I don’t know who this guy is, but I’m with at least on this.
He’s a weird guy.
Makes a website sourcing screenshots from games for UI inspiration.
Sources UI art from Twitter with a bunch of contributors.
Has a boyfriend.
Active on Twitter, a site where you can “Heil Hitler” but you get blocked by saying Cis.
And this is where I split with Lemmy.
There’s a very fragile, fleeting war between shitty, tech bro hyped (but bankrolled) corporate AI and locally runnable, openly licensed, practical tool models without nearly as much funding. Guess which one doesn’t care about breaking the law because everything is proprietary?
The “I don’t care how ethical you claim to be, fuck off” attitude is going to get us stuck with the former. It’s the same argument as Lemmy vs Reddit, compared to a “fuck anything like reddit, just stop using it” attitude.
What if it was just some modder trying a niche model/finetune to restore an old game, for free?
That’s a rhetorical question, as I’ve been there: A few years ago, I used ESRGAN finetunes to help restore a game and (seperately) a TV series. Used some open databases for data. Community loved it. I suggested an update in that same community (who apparently had no idea their beloved “remaster” involved oldschool “AI”), and got banned for the mere suggestion.
So yeah, I understand AI hate, oh do I. Keep shitting on Altman an AI bros. But anyone (like this guy) who wants to bury open weights AI: you are digging your own graves.
What if it was just some modder trying a niche model/finetune to restore an old game, for free?
Oh, so you deserve to use other people’s data for free, but Musk doesn’t? Fuck off with that one, buddy.
Using open datasets means using data people have made available publicly, for free, for any purpose. So using an AI based on that seems considerably more ethical.
Except gen AI didn’t exist when those people decided on their license. And besides which, it’s very difficult to specify “free to use, except in ways that undermine free access” in a license.
Musk does too, if its openly licensed.
Big difference is:
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X’s data crawlers don’t give a shit because all their work is closed source. And they have lawyers to just smash anyone that complains.
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X intends to resell and make money off others’ work. My intent is free, transformative work I don’t make a penny off of, which is legally protected.
That’s another thing that worries me. All this is heading in a direction that will outlaw stuff like fanfics, game mods, fan art, anything “transformative” of an original work and used noncommercially, as pretty much any digital tool can be classified as “AI” in court.
Tools have always been used to replace humans. Is anyone using a calculator a shitty person? What about storing my milk in the fridge instead of getting it from the milk man?
I don’t have an issue with the argument, but unless they’re claiming that any tool which replaced human jobs were unethical then their argument is not self consistent and thus lacks any merit.
Edit: notice how no one has tried to argue against this
People have begun discussing it, although i suppose it was an unfair expectation to have this discussion here. Regardless, after i originally edited this, you guys did have tons of discussions with me. I do appreciate it, and it seems that most of us support the same things. It kinda just seems like an issue with framing and looking at things in the now vs the mid term future.
Yes, I also think the kitchen knife and the atom bomb are flatly equivalent. Consistency, people!
Edit: 🤓 erm, notice how no one has tried to argue against this
I can’t believe I never thought about calculators. You and I really are the brothers Dunce, aren’t we?
The people who made calculators didn’t steal anything from mathematicians in order to make them work.
Didn’t they? Did they get consent from the mathematicians to use their work?
“If you facilitate AI art, you are a shitty person”
There are ethical means to build models using consentually gathered data. He says those artists are shitty.
Now you’re moving the goalpost. You said told always replace humans and made the analogy to calculators and refrigerators. The fact is that the cast majority of generative AI in use today didn’t get their content ethically.
Would you replace a loved-one (a child, spouse, parent etc.) with an artificial “tool”? Would it matter to you if they’re not real even when you couldn’t tell the difference? And if your answer is yes, you had no trouble replacing a loved-one with an artificial copy, then our views/morals are fundamentally so different that I can’t see us ever agreeing.
It’s like trying to convince me that having sex with animals is awesome and great and they like it too, and I’m just no thanks, that’s gross and wrong, please never talk to me again. I know I don’t necessarily have the strongest logic in the AI (and especially “AI art”) discussion but that’s how I feel.
