(OC) AI 'art' and the future

[u/SylvieXX]

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...! 🥲🥲 Sorry about the cringe but I actually live for cringe 💖

[u/itsmemarcot]

Counter argument:

"Future AI, make a cartoon series [or whatever] with something I will probably like, but I don't know I like yet. Focus on making me a more mature cartoon enjoyer. Make it challenge my current boundaries."

I side more with the argument that, when you really really love a piece of media, it's like a connection with another mind (or set of minds): the makers of that media. As the comic says: you feel what they felt. You partake in their struggles, their hopes, their joys or sorrows.

Consuming AI media, then, it's like making love with a sex doll. It doesn't matter how realistic it is: it would get old real quick because "there's nobody there".

[u/TwilightVulpine → u/itsmemarcot]

Unless we just make this AI magic mind reading, it will only know the things you already liked to base itself on. It won't know what it is that which you don't know you might like. At best it will recommend things other people with similar profiles liked, but that's not the same as really challenging your tastes.

Algorithms and ads today can guess things that you might be interested in, but they fail at it pretty often.

[u/illogicalhawk → u/TwilightVulpine]

I'd argue that they succeed at it surprisingly often due to the countless and often subtle ways our actions and interests are tracked and shared by various applications and technologies. There's sometimes the thought that we can curate what we feed the algorithm, but with devices potentially listening to our conversations, apps tracking our location and the places we visit, and much of this data being shared between companies, that's often out of our hands.

[u/TwilightVulpine → u/illogicalhawk]

I wouldn't. As an example, I tried using TikTok which is also mostly algorithmically driven. I had to hammer at it for a while, explicitly searching and following stuff I wanted and telling for it to stop recommending stuff I didn't like, for it to be mildly interesting to browse. At best it's on the level of keeping the TV on channel you like on the background, including how often you just don't care about what it got on schedule. Its manner of use means skipping a lot of what it tries to recommend you. Staying on it was more about staving off boredom than it was a testament to its ability to entertain. It would show some new stuff but I'd have it better simply by following subs of my interests over here. It's telling that Instagram, which got an ungodly amount of data on everyone, is just as mediocre at it.

But worse, whenever it "challenged" me, it was through blatant clickbait and pushing for hatewatching. Because they seek engagement at any cost. Not satisfaction, not enrichment, simply engagement. If it was even moderately effective, I dread to think what sort of infuriating bulshit such a tailored AI would resort to, to keep you stuck to it.