[shapenamer]

Well I never said the article had anything to do with AI art. I have simply noticed a pattern of almost everyone agreeing that AI generated art is bad and harms real artists, while simultaneously agreeing that AI generated code is great and only helps programmers. My post was fairly low effort though I'll give you that. It seems to have pushed a few people's buttons none the less lol.

There's another story on HN posted today about balancing money and meaning and one of the top comments is a sarcastic put-down about the AI generate image at the top of the blog post. If the author had used AI to create the web page they'd almost certainly receive similar praise as the comments on this one. Both AI's are trained on other people's work, yet you seem to think even pointing this out is unfair. Very strange imo.

[minimaxir]

> There's another story on HN posted today about balancing money and meaning and one of the top comments is a sarcastic put-down about the AI generate image at the top of the blog post. If the author had used AI to create the web page they'd almost certainly receive similar praise as the comments on this one. Both AI's are trained on other people's work, yet you seem to think even pointing this out is unfair. Very strange imo

Most of the comments on that submission are negatively and fairly accusing it of being ChatGPT generated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779591

That submission also appears to have been flagged/penalized, so yes, people aren't happy with it.

There is a significant difference between using AI for a functional purpose that others can learn from and using AI for low-effort marketing blogspam.

[shapenamer]

right, the text content was AI generated, and people don't like that. But if any of the tech was AI generated then the author would receive praise.

[JackRumford]

Almost everyone I know in the dev community agree that both generative art and code is fine. Most people don't care about copyright, to say the least. At least the people I know in real life and chat with online.

Only thing I've seen was artists on Reddit and Twitter getting angry about the AI art.

[slyall]

> I have simply noticed a pattern of almost everyone agreeing that AI generated art is bad and harms real artists, while simultaneously agreeing that AI generated code is great and only helps programmers.

I think you mean that artists mostly think AI art is bad, while programmers mostly thing AI generated code is good.