jarinarenos
SamWinters
jarinarenos

Using terms like “inspiration” in regards to ‘AI’ art is distinctly part of the problem here. These are pattern-matching datasets. They can’t be inspired, they can’t learn. They mash together elements of the data they are fed in the manner it calculates is statistically closest to the prompt they’re given.

It is *literally* sampling and remixing.

And if these datasets were trained on purchased stock photos or something, then it would be fine. But they aren’t.

Please look up the difference between the terms “publicly available” and “public domain”.

Again, not the point. *Could* we create an artificial intelligence, not just some pattern recognition software that’s called that? Who knows, maybe. But THIS IS NOT THAT. We know how this software works, and it’s simple pattern matching on a massive scale.

You can “not agree” about gravity, too, but you still can’t fly by flapping your arms.

The problem isn’t inherently the tech. It’s the massive databases of uncredited and straight-up stolen art. If this software was trained entirely on public-domain art, and that was *verifiable*, basically all my complaints would evaporate. But that would require dumping all that pattern training, and the people

The problem with your shitty analogy is that in this case, it’s blacksmiths complaining that cars are made out of horseshoes literally stolen from them.

Maybe, maybe not. But that’s “what if the atmosphere was made of yogurt” level of speculation because AI software as currently created has nothing even vaguely resembling actual learning or creativity. It’s a giant pattern-recognition database. A rather sophisticated one, sure, but that’s all.

The collage metaphor is far more accurate than the image you seem to have of AI. The creators of this software desperately want you to think of it as a thinking entity that can learn and be creative. But these programs are *fundamentally different from human learning at every level*. So either you’ve bought into the

No popular AI art program is trained exclusively on freely available content.

You’re an artist. Sure, bro. And just chomping at the bit to have your paying jobs dry up as software fed with *your art*, unpaid, gets used instead?

Biggest disappointment was clicking this link and seeing another slideshow

Real “I can’t work but crypto is letting me earn from home” energy

While I am pro piracy, it *is* a legal mess. This documentary was 100% legal.

The rich are rich by exploiting those poorer than them. It’s a universal truth.

The history and art typically read like mad libs

500 years of history that I have never seen come up in a single fortress game ever. Maybe it matters more to adventure mode? Never played that one, didn’t interest me.

Considering this is a “nintendo’s lawyers” situation, the distrust is still applicable in this case.

Ambition is all well and good, but as a game... well... it’s a bit shit, innit?