🏴☠️ 𐕣 V A L ░ E R I E 𐕣 🏳️⚧️This is something I feel that's worth talking about, because I feel this is more of that misinformation that passes through people until it becomes secondhand-fact. And I have to screenshot, because people like to make wild statements and then disable replies so nobody can be like, "Uh, are you for real?"
I've used AI. I've talked to ChatGPT, messed with all sorts of generation, and mixed it with my own output. I did all of this, because I was an all-or-nothing no-AI person, and yet, I had no experience with what I was angry about. Once I investigated, and experimented, and researched, I realized, figured out, that things aren't technically as bad as they're being made out to be, and that, in some cases, it's pretty neat.
Why use any AI at all? As much as I'd like to learn everything in the world: I'm aging, and I don't have infinite time on my hands, especially as someone stuck in a full-time job, thousands of dollars in debt, and no material support that could realistically put me into a place where I could actually do all of the things I want to do. Which is part of the problem. I want to do everything. I want to know everything. I'm not satisfied with learning and doing just one thing.
I want it all. I have to have it all. Maybe that's a neurological issue I haven't discovered about myself, or maybe I'm a mad scientist.
But, I still have an imagination.
Fascism in part is definitely about the destruction of the arts, but what we're seeing here is a false equivalency. You see fascists using AI to do fascist things, because that's what you're looking at. That's the only thing you're giving attention to. You're not looking at what normal people are doing. You're severing ties with your friends who used AI to make a social profile avatar image, or to clean up their budget spreadsheet. You're banning and blocking the desperately lonely people who are using sophisticated chatbots to fill a void that everyone else refuses. And the ladder specifically is a symptom of a large problem in our society. A symptom that has arisen because of capitalism and extreme individualism.
But (swinging back to our original topic here) if you do have an imagination, AI can actually be a compliment to that, if you use it correctly. This is only something you will figure out, if you do it yourself, and I'm not saying anyone should. It's totally up to you. You do what you want with yourself, and your life.
Those people on Twitter who make unimaginative, bland trash with AI do so, because they're just dull people. They prompt, "superhero fighting the punisher on a roof" and they think, "Wow, that looks cool." Because that is the limit of what they can see in their minds, before the prompt ever leaves their fingers.
These people are like this, because they don't engage with the arts beyond a Marvel movie. They don't read, they don't think about things larger than themselves. They don't have a sense of wonder. What's the culprit of this?
Something much deeper and older than some tech that gambles out interesting things sometimes, and I think it's really dangerous to spitball new ways to call people around you fascists, because more people are using AI than you're probably aware of.
Because they're just not telling you. They're not telling you, or other people, for exactly this reason.
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