I don’t hate AI itself, but the amount of AI slop ruining the internet gives me a negative feeling about it whenever I see it. I used to enjoy fucking around with the early pre-2021 GANs, diffusion models and GPT3 playground before ChatGPT was around and actually liked the crazy dreamlike nonsense they made, but now it all feels like dead soulless crap getting used to replace humans. Probably going to get super downvoted for admitting to ever liking AI image gens lmao
The one thing I continue to love AI for is it is absolutely cracked at image recognition. Whats this plant? An aerial yam, duh! What’s this shower head? Well, the original manufacturer is gone but the exact same part is still being sold without a label - here’s the webpage we found a match on. That still amazes me.
But in general I hate how AI is just slowly rotting not just the internet and social media but just human talent and general. In 20 years we are not gonna have nearly as many young artists and writers because they have to compete with AI able to crank out slop for free. AI cannot (and in my opinion, almost by definition will never be able to) equal the very best artists and writers, but how are up and comers supposed to get to that level? Think of all the all time great creative people who started off just grinding as a cartoonist, background character, or pulp fiction writer. Those are gonna be the ones to go first. Instead of a, for example, 2 year pipeline to be able to scrape by pursuing a creative profession it could be a 10 year pipeline.