AI is simply a tool, and like things in life, one must be careful using it as a substitition. It is NOT merely a replacement.
I study AI for my Masters. My personal view on it? It can be used for greatness/fun, provided you are ethical and cautious about it. Human learnt skill will always triumph AI - even if hypothetically AI could do better. Imagine where people stop walking, having weapons, or even critically thinking. We can't regress into becoming a weak species. Doing the very act itself is not wasted effort. I see too many cases people using AI in Academia to try to cut corners, and it does anger me too. Quite a bit of cases for cheating. For someone who wishes to be an academic, I do find that disgusting. That being said, I am not entirely against it. It's ultimately - how - it's used.
For AI art it's the same, but the ethics and the >need< for it does not warrant the anger. So I am way way softer towards it. Sloppy art does not have close to the negative impact to producing false and potentially harmful information in the face of art, technology and mathematics. If anything, that anger should be better shared towards fraud and academic misconduct (which is way more pressing and impactful). I have seen really good artists who make work so much better than AI.
Source?
From hearing from AI researchers and lecturers (in person, multiple of them, a strong silent consensus, the elephant of the room), there is more papers being produced regarding AI than the people reading it. That clearly points to using AI in a neglectful way. It explains why some of the papers I read just seem... mushy.
AI art is art, but it is a >different< kind of art. Anyone who makes it a competition (which includes employers) are being a fool. From a cultural and anthropological level. I will not be intimidated from not having this stance.
It's like you found a substitute for meat. That can cause small butchers and local farmers to go out of business, right? Sure, maybe the big guy gets profit, but the slop will start to hit you. Hard. Won't be long until it goes back into a feedback loop of degenerating content, until the demand of human artists shoot right back up. That and people can detect AI content, some cases even just by observation.
So yeah, I'm choosing to say it to you because I suspect certain people are harassing me (even bringing their buddies, claiming I have "bad reputation" (??)) because I used AI art one time to try to demonstrate a possible different direction a character concept could go. Again, this place is not an art gallery, this is a place for critique, discussion and suggestions towards Valve for inspiration. Nothing more, nothing less. Should I have to put up being told that I need to get life, and that what I'm doing is cancerous? People try to lecture about environmental concerns, not realising they live in glass houses! Please. And somehow I'm harming someone's mental health because I think differently? Pick up a pen? How about spend several years of your life trying to understanding AI, including Mathematics behind it? Till then, they can get their disrespect and shove it up their ass.
No. I won't even dignify them any further. They can rot in hell. I understand the topic far more than 90% of people. I heard some claims that transformer models were used to aimbot in Deadlock?
Literal bullshit. There are far too many hidden variables, and why go through the process, which is prone to hallucinations due to it's very design, when you could make an algorithmic/object detection approach that would be more effective in accuracy, ease, time taken to develop as well as resource allocation (Memory/Time). I literally did an undergraduate piece about AI's capability to make novel knowledge based material, and I concluded rightfully that using transformers won't cut it and that CoT technology had to be employed, as well as "neural components". This was 5 months before OpenAI deployed the very same ideas I predicted. I don't need to give the grade I got for that, as frankly what I say speaks volumes.
And I'm not going to tolerate disrespect and intimidation.
Criticise me for being wrong, at least I'm not being abusive when I convey an argument. I don't treat people unfairly, absolutely not when unprovoked. 95% of my interactions have been positive, engaging and giving ideas the time and thought.
Frankly, AI hysteria is stupid. They don't even fully understand why they are angry. Animals. I would be absolutely against a ban of AI in these forums. Perhaps segregating AI (and assisted) art displays vs human made work? That I would love for that, actually.
