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I consider myself to be more pro AI than not, but I'm certainly not a zealot and mostly agree with the take that it shouldn't be used in artistic pursuits. However, I love using AI to help me create art. It can give great critiques, often good advice on how to improve, and is great for rapid experimentation and prototyping. I actually used it this weekend to see what a D&D mini might look like with different color schemes before painting it. I could have done the same with Gimp, but it would have taken much longer for worse results that was ultimately just for a brain storming session. How do you feel about my AI usage from your perspective? I suppose from an energy conservation perspective, all of it was bad, but I'm more interested in a less trivial take.
I'm a writer. I got paid to write on a few things here and there, but mostly there are just huge barriers for people without connections.
I plan on using AI to turn my writing into a visual animated format for people to consume. I don't much care about the style of art, I just want my work to be seen. I can't afford to pay for artists. If I could, I would. But at least, this would give me an opportunity to show my work without some execs saying no a hundred times.
When I look at the art for cartoons in the 70s/80s, there is so much crap animation with mistakes and duplications, you would think it's "a.i. slop." I understand that these were done overseas, pumped out quickly so quality control was overlooked for speed... but it wasn't the animation I was interested in, it was the stories and characters.
I still think original artists will continue to exist. A.I. is just another tool. People will get bored of the same old stuff and want originality. I really hope it'll make our lives better in the long run, but we're just in the weird middle stage of A.I. crawling before running.
I have downloaded my own LLM that can be used on my own computer... So the only cost is electricity since I upgraded my computer before the prices went to shit. Newegg even gave me free RAM with the purchase of a motherboard so I lucked out on that. Storage is not an issue too since I got that back in 2024 knowing Trump would fuck everything up.
And no, people might not respond the same way to my work, but then again I'm not taking any work away from anyone else because then it would not even exist. If you want to fund me and the artist for our work, then okay. Show me the money.
One thing I've noticed is that I see many more people complain about slop than slop itself. It's so annoying at this point that's it's making me go in the opposite direction. Hey everyone, slop here... Microsoft slop here... Use Linux Linux Linux. Slop slop slop. Sloppy joes. It's like candlestick makers complaining to Nikola Tesla.
Another great example of how AI is just wreaking havoc on people's brains.
AI will fix everything for me! Slop doesn't exist! (ignores the very article we're in, any platform algorithm feed, the us president shit posting, all the slop that gets presented here). Go get em Nik, don't let haters stop your brilliance.
A very extreme takeaway, but okay.