stopthatgirl7Aug 9, 2023

The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool

I do understand why so many people, especially creative folks, are worried about AI and how it’s used. The future is quite unknown, and things are changing very rapidly, at a pace that can feel out…

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/08/the-fear-of-ai-just-killed-a-very-useful-tool/

The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool

I do understand why so many people, especially creative folks, are worried about AI and how it’s used. The future is quite unknown, and things are changing very rapidly, at a pace that can feel out…

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Show threaddonutsAug 9, 2023

AI people just love to disingenuously claim that anybody who criticizes AI "fears" the technology. This is their way of dismissing all critics or skeptics as luddites, and is usefully based entirely of their desire to profit somehow off of the trend.

Artists don't "fear" AI... They simply want big tech billionaires to stop stealing their copyrighted art works or other intellectual property in the hopes of generating infinite junk "content".

Show threadstopthatgirl7Aug 9, 2023
Yeah, but that’s not what this tool was? It analyzed writing styles, not copied them.
Show threadCyanFen
That’s also what art AI does. It analyzes art styles, then creates unique works based on its “inspiration”
Aug 9, 2023 at 5:46amWeb
Show threadstopthatgirl7Aug 9, 2023

This doesn’t make anything from it, though. It gives you word counts, like how much passive voice was used and how many -ly adverbs. There’s nothing unique created from it.

That’s honestly the issue being pointed out here - people see “AI” and have knee jerk reactions, without seeing how it is being used here. I’m completely against AI being used to make “art” or do writing, but that’s not what what this tool did at all. But folks assumed it did.