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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

​But I'm asking about YOU 🫵 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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[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 3 points 9 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.