I am the angriest cat today!!! So here are some of the things on my mind right now.
I also want to add this: I don't have hate or even animosity toward people who use generative AI. I get that some of us can't avoid using it for our jobs. I also understand that AI can be incredibly useful for science and medicine. I also recognize that in our current stage of capitalism, we're all tired, stretched too thin, and broke. Using generative AI to create a flyer, a meme, or even a social media post feels easy and victimless.
But here is what fills me with rage: a small group of people is making a shit ton of money -- far more than any of us will ever see in our lives -- by stealing our unique, human-created work: art, music, writing, photos, recipes, and more. And oh yeah, they're also trying to take away many of our jobs…while offering no safety net to us. To make matters worse, they know this whole genAI thing isn't really living up to their promises, so they are aggressively trying to convince all of us that we will be "left behind" if we don't use it.
ONE BIG @#$%ING GRIFT!!
And that's why I talk about it so much. The whole premise of AI: cheap, easy, and convenient is not dissimilar to fast fashion. The problem? We end up with shitty, disappointing stuff…at the expense of this planet and lots of people.
Okay, glad I got that off my chest.
About this post: OBVIOUSLY Clotheshorse is an anti-AI zone. The images came from my latest secondhand book score, The Wondrous World of Cats by David Gibbon, published in 1976. I took me about an hour to scan all of the images from this book. Btw my drive of scanned vintage images now has a folder called "cats" and it currently holds 596 photos. I used photoshop to edit the photos and add the text. All in all, it was about four hours of work spread across a day. It should go without saying, but please do not post screenshots of my work. Just saw someone else credited for my work in yet another person's screenshot of someone else's screenshot of my post. It's rude! Don't do it!
