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Yeah we all hear the main arguments... AI is bad because of slop content, stealing from creators, brain rot & brain damage, privacy concerns and most importantly... how billionaires are just using it for their own selfish reasons

โ€‹But I'm asking about YOU ๐Ÿซต personally. The individual. What do you really think about AI? Do you care or are you indifferent? Has it actually affected your day to day life?

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[โ€“] opiumfree@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

the move is to make AI art not copyrightable so nobody gets rich off it. do you support AI art or not?

[โ€“] space_comrade@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I would support using AI for plenty of things, art included. Most commissioned art today isn't exactly soul shaking stuff teeming with creativity and emotion, it's corporate graphics, design templates, ads, assets for video games etc, I personally don't have a problem with using AI for that the same way I don't have a problem with my clothes being made with sewing machines.

As with everything else, the problem isn't the technology it's the economic system.

Also I don't think many people are profiting off of copyrighted AI art directly unless it's in service to those other things I mentioned.

[โ€“] opiumfree@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

you should try using a sewing machine before comparing it to AI

[โ€“] space_comrade@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

What's even your point? Making AI art is easy therefore it couldn't possible have any value for any purpose?

I'm a software engineer by trade, a discipline where AI is also heavily encroaching on and there's a danger of my job being automated away too (I'm not completely convinced it will be automated away but let's assume for the sake of argument it will). It's also a job that used to take a lot of skill and even creativity.

Unlike lots of artists tho I understand this is the same historical process that happened time and time again and that there's nothing inherently special about my labor that makes it exempt from this historical process.

[โ€“] m532@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Of course we won't copyright it, we're anti-copyright