nikkianaJan 11, 2023

Okay, I'm dumb and need an explain it to me like I'm five about #AI because I haven't been paying enough attention and trying to search for this isn't working out for me....

This recent explosion of being mad about AI and concerned about ethics of how the info that trained it was sourced and consequences of it and what have you....

Are people mad about what a specific company has done? Are they just mad about the idea of AI in general? Is some AI good and some AI bad?

And like.... why is everybody mad about it NOW? Because if it's at the point where we're mad about it now... does that mean we've been headed down that path for awhile now and nobody was paying attention till just now? Did something get released recently and I just missed that part of the story?

Show threadJyoti MishraJan 11, 2023

@nikkiana

FWIW, any time I post anything AI-generated up, random strangers on Mastodon start shouting at me.

*As if they have the right to.*

It's very wearing and no better than Twitter which is disheartening.

Hence me being on a blocking spree.

#AiArt #AIGenerated #AIBias #AIRacism #AIAbleism

Show threadnikkiana

@Jyoti From the replies I've seen to people replying to discussions about AI and images shared from AI seem to have the nuance of a 13 year old who's heard something on the news that they don't understand and scares them, and they've formed their first unshakable opinion about it, and will not listen to other points of view and will dogpile on anybody who's expressing a different take on it.

While I think there are things about the sourcing of it that are questionable, the dogpiling actually makes me MORE curious and willing to try it, than less.

Jan 11, 2023 at 4:27pmWeb
Show threadJyoti MishraJan 11, 2023

@nikkiana

I have HUGE issues with #AI, particularly in its lack of #representation and the way a lot of people seem to assume it's neutral when it is *far* from it.

But a lot of the arguments I'm hearing remind me of when major labels tried to put a levy on blank cassette tapes or when the UK Musicians Union tried to ban synthesizers. And some of the people shouting the loudest are very Lars Ulrich, Napster era. Including their understanding of the actual tech.

Show threadnikkianaJan 11, 2023
@Jyoti Yeah, unfortunately and I suppose unsurprisingly it seems we've taught #AI human bias from the white perspective. Sigh.