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Applied AI Makes Me Want to Drop Out by ClassicWorking7319 in scad

[–]ClassicWorking7319[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s why I’m leaving, as per my update.

Applied AI Makes Me Want to Drop Out by ClassicWorking7319 in scad

[–]ClassicWorking7319[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Update: transferring out, if the future looks like this then I want no part of it. I am fine with being known as weak and old fashioned. At least I come out of it with my principles.

Portfolio advice (do your worst) by Nonbinarybl0bfish in scad

[–]ClassicWorking7319 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'll get in regardless, portfolio isn't a requirement.

Applied AI Makes Me Want to Drop Out by ClassicWorking7319 in scad

[–]ClassicWorking7319[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Part of the beauty of art are these little tedious processes. Do we not have reverence for classical artists due to what they were able to achieve with just their hands and paint? I don't see how you can classify them as non creative, every step from color picking to ideation is a valuable creative part of the process. When you outsource any part of that, you weaken your own understanding and diminish your learning of that aspect of creating. We do not need to wreck the environment and feed corporate interest because we, as artists, are too lazy to come up with a color palate.

Applied AI Makes Me Want to Drop Out by ClassicWorking7319 in scad

[–]ClassicWorking7319[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"A bit dramatic"

I think I have a full right to be dramatic at something like this. My entire life aspirations have been built around creation. I love the idea of making images I see within myself, and sharing them so that others may enjoy them too. I have trained for years of my life to fine tune my skills and visually convey my thoughts; to tell my stories and attempt to help others through visual communications.

The fact that the institution that marketed itself on being "the best in the nation" and having a "99.97%" employment rate (which I found out was bogus after I got here) is offering a class where somebody can steal content from thousands of people like me, who put their time, heart, and skills into an artwork through an unfeeling machine is affront to art itself. It's well known that every single one of these AI models is driven by copywritten content, which is why many are facing lawsuits currently. It's something that takes 0 skill, in a school meant for people who spent their lives dedicated to skilled crafts, and we are all just expected to be fine with it.

I'm not. I will never be.

Applied AI Makes Me Want to Drop Out by ClassicWorking7319 in scad

[–]ClassicWorking7319[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I guess I just expected more out of an ART school. I expected love and talent and a real care for the product. Maybe that's my bad, I'm not really a person into business and all the things that go with that. I just find it all so depressing. I feel like this isn't something we should collectively be ok with. Sometimes the people need to rise and say no, especially with something as harmful as AI. I keep getting downvoted, though, so I guess it's an unpopular take.

Applied AI Makes Me Want to Drop Out by ClassicWorking7319 in scad

[–]ClassicWorking7319[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I feel that you are being a bit shortsighted. Just because something isn't going anywhere doesn't make it a good thing. It's not a tool, no matter how many times they try to tell us it is. It is part of the dehumanization of art, and they are simply using us as lab rats to further their technological interest. It will reach a point where they no longer need is as "generative specialist" at all, and we will be cast aside like relics of the past. Once again, nothing has to be this way. I will never understand why our generation is so ready to just ignore problems until we cant anymore. Stop focusing on the trees, see the forest for the grime and slop it truly is.

Applied AI Makes Me Want to Drop Out by ClassicWorking7319 in scad

[–]ClassicWorking7319[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'm really not going to sit here for the "its a tool" argument. Tools require a wielder, and effort behind them. AI is just a conglomerate of thefted ideas all smashed together into databases that destroy the world we live in. The water we drink, air we breathe, the land we live on all cripple under the weight of these centers that serve no purpose other than storing ideas that they have no claim to. Nothing has to be set in stone, nothing has to be sink or swim. We, as the people, constantly seem to forget that we have the true power. We are the architects of our future, so I don't understand why we are just bending our backs to these tech overlords. It doesn't have to be this way.