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Could you explain why it would be in any way relevant if that was the case?
https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai/p/2042849/i-ve-finally-understood-what-my-beef-with-ai-is
I came across this post the other day, and this person has put into words what I have simply failed to.
In short; AI makes the world feel empty and hollow. Many people enjoy the process behind the things we create or encounter, even if it wasn't us to go through that process. Replacing it with AI removes the human touch/connection that made that thing interesting. I don't want to know about the faceless algorithm that spat out what I'm seeing; I want to know about the person that created this and their experiences that brought them here.
I mean that's fine, but plenty of things in our modern life are mass produced, and utilitarian. Everything doesn't need to be art. For example, I don't need my toothbrush to be crafted by an artisan, nor do I care if a website that shows stats collected by the browser was artisanally coded or not.
I'm actually going to make a separate point from my other comment:
Art is a matter of perspective.
Maybe you don't care about how your toothbrush was designed; but someone somewhere sat down and made decisions about how to best shape it, what materials to use, what kind/how many/what thickness of bristles, how to color it, etc. Those were decisions made from experiences that person had which they chose to factor into their designs.
Someone else out there is interested in what led to those design choices, perhaps to design their own with improvements or changes, perhaps just out of curiosity. They can't ask an algorithm why it made the choices it did and have a discussion about the details; but they could with a person.
What some find disinteresting, others immerse themselves in. AI destroys those opportunities for human connection. Human connection we already struggle to find as a species.
You might not care how this site was created, but some do. The use of an LLM has made it impossible to discuss the choices made, because there weren't any decisions, just an algorithm spitting out letters one after another...
That's just a complete straw man that stems from having utter lack of understanding how people actually use LLMs. Here's one example for you from Terence Tao https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103