Look, Rakuen, this article is almost two weeks old. You've had way more than enough time to come up with a better argument than "well, if you take the bad parts of my argument, and ignore them, my argument is good, right?"
And the ass of it is, no. Even if I grant you your wish, and ignore the ethics, my point in the long rambling comment was actually already an answer to "setting aside ethics, what do you have against generative AI"? My anwer is, actually, the pig post. You know the aphorism, "the marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all"? That's AI. It's a novelty act. You're excited about it because it's new and sparkly, and we've been told all our lives AI can't art, but now, look, it can art? Not well, but it can! It's not the future of art, Rakuen, it's a cheap carnival trick (and from what I've heard, carnies fucking love it).
But actually, do you know how you make a bear dance, Rakuen? You torture it! You chain it on top of a big metal platform, then you light a fire underneath it, so that it stands up on its hind legs and hops from foot to foot to avoid contact with the hot metal as much as it can. So play a happy song, say look at the funny bear dancing to the music, and meanwhile it writhes in fucking agony in the background. That's AI. It's cruelly manipulating us with tricks, where the ultimate trick is hiding that it fucking hurts people.
It only works by stealing, and it only works half the time, anyway.
I get you fucking hate bucket guy's guts, but just mock him in the comment section and move on; you don't fucking need to destroy him. Even if that wasn't kind of asshole move in and of itself, yes, his art probably has no future, either. But even if you still wanted to, AI's not going to do it for you. Sorry, man.
(We still follow each other on Twitter; you've reposted art today, and even you don't repost AI. And I doubt it's because you're worried about your reputation!)
Look, Rakuen, this article is almost two weeks old. You've had way more than enough time to come up with a better argument than "well, if you take the bad parts of my argument, and ignore them, my argument is good, right?"
And the ass of it is, no. Even if I grant you your wish, and ignore the ethics, my point in the long rambling comment was actually already an answer to "setting aside ethics, what do you have against generative AI"? My anwer is, actually, the pig post. You know the aphorism, "the marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all"? That's AI. It's a novelty act. You're excited about it because it's new and sparkly, and we've been told all our lives AI can't art, but now, look, it can art? Not well, but it can! It's not the future of art, Rakuen, it's a cheap carnival trick (and from what I've heard, carnies fucking love it).
But actually, do you know how you make a bear dance, Rakuen? You torture it! You chain it on top of a big metal platform, then you light a fire underneath it, so that it stands up on its hind legs and hops from foot to foot to avoid contact with the hot metal as much as it can. So play a happy song, say look at the funny bear dancing to the music, and meanwhile it writhes in fucking agony in the background. That's AI. It's cruelly manipulating us with tricks, where the ultimate trick is hiding that it fucking hurts people.
It only works by stealing, and it only works half the time, anyway.
I get you fucking hate bucket guy's guts, but just mock him in the comment section and move on; you don't fucking need to destroy him. Even if that wasn't kind of asshole move in and of itself, yes, his art probably has no future, either. But even if you still wanted to, AI's not going to do it for you. Sorry, man.
(We still follow each other on Twitter; you've reposted art today, and even you don't repost AI. And I doubt it's because you're worried about your reputation!)