I take a hardline stance on AI "art," because I am a Pagan.
Paganism has only one core belief, and that is reverence for the Earth. It is now common knowledge that the AI bubble is causing huge energy expenditures that will worsen the climate crisis, which I take very, very personally. That's my mother that you're hurting.
So, just know that if you post AI art, I have you muted.
If you post AI art trying to pass it off as real, that's a block from me.
@quietnemophilist @Cat_LeFey and I wish instance moderators would react to the reports.
Since we all know AI sludge is made illegally, it follows it’s illegal to distribute, after all.
@lunar_fang @Cat_LeFey accessibility is where the question becomes really hard to answer.
There are AI-based image describing bots that lazy people on Fedi use. This is still to be condemned.
Besides, the output is really bad and misrepresenting the image. As such, I’d say that while blind people get a description from it, it’s oftentimes more misleading than helpful, so I’ll argue against their use even for these cases, but will still allow people who really need such to use them.
@lunar_fang @Cat_LeFey no, it really won’t get better re. resource usage.
And it’s a spectacularily bad tool: it could also have told you something entirely different than was written on the package, with confidence.
Traditional (pre-AI) optical recognition won’t, it’d say it couldn’t recognise the words or something. With much much less planet burning, at that.
ok. so what was I supposed to do. wait around for a sighted person to come home when ever that would be. just so they could read the directions to me? I'm sorry but. Ai did what i needed it to do and it did it right. I'm tired of people villafying something that does help people out who really need it. you and I I think are going to have to just agree to disagree. if something lets me be even a little more indipendant then I'll use it. I shouldn't have to rely on hoping a sighted person can come home soon and help me cook my lunch! I get that people think AI is harming the earth and I can agree. but at the same time. I need to use it. pagan I am. yes. but that doesn't mean I can't use what I need to to help myself.
@Cat_LeFey @lunar_fang take the risk. If it tells you it’s food and it isn’t, SOL. As I said, the a11y use case is very hard to draw lines for.
Try to get a nōn-AI image recogniser, if they still exist.
AI has given me better ocr then typical ocr. I'm sorry that's just how it has to be.
better image description better everything. I would rather the image is a brown dog verses the image is a dog. for example.
@Cat_LeFey that Wolf-something guy who did the pagan music lifestreams had the audacity to outright block me without comment when I, as politely as possible, told him that I’d rather have no illustration than AI sludge not just for theft machine reasons but also because it burns the earth. Shows how superficial some people can suddenly be when it comes to their comfort (having an illustration and not having to pay an artist for it).
AI sludge most of the time is slightly nauseating to me, even.
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