Thats a lot of different questions in a lot of different contexts. If my parent decided to upload their conciousness near the end of their life into a mech suit covered in latex(basically) that was indistinguishable physically from a human(or even not, who am I to judge) and the process of uploading a conciousness was well understood and practiced, then yes, I would respect their decision. If you wouldn’t, you either have difficulty placing yourself in hypothetical situations designed to test the limits of societal norms, or you abjectly do not care about the autonomy of your parent.
Child, I have no issue adopting. If they happen to be an artificial human I don’t see why that should proclude them from being allowed to have parents.
Spouse, I’m not going to create one to my liking. But if we lived in a world with AI creating other AI that are all sentient, some of which presumably choosing to take a physical form in an aforementioned mech, why shouldnt i date them? Your immediate response is sex, but lets ignore that. Is an asexual relationship with a sentient robot ok? What about a friendship with said robot? Are you even allowed to treat a sentient robot as a human? Whats the distinction? I’m not attempting a slippery slope, I genuinely would like to hear where your distinctions between what is and isn’t acceptable lies. Because I think this miscommunication either stems from a misunderstanding about the possible sentience of ai in the future, or from the lack of perspective of what it might be like from their perspective.
Edit: just for the record, i dont downvote comments like yours, but someone did, so i had to upvote you.
Are you even allowed to treat a sentient robot as a human?
Oh, boy, this one’s really hard. I’ll give it my best shot, though. Phoo. Okay, here goes.
Yes.
Ohhhh fuck. Oh god. Oh please. Scubus, how did I do? Did I win?
Now please argue to me that chatgpt is sentient.
Thanks for the reply (and the upvote, although I’ve hidden all lemmy scores from my account so I really don’t care about voting for that matter).
My thought experiment is a lot more complicated if the “AI tool” is sentient, i.e. it can be proven without a hint of a doubt that the robot is essentially no different from a human. If we ever get that far, it’s a whole another can of questions.
What I tried to (perhaps unsuccessfully) argue is that, yes we have and are replacing humans with tools all the time, but there’s also a line (I think) most wouldn’t cross, like replacing a loved-one with a tool. In my original argument that tool would just be an imitation, not a sentient machine. Maybe even a perfect imitation, but nothing more than that - a machine that has learned how to behave, speak etc. I don’t think many of us would be happy with a replacement like that.
For me it’s same with AI art. I can’t appreciate art made by AI because it’s just imitation made by a tool. It has no meaning, no “soul”.
This may come as a shock to you, but nobody was working as a refrigerator. Refrigerators didn’t replace the milk man, the stores did. Which was fine at first since those stores were supposed to buy the milk from the milkman and just make it more readily accessible. Then human greed took over, the stores or big name brands started to fuck over the milk man, and conspired with other big name stores to artificially increase the price of bread while blaming covid and inflation, and now some, although few people are trying to buy it back from the milk man if they can afford / access it.
Those tools that did replace humans, did not steal human work and effort, in order to train themselves. Those tools did not try to replace human creativity with some soulless steaming pile of slop.
You see, I believe open source, ethically trained AI models can exist and they can accomplish some amazing things, especially when it comes to making things accessible to people with disabilities for an example. But Edd Coates’ is specifically talking about art, design and generative AI. So, maybe, don’t come to a community called “Fuck AI”, change the original argument and then expect people argue against you with a good will.
Tons of people do! I browse /all and dont want to block /fuck_ai because a ton of you do have great discussions with me. Im not brigading, i have never once saught out this community, but ive always tried to be respectful and i havent gotten banned. So I’d say all is well.
As far as the crappy stuff, that really seems like just another extension of consumerism. Modern art has irked people for a while because some of it is absurdly simplistic. But if people are willing to buy into it, thats on them. Llms have very limited use case, and ethically sourcing your data is clinically neccassary for both ethical and legal reaosns. But the world needs to be prepared for the onset of the next generation of ai. Its not going to be sentient quite yet, but general intelligence isnt too far away. Soon one ai will be able to outperform humans on most daily tasks as well as some more spcified tasks. Llms seemingly took the world by surprise, but if youve been following the tech the progression has been somewhat obvious. And it is continuing to progress.
