"We live in the crumbling ruins of a deadly economic system that has alienated us not just from one another but from seeing meaning in our work – even our own creative works. Why learn how to do a thing when a stochastic parrot trained on the works of the best people in that field can create a half-assed version for you for free? The output is good enough to be content. To be a thing that others can consume en passant and forget a millisecond after they saw it. Everything is about the output today, the thing that’s produced and “generative AI” makes production itself cheap as long as quality isn’t a factor."

Couldn't have said it better myself. My thoughts exactly on the whole "#AI revolution" just being another symptom of late stage #capitalism

Platforms need content to give people an incentive to stay, so that they can place ads that nobody really pays attention to, but for which they still make money. This is true for YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and whatever else they're called.

AI is just the vehicle with which these platforms try to make real creatives superfluous, because they are only interested in their content so that they can feed users with a near endless stream of content in order to artificially keep an advertising-driven business idea alive that is barely viable without exploitation, on which platforms have been based for a long time.

AI is the unilateral termination of the existing social contract that has incentivized platforms to be useful to creators. Now platforms want to be self-sufficient and simply push soulless content so that they can continue to shove ads in your face.

Platforms are the rent-seekers of the internet: they contribute nothing to the creative process and yet try to profit as much as possible from other people's work. AI is just the next logical step on their roadmap.

Just content to keep you hooked and serve you ads. Quality has never been the goal.

https://tante.cc/2023/11/10/thoughts-on-generative-ai-art/

Thoughts on "generative AI Art"

When I was a kid / teenager I wanted to play the guitar. Like many people that age. Got myself a guitar and everything but never really practiced at all in any meaningful way.

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