RE: AI You're Wasting my Time!
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I personally think the bulk of generative AI is terrible. Between the ethical issues of it stealing work in a whole new way, the sheer resources it takes to run, and stuff like Grok using it to make child porn and revenge porn, the redeeming feature of "well it lets anyone make cool art." is not really worth it given that it's not a person making the art. It's a machine making it. If a person gives me the prompt of "a butterfly riding a turtle" and I draw it, the person who prompted me didn't make the art.
Even before Genrative AI make it far to easy to make slop content there was already a horrifying amount of slop content made by people. I feel like were heading closer and closer to dead internet theory and it's just gonna be a sea of AI bots regurgitating each others content and becoming less and less comprehensible.
That said, AI being used in medicine(with a lot of checks ot make sure shitty biases haven't screwed things.) or cases like AI run drones helping protect wildlife like the rhino reserve is cool.
When it comes down to it AI should be doing things that either a-Fill in gaps of human ability or b- Doing stuff humans don't want to do anyway.
I don't want AI making movies and taking creative jobs away from people but I would be fine with it doing my taxes like turbotax does.
I think our current experience and opinions about AI and its impact on information also has a lot to say about society as a whole: people are getting lazier, and they feel entitled to have the answers and benefits without working for them. And so, AI enters the picture.
Let's say I have a cat blog. I can take the time to get out my phone or camera and take videos of two cats playing, then splice together the good bits and create an edited product that I feel good about, and that represents actual cats playing. Or I can give AI a prompt and have it create a video of two cats playing based on some arbitrary thing that I tell it. And then I claim it's my work that's the part I object to.
Sadly, an AI generated video called "you've never seen two cats do this!" is more likely to get lots of page views then my genuine video of "my cats playing look how cute they are!" And sadly — part two — we live in a world where popularity has become more important than authenticity, and short-term gratification outweighs long-term value.
I think some of the willingness to offload thinking to AI is that most people are just plain exhausted. Folks are working to much, distracted to much, and even thinkings about stuff like, what to make for dinner is exhausting.
The need for clickbait tittles in most algorithms makes me mad. It means that folks need to use misleading tittles to get any attention.