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Oh, they can make something useful. I can watch Flunky make images with two very different checkpoints, and they have the same artistic style. And the breasts are enormous and heaving. It's good for gooning to.
I just don't believe we should have to put up with 99 average AI art users for every Highborn Flunky. I'm willing to give up gooning to Flunky pieces if it means I don't have to see those awful sepia comics with the dot eyes on Lemmy.
And I'm concerned by men like Sam Altman and Elon Musk. I'm concerned by the energy cost of training, the economic costs to artists, and the effect on average people's creativity. I would be willing to ban AI art in order to solve those issues. If 99% of humans can't be responsible with the technology, then we shouldn't have it. I feel the same way about automobiles, nuclear bombs, tanks, and plastic packaging.
Sure but it gets back to “Nobody wants to see anyone’s shit art”. No one wants to see anyone’s shit photos either. If it didn’t take like 5 minutes for a photo I bet most early photos would have been of tits, too. It doesn’t mean the tech can’t have a purpose and couldn’t be used in a flourishing, artistic way. It just means we need to do what we’ve always done and tell people with bad art to fuck off. :)
Humanity is too ignorant to recognise bad AI art on sight, every time. The trends are only easy to see in mass aggregate. That's why individual action can't stop it. We need aggregate action. We need to ban AI art.