@xenophile @hub the whole point of these tools is to completely avoid having to put in the real, genuine effort required to produce anything of value. And not only that, but the output resulting from the prompt is a plagiarised remix of the past genuine efforts of real human beings. There’s about as much effort involved as paying someone to steal something for you. If you consider it rude to point out that people are freeloading on stolen effort, good luck to you

@mark_f_lynch @[email protected] 'Plagiarised remix, zero effort' is a tidy story that survives exactly until you meet someone who signs every output with C2PA provenance, watermarks it, runs it local so nothing's scraped back, passes a FOSS compliance audit at zero violations, and publishes their SBOM. The effort you can't see isn't absent. You just didn't look at whom you were speaking to.