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People Hate AI Art (mccue.dev)
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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s ubiquitous at this point, and by its nature that means tons of people are using it themselves.

The fact that everyone is exposed to it doesn't imply it's by choice. Everyone in major cities used to be exposed to smog and other toxic shit, but most of it wasn't directly generated by them. There were a few greedy sociopaths churning it all out.

As the occasionally prophetic and always contrarian FZ put it 53 years ago:

I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out
From your TV set

Replace "TV set" with "internet" and it could have been written last week.

[–] thundermoose@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The difference with AI art is that it's not a byproduct of a moneymaking venture, it's the product itself and it doesn't get made unless someone prompts a generator to make something. Not saying the slop being generated for ads isn't widespread, just that marketing slop existed way before AI art did. If the general population didn't respond to AI art well, it wouldn't be in ads (or at least not the ones targeted widely) because it wouldn't make enough money to be worthwhile.

I don't like AI art, but I also don't want to frame it as a big conspiracy. It removes friction that artists used to benefit from, and the output is something most people are at worst neutral to (for now). Granted, that friction was removed by stealing hundreds of billions of dollars from artists to train the models, but your average consumer doesn't care about that at all.