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I am a little shocked at the lack of solidarity I see between artists working in different mediums wrt genAI.

Musicians who would never use it to make music use it to make cover art

Graphic artists reach for it to make music over their videos

Writers use it to illustrate their articles

And, considering software development an art, many use it to create web sites or apps to host their art.

None of this is necessary. All of this is harmful to the other artists.

Collaborate ffs.

Stop it.

Aug 09, 2026, 12:17 AM

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But it will do it adequately, expediently, and repeatably.

LLMs have a key weakness in that they aren't repetitive. They come up with a new solution to the job every single time they're prompted. Sometimes it can do the job adequately and expediently, sometimes it produces nonsense, and you'll never know when.

The c-suite have convinced themselves that LLMs don't have this flaw and that they can be treated like any other automation, that they can be relied on to do the same thing over and over, and then reality intrudes when they find out these are probability engines.

The chatbots can't actually do any job.

[–] TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about chatbots. AI can be tailored to suit the need. You wouldn't expect a receptionist to do the job of the engineer anymore than you'd expect Excel spreadsheets to operate a CNC machine.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The OP is obviously about chatbots, so, I'm not sure why you aren't talking about chatbots.

[–] TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'm talking about ALL AI. Narrowly defining them to just chatbots skews the scope of the discussion on the matter, IMHO.