Yeah we all hear the main arguments… AI is bad because of slop content, stealing from creators, brain rot & brain damage, privacy concerns and most importantly… how billionaires are just using it for their own selfish reasons
But I’m asking about YOU 🫵 personally. The individual. What do you really think about AI? Do you care or are you indifferent? Has it actually affected your day to day life?
okay agree about the data centers, crisis of overproduction with the whole ai bubble going on. definitely will need to be rectified at some point. but since when did communists care about art theft lmao? you hear yourself? i would argue that them losing their class position is helpful, actually. perhaps they would lose their attachment to property while they are at it. because that kind of thinking certainly isn’t indictive of being a revolutionary subject.
i suggest you read that thread on asklemmygrad about the new person asking why we support china. many people in the comments are breaking down why private property is not a moral term
My understanding of the “ai art is theft” take in this context is like this. Making art is a form of labor, where one’s artwork is the output of one’s labor. Models trained on a particular artist’s style can emulate the style of that artwork. Companies who build models trained this way profit off of that style emulation without compensating the artist. Their (unique) art (style) has thus been stolen, for another’s profit.
I’m not trying to weigh in one way or another on the debate; just sharing how I understand what other people mean when they say ai art is theft. Perhaps I’m wrong in my understanding.