Yes, a pre-existing problem that is being accelerated by generative AI.
I'd love to say i'm any more optimistic but i'd be lying. Escaping AI completely nowadays is impossible, from public spaces to your software, and i'm trying to do my best but it's very hard
Don’t give up
I think another important thing to do about this situation is to make sure everyone you speak to IRL knows how shit the tech is. Learn how to explain it in lay terms, and win more people to our side.
Pretty much everyone hates Flock already, we need everyone to directly associate Flock with AI.
Flock does not work without AI, it is a system designed to subvert your freedom
Flock needs to go, and AI needs to go with it (big tech in general needs to go tbh)
I don’t think it sells tho
At least not at a price that would produce a profit margin
There will still be real art, though perhaps not on the internet.
Think of how music has been for a while now, you have your mainstream lowest-common-denominator shit, and then there’s underground artists making much more authentic works, you just have to dig for it
… hopefully this dumb shit just goes away soon
I haven’t met anyone irl who is as pro-ai as the defenders that sneak in here are, I think it’s mostly bots and trolls tbh
Fuck AI
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.