AI is ruining the internet

[@greenapple0811]

AI more like AI dont want to watch this

[@ObjectIsCool]

fine you win

[@PinnePon]

Ai am hungry

[@lexiyatsu]

damn

[@dreamp4]

AI hate this guy too!

[@arachnid_fangs]

lethal

[@Schaeferyn]

The single most damning question about "AI" that I've seen is "Why would I want to read a book that nobody bothered to write?". It perfectly applies to all creative arts in relation to AI, and you've pretty much nailed it here.

[@abbiemarie19]

this is so real

[@synthopia2]

That's what I'm starting to ask and they have no answer to it. Their goal is to be the ones producing AI slop while the rest consume it and pay for it but they dont realize NO ONE wants to do that and not even them. They are ruining it for us all the nerd fucks.

[@Me-vn3gz]

i think it’s more useful for brainstorming and editing writing but not doing the entire thing

[@emiliew5553]

exactly. when i read im paying attention to the authors literary voice and how they word things, how the narrator views the world and how it effects their decision making and dialogue. all that stuff is nonexistent with AI because it’s all taken from existing works. i’ll just read the existing work

[@UserName-zb8ql]

Why would I want to read a book that nobody bothered to write? so you won't read Helen Keller's book cause she didn't write that

[@lookitdatassby]

I feel really bad for artists who make hyper realistic art online and get bombarded with so many, "IS THIS AI??" stuff. Such a sad time for artists right now. :(

[@SilentOnion]

it sucks for everyone. the real artist and the user wanting to see real art. the artist has their stuff mixed into a flood of ai garbage so no one can find it and the user mostly sees ai garbage so you'll start to get paranoid that every art you see could be ai.

[@TheSchwarzKater]

Lets not forget that not AI is the main issue here but shitty people. Of course it sucks for the artist to get drowned in AI content, but it's another issue.

[@zanemob1429]

I now want to abandon my dream of being at least a somewhat noteworthy artist so I can inspire others into my hobby or just wow them and make people happy because my art will be turned against me now and everyone I want to make happy and other artists. I’m tired of this nightmarish money-rotted dystopia the world is becoming.

[@ember9361]

I don't lol those are an eyesore

[@reginaldforthright805]

I mean 99% chance it is ai so…

[@Jackie_XIII]

"Can you never fucking do that ever again please" you can just *FEEL* the contempt dripping off that sentence. You are 100% justified for it too.

[@spikemurphy5054]

Drew is funny when he’s being sarcastic, but I LOVE when you can just tell that he’s furious at something. Makes him more human.

[@aniyilator]

@@spikemurphy5054 Saying that it makes him more human in this context is really funny

[@ebashunegrov]

I liked most of the video, but I don't quite understand Drew's animosity towards AI generated videos. Unlike art or music models, video models don't steal anything from real artists. I have seen some of the videos featured by OpenAI, and while they were obviously cherry-picked, it still amazed me how their model has improved. You can recall how horrible and unrealistic videos like "Will Smith eating spaghetti" or "Rock eating rocks" were just a year ago, and now we have a car ride that you honestly can't tell from the real video. I really think Drew is being too harsh on a technology that is basically 2 years old, and that is rapidly developing.

[@LauraVanessaEscobarSalazar]

@@ebashunegrovai video steals from artists as well, ai cannot generate anything from zero it needs material to do that and steals from videos taken by people that work on different fields, art, documentaries , films, etc, not to mention how unethical this all is as you can basically use private footage of people framing them for crimes, fake evidence or worse, we have already seen the consequences of that with deepfake with women and little girls who’s image and footage was used for revenge p*rn

[@xaayer]

