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Marcel Ryan's avatar

To answer the question of whether you are part of the problem now. The answer is: yes, yes you are.

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

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Made in DNA's avatar

Hi, new guy here. @radicaledward pointed me to your newsletter (not necessarily this post tho). I'll be upfront -- I love AI art. I love playing with it. And I feel a bit puzzled as to why the hate for it is so tangible you can taste it in the air as it metastasizes from the pulsating anger of some folks. Don't get me wrong, I can understand why they don't like it, I just feel the level of hate is somehow disproportionate to the "threat" it somehow poses. As an (hobby) author, I view AI art the same as my learning another author's style (which at minimum I only pay something like $8 to learn -- is that enough?). As a translator (my day-time, full-time job), I use AI tools to speed my work. People laud AI tools when they benefit us. Some translators were shaking in their boots couple years back with the rise of AI translation. Did the public care then? Heck no, they embraced it and gladly fed the AI engines millions of examples a day (perhaps a slight exaggeration) as they globetrotted. So... what's my point? I think, perhaps, just a little, we are blowing this out of proportion. Should there be laws and protection for human works? OF COURSE. But perhaps could we leave the palpable hate for anyone who enjoys and plays with AI art at home? Please? Heck, I love my little AI projects. Am I ever going to try and pass them off as something I did? NEVER. Do I recognize that the AI learned from others to create it? ABSOLUTELY. But so did Picasso, and all the other "great" artists and composers and authors and... who came before us. We all start somewhere. We all learn and grow. I hope AI does, too.

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