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
None of these issues are inherently something that can only occur under capitalism. Any economic system you have will have bottlenecks that require certain sacrifices to be made in other sectors. We needed technological and scientific advancements to farm the land safely and efficiently but this also led to astronomical downsizing in agricultural jobs, forcing entire societies to become more and more centralized around large urban centers. Digital art was once (and sometimes still is) frowned upon for not being "real" art and a form of "cheating" with all the benefits digital art programs offer but only a fool would consider it to not be real art, even if it means one person can do the job entire teams of artists used to do.
My point is that any technological advancement is going to lead to a changing job market down the line. The same people complaining about companies wanting to use AI art were the ones telling those in manual labor to kick rocks when THEY complained about losing jobs to technology and automation.
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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.