#pro-ai

[leam1983]

Annoyances

Whenever I see a "if you like AI, pls die" post, a part of me wants to take a big, gigantic breath and blurt out the following, Wall of Text style:

Narrow AI is vital to several scientific fields and refers to algorithms that are geared towards the collection, classification and proper identification of datum. It doesn't steal, it doesn't crib from anyone else, but it certainly helps with overlaying false colours on CAT scans and MRI results, for example.

Narrow AI is in your spreadsheet documents. If a spreadsheet is based on a few formulae to keep track of your budget, some measure of AI is involved.

Narrow AI is your average spell-checker's brain, as well. Not Google's - Google Docs just outsources Gemini for some truly godawful proofreading - but your average offline, dumb-as-bricks spell checker qualifies as Narrow AI.

Narrow AI is in your GPS and in your phone's voice-activated commands. Remove it, and you'll have to lug maps around again, or run searches on your own.

When you excoriate someone for using an AI-based tool, you're referring to the more recent years' developments in the field of Wide AI - as in, generalist Artificial Intelligences. AI scientists the world over have all agreed that, by and large, the usefulness of Wide AI is limited.

Later evidence proves that even without the use of poisoning tools like Glaze, Wide AI is poisoning itself, all thanks to the excessive eagerness of content producers who see AI as a means to drive Search Engine Optimization. The Dead Internet Theory isn't quite proven yet; but what is is that AI-generated content is increasingly eating up its own generated slop. ChatGPT has, point in fact, already consumed every scrap of genuine human content there is to access.

So give props to your local neckbeard who wants to make sure we'll one day no longer need to remove someone's thyroid in the case of detected malignancies, because he's looking to use AI to save lives.

Artificial Intelligence isn't the problem, what is is the McDonald's-ized version of it that's being bandied about by publications like The Verge and TechCrunch.

[sad-cat-plush]

A shortlist of people doing cool shit with AI actually:

Redslug (utilizing AI trained on personal artwork as a rendering engine)

ReachArtwork (specifically her transhumanist and body horror work)

OddBirds (A conceptual project combining a variety of novel AI techniques and elements into a larger whole)

Scott Eaton (also using AI as a rendering engine to apply human anatomy to abstract shapes he designs)

Jake Elwes (Honestly... Just... JUST---watch "Machine Learning Porn" if that's not art to you we simply just have fundementally different definitions of art.)

Generative AI is not some monolith and not exclusively ONLY useful for replacing art and artists. It can be a part of what we do the same way other digital tools have been. No amount of corporate exploitation or asshole trolls changes the value of protecting people's ability to create work like this and have their efforts be acknowledged and respected.

You're allowed to not like any individual artist or their work. Hell I can't stop you from hating AI and having measured negative opinions about it, I would probably agree with most of the points you're making anyway. All I can do it show you the stuff that altered my perception of AI and it's role in creativity and say harrassing any individual person for generating an image is shitty, unnacceptable behavior that needs to stop.

This is not something I plan on talking about a lot but I do want my stance here to be clear just like all my other divisive stances. Because I am incapable of just keeping an opinion to myself. A major character flaw, really.

[neurospring]

Why is it that anti-AI people generally know less than nothing about AI?

I have honestly never seen one who was actually knowledgable about how AI works. And to an extent it makes sense they wouldn't know much about it, they hate it, they don't wanna learn much about it, though they should still know the basics - but it's not even just that they don't know the basics, they actively hold totally false beliefs and have their own vocabulary almost. What gives?

[bug-the-chicken-nug]

seeing posts where people talk about their AI usage like it's a Shameful Life Ruining Addiction like

i don't know about you but i feel like it would be negatively affecting you a lot less if you *weren't* so ashamed and people *weren't* so hellbent on lambasting you or deciding they shouldn't even associate with you if you dare frame it as anything Besides shameful.

"but i/those people genuinely do this, this, and this!"

yeah but even if you literally aren't exaggerating. do you know how often shame backfires and reinforces a behavior? do you know how hard it is to limit guilt over a specific action to not just a spiral into "i suck so much that i'm not capable of changing", or outright moral OCD in certain cases?

because I feel like a lot of you don't, or instantly dismiss it as not your problem, and are kind of just being careless and counterproductive in how much you use shame against others.

and yes this *does* often include the whole veiled judgment thing of "well i'm not trying to be rude i'm just being honest and stating it as a neutral fact" type rhetoric, even when you mean that genuinely. we still have to be careful about how we say things anyway.

on top of how way too many times I see stuff like "it's so horrible that character ai makes people become isolated and ignore all of their friends" like IMMEDIATELY followed up with people still going "yeah its terrible, AI is so toxic that that's why I want everyone who uses it to block me!"

like.

do you.

please tell me you see what im saying here.

[breakthepencil2025]

Fresh off X.com, first thing is furry loser hating on AI lol

AI is the future. It democratises art! It makes us all better than the degenerates with their rich money

We deserve to be the real artists. Nobody else can do as good as we do lol

Break the pencil, accept AI

[new-philosopher]

One day, a never-ending story could be written by AI that literally never ends as it could keep generating as you get to the end.

[bug-the-chicken-nug]

today in "more signs that a lot of the hardline anti-ai crowd just straight up Does Not think critically about what they want and is going to end up having to deal with some monkey's paw bullshit sooner or later because of it:" seeing a post about it sharing outdated information from two years ago and also like. chock full of replies just blindly cheering on the government having the authority to just pre-emptively decide to ban AI. even though it's a very topical issue right now that those in power having the power to just indiscriminately ban stuff "for your own good" without any further consultation IS REALLY BAD ACTUALLY which is also a bit rich because like. gasp. you mean to tell me. that while you're all harping on how scary it is that a machine can spread misinformation you're just out here spreading misinformation all by yourselves anyway? careful, careful! one might get the sense that you only care about that when it's convenient for virtue signalling and harrassing others, or something craaazy like that, haha!