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@blackamite
Hello!
I don’t care if you know me irl, just don’t be weird about it.
Just reblogging stuff I like. Hex codes tags (e.g. 0x46, 0x20) are for my own categorization.
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"Cats on a Plane" by artist Kelly Pringle.
this blog is not a well-curated museum. it’s my bedroom & i’m putting things on my shelf & taping things on the wall
you will have coworkers more incompetent than you could even dream of
Worst part of popular left wing AI discourse online is that there's absolutely a need for a robust leftist opposition to use of cognitive automation without social dispensation to displaced human workers. The lack of any prior measures to facilitate a transition to having fewer humans in the workplace (UBI, more public control over industrial infrastructure, etc) is a disaster we are sleepwalking into - one that could lock the majority of our society's wealth further into the hands of authoritarian oligarchs who retain control of industry through last century private ownership models, while no longer needing to rely on us to operate their property.
But now we're seemingly not going to have the opposition we so desperately need, because everyone involved in the anti-AI conversation has pretty thoroughly discredited themselves and their movement by harbouring unconstrained reactionary nonsense, blatant falsehoods and woo. Instead of talking about who owns and benefits from cognitive automation, people are:
Demanding impossibilities like uninventing a now readily accessible technology
Trying to ascribe implicit moral value to said technology instead of the who is using it and how
Siding with corporations on copyright law in the name of "defending small artists"
Repeating obvious and embarrassing technical misconceptions and erroneous pop-sci about machine learning in order to justify their preferred philosophy
Invoking neo-spiritual conservative woo about the specialness of the human soul to try to incoherently discredit a machine that can quite obviously perform certain tasks just as well if not better than they can
Misrepresent numbers about energy use and environmental cost in an absurd double standard (all modern infrastructure is reliant on data centers to a similar level of impact, including your favourite fandom social media and online video games!) to build a narrative AI is some sort of malevolent spirit that damages our reality when it is called upon
It's a level of reactionary ignorance that has completely discredited any popular opposition to industrial AI rollout because it falls apart as soon as you dig deeper than a snappy social media post, or a misguided pro-copyright screed from an insecure web artist (who decries a machine laying eyes on their freely posted work while simultaneously charging commission for fan-art of corporate IPs... I'm sure that will absolutely resolve in their favour).
It would be funny how much people are fucking themselves over with all this, except I'm being fucked over to, and as a result am really quite mad about the situation. We need UBI, we need to liberate abundance from corporate greed, what we don't need is viral posts about putting distortion filters on anime fan-art to ward off the evil mechanical eye, pointless boycotts of platforms because they are perceived to have let the evil machines taint them, or petitions to further criminalize the creation of derivative works.
OP seems to have missed the part about people's work being used WITHOUT PERMISSION to train the LLMs. That's why the distortion overlays (not filters).
No I didn't miss that, I just don't give a fuck.
It's in no tangible way "stealing" your publicly-posted work for a machine to browse past it and subtly adjust some numbers in its world-expectations model, any more than it is for me to look at said publicly-posted work or and think "hey that's neat" or "I like that style". Nothing has been taken or stolen or disrespected. Nothing that could be reconstructed has even been "saved", in most cases. This is exactly the nonsense rhetoric I was talking about.
You sound like a Disney exec hopped up about robot thoughtcrime after discovering that the purpose of art is to influence the viewer. Be gay, create derivative works, copyright is not real.
(Insert nuance that it probably is at least quite rude and ungrateful to profit off a deliberate recreation of a specific piece of human artwork produced by a gen-AI model, in the same way that it would be to sell knock-off t-shirts of that same work. But that's not actually what said models are doing practically ever unless they're being guided to do so by the human operator, at which point the moral calculus is the same as for the knock-off-shirt guy).
Also I will once again point out that Glaze and Nightshade 1. don't actually work very well at doing what they claim to do and 2. are themselves built around generative AI models.
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