Fuck AI

It makes it more accessible to the lazy and talentless.

The part I hate most is the "$800 phone" part. At least get a proper PC where you've got a fighting chance at being able to create stuff instead of a smartphone/tablet with an interface designed purely to consume, damn it!

somewhere i should have a collection of "borrowed" ikea pencils

What they mean by that is that they have no artistic ability and no interest in learning anything about how to actually make art, they just want a product to spec for free.

Devils advocate here. There's open source services that offers AI gen for free, as long as you have an internet connection.

So a potato phone could be used and that's all that's required.

-# Doesn't make it more accessible than actual pen and paper but the gap is not that big either

People get hilariously upset when you point out that sucking absolute arse at something is not a class issue nor a disability.

It's not about accessibility moneywise - it's accessibility skillwise. Many people do not want to put any effort into learning a new skill, so asking AI to do it for them is just way more convenient and "accessible".

This is part of a large shift in society where "failure" is seen as something extremely negative. You either do something and are immediately good at it, or you should just stop altogether.

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I never spent any money on AI. Use locally run open source models.

There's someone close to me whose near entire existence is basically pain. They still draw.

They hate the idea that their works got sucked by billionaires into giant plagiarism machines that are enriching them further. Pro AI people and tech bros think they should just suck it up and start using fucking AI horde or something, despite the fact that this trend makes them sick and the proposed solutions don't tackle real issues, but spread or ignore them.

One of my main gripes with GenAI is the tech industry's usual disregard for consent. GenAI users saying we should get rid of it altogether doesn't endear their ideal future to me. Saying the same thing as Sam Altman, but totally in a leftist way, just grosses me out.

Yeah, but how much did you cost?

$30 a month so far, will be a lot more if their plan of forcing artists out works out.

The main thing here is that image generation trough an llm doesn’t even count as creating.

Asking is not creating. In these systems people ask an llm to use a genai tool, the people never actually touch the tool themselves. (They wont even allow it lol)

Thats why ComfyUi with stable diffusion and not chatgpt is the standard for serious art work using ai.

They are fully open source, offline and they don’t require any more energy then playing a video game.

Also workflows look like this, more accessible means a different set of skills can now get you similar results. But it is still skill.

you indeed dont need to know how to hold a pencil to build that.

(Also there are more and more models exclusively trained with artist consent)

So yes, ai does make art more accessible to a small group of technical people. Most people know no one in this group.

I think it seems to usually be more about disabled people, who ai bros tend to consider either too stupid or physically unable to make real art, which is bullshit. There are amputees painting with their feet, who knows how many artists who have prosthetic hands or chronic pain. And don't even get me started on mentally disabled people.