue the conversation forward.
On that note: I am a member of the art community, I make digital and physical art as a hobbyist. Occasionally I do some commissions for people but it's not often. But, those commission requests are going down in number because people want instant art. One friend that made the comment of preferring AI art to me the other day said she does so because she doesn't want to spend time practicing, so instead she likes to generate images and trace them as it's more efficient and less taxing on her mind to make something. Assuming she's doing this for fun or therapeutic reasons, why would you want efficiency? Why would making something(even if it's a simple flower and sun in the corner of the page) be that taxing that you need to generate it? Let's think of why it's taxing first rather than skirting around that and using a generator that scrapes data from others illegally.
It's a consumerist mindset that really leaks into a lot of the aspects I've mentioned in my previous comment. And honestly, I don't think a lot of these people really believe AI art is better, I think they're so used to instant gratification in almost every part of their life that they're trying to get that dopamine hit regardless if it's quality content(work, art, stories, etc) or not.