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Leah#AI is killing the joy I feel with a lot of things lately. That's not a great feeling. But you can explain it if you compare AI with frozen pizza.
traumweh@leah I think you really hit the nail with the comparison... The part about questioning if something is or isn't AI-generated really hit home. And worst of all it can lead to people wrongly accusing someone of using AI.
E.g. as part of the #eh22 designteam, we had people accusing us of using AI, especially for the rendered background of our poster and postcard we distributed at 38c3. And that just hurts so much... all the time invested just to get compared and reduced to AI slop.
Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)@traumweh @leah I read this and agree with all of it and wonder where this sentiment was in, say, the 80s. My father was worked as a sign painter / putting lettering on cars/trucks, and vinyl signs wiped out a lot of his work seemingly overnight. (I wrote about this a bit in 2023.)
I'm firmly in the "I prefer things to be made by humans" camp, but society hasn't been willing to draw these lines in the past. If we start now, we should consider moving it backwards...
https://dissociatedpress.net/2023/03/30/why-would-writing-be-any-different/
Why would writing be any different?
Fair warning, I’m going to wade into the whole AI/ChatGPT discussion. It’s been discussed to death, but I’m going to jump in anyway. Feel free to click away if you’re already sick of the topic. I’m going to use “ChatGPT” as a stand-in for ML/AI-driven writing tools, even though it’s not the only one on the market and there’s certainly more to come. Anyway, it seems like ChatGPT is poised to automate away a lot of writing work, and we’re in for tools that are going to produce a whole lot of content of varying quality and accuracy whether we like that prospect or not.
Klaus Frank@traumweh @leah It's even worse if you put original work into any of these "AI checkers" (that also e.g. universities use) then you'll notice that often enough they'll falsely flag stuff as AI-generated. It is more often wrong than correct from my experiences. And then there are all of the people that just upload the work to chatGPT and ask "did you make this?" and trust whatever it replies...
Blf_tpe@leah Hi, I respectfully disagree! For me AI has rather slashed crap at work, made me discover new stuff and improved my photo technique. Plus it’s like a constant stream of knowledge that’s always available, I find it extremely useful to understand new topics. And it helps me cut on social media, which is also a good thing ^^
Eugen Rochko@Blf_tpe The constant stream of knowledge that's always available is called Wikipedia, and being able to use a search engine, and we've had it for over two decades.
@Gargron hi ! I’m editing my answer because it’s you 
I think AI is a big enabler for FOSS as it makes FOSS and Linux way more accessible for non-tech persons like me. Starting on Linux and needing a bit of DIY in one’s software takes time at first, and ChatGPT makes the process fun and improves dramatically the learning curve.
I think AI is a big enabler for FOSS as it makes FOSS and Linux way more accessible for non-tech persons like me. Starting on Linux and needing a bit of DIY in one’s software takes time at first, and ChatGPT makes the process fun and improves dramatically the learning curve.
raphael
Mari@leah „It steals from everyone without asking.“ - this! Und alles andere auch, was du in deinem Post schreibst! Find das Bild der gefrorenen Pizza btw großartig! Sehr zugänglich! Darf ich den Post auf anderen Social Plattformen verlinken?
@mariibyrd danke freut mich sehr zu hören 😊 Und klar ich bitte sogar drum ihn zu teilen, dafür ist er da :D
@mariibyrd meistens schreib ich meine Artikel ja aus so ner Laune raus ein Thema nicht nochmal wiederholen zu müssen 😂
@leah das verstehe ich und ergibt ja auch voll Sinn :D Meine „Reichweite“ habe ich nur eher auf Instagram und ich weiß, dass ist (zu Recht!) eine umstrittene und evil Plattform, deshalb die nachfrage. Hätte verstanden, wenn du da ne Grenze hast.
Kzad_Bhat@mariibyrd @leah AI takes the Zen out of Being.
very well said, and thank you for sharing that article.
Jonas@leah
Does anyone have issues accessing the website? Anubis gives me a pass and then and invalid response and block me. It's the first time I'm seeing a false positive from Anubis
Does anyone have issues accessing the website? Anubis gives me a pass and then and invalid response and block me. It's the first time I'm seeing a false positive from Anubis
Wurzelmann@leah great text, thank you! During my current TNG rewatch I was reminded of how "AI" is killing joy and innovation while watching S01E16 "When The Bough Breaks" [1] where a whole planet depends on a system they neither understand nor know how to maintain, but which is governing their life choices.
Daniel Gibson@leah
Come on, frozen pizza isn't *that* bad :-p
It might not be the most healthy or tasty food, but at least it's regulated and safe - unlike AI which may give you any kind of actively dangerous code/advice.
Benjamin Knispel@leah Danke für diesen wirklich lesenswerten Post!
lj·rk@leah As a connoisseur of frozen pizza I have to disagree!!
Such a useful, time-saving, important invention that's improving my life... to AI? :|
Slander, I say!
(I do like *good* pizza too, but frozen pizza has a completely different taste/texture/feeling for me that cannot be replaced by proper pizza either. It's almost a different dish to me. Yes, I do have very important personal memories connected to frozen pizza.)
eefi@leah
Yes, I hate that I have to question everything I see and wonder whether it is AI. I hate that it is used to slash prices for people trying to make a living with creative work even more. But, ultimately humans will never stop creating things from nothing. We do it because we enjoy the process more than the result, because we need it as an outlet, because we want to learn, because we want to pour our soul into our work. I do it to show an important person what they mean to me. There are many reasons but it boils down to, as long as we are capable of feeling something, we'll never stop creating.
Yes, I hate that I have to question everything I see and wonder whether it is AI. I hate that it is used to slash prices for people trying to make a living with creative work even more. But, ultimately humans will never stop creating things from nothing. We do it because we enjoy the process more than the result, because we need it as an outlet, because we want to learn, because we want to pour our soul into our work. I do it to show an important person what they mean to me. There are many reasons but it boils down to, as long as we are capable of feeling something, we'll never stop creating.
Fangh@leah I'd say frozen pizza isn't that bad. It has nutritional value. I would say AI is like cardboard painted like a pizza, with a little sticker underneath that gives off a chemically reproduced smell of pizza.
pandora@leah The first main issue is "greed" and that's why AI will be successful. It can replace some people and some jobs and that will save some rich people a lot of money.
The second main issue: There is no solution in reach. Most of the people just don't care and they are paving the way to hell for everyone
Mark T. Tomczak@leah Analogy unclear; I love mea good frozen pizza. The way it cooks unevenly in the oven, The way the frost trapped under the crust wets it, making the middle all gooey? So good.
I also love a good restaurant pizza and I love the ones my mother would make from scratch. These are all good pizza experiences.
Kasiandra Richmond@leah killing the joy so you may function for the production. As long tech does not give us more time for us and our family, you buy just an abstraction from a company to be productive for the fat cat.
Thx for the blog post. I Iike what ya wrote
dimi@leah Oh, I really like your thoughts!! I feel the same when eating frozen pizza as well as when using generative AI 😑 Some time ago I posted a picture of a drawing I made just for fun and a got a reply “why don’t you use midjourney, I’s faster and better” me: “But I just wanted to relax a little…” then he sent me some pictures his daughter “crated” with AI. No punchline.
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