Can the AI haters give it a rest already?
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@DavidGoldfield Thank you. The same people though that condemn AI on social media which is for some reason the sexy thing to do in tech circles now probably use it to have 3000 cat pictures described, and you know what? That’s great, they should, but they shouldn’t talk out of both sides of their mouth.
@technocounselor @DavidGoldfield I like AI. I ask Gemini and Alexa stuff all the time. And really appreciat the describing and reading it can do.
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Can the AI haters give it a rest already? Yes, I know there are concerns, but as a person with a disability, if I didn’t use every tool that was out there because I had concerns about it, I wouldn’t use anything. All this AI hatred is just cutting off our nose to spite our face.
@technocounselor I absolutely agree with you Allison. I was very leary about using AI at first, but I've been able to do so many things with it that have made my life so much easier, and have helped me learn so much. I think AI should always be used as a tule, but it can be used for some pretty awesome things.
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Can the AI haters give it a rest already? Yes, I know there are concerns, but as a person with a disability, if I didn’t use every tool that was out there because I had concerns about it, I wouldn’t use anything. All this AI hatred is just cutting off our nose to spite our face.
@technocounselor they've got to have something to bitch about. I wonder how long it's going to be before we have people coming up with 21st century variations on the old tall tales where giants beat machines on particular jobs and died doing it, like John Henry, for instance.
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Can the AI haters give it a rest already? Yes, I know there are concerns, but as a person with a disability, if I didn’t use every tool that was out there because I had concerns about it, I wouldn’t use anything. All this AI hatred is just cutting off our nose to spite our face.
@maerlynofmiria @technocounselor I absolutely agree with this, its why I do my best to use AI in a responsible way to make things easier for me, not to do work for me necessarily, if I can use AI to make my work more efficient based on what I give it to do and it does it well, than it only helps me to use it. Yes, there are concerns, but AI is the future, so I might as well embrace it.
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@maerlynofmiria @technocounselor I absolutely agree with this, its why I do my best to use AI in a responsible way to make things easier for me, not to do work for me necessarily, if I can use AI to make my work more efficient based on what I give it to do and it does it well, than it only helps me to use it. Yes, there are concerns, but AI is the future, so I might as well embrace it.
@LeonianUniverse @technocounselor I so can't stand the AI haters. They come out wit more alarmist crap than I've heard on the net since AQnon got started in 2017. One thing I use AI for is novel revision. Yes, sometimes I have to stop it from drifting, but it works pretty well, particularly when adding visual elements I'm not really equipped to add. One thing I wish it wouldn't do is put modern clipped cinnimatic paragraph and sentence structure into an epic fantasy novel lol.
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@LeonianUniverse @technocounselor I so can't stand the AI haters. They come out wit more alarmist crap than I've heard on the net since AQnon got started in 2017. One thing I use AI for is novel revision. Yes, sometimes I have to stop it from drifting, but it works pretty well, particularly when adding visual elements I'm not really equipped to add. One thing I wish it wouldn't do is put modern clipped cinnimatic paragraph and sentence structure into an epic fantasy novel lol.
@maerlynofmiria @technocounselor Yeah, they really do like to fear-monger people in to thinking AI will kill us all and destroy the world because one person decided to use AI to create music or whatever. Its just super wild to me.
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@maerlynofmiria @technocounselor Yeah, they really do like to fear-monger people in to thinking AI will kill us all and destroy the world because one person decided to use AI to create music or whatever. Its just super wild to me.
@LeonianUniverse Oh and let's not forget destroy the music industry and bankrup all the artists in the world.
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@LeonianUniverse Oh and let's not forget destroy the music industry and bankrup all the artists in the world.
@maerlynofmiria Right? I hear that shit all the time and my response to that is, if that's the way you see it, than make better #music! Its a market economy, if people like my music over your music and mine was made with the help of #AI, that's not my fault, do better at making music and make it more attractive to people and they will buy it more as everyone has the choice to buy music or anything that they want based on a number of factors, if people find AI music more attractive than your music, that's on them, not on the #creators of the music. hell, AI music is my music, its my ideas, my concepts, my lyrics, my style, I don't tell the AI to copy artists and there work or do anything that would suggest anything like that in the slightest, its all me, and if people want to buy it or not is there choice, not me causing harm just because you can't get your music on the #market, want to complain, complain to yourself for not being able to market as well as I do, not on me for making my music in the first place.