​@@ebashunegrov "The chase continues north in the city! Police helicopters are converging on Avenue 87 and Elm Grove Park!" Granger nodded. "They're faking. You threw them off at the river. They can't admit it. [...] So they're sniffing for a scapegoat to end things with a bang. Watch. They'll catch Montag in the next five minutes!" "But how-" "Watch." The camera, hovering in the belly of a helicopter, now swung down at an empty street. [...] On the screen, a man turned a corner. The Mechanical Hound rushed forward into the viewer, suddenly. [...] A voice cried, "There's Montag! The search is done!" The innocent man stood bewildered [...]. He stared at the Hound, not knowing what it was. [...] The Hound leapt up into the air [...]. Its needle shot out. [...] "Montag, don't move!" said a voice from the sky. The camera fell upon the victim, even as did the Hound. Both reached him simultaneously. The victim was seized by the Hound and the camera in a great spidering, clenched grip. He screamed. He screamed. He screamed! Blackout. Silence. Darkness. Montag cried out in the silence and turned away Silence. And then, after a time of the men sitting around the fire, their faces expressionless, an announce on the darks creen said, "The search is over. Montag is dead; a crime against society has been avenged." Darkness. [...] Granger turned [the viewscreen] off. "They didn't show the man's face in focus. Did you notice? Even your best friends couldn't tell if it was you. They scrambled it just enough to let the imagination take over. Hell," he whispered. "Hell." The above is a heavily abridged snippet from the climax of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. This, to me, is the true worry. AI may seem harmless now, but in what direction is it going? It's going for art now and as much as that sucks for artists, it isn't just artists who should be afraid. Art imitates life, so the better AI gets at mimicking art, the better it gets at mimicking life. We already see those who don't think critically and those on the fringes of society and the fringes of cognition (children and the elderly) being taken in by fraudulent AI images and stories. I've seen faked Joe Rogan podcast snippets and I know you've seen the fake image of the Pope in supposedly some new drip a few years back (the puffy white jacket image). So what happens as that continues to get better? What happens when someone deepfakes *you* doing something heinous? What happens when someone uses AI to create a video of something that "happened" ten years ago that changes history and manufactures a Mandela effect? That's essentially the power to rewrite history. Do you see, now, the true danger we have here? The Fermi paradox is the term for the contradiction between the seemingly high likelihood for the emergence of extraterrestrial intelligence and the lack of evidence for its existence. It has many proposed answers but one of the most popular ones is the Great Filter, the idea that there is some sort of milestone that a civilization has to pass in order to progress on the Kardachev scale and to be detectible. More than likely we have not hit the filter yet, whatever it may be - some think it's becoming a full Type 1 or Type 2 civilization. But what if AI is the filter? What if *this* is what does us in as a species. AI can indeed be a powerful and positive tool if ethically controlled and maintained, but considering our world gov'ts track record, more than likely it will be exploited and weaponized. Truth will get muddled because of AIs potential to overwrite and skew what we know. Art and culture, often all that remains and persists of ancient civilizations, will fade out and die. If you've watched Netflix's 3-Body-Problem, you may be familiar with just how damaging having something continually liquify truth in the field of science can be. All of that is why we should scrutinize and have a natural animosity to AI.

[@EveZhang-sk6mv]

As a disabled artist, I’ve seen streamers modify their controllers to play with an amputated hand, artists with tremors who put a tennis ball on their ones, artists who learnt to draw using their feet. Ai does not help these individuals, adapting and overcoming does!

[@Lightning_bugs]

If they really cared about disabled people (such as myself) it would be way more helpful to fund research into conditions with little known about them, like my own fibromyalgia. The number one reason I will not practice or create anything is because of my chronic fatigue.

[@Legacy0901]

The fact that AI had to leech results from Reddit is already an example of people migrating away from algorithms. The whole reason people added 'reddit' at the end of their google searches in the first place was so that they'd get results from an actual human instead of ad recommendations

[@acookie7548]

Every time I browse Reddit nowadays every few posts has a reply that’s obviously AI. Search engine AI feeding off Reddit reply AI does not sound like a good time. Maybe we should add weird characters like ‽ and ⅖ into posts so AI figures out it can use those characters and start getting even worse

[@Not_Always]

No, we did that because google results suck, when even 10 years they would get you what you actually wanted and not what someone rigged their SEO to put in the first page.

