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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...imagine what it might be like to be the kid of one of these schmucks...you bring home your first drawing and Mommy says “i’m sorry darling, but please quit wasting your time during preschool hours, that is what we bought your robot for” right after she says “oh that looks nice” in air quotes...

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Stephen Moore's avatar

"Oh, we'll put that on the fridge" before putting it in the bin and typing "draw me a kids picture for my fridge" into ChatGPT

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Jacob Clarke's avatar

I think some movement away from AI is because people have gotten less impressed with it, given its limited uses now for most people. Very early on, it seemed revolutionary and on the verge of taking over. But now that it isn't brand new, no one has day-to-day uses and the novelty has worn off. There are some uses like image generation, instant speech translation, and search engine-like questions that it is being used for, but that's about it for day-to-day (so it seems to me).

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Stephen Moore's avatar

Yeah. Like all new tech (at least new in this form), it causes huge buzz. But as we've seen time and time and time again, buzz only carries you so far. The real use cases need to appear before that wanes, else you fail to achieve mass adoption, and start to make your way back down the mountain.

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sean pan's avatar

I keep saying to join us in #PauseAI if we want a chance at all

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sean pan's avatar

Our Discord is here!

https://discord.gg/hUYKukrd

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Stephen Moore's avatar

I joined!

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Michael Thompson's avatar

Just tried to clap this 50x and took me a good minute to realized where I was.

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Stephen Moore's avatar

Mention clapping on here and you'll be sent to naughty step

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Shaggy Snodgrass's avatar

If they want war, they should get it. Their funding is perilous, their power and hardware demands massive and inflexible, and their datasets need constant updating.

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Shaggy Snodgrass's avatar

Average people are not the only ones under threat with this.

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Matthew Ferrara's avatar

Ever notice how they say things like “democratize creativity” and other special incantations that are devoid of meaning, let alone value. Nobody democratized the painting of the Mona Lisa, or the writing of The Sun Also Rises or the playing of Stairway to Heaven. But promise to “democratize” something (while simultaneously centralizing and monetizing it) and you suddenly sound like the Wizard of Oz….

… when in fact we should be paying no attention to the AI behind these curtains.

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Stephen Moore's avatar

Haha. Well put. It's just another one of the phrases that moves the needle unfortunately...

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Alex Beyman's avatar

Do you imagine Leonardo DaVinci did not train on the works of other artists

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Vritant Kumar's avatar

Well put, Stephen. These AI tools have lowered the standard of writing and are close to useless, given the amount of energy they require.

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Will Granger's avatar

Great post. I hope this AI love affair is a bubble that will burst soon. Who gave Sammy boy Altman the right to determine the future direction of society?

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Stephen Moore's avatar

Venture capitial money it would seem.

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Björn B's avatar

I a few years “hand” (human) made design (text, illustrations, product design) will be a quality signature. Sad but it will possibly happen.

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Stephen Moore's avatar

I've been thinking on this. Perhaps a societal distinction will form between I "made" this and I "generated" this.

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Niki Elle's avatar

Sigh. I hate this so much. Do you have any thoughts on what we as creatives can do? Sometimes, I come across websites or apps that say something like, “can we use your material to train AI?” I heartily punch NO, but I know they still do it anyway….

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Irfan Aslam's avatar

The best AI we deserve but likely won't get is an AI detector in Creative fields.

Machines and AI were supposed to take away or lessen the pain of back breaking hard labor and not the nourishment of art & creativity but that's precisely the low hanging fruit they are gouging on in the 1st phase.

Guess there's no point for the 2nd phase as they'll have hordes of jobless ex-creatives to be sent to the factory jobs even cheaper than a 🤖 robot run factory.

Welcome to another dream gone sour. What else could you expect from an Alt-man.

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Oh That’s Good Company's avatar

Hope y’all like this!

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Nick Potkalitsky's avatar

I think this already happened several years ago when they started training their early models.

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Annika's avatar

Whenever I see AI in a headline I get scared that it is yet another hype article declaring AI the best thing that has ever happened to us. This was a very cathartic read! Thank you.

I wrote about it a few weeks ago because I, too, couldn’t take it any longer. Is this really what the world wants? I doubt it is. But at the same time I doubt that most people fully understand what AI will do.

And I agree that these AI companies are turning creativity into a commodity, but I would actually go one step further and say: creativity in the form of art is no longer wanted. It is seen as unnecessary and unimportant.

And an interesting observation: I read through the comments of Mira Murati’s tweet and the really interesting ones (the critical ones) are hidden under “Show probable spam”, which you have to click on to see it.

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Mahyar Rezghi's avatar

This is a great post! I have a few thoughts to add, but I'm still learning the ropes of professional writing myself.

English isn't my first language, and keeping track of all the nuances can be tricky. To help, I use large language models (LLMs) for daily editing and writing support. I'm transparent about this, and I don't try to disguise their assistance.

On the topic of originality, I find it rare that something is entirely new. Most ideas stem from a combination of existing concepts. That's perfectly natural!

Ultimately, I would love to see LLMs become even better at transforming ideas into polished content.

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Stephen Moore's avatar

I still argue with the point that LLMs and humans are the same in that they take olds idea and rework to something new. I believe humans do that, but LLMs just kinda regurgate it in a different way, which is not the same.

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Mahyar Rezghi's avatar

Yeah I totally agree with the fact that it's not the same.

But my pount is for someone like me who's trying to teach something (not creating art), getting information across is more important than knowing all the nuances of English.

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Will Granger's avatar

Sadly, you won't learn the nuances of English if you let "A" do any editing for you. Please just read more, and you will get it on your own.

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