Hey, as long as you don't try to

• Sell it
• Claim it's yours
• Use it instead of hiring professionals if you're a business

not too fussed.

Nearly nobody is arguing against using AI for personal fun.

People are arguing against AI destroying entire career segments without providing benefit to society, especially to those displaced. People are arguing against how it so easily misleads people, especially when used as a learning aid. People are arguing against the enormous resource usage.

I was gonna go ahead and argue about this, but sadly I have been depicted as a soyjak. My lawyers told me that there is literally nothing I can do about this now

That's great! These things are super fun. Just don't call yourself an artist or try to copyright your generations. That's like pretending to be a musician because you're good at Guitar Hero.

If only there was a way to make funny pictures without AI...

Another big argument is the large resource and environmental cost of AI. I'd rather laugh at a shitty photoshop or ms paint meme (like this one) than a funny image created in some water-hogging energy-guzzling server warehouse.

I've gotten arguments that it's theft, because technically the AI is utilizing other artist's work as resources for the images it produces. I've pointed out that that's more like copying another artist's style than theft, which real artists do all the time, but it's apparently different when a computer algorithm does it?

Look, I understand people's fears that AI image generation is going to put regular artists out of work, I just don't agree with them. Did photography put painters out of work? Did the printing press stop the use of writing utensils? Did cinema cause theatre to go extinct?

No. People need to calm down and stop freaking out about technology moving forward. You're not going to stop it; so you might as well learn to live with it. If history is a reliable teacher, it really won't be that bad.

Since Gen art became a thing i've been using it episodically to create images of a civilization of space-faring boars, representing the future of my glorious South-Western France civilization. They raise ducks and grow wine in space, and the lore is getting a lot deeper than i first thought. It's so fucking fun man.

Wee! Haha! Fun!!

sounds of a dozen methane gas generators humming away

This happens a lot in music. It's okay to listen to music that serves other purposes than art. Gatekeeping is ridiculous.

I'm a musician. I play more instruments than you can even name correctly. I can make a tritonus substitution without you even noticing. I don't give a shit if German Schlager Music is worse than country. If I want to watch Eurovision and enjoy myself and pay to vote for songs in foreign languages, I will do so.

You cannot stop me from enjoying stupid music.

We talk about freedom the same way we talk about art,” she said, to whoever was listening. “Like it is a statement of quality rather than a description. Art doesn’t mean good or bad. Art only means art. It can be terrible and still be art. Freedom can be good or bad too. There can be terrible freedom.

Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

The issue has never been the tech itself. Image generators are basically just a more complicated Gaussian Blur tool.

The issue is, and always has been, the ethics involved in the creation of the tools. The companies steal the work they use to train these models without paying the artists for their efforts (wage theft). They've outright said that they couldn't afford to make these tools if they had to pay copyright fees for the images that they scrape from the internet. They replace jobs with AI tools that aren't fit for the task because it's cheaper to fire people. They train these models on the works of those employees. When you pay for a subscription to these things, you're paying a corporation to do all the things we hate about late stage capitalism.

Oooo an AI straw man

I agree.

I have all these images in my head and zero artistic skills to create them.

Thanks AI, if indeed that is your real name, for helping me with Visual aids for my teaching work!

I honestly think it's pretty weird that people don't like AI art memes.

That's its best case use, guys. Making a computer burn down an acre of Amazon to make a picture of Trump worshipping Putin's cock.

Yes, a real artist could waste their skill doing it, but why tho?