Unpopular Opinion

As a graphic designer, I'm currently on the fence. I love the AI tools that make tedious tasks significantly easier such as cutting out curly or frizzy hair. I also enjoy using generative AI as a tool to do things like replace an object in someone's hand or seamlessly fill in the background where I removed something, but unfortunately those are the things that are potentially stealing from other artists and so is morally wrong to use. It is nice to just play around with it for the sake of generating ideas that you could build off of or to try to create a mock-up before execution. It's sad really, because I would absolutely love to use the generative tools more but I just don't see how I can at this point in time. Instead I currently use it for things that are private that I wouldn't profit off of. For example, I made a puzzle for my father in law using a photo of his family's farm and used generative AI to recreate the photo in the artistic style of his favorite puzzle artist. He was delighted to have it and it became a highly unique item he could enjoy. I never intend to sell it or even share it with anyone else. It's for him only and I doubt his favorite puzzle artist will lose anything from it.

I 100% agree with you.

There's two big questions that need to be tackled: how do we fit AI into copyright law (I think latest case law suggests there's no copyright with AI generated images), and how do we make sure everyone's personal rights are protected (talking impersonation, blackmail, phishing, etc)?

AI stealing jobs is overblown imo. Tech giants are trying, but turns out it just makes people work a bit faster, it's not a magic wand. Some companies are rehiring and it's a giant shit show. Same goes for AGI, most experts will tell you that AGI will either never happen, it won't happen in the way we think it will, or it will still be more than 30y which means it's not a priority for us rn and it shouldn't be.

To me it feels so much like the industrialization. The issue is not the production or the mekanisms, it's who's using them and how they're used. Nothing changed from before we had AI, there's good and bad uses for it and we ought to really question how this is a clear net negative for us when I don't see it.

There's one thing that deserves more focus, like it always does: military application. We're talking gathering Intel, deducing strategies or digital warfare. It enables people to use it as a propaganda acceleration for example, or like they do in the Mossad as a means to plan war crimes in the form of air strikes on civilians. That said, I think things like this would happen without AI, but we should find ways to make it harder to use AI in this context.

Overall I don't understand why people hate the tool instead of the person holding it and what they're doing with it. AI is like a baseball bat and people are scared you can murder someone with it, while they're running around with knives.

I think copyright should die and ai is only helping that.