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by aeon_ai 34 days ago
Let me propose another alternative.

People generally hate low effort AI slop.

Irrational people hate art made with AI as a tool.

"By invading the territories of art, photography has become art's most mortal enemy." - Said someone who nobody knows because it's a long and dead opinion.
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mold_aid 33 days ago
I wonder if people inject the "tool" discourse into these discussions because they think it has some redemptive power. Like where is the difference between "AI is an expedient to producing images I don't have the talent to make or the money to pay for" and "I use AI as a tool to produce images because I have an affirmative belief in the goodness of AI"
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aeon_ai 32 days ago
Enumerate the tools that one may use in art that are driven by technology, and you’ll find many that are driven by advances in ML.

Inarticulate and indiscriminate hate towards “AI” is often a lack of education on the landscape of creative technologies that exist.

Not everything is an AI slot machine trained on scraped data.

But I’m sure you know all about that, and have no interest in delineating.

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mold_aid 29 days ago
>Enumerate the tools that one may use in art that are driven by technology, and you’ll find many that are driven by advances in ML.

So are you enumerating, or...? Why am I doing this for you?

>Inarticulate and indiscriminate hate towards “AI” is often a lack of education on the landscape of creative technologies that exist.

I doubt that. It's more often the result of interaction with the AI products themselves than a lack of articulation, discrimination, or practice with "creative technologies that exist."

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happytoexplain 34 days ago
>Irrational people hate art made with AI as a tool.

No, it's OK to care about the source/process. It is not irrational. You may disagree, but it is utterly human - as rational as things get.

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emccue 34 days ago
And to emphasize: I am fully aware that there are people who don't care. Of course there are people who see no issue with it.

But there aren't people for whom it is a positive, just those for which it fails to be a negative. It creates a severe negative impression or a neutral one.

That is a terrible tradeoff!

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