So... What's Going On With AI?

Remember: It's not artists against STEM, it's artists against Business Majors

The corporate/tech world’s AI fixation really goes to show they’d rather let a computer do a job badly but for free rather than pay a human to do a job well

Ethical concerns aside, I'm sick of hearing about AI. It's like NFTs but worse. AI is being shoved into every little thing and it's annoying as fuck. My job is pushing it when it makes no sense for the product we sell. Every marketing email that hits my work inbox is about AI. I switched away from Google's search engine because they just had to push their shit AI. I'm ready for every company under the sun to kindly stfu about it.

One of the most horrifying use of AI I've come across are "mushroom foraging AI guide apps" where you take a photo of a mushroom, feed it into the app and the app tells you what mushroom it is and if it's safe to eat. It's basically a spruced up version of a Google Lens search. Also, it will misidentify Amanita mushrooms for White Button mushrooms. Both are technically edible, only the former has a fun side effect of killing you. And by the time you notice the symptoms, you are going to die. Painfully.

two kappa videos in less than a month????? you’re spoiling us

One telling use case I heard about was dermatologists trying to use ai to differentiate between non cancerous skin and tumors. The ai began to classify any photo that had a ruler in it as "cancer", because that's how doctors photograph possible tumors and ai fundamentally does not *understand* what it is being asked

In the case of the ChatGPT lawyer, what got him in trouble was not actually having ChatGPT write a brief for him that he basically turned in without proofreading but doubling down when the other side's lawyers and the court asked if the case citations ChatGPT hallucinated were real. Submitting a filing completely written around cases that never existed wasn't a good idea, but refusing to admit fault and insisting the court take the briefing seriously is where it crossed the line. The judge gave him the fair opportunity to correct his mistake like a mature adult and he instead wasted the judicial system's valuable time.

As an artist, thank you for standing against Computer-Rendered Artificial Pictures (CRAP)

Ai bros don't seem to understand that 90% of uses for art that isn't shitposting requires a clear and consistent vision. Characters need to be in the right spot, they can't change clothes between panels or shots, they need to look in the right direction and display the right emotion. AI image generation just isn't even close to being able to do any of this consistently, and they think it's going to replace animators and comic book artists any day now.

I hate the way people use AI for art and novels. If you dont care enough to draw or write it then why should I care about it??

The frustrating thing about AI with art is that, artists wouldnt mind AI as a TOOL. The team who made Spiderman ATS made a library of outlines for an AI to replicate on the model and it gets polished up by an artist along the way. It makes the process faster and gets rid of repetitive tasks for the artist to do. But AI "art" is never about using AI as a tool, its a product in these techbros eyes. They do not care about art, just the aesthetic and money

I think my problem (other than the stealing from artists) is that they are using AI to try and replace jobs... people actually want to do? Why are we not using AI to get rid of the lame boring jobs that no one actually wants to do?

Also worth noting a Harvard investigation found a lot, if not all, image generators were trained on child sexual abuse images. Like when you scrape images from across the Internet you're going to get shit like that mixed in but the fact that no action has been taken to correct it is sickening. Also a lot of those generators are being used to create incredibly realistic sexual images of children. Like I don't think I have to explain why that's gross as fuck right?

The single-minded decades-long persistence of tech and corporate greed in commercialising but simultaneously devaluing creative skills exclusively in ways that eliminate space for the actual people component of that creativity would be impressively comical if it wasn’t so deeply and fundamentally Evil.

Generative AI can be tacked onto the long list of things "tech bros" have murdered in cold blood. But its so much worse this time, because instead of having someone tell me NFTs are the future every other day, now every site you go on has a corner of it where you will be up to your ears in bots and generated images. It is a plague lol

Quick reminder to artists that Nightshade and Glazed are two programmes developed by the university of Chicago which stop it from scraping your art. Glazed prevents the scrape, but apparently Nightshade poisons the AI which tries. I'm no expert, but go check them out if you're worried about your public portfolio.

I love when the search engine tells me "here let us write a summary of the wikipedia article with AI so you don't have to check wikipedia yourself. btw we are fully aware that this will be wrong sometimes so you effectively still have to check wikipedia to fact check. but if you want a machine that makes up sentences to guesstimate the answer instead of getting the actual answer for some reason, here you go. the future is now" this is a duckduckgo subtweet

20:50 you forgot the use-case of "defaming famous people by making them say and/or do things that are super illegal, just generally kinda fucked up, or really annoying", but that can definitely be filed under "company I do not intend to keep"

I've seen those Google AI responses make up answers that Kindergartener would

I'm interested in the story of the one AI chatbot that invented a customer refund policy for an airline, and how the company started fighting that in court desperately. Not understanding fundamental things - or rather, lacking the ability to perform logical reasoning - has the potential to cause immense damage to corporate interests. Remember that time that a major pharma company was impersonated on Twitter because of the dumb bluecheck changes? Now imagine how easy it would be for an AI that the company has put in charge of the pricing system to be fed a bit of bad data and immediately drop the price of everything to $0.01. For this reason, I'm expecting the surge against AI to happen the moment one of the big companies loses several million dollars because of something a techbro told them would let them fire an entire department to spend the wage expenses on another yacht.