r/comics 7d ago

Comics Community (OC) AI 'art' and the future

Could be controversial but I'm just gonna say it... I don't like AI... and for me it was never about it not looking good. There are obviously more factors to this whole thing, like about people losing jobs, about how the whole thing is just stealing, and everything like that but I'm just focusing on one fundamental aspect that I think about a lot... I just wanted to draw what I feel...! šŸ„²šŸ„² Sorry about the cringe but I actually live for cringe šŸ’–

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u/regoapps 7d ago edited 7d ago

Whenever people talk about how the "algorithm" keeps showing them the same terrible content over and over again, they're telling on themselves that they often interact with terrible content. They don't have a fundamental understanding of how a good algorithm works, so they just blame what they don't understand.

A good algorithm will constantly analyze your interests by showing you more of what you like and occasionally, show you something different. And if you engage with the new stuff, then it'll know that you want to see more of the new stuff. And if you don't engage with the old stuff, then it'll stop showing it to you as much. So if people see the same things over and over again, it's because they are the ones who keep interacting with it and don't interact with other things.

What you described is more like if you manually visit only one subreddit and don't look at any others. But in reality, you are shown many subreddits and the reddit algorithm prioritizes posts from the subs you most interact with and/or most recently subscribe to.

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u/donaldhobson 7d ago

Problems with "the algorithm" can include.

1) Lots of other people interact with the junk. And the algorithm can't tell that you don't like it.

2) Almost all the content on the platform is junk.

3) You block cookies, turn off history etc. This stops the algorithm actually tracking you.

4) The algorithm gives you videos that are infuriatingly wrong. And you can't stop your self from telling everyone how wrong they are in the comments.

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u/boogswald 7d ago

My algorithm recently found out Iā€™m curious about backyard MMA fighting šŸ˜© go back to white lotus memes please