I’d have a lot more respect for you if you just owned up to that you don’t care and you just want to use it instead of whining about reactivity and some nebulous concept of accessibility.
People should be free to create art however they want with whatever tools they want without people harassing them for it.
And it’s also made art objectively more accessible.
I volunteer once a month to teach a computer science class at an after school club for kids with disabilities. And when I showed them AI generation and let them play with it on their own, they are ecstatic and I’ve never seen them happier the whole time I’ve been going there. Some of those kids can barely hold a pencil and can’t even draw a stick man, then suddenly they’re making comic strips, or there own Marvel OCs in a high fidelity that they would be physically incapable of reaching on their own. Those kids have vast wells of creativity and this technology allows them to express that, and I will defend it against anyone for that reason alone.
I get the arguments against it. I hate the spam of AI slop too, but being staunchly against the technology itself is nothing but eleitsm.
The technology is used to separate art from artist. How it is being used is inherently problematic. The tool is problematic. Refusing to acknowledge that doesn’t make it any less true.
There are myriad ways for children to create and enjoy art. Punching a text string into a machine that vomits out stolen work is not art.
I’d have a lot more respect for you if you just owned up to that you don’t care and you just want to use it instead of whining about reactivity and some nebulous concept of accessibility.
But it’s both.
People should be free to create art however they want with whatever tools they want without people harassing them for it.
And it’s also made art objectively more accessible.
I volunteer once a month to teach a computer science class at an after school club for kids with disabilities. And when I showed them AI generation and let them play with it on their own, they are ecstatic and I’ve never seen them happier the whole time I’ve been going there. Some of those kids can barely hold a pencil and can’t even draw a stick man, then suddenly they’re making comic strips, or there own Marvel OCs in a high fidelity that they would be physically incapable of reaching on their own. Those kids have vast wells of creativity and this technology allows them to express that, and I will defend it against anyone for that reason alone.
I get the arguments against it. I hate the spam of AI slop too, but being staunchly against the technology itself is nothing but eleitsm.
The technology is used to separate art from artist. How it is being used is inherently problematic. The tool is problematic. Refusing to acknowledge that doesn’t make it any less true.
There are myriad ways for children to create and enjoy art. Punching a text string into a machine that vomits out stolen work is not art.