#Elon musk funded dall e so its more like you just commissioned Elon musk’s fancy machine for a drawing

[secretmellowblog]

Every day I wake up and horrified by the implications of AI on the entertainment industry….a lot of my friends are going to lose their jobs and starve to death because Elon Musk thought it’d be fun to fund a machine that automatically steals artists’ work against their will to create generic algorithmically generated mass market slop.

I feel like I’m going crazy because everyone pretends they care about how “popular media sucks now because it’s all created to be as generically marketable/similar to other things as possible, almost like it’s algoritmically generated >:(“ but then they’re also like “WOW COOL AI ART!”

Like dudes???? Don’t you understand that supporting AI art means that you’re supporting eliminating and eviscerating any last vestiges of humanity from art……..a company will definitely settle for “mass produced AI slop generated by an algorithm to look as similar as possible to whatever generic popular slop came before” if it means they don’t have to pay a human being.

And that’s not even going into the way that these algorithms monetize themselves……some of them have “free” tiers now but that’s extremely likely to change in the future. I can’t wait until the most prolific “comic artists” of our times are like, hedge fund managers who can afford to buy 1000000 prompts on Dall-E.

And once that starts happening more we’ll all be drowning in a tidal wave of hollow empty shallow algorithmically generated “”””art””””” created by machines that can’t feel, think, intend, or care— machines that can only rip off the artists they were designed to replace, the artists whose actually meaningful thoughtful creations were stolen to provide their training data.

I hate all of this, and I hate the mass callous indifference to it. I am baffled that people don’t see the dangers of a future where none of our art is created by people who care— by people who are trying to mean something and to say something and to connect with you from one person to another—but by algorithms mindlessly mashing pixels together. It’s going to be horrible. Especially because in a time of climate change and intense social stress/collapse it’s going to be very important to connect with other people through art, but AI removes humanity from art entirely. If climate change wasn’t likely to cause the collapse of society anyway I’d say that if we keep heading in this direction the art and entertainment industry is a bit doomed

#ai art #anyway! #i feel like I’m losing my mind seeing everyone be like #‘wow it’s so amazing I created this with Ai -heart eyes- #like you didn’t create anything…. #Elon musk funded dall e so its more like you just commissioned Elon musk’s fancy machine for a drawing #the moment they remove the free tier from dall e you’re fucked lol #anyway #i have had absolutely no faith in the entertainment industry for a very long time #(it’s the ‘studying to work in the entertainment industry and making friends in it’ burnout ) #so yee #it’s all cutthroat #if I wasn’t so sure we were heading towards some kind of greater infrastructure collapse #I’d be more sad about it #as it is I have a lot of other things to be sad about #but thankfully I have a decent job out of college #because I studied 3D stuff #which can’t be replaced yet