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The anti AI slop crowd needs to shut the fuck up (lemmy.nz)
submitted 5 days ago by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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NOTE: I am NOT defending AI or it's usage or anything like that. So just tie that horse right back up at the kitchen sink. I don't like the whole AI thing. This post is not about AI.

I get that it was necessary at first, but now whenever there's any hint of AI, there's a great chorus of everyone saying the same thing 'AI slop bla bla bla' like a gaggle of sheep jerking their knees.

It's not fucking helpful. It only sows even more division among the peasants, while the oligarchs take zero notice and continue on as usual. The correct way to engage with AI content you don't like is just not at all.

Examples:

Recently I watched as a post for a community event was removed, because it had an AI image. The image was not requested or created by the organiser, it was provided to them, and had information in several languages. But the post was removed because AI slop and now there is less human connection happening. Yay. Well fucking done. You literally are helping the AI overlords now.

I've seen many actual legit digital artists getting hit with the cries of AI slop and even banned, when they have been making art for years before AI was even a thing. People actually can't tell the difference half the time when they think they can, and end up hurting real artists.

Now is not the time to be attacking each other over using AI to generate some stupid meme. There are much, MUCH bigger issues at stake right now, and calling everything AI slop does nothing to help.

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

The large LLM companies really are doing some pretty shady shit. Loans on loans on loans (the bubble everyone is talking about).

I hadn't heard that part. I thought they were mainly running on VC funding.

Shredding and destroying old books after scanning for training.

I've seen this discussed on Reddit, with the rebuttal being that a massive amount of books are regularly shredded & destroyed on a regular basis, and have been long before LLM's came along. Not trying to excuse anything on their part, but it's a relative drop in the bucket from what I understand. Also, it's not like we don't have projects like Guttenberg, Archive.Org, Z-Library, Annas and whatever else also doing their best to scan & preserve books.

Agree with everything else, altho I don't know enough to say which company might be worst. But point taken that they're all pretty toxic and worrisome.