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[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Knowing what I know about how AI works there's something terribly wrong with that pizza and he's going to need to take about five or six cracks at it to get it anywhere near usable.

[–] the_flying_pig@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Not sure why the waiter is frowning, it's not like he made it.

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://i.imgflip.com/azzkns.jpg

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[–] VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world -5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Again, the value of AI is not in its ability to make pictures, it's in it's value to do business tasks

Can it make pictures? Sure. Is that why AI worth billions? No

Nobody gives a shit that it make pictures. We're using it to take notes, manage pipelines, review and write code, analyze data, make up-to-date reports every 10 minutes, looks for trends in the stock market, looks for planets and shit in images of the stars, help us develop medicine, etc...

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Can we vote to make "pipeline" a certified buzzword?

Also last few examples are predictive AI, not generative. Microsoft is not shoving down their statistical user analysis software down my throat every 2 seconds. The 365 copilot chatbot on the other hand...

[–] VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Why would it be a buzzword, that's literally what it's called

You can have different pipelines that do different things, but that is the proper term for it

[–] Cactopuses@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes we do those things to - while it also does wholesale copyright theft and floods the internet with generated photos

[–] VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

If only you'd make comics about that people might not think you're all a bunch of children

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[+] Tiral@lemmy.world -9 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Ok, so here's my question. AI is a tool, not a person. So I create text prompts for it to make whatever I type (theoretically). You say that takes no skill, sure.

Now a writer who inputs the description of a character they created in a book into AI and it makes a picture of a person based on the writers creative skilled writing. Are you saying it's crap even though the writer put skill into the unique description, but used a tool to make a picture based on it?

By that token if AI is a tool, would a artists brush be considered bullshit slop because it's used to make a pairing. By definition it's a tool as well.

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When people refer to AI as a tool, they mean as a part of the drawing/rendering workflow, not the whole. If you went through the entire design workflow without the AI, you can take full ownership over that. That part still takes your skill. But if the AI still builds most if not all of the image, you can't really claim ownership over the image, since from that point, the AI makes (basically) all of the skillful decisions.

Only if you start being a part of actively shaping the drawing, like providing a sufficiently original base image or other advanced original input, drawing over or recomposing the image afterwards, you can get something you were actually a part of it. That's the (closer) equivalent of an artists brush. The artist uses and applies the brush in a way to make something that becomes bigger than it's parts. Using AI for the full image would be equivalent to applying a stamp. It can be a very pretty stamp, but something else made it.

Saying "I made this", isn't false per se, but the omission of "by having the AI draw my design." does drastically change the perception to the point it's deceptive. It's just about being honest. If you made a cool design, stick to taking credit for the design. At the end of the day, not being a part of putting the design into a drawing is not uncommon, but certainly better than being deceptive, even if some people may dislike the AI use. Those people will hate you all the more for lying by omission over it if that was an issue for them, and it can certainly also draw unhappy responses from others who would be fine if you told them honestly.

EDIT: Typo

[–] ruby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

yes, why wouldn't it be crap? putting effort into the input to feed a probabilistic machine doesn't suddenly make the output appealing somehow. there is a difference of skill and resulting quality between an artist using a brush and a person using a slop generator. the notion that your slop generator is generating slop because you're simply prompting it wrong is nonsense.

and quite frankly, whoever thinks that an image generator built on mass scraping others' creative works pushed forward by the worst of big tech and a paintbrush are equivalent in ethics and quality because they say they're both "tools" might just be a tool as well.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lots of people don't understand that so-called "AI" is just another computer program.

They really think it's like a person. Feeding the grift.

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