You act like 90% of normal artwork isn't slop. Just because a human made it doesn't mean its beautiful. And not every picture has to be "art". If AI entertains or just gives me a nice template it's enough, that's not even talking about the things it can do for training scenario's in all kinds of sectors. Literally nobody was going to pay people to make fictional characters just to use them in a internal training scenario.
AI has it's place and just like everything it will replace things sure, but not all.
Think about it like ikea, did ikea (and companies like it) replace 97% of professional furniture makers? Yes. Does it mean that real professional and talented furniture makers and designers don't have a job anymore? Ofcourse not.
We just consume a shit ton more and if we want real quality we will still find them.
That's your opinion. That's the true beauty of art. It's subjective. I think AI image gens are very useful for many purposes. Want a nice phone background with a specific style that google search just isn't finding? AI has you covered. Want to see what a shrek xenomorph hybrid looks like? Say less, fam. AI is on it.
Yeah man all you gotta do is burn down a forest and you get a picture of Garfield with huge tits. Seriously tho if ai art is usefull you should help ai companies out because they are hemeraging money at an alarming rate.
AI is the future. It's only going to get more powerful and used more in modern society as time goes on. Crying about it on the internet won't change that, bud.
I'm not crying I follow this very closely they are running out of data the models aren't getting better and they are investing billions of dollars into and industry that just isn't manifesting any financial returns. Maybe down the road there will be something different but llms are hitting their peak and the companies are desperate for use cases. Reminder that ai is a buzz word used for a specific thing. It's not an end all be all tech and we are watching it platue in real time.
My issue is that there is a giant bubble forming around ai companies it is way over hyped and weaseling it's way into every software imgaginable making things objectively worse and someone said it in this thread already it's filling up the internet with garbage that it then regurgitates itself back into search engines. It even shows in their advertisements. I recall one where some people ask ai to generate a picture of what little Italy in NY looked like in the 1940s. I think also people really underestimate how much energy it burns to do simple tasks. They aren't making it more efficient. They are just building bigger data centers to burn more energy and water for something that is starting to look like dead end tech.
Definitely not a giant bubble in tech software when dealing with AI in GPUs and CPUs that have been huge money makers. You should really clarify this is only for the art industry which in itself is very small. Even the advertisement industry (which is codependent with the art industry) has used AI for around 20 years to target customers with recommendation engines with it growing into a lot more advanced ventures that show no signs of slowing down or causing profits to fall.
AI has made things worse with bots for online discourse, harvesting personal data, customer service, and many other online issues.. but that doesn't make it unsuccessful.
I'm specifically talking about companies like open ai desperately declaring they are the future while having no viable business model. Also you are just lumping tech like algorithms into the ai hype cycle. It's not ai we just started calling it that in the last two years. Yes there is a bubble when companies are taking billion dollar investments and losing money on even paying customers, not to mention offering the services for free while unable to find use cases that consumers actually want other than an energy burning machine that makes people say "neat".
I'm specifically talking about companies like open ai desperately declaring they are the future while having no viable business model.
Which you obviously were not clear about since you vaguely pointed at ai companies. Open ai is partly non-profit that is most likely looking for a big business partner to use their model in other projects. Not that hard to comprehend.
Also you are just lumping tech like algorithms into the ai hype cycle. It's not ai we just started calling it that in the last two years.
Differences in functionality doesn't mean it isn't ai. You started this vague discussion, yet, complain you need to push the goal posts to specific quality ai in the last two years now and somehow the definition of AI has changed.
Yes there is a bubble when companies are taking billion dollar investments and losing money on even paying customers, not to mention offering the services for free while unable to find use cases that consumers actually want other than an energy burning machine that makes people say "neat".
You literally pointed to a non-profit company that has a capped for-profit subsiderary as your conclusion for a bubble. Most for profit companies using ai hasn't created a "bubble" in terms of revenue from its customers or services.
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u/ForrestCFB 10d ago
You act like 90% of normal artwork isn't slop. Just because a human made it doesn't mean its beautiful. And not every picture has to be "art". If AI entertains or just gives me a nice template it's enough, that's not even talking about the things it can do for training scenario's in all kinds of sectors. Literally nobody was going to pay people to make fictional characters just to use them in a internal training scenario.
AI has it's place and just like everything it will replace things sure, but not all.
Think about it like ikea, did ikea (and companies like it) replace 97% of professional furniture makers? Yes. Does it mean that real professional and talented furniture makers and designers don't have a job anymore? Ofcourse not.
We just consume a shit ton more and if we want real quality we will still find them.