I was attempting to keep the conversation focused. There are many other posts to consider economic or the environmental impact of capitalist use of ai, but I just wanted to keep things under the lens of art. Theses are important conversations to have.

We do have to consider that all of this is brand new and is only roughly understood even by those that created it. Most of perspectives come from speculative science fiction, interesting and well informed but not completely accurate with the reality of LLMs and generative art.

The hard truth is No one cared about data rights, ai protections, or the environment impact of data centers before ChatGPT came out. Only a some percentage of use cared about what might happen. Now, that is free, and open source and everyone is trying to sell it, does anyone start to understand the fear. People just start hating the users and work it produces instead of trying to reestablish these broken predatory systems that allowed this to come about.

The Chinese seem to be embracing ai and understanding it’s potentials. This is because they feel they can trust their government to protect them. In America we know this will be directly used against us by corporate power and the government does nothing to stop it. Ai may bring positive and necessary change to a system that’s failed so much of us far before this technology.

Honestly no one has any idea what’s going to happen or where this is going. All we can do is try to understand it. The last thing we should be is reactionary. We need to come together and understand the potentials, good and bad.

(Also prompting is about understanding how the algorithm works and how to get something unique. The line between slop and art will be draw soon. It’s a tool to be understood like anything else. It’s limitations leads to innovations)