I've mentioned it on Twitter when I still had that and Bluesky, but one of the things I've hated the most about the rise of AI Slop has been that I no longer trust random, very low view count videos/songs that pop up in my YouTube recommended. I used to find a TON of really great tracks and releases that had like, 10 views or less and now I avoid those like the plague. And that sucks. That really really sucks.
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That's why learning how to tell from real vs. so is now a more important skill to have then ever. Me personally, not working on projects due to fear of ai being better at it or replicating isn't a concern since my guaranteed shit quality cannot and will not ever be copied
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as long as nobody ever feeds a .fur to a LLM and uploads it to the internet I'm chill
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this hits very close, there are so many cool things I did and learnt over the years that I'll never put online because sooner or later it is going to be fed into an AI. I would really like to be able to share those things, if it weren't for me really not liking the idea that what I make could be fed into the "bullshit machine". thanks acrouzet
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Well, like every technology, there is a good way and a bad way to use it. However, AI will always be based on logic so everything absurd or not following that will always be safe from it because it's not based on a pattern. But for me, it will always signify Artificial Insignificance and like any heavily processed music, it is too technical so it fails to trigger emotions. For my part, I disable systematically every AI in any apps/OS I use because I rather try to understand by myself the potential of what I'm using and I prefer simple and practical over gadget and gimmicks.
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And the government won't do anything to stop it because their priorities are not internet artists.
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The only thing I'm worried about is AI taking my job that I want to do in the future, creative things are less important but yeah distinguishing AI from human made creations is getting harder and harder, and unfortunately on the internet you can't trust anyone
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We had the same drama with personal/home computers, the internet, photoshop, name it ... A lot of opinion on AI is just coming straight from sci-fi. Look at handwritten letters. I don't miss them, although I'm a retro guy. Now I put query results & graphics in my mails. You remember the waste of time that went in manually reviewing and correcting your spelling and rewriting letters ? Now you can focus on content and argumentation and enrich far beyond your handwriting capabilities. In my job, new tools means more complex products and higher expectations at the end of the day. We use generative tools for decades in software development. The frameworks that are helpful after all that time don't generate explicit code anymore but offer a high degree of fluidity so that customization feels natural. Technically, there are still layers generated at run time, but it is fully transparent. No one wants to maintain and customize an explicit generated layer anymore, it's a work sink. And yes, at the dawn of new paradigms you have the pioneers who go 110% in. They seldom make mature products, and will sink all their creativity in making a 80/20 prototype work. It is a necessary exercise, the unavoidable cost of maturing.
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acrouzet
Honestly, my biggest concern with AI is that it may discourage people from creating, interacting, and trusting on the internet out of fear that they won't be distinguishable from AI.
The only way I can think of responding is by encouraging people to not let AI take over their mind. Continue creating, sharing, and commenting, even if AI can do it too. Don't hesitate to put something out into the world because you think it's too similar to AI. On the other end, don't automatically assume someone's using AI, which sows mistrust and discourages creators. And even if someone is using AI, don't ridicule them or dismiss them and their work outright (though this may depend on the circumstances). In the absence of any authority to put our trust in AI, we can only trust each other by communicating and having faith in each other.
No matter how good these algorithms get, it matters that you made it yourself. Don't let that be taken from you. The only way we kill the internet is if we stop contributing to these platforms ourselves and fracture out of fear.
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