I heard about C2PA and I don’t believe for a second that it’s not going to be used for surveillance and all that other fun stuff. What’s worse is that they’re apparently trying to make it legally required. It also really annoys me when I see headlines along the lines of “Is AI the end of creativity?!1!” or “AI will help artists, not hurt them!1!!” or something to that effect. So, it got me thinking and I tried to come up with some answers that actually benefit artists and their audience rather that just you know who.

Unfortunately my train of thought keeps barreling out of control to things like, “AI should do the boring stuff, not the fun stuff” and “if people didn’t risk starvation in the first place…” So I thought I’d find out what other people think (search engines have become borderline useless haven’t they).

So what do you think would be the best way to satisfy everyone?

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Considering the amount of processing power needed to make a decent AI model, I’m pretty sure it’s already solely controlled by large companies.

    Well, yeah, but not exactly. The best image generation model is Stable Diffusion which is open source. There’s a huge open source community vastly improving image generation and creating amazing features for it that outpace companies. Stable Diffusion XL is almost done and also set to be open source. There’s also a big push for language models to be open source, but we’re not there yet.

    the fact that AI is doing things that humans are supposedly meant to do for fun just doesn’t sit right with me.

    I totally agree but sadly it’s where technology has lead us. It turns out making image/text/software generating AIs are so much easier than robots that automate the boring stuff. Physical robots aren’t there yet. I don’t think computer scientists intended to destroy art, but more just “this seems like a logical next step that AI can do”.

    The big problem just lies in money. Millions of people will lose their jobs quicker than they think over AI advances, and it’ll be a slow transition until we can create an economic system that can sustain them. The “just get a real job” crowd are in for a rude awakening when they realize there will be no “real job” 10 years later.

    But ah well, I’d encourage people to just enjoy the rollercoaster ride and see how it goes rather than shouting at computers.