Honestly, the biggest concern i have with modern ai outside of how its being implemented is that it is environmentally very bad, but im hoping that the increase in the ai bubble will lead to more specialised energy efficient designs. I don’t remember what the paper was but they were using ai to generatively design more efficient chips and it was showing promising results. On a couple of the designs they werent entirely sure how they functioned(they have several strong theories, but theyre not certain. Not trying to misrepresent this), but when they fucked with them they stopped behaving as predicted/expected(relative to them being fucked with, of course a broken circuit isnt going to function correctly)
Sorry, I made the comment about being on Fuck AI because of your edit to the original message. I wasn’t trying to accuse you of anything.
Back to the AI stuff. I am sorry if I am a little sceptical about your claims about the “next generation of AI” and how “soon” they will outperform humans when even after all these years, money and energy poured into them, they still manage to fuck up a simple division question. Good luck making any model that needs to be trained on data perfect at this point, because AI slop that has been already generated and released in to the internet has already took care of that. Maybe we will have AGI at some point, but I will believe that when I actually see it.
Finally, I don’t know about modern art being absurdly simplistic. How can you look at modern animation or music and call it absurdly simplistic. How can you look at thousands of game UI designs in Edd Coates’ website and call them absurdly simplistic? All AI will ever create when it comes to art is some soulless amalgamation of what it has seen before, it will kill all creativity, originalty and personality from art, but businessman in suits will gladly let it take over human artists because it is cheaper then hiring human artists and designers.
The “milkman” is a delivery person who works for milk producers. The company that produces milk still exists, the role of the milkman was just made unnecessary due to advances in commercial refrigeration - milk did not have to be delivered fresh, it could be stored and then bought on-demand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_delivery
“Human greed” didn’t take over to fuck over the milkman, they just didn’t need a delivery person any more because milk could be stored on site safely between shipments.
I would argue it wasn’t just the refrigeration, but also the suburbanization of living and the cost effectiveness of delivering the milk from the farm to the store, which (in theory) made milk cheaper. You would still need the milkmen if stores and supermarkets didn’t exist. In an alternative world where we didn’t invent commercial / household refrigerators, you could still buy milk from stores daily without the need of a milkmen, becaue ultra-pasteurization exists.
I guess thats the problem with analogies and I don’t think either of us will get anywhere by further arguing about this one specific example.
The issue isn’t automation itself. The issue is the theft, the fact that art cannot be automated and the use of it to further enshittification.
First, the models are based off theft of OUR data and then sold back to us for profit.
Secondly, most AI art is utter crap and doesn’t contribute anything to human society. It’s shallow slop.
Thirdly, having it literally everywhere while also being completely energy inefficient is absolutely dumb. Why are we building nuclear reactors and coal plants to replace what humans can do for cheap??
Edit: further, the sole purpose of AI is to hoard wealth to a small number of people. Calculators, hammers etc. do not have this function and do not also require lots of energy to use.
Ive responded to a lot of that elsewhere, but in short: i agree theft bad. Capitalism also bad. Neither of those are inherit to ai or llms though, although theft is definitely the easy way.Art can be automated, nature does it all the time. We cant do it to a high degree now, i will concede.
Quality is of course low, its new. The progress in the last year has been astounding, it will continue to improve. Soon this will no longer be a valid argument.
I agree, modern ai is horribly innefficient. It’s a prototype, but its also a hardware issue. Soon there will be much more efficient designs and i suspect a rather significant alteration to the architecture of the network that may allow for massively improved efficiency. Disclaimer: i am not professionally in the field, but this topic in particular is right up mutiple fields of study i have been following for a while.
Edit: somehow missed your edit when writing. To some extent every tool of productivity exists to exploit the worker. A calculator serves this function as much as anything else. By allowing you to perform calculations more quickly, your productivity massively increases in certain fields, sometimes in excess of thousands of times. Do you see thousands of times the profits of your job prior to the advent of calculators, excluding inflation? Unlikely. Or the equivelent pay of the same amount of “calculators” required for your work? Equally unlikely. Its inherit to capitalism.
