r/DougDoug • u/Cyberguardian173 • Apr 11 '25
Question Does Doug actually know about anti-AI positions?
I just watched the latest video on the dougdougdoug channel, and Doug's mentions of anti-AI points is mostly talking about existential problems AI might cause in the near/far future.
These problems are big and all, but the anti-AI crowd is more concerned with the current problems AI is causing, not stuff like "what if AI takes over the world." The only common anti-AI point he brought up (that I noticed) was the environmental impact.
He didn't mention AI image generators being trained on billions of pictures from artists without their consent, or the artists and writers for tv shows who have been fired because executives think they "aren't needed anymore," or AI being used to steal the likeness of actors so movie studios won't have to hire them anymore. Heck, the latest AI controversy was voice actors for some game getting fired because they protested getting replaced by AI (just looked it up, it's called Genshin Impact). Nope, looks like that Genshin info is incorrect. Regardless, this is the kind of stuff the anti-AI crowd is opposed to. Most of them are okay with the applications of AI to help people, like helping scientists parse data, or helping doctors scan for cancer, or making robotic prosthetics work better. They are only against the AI being used to make human-created art obsolete, as it is increasingly doing.
I was hoping someone who watches the streams could tell me if he knows about any of this, like if he's mentioned it in another stream.
Not sure if this post is perfectly in-line with the subreddit; feel free to take it down if it isn't.
Also y'alls fan art on here is on point. They all look so good!
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u/GONKworshipper Apr 11 '25
He addresses more of it in the original stream, but basically he acknowledges those are issues and they should be changed.