The problem with AI is that it doesn't create anything. It generate. And since it's a machine, that lacks originality because it has no creative power what so ever, how does it generates?
It generates using existing art. Heck now, it's even using people’s personal images and data. That's what LLMs are trained upon. And did those people, artists and author gave consent for it?
No.
So your so called AI art or writing is basically a creative theft in broad daylight.
Some people might be a little too extreme about it, but most people who discourage AI usage are just trying to protect those artists and people's fundamental rights to their privacy and art.
How ironic is to claim it's people who dislike IA that are obssesed with "purity", while it's the IA people who are looking to avoid all mistakes and are obsessed with "efficiency", "coherence" and with synthetizing everything.
Using the same 2 rancid examples over and over while disregarding all of the other life-changing aspects of IA it's just idiotic at this point.
Digital photography and synthesizers never reshaped cognitive abilities or diminished reasoning skills and communication processes in the way that AI does, just as they never served as military weapons responsible for the extermination of thousands of children and animals while polluting water faster than any other "tool". They also never had access to drones and all kinds of military weapons as well as mass surveillance systems that serve no one but the most evil people on earth. Your example is absurd to say the less.
OH, you need it to avoid "Leaving in repetitive passages"??? You need it to "structure your thoughts coherently"? That's sad enough, but even worse is that your lack of basic skills is not getting better with IA, it has been proven over and over to make it worse with time, but sure, go on.
It was never about "purity", like you say, just like art has never been and will never be about "efficiency".
Developing a skill is inherently messy, it requires work and comes with some failiure until you get really good at whatever you're doing, and this isn't "suffering" for everyone, just for people like you. This is a normal process that many of us enjoy as it makes us better at what we do.
You shout that you "don't care" as if it wasn't obvious. u don't care about developing any sort of ability, let alone any other living being on the planet, as long as you can ask the soulles machine for basic instructions that you could've researched in 2 minutes instead of 10 seconds.
Lastly, why are you weirdly proud that your AI texts "resonate" with people? It should come as no surprise. That's literally what IA it's designed to do: match the tone and please you, of course it will resonate! In the same way a lot of shitty things are popular and resonate with most people. Needless to say, you are like most people, which explains the state of the world.
PS. English is not my first language so this text is surely not the most 'efficient" and it is probably full of mistakes, which is PERFECT. I loooove things that don't reek of plastic.
Your opinions aside, have you thought about AI on its larger socio-economic scale? Data centres? You’re saying refusing to use AI as a tool is elitist; isn’t that contradictory to its widespread damage in lower socio-economic suburbs? To me, it’s lazy not to think about anyone else apart from yourself on a broader scale, let alone not wanting to thrive in the process of creating.
I guess what I’m trying to say is: do your morals align with this ‘tool’ and its assistance with your creative process? And if they do, you have no right to tell anyone that their choice to decline using it is ‘gatekeeping’ masked as virtue.
i slightly disagree, but i really appreciate someone advocating for the other side. There’s so many people who think that AI’s all bad. But it’s not; it helps you if you use it right 🙂
OMG! Immediate subscribe! This is like you read my thoughts and put it on paper. Idgaf if you had your AI write it for you, the thoughts are yours, the ideas are yours and that's what matters to me.
This was an iconic read. You nailed it - use your brain first, then let ai help you take it bigger, faster, etc. and yeah, also why does anyone care?! Most people aren’t even willing to plaster their work online, original thoughts or not. Wild how many opinions people have when they won’t even share their art.
I think AI is a great tool. I also understand that every time we use it we destroy the planet a little more because of the resources. I also see that people get mad for artists using it for music but then original artists are ignored when they are original. I also see that it steals from artists and doesn’t credit them. Many things can be good and bad it’s just the polarity of life. Currently it is what it is. But this piece is great, I loved reading your perspective nonetheless.
You wrote this as if other musicians had an advantage over you by knowing how to play an instrument but every musician started by not knowing how to play an instrument or knowing the process behind production and songwriting. The only difference is that they decided to put in the pain staking work to learn and you were too lazy to. You wanted to skip over the entire process of learning to make music and claim that you "needed AI" when there are thousands of independent artists out there who are currently working everyday to hone their craft, learning how to play new instruments, use different DAWS, mix, master and record their own records without using AI to skip over the entire creative process.
I opened this article out of curiosity, because yes, using AI is typically seen as shameful and I was surprised to find a writer who openly admitted to using it. I was open to hearing out the argument, and I liked a lot of points. Something I'm not loving, however, it's the degrading tone you seem to be using for people who don't like to use AI, or disagree with AI. This post isn't simply explaining why *you* use AI, it's the rudeness towards the other side of the debate. You ignored AI's impact on the environment as well, which is a huge part of why I dislike AI. I do agree with you that AI could be used in amazing ways to aid and enhance humanity, but some things are just not it. For one, AI generated art. It's clearly stealing the art of real artists, something I just can't be okay with. I think AI is fine in moderation, to help organize thoughts or fix grammar (like you stated), but the tone you're using in the comments was my final turn-off. I'm not unsubscribing or hating or anything-- I'm debating, something you don't seem to be open to in this comment section due to many angry, irritated, rash replies I've seen directed towards people who dislike AI. Disagreements are fine and natural and create helpful debates where you can learn from both sides, but it takes an open mind.
The problem with AI is that it doesn't create anything. It generate. And since it's a machine, that lacks originality because it has no creative power what so ever, how does it generates?
It generates using existing art. Heck now, it's even using people’s personal images and data. That's what LLMs are trained upon. And did those people, artists and author gave consent for it?
