Raw LLM Responses

the actual funniest thing about fans of gen ai "art" is they can't decide if ai is easy to use or hard to use. like, is it so easy to use that it's suddenly democratizing art and making it possible for every tom dick and harry to be michelangelo? or is it so hard to use that you already have to be a highly skilled artist to get anything good out of it in the first place? like. which is it. it can't be both it has to be either so stupid easy to use that it's going to put every artist out of a job and turn every average person into an artist or it's so hard to use that you literally have to be an artist to use it. those two things are mutually exclusive. and yet the answer is just "whatever counters the criticism i just got". edit: also, i need to defend the luddites. they weren't blindly against technology. their argument wasn't just "technology bad" and "dont fire me". they had real valid concerns about how technology advancement was being used to displace skilled workers and disadvantage the unskilled workers being hired in their place (for lower wages, and with less worker power and more power to the factories), which was a net negative, rather than being used to improve conditions for workers and making textiles more widely available for customers. workers lost autonomy and faced lower wages and more dangerous working conditions. it's true that technological development is always going to lead to societal change and sometimes that change includes a certain category of job being made redundant or being replaced with a different job. but a society that has generative ai AND values real art, gen ai will not be taking the jobs of actual artists. it will be used as a tool by artists to see what kind of new, weird shit they can create with the new technology. i've been seeing actual book covers in bookstores that were clearly ai generated (like, missing hands, no discernable details, one had the statue of liberty and she didn't even have a hand on the torch. her arm just blended in. classic ai stuff). and that is what artists have a problem with. and frankly that is also what i have a problem with as a customer. i don't want my book covers to be some shit a bot churned out to turn a profit. i want my book covers to be lovingly made by a real person. it's also strange that these people take so much pride in being the people pushing some buttons for an llm. like, that's the most redundant job possible. one day the llm won't NEED you to push buttons anymore. everyone is always going to want real art. even the ai bros, because they need somewhere to take inspiration from. people will always want real engineers and programmers and architects and teachers and so on, because they will always want a real person in charge of those things. people relying on llms for their skillset don't realize that in 10-20 years, they are going to be the ones who are obsolete. not the guy who spent 20 years learning how to actually draw.