(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/illogicalhawk]

One fundamental issue with the algorithm showing and reinforcing things you already know and like is that it's limiting. How small would your world and tastes be if you never tried something new, something outside your comfort zone, something that you didn't already know you'd like?

We're all much more diverse and interesting people because we've taken "risks" and experienced new things. Not all of them work for us, but that at least shows you're trying and open to growth.

[u/itsmemarcot → u/illogicalhawk]

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/protestor → u/itsmemarcot]

Even in your best scenario you are railroaded into liking whatever the AI spits to you. All the "new" things you stumble upon are just things the AI decided you will like.. it's not up to you to decide, your fate has been preordained.

Which is awesome! .. for whoever controls the AI, which will be people like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and the likes.

There's already talks about how there should be laws to limit AI.. which in practice means, laws that ensures AI will be always controlled by companies like OpenAI rather than by the common people.

Also: I'm not sure people will actually back down from AI just because it's artificial. People are hooked on their phones right now consuming streams of meaningless media nonstop, and a lot of this media is AI generated to some extent. People don't stop looking down their phones because it's addictive, and AI will only make things more addictive.

The end game is connecting this stuff directly to your mind, with things like Neuralink.. like in Ghost in the Shell

[u/donaldhobson → u/protestor]

> for whoever controls the AI, which will be people like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and the likes.

Not really. I mean they own the companies that make the AI. But they don't make the 1000's of small day to day decisions. An army of minimum wage workers rate content as good or bad for the AI to classify.

The end user gets a bit of control.

And to some extent, the AI does it's own thing, not controlled by any human.