Art can be automated
Under what definition of art can that be possible? Is art to you nothing more than an image? Why automate art and not other tasks? What is the point of automating art? Why would you not want to make art yourself and instead delegate it to a machine?
Art can be automated, nature does it all the time.
Ok, first off: what is your definition of automation? This is what I mean when I say automation.
Nature does not automate art. Are you equating the process of, say, almost all bower birds make bowers, therefore that’s automation? Then you have a poor understanding of what automation, art, and therefore AI/LLM, is meant to achieve.
With art, you need to think about the state of mind to create that piece in the first place. Before it was created, it doesn’t exist in any capacity. Why the art piece exists in the first place is the reason why AI cannot automate it because human emotions are very complex.
If an AI/LLM can experience human emotions, we’ve essentially created another type of human. This is deeply profound and, with the technology and materials we have now (that is, the processing chips and hardware), it is simply not possible. We’re at the point where we’re making small, tiny leaps in gains.
Which leads me to…
It’s a prototype, but its also a hardware issue. Soon there will be much more efficient designs and i suspect a rather significant alteration to the architecture of the network that may allow for massively improved efficiency.
It is not a software/coding issue that limits an LLM’s capability to emulate the human psyche. Again, it is not tweaks in code structure that will send us rocketing up the graph of progress. It is the limitation of the actual materials that we use and their maximum efficacy, hence why we need nuclear reactors and so on to power thousands of processors. We will never get to the point of replicating human ability and energy efficiency with the materials that exist in Earth. And, are we going to spend more energy and resources to look to the stars for a material that may or may not exist to create a machine that has the capability to think as a human?
How long did humans take to evolve to the capacity we have? That took hundreds and thousands of years of trial and error. But I digress…
Its inherit to capitalism.
Absolutely agree. The whole purpose of this ‘AI boom’ is to make more money for the <1%, steal from us and hoard it for themselves. On this basis, I completely reject the use of LLMs. Fuck AI.
Rejecting the inevitable is dumb. You don’t have to like it but don’t let that hold you back on ethical grounds. Acknowledge, inform, prepare.
You probably create AI slop and present it proudly to people.
AI should replace dumb monotonous shit, not creative arts.
I couldn’t care less about AI art. I use AI in my work every day in dev. The coworkers who are not embracing it are falling behind.
Edit: I keep my AI use and discoveries private, nobody needs to know how long (or little) it took me.
Then most likely you will start falling behind… perhaps in two years, as it won’t be as noticable quickly, but there will be an effect in the long term.
I couldn’t care less about AI art.
That’s what the OP is about, so…
Has AI made you unable to read?
“i am fine with stolen labor because it wasn’t mine. My coworkers are falling behind because they have ethics and don’t suck corporate cock but instead understand the value in humanity and life itself.”
Ai isn’t magic. It isn’t inevitable.
Make it illegal and the funding will dry up and it will mostly die. At least, it wouldn’t threaten the livelihood of millions of people after stealing their labor.
Am I promoting a ban? No. Ai has its use cases but is current LLM and image generation ai bs good? No, should it be banned? Probably.
Illegal globally? Unless there’s international cooperation, funding won’t dry up - it will just move.
That is such a disingeous argument. “Making murder illegal? People will just kill each other anyways, so why bother?”
You could say fascism is inevitable. Just look at the elections in Europe or the situation in the USA. Does that mean we cant complain about it? Does that mean we cant tell people fascism is bad?
They said the same thing about cloning technology. Human clones all around by 2015, it’s inevitable. Nuclear power is the tech of the future, worldwide adoption is inevitable. You’d be surprised by how many things declared “inevitable” never came to pass.
It’s already here dude. I’m using AI in my job (supplied by my employer) daily and it make me more efficient. You’re just grasping for straws to meet your preconceived ideas.
It’s already here dude.
Every 3D Tvs fan said the same. VR enthusiasts for two decades as well. Almost nothing, and most certainly no tech is inevitable.
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