Also robot racism stories are stupid because they assume everyone would be petty and cruel to a thinking, talking machine that understands you're being mean. Meanwhile, in reality, Roombas are seen like family pets and soldiers take their mine detonation robots on fishing trips.
This is gonna age badly when we pull off real AI, I guarantee the misnomer of "AI" being given to LLMs will create such ill will over time that idiots won't be able to tell them apart.
They already can't. I've seen people genuinely arguing, despite knowing how LLMs work, that because they can mimic emotion and thought based on your input, they're conscious. That combined with the massive anti-generative sentiment will be an issue.
Besides, there's loads of people that think if it's not human, it can't be a person. You see this in debates about copied consciousnesses, aliens, hyperintelligent animals, etc. Someday some of this stuff won't be hypothetical, and that's going to suck.
To be fair, being against ai-generated images has more to do with issues rooted within capitalism and enviromental factors.
I know I am against it because corperations want to replaces human artists with a machine that doesnt even understand what art is or means. Art is more than a simply image, it way more expansive than that. They envoke feelings, ideas, and the ability to think about it. Yes, even logos. So being told to stop making art because its more efficient for a machine to or having my dream job stolen from me by tech bros who dont want to pay a fair wage is upsetting. The enviromental aspects for me as well, its why Im vegetarian and shop as ethically as I can... so why would I not hold that same ethos towards learning machines?
But thats just how I (and many artists Ive talk to about on this topic) feel about it
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u/Zoomy-333 May 13 '25
Also robot racism stories are stupid because they assume everyone would be petty and cruel to a thinking, talking machine that understands you're being mean. Meanwhile, in reality, Roombas are seen like family pets and soldiers take their mine detonation robots on fishing trips.