AI, theft, art
It has become fashionable on Threads and social media in general to have flame wars about AI in art, in writing, or in general, and the opinions are often quite wild. “AI is theft. AI is wrecking the planet. AI is techno fascism” . These are some of the refrains I hear repeatedly, and it’s quite interesting at times to listen to how stubbornly these views are held. Anybody who happens to be using AI is fondly referred to as a slopper, or a crank wanker, or various other phrases. Humanity has a grand talent for creating rude labels. This is something I suspect AI may never beat us at. And I see these opinions. Sometimes I react. Sometimes I react well. Sometimes I react less well. Because I like language, rhetoric, and a reasonably well-formed sentence, I’ve had more than one smug idiot accuse me, determinedly, of being a bot, as apparently this is an insult as well as a bad thing and only bots are capable of well-formed sentences and half-decent rhetoric. ...