No.
So your so called AI art or writing is basically a creative theft in broad daylight.
Some people might be a little too extreme about it, but most people who discourage AI usage are just trying to protect those artists and people's fundamental rights to their privacy and art.
Exactly, the piece completely breezes over the possibility that people's objections to AI might be ethical in nature.
How ironic is to claim it's people who dislike IA that are obssesed with "purity", while it's the IA people who are looking to avoid all mistakes and are obsessed with "efficiency", "coherence" and with synthetizing everything.
Using the same 2 rancid examples over and over while disregarding all of the other life-changing aspects of IA it's just idiotic at this point.
Digital photography and synthesizers never reshaped cognitive abilities or diminished reasoning skills and communication processes in the way that AI does, just as they never served as military weapons responsible for the extermination of thousands of children and animals while polluting water faster than any other "tool". They also never had access to drones and all kinds of military weapons as well as mass surveillance systems that serve no one but the most evil people on earth. Your example is absurd to say the less.
OH, you need it to avoid "Leaving in repetitive passages"??? You need it to "structure your thoughts coherently"? That's sad enough, but even worse is that your lack of basic skills is not getting better with IA, it has been proven over and over to make it worse with time, but sure, go on.
It was never about "purity", like you say, just like art has never been and will never be about "efficiency".
Developing a skill is inherently messy, it requires work and comes with some failiure until you get really good at whatever you're doing, and this isn't "suffering" for everyone, just for people like you. This is a normal process that many of us enjoy as it makes us better at what we do.
You shout that you "don't care" as if it wasn't obvious. u don't care about developing any sort of ability, let alone any other living being on the planet, as long as you can ask the soulles machine for basic instructions that you could've researched in 2 minutes instead of 10 seconds.
Lastly, why are you weirdly proud that your AI texts "resonate" with people? It should come as no surprise. That's literally what IA it's designed to do: match the tone and please you, of course it will resonate! In the same way a lot of shitty things are popular and resonate with most people. Needless to say, you are like most people, which explains the state of the world.
PS. English is not my first language so this text is surely not the most 'efficient" and it is probably full of mistakes, which is PERFECT. I loooove things that don't reek of plastic.
I couldn't agree more.
Well said. The dignity of labor is among the myriad casualties of AI.
Your opinions aside, have you thought about AI on its larger socio-economic scale? Data centres? You’re saying refusing to use AI as a tool is elitist; isn’t that contradictory to its widespread damage in lower socio-economic suburbs? To me, it’s lazy not to think about anyone else apart from yourself on a broader scale, let alone not wanting to thrive in the process of creating.
I guess what I’m trying to say is: do your morals align with this ‘tool’ and its assistance with your creative process? And if they do, you have no right to tell anyone that their choice to decline using it is ‘gatekeeping’ masked as virtue.
IT IS DESTROYING OUR FUTURE PLS F-ING THINO ABOUT IT
Broooooooh??!!!!!
i slightly disagree, but i really appreciate someone advocating for the other side. There’s so many people who think that AI’s all bad. But it’s not; it helps you if you use it right 🙂
OMG! Immediate subscribe! This is like you read my thoughts and put it on paper. Idgaf if you had your AI write it for you, the thoughts are yours, the ideas are yours and that's what matters to me.
Great piece!
This was an iconic read. You nailed it - use your brain first, then let ai help you take it bigger, faster, etc. and yeah, also why does anyone care?! Most people aren’t even willing to plaster their work online, original thoughts or not. Wild how many opinions people have when they won’t even share their art.
I think AI is a great tool. I also understand that every time we use it we destroy the planet a little more because of the resources. I also see that people get mad for artists using it for music but then original artists are ignored when they are original. I also see that it steals from artists and doesn’t credit them. Many things can be good and bad it’s just the polarity of life. Currently it is what it is. But this piece is great, I loved reading your perspective nonetheless.
I wonder how many people in the comment section have chat gpt installed on their phone
this is utter bullshit that doesn’t deserve anyone’s time!!
good girls are amazing
You wrote this as if other musicians had an advantage over you by knowing how to play an instrument but every musician started by not knowing how to play an instrument or knowing the process behind production and songwriting. The only difference is that they decided to put in the pain staking work to learn and you were too lazy to. You wanted to skip over the entire process of learning to make music and claim that you "needed AI" when there are thousands of independent artists out there who are currently working everyday to hone their craft, learning how to play new instruments, use different DAWS, mix, master and record their own records without using AI to skip over the entire creative process.
That was painful to read haha even more painful to read those AI generated responses from the author lmao
I opened this article out of curiosity, because yes, using AI is typically seen as shameful and I was surprised to find a writer who openly admitted to using it. I was open to hearing out the argument, and I liked a lot of points. Something I'm not loving, however, it's the degrading tone you seem to be using for people who don't like to use AI, or disagree with AI. This post isn't simply explaining why *you* use AI, it's the rudeness towards the other side of the debate. You ignored AI's impact on the environment as well, which is a huge part of why I dislike AI. I do agree with you that AI could be used in amazing ways to aid and enhance humanity, but some things are just not it. For one, AI generated art. It's clearly stealing the art of real artists, something I just can't be okay with. I think AI is fine in moderation, to help organize thoughts or fix grammar (like you stated), but the tone you're using in the comments was my final turn-off. I'm not unsubscribing or hating or anything-- I'm debating, something you don't seem to be open to in this comment section due to many angry, irritated, rash replies I've seen directed towards people who dislike AI. Disagreements are fine and natural and create helpful debates where you can learn from both sides, but it takes an open mind.