• EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    I was going to disagree at first with the first sentence, but the rest of your comment is exactly what I was going to say.

    Gen AI is for the middle managers and CEOs of life. The people who want the reward/recognition for doing a thing, but don’t want to put in the effort to accomplish the task.

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      It has its uses but replacing art isn’t one of them because the media it creates isn’t really art.

      Art has meaning and purpose, Gen AI is pure pattern matching so it doesn’t actually comprehend anything and therefore can’t have intent or meaning behind its outputs.

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        2 days ago

        Exactly. Gen AI is just a more complex version of the magic wand tool. In a better world where it wasn’t made with unethically sourced training material, I would even go right ahead and suggest it as a useful tool for artists for stuff like storyboarding or blocking out compositions.

        But it is made unethically and for the specific purpose of preventing artists from receiving what they’re owed for the work that they do or for replacing their jobs with something of lesser quality because it’s cheaper, so I can’t and won’t willingly support it.