Not that you asked: Ai, bad rhetoric, and the end of the world.

I’ve seen two or three obviously AI projects on kickstarter recently and what bothers me about them is that of the three I’ve seen. two are using ai images as placeholder but in the campaigns themselves they clame that they have assembled or will assemble a team once they get funding.

To offer my take on AI, As it stands, and assuming I haven’t missunderstood how it works, AI art is theft, and enviromentally harmful, AT BEST.

I’m less bothered by the use of AI art as placeholder for personal projects becasue at least nobody is trying to make money off of it. 

But in the cases I’ve seen they’re using AI as a pitch deck of sorts for their project that they intend to use humans for later which bothers me becasue if you know you’ll need human labor why not get it now?

There are plenty of legitimate reasons as to why they might not be able to get assets made right this moment, but the strat at that point is to wait until you can get assets that you can actually use, that are indicitive of the final product you want to make.

So yeah…learn to draw, learn to write, hire people to do the jobs you don’t want to do.

That's kindof it.

Normally I’d do a whole list of detailed reasons as to why but this is a short little excercise so that I don’t forget how opinions work.

I do see people argue about the artistic merit of AI and I think it’s an important argument to have but most of the people I’ve seen argue about it. At least anecdotally are bad it it.

The key issue is that people don’t want to call people that use AI art artists. and I understand that desire to keep out those that don’t do the same labor as you. 

But most of the arguments I’ve seen for what does and doesnt constitue art, from these AI art people excludes digital artists.

I’ve only got two minutes left on the clock so I won’t elaborate much further but if you’re concerned about how you’re arguing with AI bros on the internet. First, don’t do that, Second I suggest foccusing on the theft and enviromental harms element of AI art use as to force these people to reconcile the terrible terrible things they’ve done.

The end of the world bit has no bering on this short peice I just thought it would be a cool title for this thing.

This will be left up with spelling errors and all as a testimate to my shame and inability to write.

timer went off as I wrote that last line I’m so good at this.