Raw LLM Responses

TL;DR . . . On a degree, I agree to some of the points you raise against AI, especially when it is simple generation without any manner of transformation, which is what most lay man creators are currently using it for, (and that's okay too), though anyone who actually wants to create something good needs to do sometime, some shading here, some photoshop there, some post editing etc. But the moment an artist mentions they used AI in their work, everybody loses their minds like they have committed some cardinal sin, there is a genuine vitriol on the internet for artists who use AI that feels like the outrage of a mob operating on pure vibes alone, i mean just look at how they massacred my boys Corridor on that racist app... it was horrible, HORRIBLE!.... Now with that said, i'm probably gonna get a lot of flak for this or none as all, either way, someone needs to say it, the disconnect between the need for AI and its dismissal is stemming from the fact that artists don't understand the systems of programming that these AI's work on, and programmers who make these AI's really don't know how art works or is supposed to work, the truth of the matter it, and a lot of skirting around is being done on it, is that at the end of the day, no matter how you want to quantify it, ART IS A PRODUCT, and if there is a market for it, it will proliferate. It's easy to throw the line, 'WeLl WhY doN'T yoU jusT LEarN hOw to DRAW!' Sure I could spend months on end trying to develop my own niche and build my own authenticity through the sweat and tears and the effort that we have all come to agree is what really makes good art, 'good'. But I need to pay rent now, and someone in their genius made it possible for me to do so, more cheaply and faster, as in the luddites of britain who tried to break apart the weaving looms that were taking their jobs, what greater end I'm I serving by limiting my creations to the rationalised standard? Should we have gone back the the artful process of making clothes by only skilled artisans who had honed their craft over years but could only make one shirt a day? It's romantic to think about the starving artist, until you're an actual starving artist. The conceptual genie is out of the bottle, take down the major AI systems, regular people are trying to build their own and tweak it to their own specifications, using either their own data sets or free domain data sets to stay on the right side of that ethics line, but we know that's not gonna be the case for too long, and one way or another, its gonna become a thing. As an observer, I don't know how to analyse art in depth with the pretence of an expert, I see something cool, it's cool, am I now supposed to feel bad because it was made by AI? We're fighting ghosts here, and lot of arguments against AI sounds like moral posturing, artistic gatekeeping and worse, outright denialism of the impressive things it can already do There are some pretty good arguments against AI, more-so on the potential environmental effects of it, but I don't think this is gonna stick for too long either, there's simply too many interested parties in the mix. I say, if you can make something genuinely cool with AI, go ahead and make it, I don't like the mona lisa, it doesn't make it less of an art-piece. I feel a lot of discussion surrounding AI are purely focused on its art potential and how it can potentially make people lose their jobs, calling for its abolishment altogether rather than even trying to find a middle ground where we may use AI as an extension of the artistic process. The invention of the camera did not kill portraits, and we're sort of missing the nuance in that regard when it comes to this convo. Personally, I'm not scared of an AI that can generate a realistic rendering of the Pope in a gucci coat, its a cool tool. What I am genuinely terrified about is AI systems implemented by corporations and governments to perform tasks that would normally require human interaction due to the humanity the process requires and the accountability it lends to the people making those decisions, like that system used to reject healthcare by United Healthcare, did everyone just kind of forget about that? Or the AI's currently being used in the military to map targets across enemy lines for 'optimal destruction'... those are the AI's I'm legitimately terrified of and I think we should be talking about more. When it comes to art tho, in all honesty, I really don't care as long as it looks good, I'm not a connoisseur or whatever the fuck, if its cool, its cool. I'm just saying there is a lot of misplaced aggression when it comes to this topic.