Here's a thought experiment.

[ki@chaos.social]

@gisgeek @rpbook @sjn
pardon my French, but what the fuck are you blabbering?

legality doesn't matter for the question of whether or not you should scrape the web and abuse art for some uncredited heuristic amalgamation without any artistic vision or value

a couple of assholes (including users of LLMs) burning the planet for inherently disrespectful consumerism isn't something that should stop you from still creating and publishing, unless you've already given up on life anyway

[hauchvonstaub@nrw.social]

@gisgeek

I wouldn't say, that it says nothing about yourself.
It says what you're willing to show others as a visual representation of yourself and it's not flattering.

That you're willing to use "AI" for your profile picture at all already says a lot.

It reminds me of all those incels who used to have profile pictures of half naked women or their "anime waifu" and didn't get, how this is an issue, especially when approaching women.

The lack of self-awareness is similar.

@sjn

[ripienaar@devco.social]

@sjn how it’s used not if it’s used influences the outcome.

[aron@nerdculture.de]

@gisgeek @sjn

While you're right with what you say you circumvent the actual question.

It's about the expected/perceived level of quality, not the actual quality (and maybe about morality).

If the prices are the same would you buy the organic fair traded oranges or the ones that come from a company known for exploiting their workers and not caring for environmental impacts of their production?

[aron@nerdculture.de]

@ainmosni @sjn @gisgeek

Funny thing is, this isn't even new. I had students in the past (~2008) who blatantly copied and pasted stack overflow solutions to a compiling program that almost did the things they wanted them to do.

Unfortunately these programs also did a lot more, a lot wrong and didn't show structure or a recognizable thought process behind it.

These students couldn't even describe what their code, that they claimed they wrote themselves, was supposed to do.

Feels a lot like vibe coding nowadays, with the main difference, that each if these students realized that they had to put in the effort to learn their basics to actually receive their grades (Most of them did) and it was part of their learning journey.

IMHO this stage of realization is missing with most vibe coders nowadays, so these people never actually start a learning journey.

[danbri@mastodon.social]

@sjn I’m trying to think of a non-frontational analogy, so let’s park electricity & metal for now. How would “made with plastic” or “sugar” look? Is current AI more like plastic, or sugar?

[lazyb0y@mastodon.social]

@sjn
apparently not many people from marketing departments voted here

[lazyb0y@mastodon.social]

@gisgeek
basically correct ...

but if a company thinks they must try to make their product appear more advanced by advertising with AI features i get the impression they spend more thought on mimick innovation instead of creating innovation

and thats where i start assuming the AI product is likely worse
@sjn

[ascendor@social.tchncs.de]

@sjn Impressive result, given the high number of votes.

[garonenur@rollenspiel.social]

@gisgeek @sjn I would go further with the whole quality of the product. For me, the use of AI tells me something about the quality of the user.
I shall update my profile and be more rigorous with blocking AI users.

[amymagdalena@lgbtqia.space]

@sjn Thanks for pulling the pro AI dweebs out of the woodwork so that we may block them