Raw LLM Responses

Hello, I'm the Mega-Evolution of "The Paragraph Guy". Had to get this all off my chest For the "AI is inevitable" crowd: Nope. Inevitable is an asteroid. Inevitable is a solar flare. Atom decay. The moving of the planets or death itself. Those are natural things, parts of how the universe works and things that can't be avoided. A new technology is, by no means, inevitable... because every single technology known to man has been either promoted or avoided. We had electric cars way before Tesla showed up. They were avoided. A Spanish engineer invented the first reaction engine right before the Germans even started working on it in WWII, and that was silenced too (because he was against Franco's regime). Portraying this new shiny tech as something inevitable is a crude, aggressive marketing campaign that is basically saying "embrace our product or die", and it's a very slippery slope to put yourselves into. Because next up, what will it be? A billionaire eats babies, and since he's got so money, you get convinced that eating babies is inevitable? Why is AI inevitable? Why isn't any other piece of tech inevitable? Just because people with tons of money tell you so. And you eat it up. It's just another way to sell you yet another subscription service... something that, many of you may be too young to remember, but was NEVER the norm. Having to pay monthly for virtually anything to work was NEVER the way things worked. You bought something, it worked for the intended duration. You didn't pay a fee to use it as if everything you owned was suddenly a rental. Any way you look at it, the AI hype is just another reflection of these modern business models designed by and ran by people with a lot of capital to lose in the early stages, and an aggressive marketing campaign to sell it out as a new necessity. For the "you are a luddite" camp: Yeah, so? First of all, being against one technology doesn't mean being against all of them, as you mentioned in your video. But luddites weren't against "all" technology. They did use medicine. They visited doctors. They accepted tons of technology and science advancements. They were just fighting against the way these new machines were being implemented without a real plan on how to accomodate the tons of people that were being pushed out. As a society, we can't keep accepting every new tech and innovation as perfect out of the box, and keep on not worrying about its implications until it's too late. We've used carcinogenic materials in construction of living spaces, used machines that have turned our world into a hellscape, given addictive tech and chemicals to children... and we've been forced to eat it all up as innovation and progress, turned into necessities without real care about the consequences of using it. This is NOT ancient history. This all has happened very recently, throughout the whole 20th Century. Hell, doctors were paid to advertise tobacco among the youth just 50 years ago, for fks sake... do you guys really want to be the people that gets looked back in history that way? For the "it's reference" camp: not much to add But anyone with just a week of art experience, or attending just one or two art classes... man, first thing you're taught is to look for references that are as close to reality as possible. It's either photo, video... or looking at the thing directly. If not, you end up drawing dogs like in Medieval Manuscripts. We've all seen them. They're not dogs. They're things from hell And for the "access point" camp: hah, cry me a river What you want is easy and lazy access to flood the net with fast-paced artwork in a desperate attempt for attention in an overcrowded environment, and you're really not fooling anyone. The only thing AI powers up is the speed of output, nothing else. Besides, that point was... sorta possible to buy when AI was still being sold as this hippie-yippie new free tech? That is, if you're naive enough to believe that a multi-million dollar company would use trillions of shareholder money to develop something that will be handed down to you for free, of course. But now? Nobody is buying it. Economically, really doing art is the most accessible thing you can do. You literally have all the tools at your disposal already. Homeless people have the tools to make art. They're dirt-cheap, durable and reliable. They're not a 100 dollar yearly subscription dependant on the whims of some billionaire in Silicon Valley. They're a real object you purchase and own. The only issue here is that it's time-consuming. And it's precisely time what is not really accessible for most. When you spend most of your waking hours working for the profit of others, time is a luxury. Not a pen and paper. That's the real issue here. Instead of giving people more free time, which would be the humane and real step towards creative accessibility, they put millions of dollars on making people do whatever they do with their free time faster, and faster... and if possible, in a more service-dependant way that they can charge for. And finally: the obvious pipeline with all this AI hype is, as always, to hinder upward mobility. See, haven't you ever wondered why the technology push isn't going towards... I don't know, automating street swiping? Cleaning sewers? Serving tables? All those poorly paid jobs are super safe, not going anywhere... precisely because it gives the people pushing this tech a sense of power. A sense that they can go out and see the typical citizen doing menial, unfulfilling labour that they will never have to do, just for tiny little scraps of money to get by and have a meal. Meanwhile, the tech substitutes all the middle steps. The creative jobs, the mid-range, fulfilling options of doing your best to carve a name for yourself in the world, and show what you have to say. They don't want those positions to be accessible because it allows for people to be heard as much as they are heard. Basically, this whole new tech craze is just another push to eliminate the few middle steps left in that mythical "upward mobility" ladder. And saddest part is that the same people acting as the guardians of these new ideas and techs, demeaning and attacking anyone who criticizes AI are the same ones that will be thrown away like a used tissue once this is all done.