The anti-AI stance annoys me because like OK 1) there is no ethical consumption under capitalism ever and if youve ever bought coffee you've bought shit produced by slaves
and 2) if youve ever called customer service or watched netflix or worked with salesforce you've used a data center which produces just as much waste as any AI shit
and 3) constantly calling out stuff as AI harms real artists as real people constantly get accused of their real artwork being AI and disproportionately impacts marginalized artists
and 4) copyright laws are inherently stupid anyway, if you really are anti-capitalist then you need to be against copyright BS as well. all monetary value is made up. copying information is not stealing it.
and 5) plagiarism is obviously a separate issue but identifying pics as AI is not plagiarism. plagiarism means saying something produced is your work when it isnt. by identifying it as AI you inherently avoid plagiarism. for all the cases we have of AI copying shit, we also have instances of humans volunteering their works to be analyzed by AI to help, such as voice-types for AI facilitated speech in the case of people who have lost their voice to cancer.
and 6) i literally do not believe in money. everything should be free because money should not exist. no one is saying "you personally deserve to starve." i reject the premise that anyone should tie their survival to money, period.
and 7) ai obviously has its issues but there are ways of using it responsibly and with awareness. as a schizoid i gain more value out of using ai to journal than i do out of interacting with the many real human therapists who have caused me extensive harm
and 8) we have the studies and the data that prove that ai facilitated therapy offers benefits when the patient has extreme trauma as ai is less judgmental and cannot be harmed by hearing aversive details of trauma and 9) some people with disabilities use AI facilitation to help them, i have a TBI, i use AI all the time to describe graphs and images i see online and stuff because i don't have the money to shell out for a good screenreader and shit, val kilmer used AI facilitation to gain his voice back! so what is it just fuck us, then? we can't use AI to better our lives and accommodate our disabilities because DiScOuRsE? lol. and 10) just because i am not anti-AI doesn't mean i can't snark on slop, too. i know it when i see it and some of it is dumb as fuck. whatever, it is what it is. the problem with AI is capitalism, not AI itself. the companies putting AI in your fridge and subscribe to bingus and bongo or whatever the fuck - the AI isn't the problem, capitalism is the problem. no one wants a subscription to use their fucking fridge, that is gibberish.
Personally I think "retiring in comfort" is not a solid argument against money, since we shouldn't need to rely on money for comfort in the first place. But I do understand money as "storing value for later use." In a post-economic society we would be relying on some other form of value-currency, like reputation. But that has the potential to go very sideways, a la social credit systems, etc. Personally I am not actually a communist - because communism is still an economic system, it's just historically trended toward scarcity and rationing. I go beyond that to say money itself shouldn't exist, at least, our survival should not be hinged on money. Even implementing a universal basic income and price controls on companies so they can't out-price the UBI would be a good first step, IMO. I am anti-copyright, I am also not a Marxist and I am strongly against Marx as he centered a majority of his critique of the "bourgeoise" as being about Jews and blamed Jews for capitalism and wrote On the Jewish Question. I am against copyright law, and I do think that in order to be fully against money you need to give up intellectual property because its literally in the name : property, lol. something you own. ownership of data should not exist. (I mean in the sense that data should not be worth money, not that your personal data should be freely available for everybody - I strongly support individual privacy guardrails.) I get that not every anti-capitalist shares this perspective - not all forms of anti-capitalism are inherently against money, but my anti-capitalism is. I also don't think it's feasible to just immediately eliminate money which is why I support UBI and price controls.
1) Reducing impact is good, yes. I'm not seeing it in black-and-white, I'm trying to reject a black-and-white framework. I'm saying that because there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, our consumption itself is in a grey area morally anyway. 2) Data centers suck up a ton of resources, yeah. Here's a good study that shows just how much. 3) Whether art is good or bad is subjective, I really don't care either way if people say AI art is bad. That's fine. 4) If someone buys it, scans it, and sells it as their own, that is plagiarism, which I am against. I am also against the fact that your artwork has an inherent monetary value in the first place. You should not require to sell artwork in order to survive. I understand that this is the world we live in, but I am allowed to say it sucks. 5) Plagiarism is not copyright violation, my point is that they are separate. 6) I propose real-world solutions here in the form of UBI and price controls. 7) AI-facilitation is best, not AI-replacement. 8) There are studies from the VA about it, here is one about AI-facilitation in general, here is one about PTSD specifically.
