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by kingcobraninja 1171 days ago
My partner participates in an online RPG writing community. A lot of people there sell character artwork. They have been getting mad that people are using AI generated artwork, and are considering banning it.

I'm not really saying this time will be different, but I don't think self driving cars caused even this much disruption.
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agent281 1171 days ago
The big difference between the two is how much damage occurs if the AI screws up. We don't have self driving fleets right now because a multi-ton truck hurtling down the freeway at 65+ mph can do a lot of damage. AI generated artwork is inert so it can be safely used as a substitute for the human generated stuff. I would expect speed of adoption to operate at inverse proportion to potential harm.

image -> text -> code -> self-driving vehicles

It's really reductive to just put all code in a single bucket, but most code probably isn't super critical for safety and it can be tested before it gets released/reviewed. I think that's the biggest differentiator from real time applications like self driving cars.

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antibasilisk 1171 days ago
>AI generated artwork is inert

I wholly disagree with this. The rate at which AI can produce pornography that caters to exact tastes is completely unmatched, I have seen people report their compulsive pornography habits becoming exponentially worse as a result of Stable Diffusion in particular. The only hold out has been video pornography, but with things like txt2vid improving I can't see that lasting long (pun not intentional).

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agent281 1171 days ago
When I say inert I mean that the image is just a bunch of bits. It's read only. It doesn't cause actions in the world like code or self driving cars do. People can have reactions to them. That's why we make them.
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tome 1171 days ago
I guess in 2017 the technology wasn't there yet. It was just predicted to be coming. Now we have some technology, available right at this moment, that I suppose can be used to automate away jobs, but no one's put the pieces together yet. For example, I can imagine Whisper + ChatGPT being used to automate away a lot of call centre work. But it's not clear to me whether that means there will be more demand for the work that only human call centre operatives can do, or less.
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