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Can the AI haters give it a rest already? Yes, I know there are concerns, but as a person with a disability, if I didn’t use every tool that was out there because I had concerns about it, I wouldn’t use anything. All this AI hatred is just cutting off our nose to spite our face.
@LeonianUniverse @technocounselor Goodness yes! Like especially sighted people, if they can't fix the world to work for us, they should say absolutely nothing when we take any advantage we can to make things more comfortable or even excellent for us. Especially developers and artists. I'm kinda getting ready to unfollow people like that. Like I've made a few apps accessible for me, made some Emacs stuff work for me, and that's with vibe coding. Like I've said before, Termux wouldn't have been made more accessible without AI. And I'm just starting. I should look into more open source Android apps to make more accessible. Like why not? Why would we limit ourselves? We've been limited all our lives. I'd trade a few bottles of water for some accessible apps. Or an accessible world.
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@maerlynofmiria Right? I hear that shit all the time and my response to that is, if that's the way you see it, than make better #music! Its a market economy, if people like my music over your music and mine was made with the help of #AI, that's not my fault, do better at making music and make it more attractive to people and they will buy it more as everyone has the choice to buy music or anything that they want based on a number of factors, if people find AI music more attractive than your music, that's on them, not on the #creators of the music. hell, AI music is my music, its my ideas, my concepts, my lyrics, my style, I don't tell the AI to copy artists and there work or do anything that would suggest anything like that in the slightest, its all me, and if people want to buy it or not is there choice, not me causing harm just because you can't get your music on the #market, want to complain, complain to yourself for not being able to market as well as I do, not on me for making my music in the first place.
@LeonianUniverse Same here with my music.
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@LeonianUniverse @technocounselor Goodness yes! Like especially sighted people, if they can't fix the world to work for us, they should say absolutely nothing when we take any advantage we can to make things more comfortable or even excellent for us. Especially developers and artists. I'm kinda getting ready to unfollow people like that. Like I've made a few apps accessible for me, made some Emacs stuff work for me, and that's with vibe coding. Like I've said before, Termux wouldn't have been made more accessible without AI. And I'm just starting. I should look into more open source Android apps to make more accessible. Like why not? Why would we limit ourselves? We've been limited all our lives. I'd trade a few bottles of water for some accessible apps. Or an accessible world.
@pixelate @technocounselor absolutely, sighted people had years, no, decades to help improve access for us in various ways but chose not to, now they get mad because we use AI to make our lives better? That's bullshit, if we can use AI to help make things accessible we previously couldn't use, that's just us using our time wisely instead of waiting and hoping sighted people will eventually think of us and get around to it when they want some sort of metal for making our lives better in various ways, whether that be making a game accessible or making an experience accessible for us, its now in our hands and that's a way better experience than anything a sighted person would eventually think to provide.
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@maerlynofmiria @technocounselor Yeah, they really do like to fear-monger people in to thinking AI will kill us all and destroy the world because one person decided to use AI to create music or whatever. Its just super wild to me.
@LeonianUniverse @maerlynofmiria @technocounselor
I think I’ll maintain the likely unpopular position that we need some fear-mongering just to slightly push back against the wild rush by every institution on Earth to ram it up our collective noses at 500 mph. whether we asked or not.
In a better world, where the brokers and money people had basic ethics, I think there’d be less need for fear.
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@LeonianUniverse @maerlynofmiria @technocounselor
I think I’ll maintain the likely unpopular position that we need some fear-mongering just to slightly push back against the wild rush by every institution on Earth to ram it up our collective noses at 500 mph. whether we asked or not.
In a better world, where the brokers and money people had basic ethics, I think there’d be less need for fear.
@LeonianUniverse @maerlynofmiria @technocounselor
So I guess I’ve just talked myself around to your position, kind of. It’s people who are, as usual, at the heart of the problem. The machine is only as good as whoever buys and checks the oil. So if you’re doing the maintenance and motoring right, godspeed.
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@LeonianUniverse @maerlynofmiria @technocounselor
I think I’ll maintain the likely unpopular position that we need some fear-mongering just to slightly push back against the wild rush by every institution on Earth to ram it up our collective noses at 500 mph. whether we asked or not.
In a better world, where the brokers and money people had basic ethics, I think there’d be less need for fear.
