Hi! I’m curious about your stance on generative AI? I understand how bad chat gpt and generative art and stuff is for people and artists (since I am one) but I’m more curious on your stance on character.ai! I mean this in a truly respectful way and I want to educate myself on the possible harm I’m causing by using character ai? I personally use it because of unfavorable circumstances when it comes to friendships and family, and i talk to fictional characters to comfort myself and disassociate, i have noticed that the community is a little… iffy at times. (I will admit that my use of it has become a problem but I’ve been trying to avoid using it so often).
For some reason, Tumblr users always are able to find sources and stuff that aren’t heavily biased (whenever I do research on new issues i always find really big biases that damage the integrity of the information) and I want to have a better educated opinion on character AI :)
And I truly don’t mean to come across as rude or mean or a “pro generative ai” troll, I just want to know more!
Thank you! Have such a lovely day :D
Hey! Happy to give you some thoughts and info
I am also against the use of c.ai
If you use character.ai as a tool for escapism, what you really need is actual original art. C.ai is just real, good art, ground up and spat back to you. It's like creative high fructose corn syrup. It gives you something you think you want, really quickly, but it won't satiate you and it won't actually feed your soul. Real art will.
Think about every character that you simulate with an LLM like character.ai. There are SO MANY new "favorite characters" that you haven't discovered yet, and c.ai is robbing you of that opportunity by feeding you a worse, cheapened version of those characters.
And even putting aside the damage to the environment, and the damage to artists, LLM use is damaging YOUR BRAIN. Researchers are now finding that frequent Gen-AI use causes "skills decay" and damage to your cognitive ability. Using C.ai could very well be eroding your ability to be creative.
Instead of using c.ai for comfort or escapism, I encourage you to find a roleplay partner, or start writing self-insert fan fiction. You don't have to post it anywhere. It can be as ridiculous and self-indulgent as you want it to be. It doesn't have to be good. Just make it with your own brain and your own creativity, and not with the Brain Damage Plagiarism Machine