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I do understand why so many people, especially creative folks, are worried about AI and how it’s used. The future is quite unknown, and things are changing very rapidly, at a pace that can feel out…

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[–] donuts@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (19 children)

AI people just love to disingenuously claim that anybody who criticizes AI "fears" the technology. This is their way of dismissing all critics or skeptics as luddites, and is usefully based entirely on their desire to profit somehow off of the trend.

Artists don't "fear" AI... They simply want big tech billionaires to stop stealing their copyrighted art works or other intellectual property in the hopes of generating infinite junk "content".

If you want artists to embrace AI, then you'd better be willing to stay paying them to license their artwork for AI training.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, but that’s not what this tool was? It analyzed writing styles, not copied them.

[–] CyanFen@lemmy.one -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's also what art AI does. It analyzes art styles, then creates unique works based on its "inspiration"

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

This doesn’t make anything from it, though. It gives you word counts, like how much passive voice was used and how many -ly adverbs. There’s nothing unique created from it.

That’s honestly the issue being pointed out here - people see “AI” and have knee jerk reactions, without seeing how is being used here. I’m completely against AI being used to make “art” or do writing, but that’s not what what this tool did at all. But folks assumed it did.

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