@xenophora @LeonianUniverse @technocounselor Fearmongering achieves nothing but causing needless panic. remember the Salem witch hunts where innocent women were hung and burned and drowned simply because some guy couldn't convince them to go to bed with him so he claimed they'd put the evil eye on them?
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@maerlynofmiria Right? I hear that shit all the time and my response to that is, if that's the way you see it, than make better #music! Its a market economy, if people like my music over your music and mine was made with the help of #AI, that's not my fault, do better at making music and make it more attractive to people and they will buy it more as everyone has the choice to buy music or anything that they want based on a number of factors, if people find AI music more attractive than your music, that's on them, not on the #creators of the music. hell, AI music is my music, its my ideas, my concepts, my lyrics, my style, I don't tell the AI to copy artists and there work or do anything that would suggest anything like that in the slightest, its all me, and if people want to buy it or not is there choice, not me causing harm just because you can't get your music on the #market, want to complain, complain to yourself for not being able to market as well as I do, not on me for making my music in the first place.
@LeonianUniverse @maerlynofmiria
“Make better music!”
That’s subjective. So not really the point. Maybe the AI music would sound “better” to me. But I don’t like that the people promoting new music won’t say whether or not it’s AI. I think I have a basic right to know the ingredients before I start to eat. If they won’t reveal that to me beforehand, then no thanks. I’ll reject all unknowns in favor of what I DO know to be made directly by people, for people.
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@LeonianUniverse @maerlynofmiria
“Make better music!”
That’s subjective. So not really the point. Maybe the AI music would sound “better” to me. But I don’t like that the people promoting new music won’t say whether or not it’s AI. I think I have a basic right to know the ingredients before I start to eat. If they won’t reveal that to me beforehand, then no thanks. I’ll reject all unknowns in favor of what I DO know to be made directly by people, for people.
@xenophora @maerlynofmiria Yeah, but I always tell my audiance that my music was made with AI, I am very clear about it because I want people to know that it was made with AI, I'm not saying people are right for not revealing that, that is wrong if they don't reveal that it was made with AI, but AI music is just as valid as music made with other instruments and more direct human input.
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@xenophora @LeonianUniverse @technocounselor Fearmongering achieves nothing but causing needless panic. remember the Salem witch hunts where innocent women were hung and burned and drowned simply because some guy couldn't convince them to go to bed with him so he claimed they'd put the evil eye on them?
@maerlynofmiria @LeonianUniverse @technocounselor
Apples and oranges.
I’m not panicked. Anger =/= panic.
People are way too quick in this world to say any attempt at scrutiny of what the rich and powerful are doing to us is “a witch hunt.”
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@LeonianUniverse @maerlynofmiria
“Make better music!”
That’s subjective. So not really the point. Maybe the AI music would sound “better” to me. But I don’t like that the people promoting new music won’t say whether or not it’s AI. I think I have a basic right to know the ingredients before I start to eat. If they won’t reveal that to me beforehand, then no thanks. I’ll reject all unknowns in favor of what I DO know to be made directly by people, for people.
@xenophora @LeonianUniverse I take it then, if you'd lived a bit over a century ago, that you'd have rejected electricity in favor of oil lamps until an unlucky slip set your house on fire? Or for that matter, would you still be for the application of leaches to handle medical issues? And did it ever occur to you that the reason a lot of people don't say that something is produced by AI is because of the fearmongering?
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@xenophora @maerlynofmiria Yeah, but I always tell my audiance that my music was made with AI, I am very clear about it because I want people to know that it was made with AI, I'm not saying people are right for not revealing that, that is wrong if they don't reveal that it was made with AI, but AI music is just as valid as music made with other instruments and more direct human input.
@LeonianUniverse @maerlynofmiria
[shrug] There are already non-AI online programs which can teach me music. I mostly haven’t tried them because I’m a chronic procrastinator with zero attention span. lol I have a hard time imagining why I’d feel more satisfied just instructing a machine to give me “XYZ” song than the alternative. Which would be taking at least a somewhat active role in learning the thing myself.
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@maerlynofmiria @LeonianUniverse @technocounselor
Apples and oranges.
I’m not panicked. Anger =/= panic.
People are way too quick in this world to say any attempt at scrutiny of what the rich and powerful are doing to us is “a witch hunt.”
@xenophora @LeonianUniverse @technocounselor Not apples and oranges by any means. Same attitude among the fearmongers. S.S.D.D. Same shit, different day.