[@Funcijej]

@@acookie7548 I like the idea of everybody deliberately AI poisoning their Reddit posts, maybe we could make a browser plugin that replaces all characters with other Unicode characters that look exactly the same to humans but would result in uncommon or nonexistent tokens

[@NocturnalDisaster]

@@Funcijej Sounds like it'd fuck with screen readers

[@leonardsalt]

That¿s a good •

[@goldennebula5013]

Crazy how my parents would constantly tell me to not believe everything I see on the internet a couple years ago. Now they believe literally every AI post they see on Facebook and it makes me sad

[@XGrimzukiX]

Not just on Facebook it’s literally everywhere even the news! They seem to believe it all and don’t think to do 1 minute of research. Nope, they hear it and eat it up then spew their beliefs and use their age to claim they’re correct.

[@haandotexe]

I feel like I need to have a sit-down talk with my parents about how to spot AI-generated images on facebook so they don't get fooled. I'm worried about them.

[@SinHurr]

@@haandotexe Just block social media sites at the modem level. It'll be better for them in the long run. Ban Fox news et. al. if you can, too.

[@t2jhkt3b8adb5]

@@haandotexe do it, i did and they're now more aware which makes me feel more at ease

[@Illersvansen]

Don't blame them, most boomers have brain damage from childhood lead poisoning.

[@jpconger]

one thing that was interesting to see was how basically every subreddit quickly banned AI stuff as soon as the generators got popular, mostly not for ideological reasons, but because it’s consistently low-effort garbage that sucks

[@PunishedDad]

If reddit is concerned about low effort junk that sucks they should delete the whole website

[@breannathompson9094]

​@@PunishedDadnah, there's really good stuff there, it just never hits the algorithms. Plenty of supportive communities and niche hobbies that were ripped from the regular web and consolidated onto reddit, sadly.

[@remydeuce3056]

@@breannathompson9094yes! reddit is the go to place if you have a very specific issue. more than likely some tandom person on there 10 years ago had the same issues and in the commenst are the solutions. reddit is a godsend website- aside from the furry weeb cukture it propetuates.

[@minhuang8848]

The irony being that the vast majority of subreddits were either really goddamn stupid about it - like the art sub that, in an attempt to be the worst of an already obnoxious site, required people to pass a thoroughly flawed automatic test randomly claiming "fake" or "real" on submitted footage... or they just have always been bad and even blindly generated crud ended up making them two orders of magnitude better. Like the technology sub, if we just invented mumbo jumbo articles and populated a fake dummy sub with "users" making the same boring, unfunny puns and jokes over and over again, it'd still end up being a better experience than what we had for way too long. I mean, moot discussion anyway, we're literally talking about reddit, where creativity goes to, uh, unalive itself. Which is actually how they speak there now, too, because for the better part of last decade, the site has devolved into just another tiktok video rehosting service - and not a particularly good one by any measure either. Compared to some of the human-generated, paperclip-optimizing, braincells-obliterating man-slop we've evolved to churn out in awful, short videos, I welcome some random and novel generated content that isn't just the twentieth repost of some fairly mid meme.

[@issnotgen]

@@PunishedDadid take human made garbage any day over ai made garbage 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[@emris2697]

As a disabled artist, the accessibility argument just falls completely flat for me. Cause they aren’t actually making the act of creating more accessible. What’s fun about art is sitting by the canvas and applying the paint, not typing code words into a computer. It very much feels like propping me up next to somebody with a full canvas and tons of different paints and pencils… and then giving me a piece of A4 paper and a crayon saying “Look! Now you can art too!😊” Completely insulting my level of actual skill and intelligence I already possess when it comes to creating art.

[@Colddirector]

I feel embarrassed I ever fell for that accessibility argument, sometimes I come across old posts of me saying it could expand the scale artists can work at, and I want to slap some sense into that moron.

[@itmeeeeebip]

A real accessibility tool for art (using myself for example) is a wrist support to relieve stress. It is not a machine completely removing the skill, talent, and artistic agency I have developed over the years because I "need help". I also dont believe the "accessibility" argument holds up under any amount of reasoning. Unless tech moguls are willing to admit that they don't value human experience, or human suffering (ie, needing accessibility tools because of chronic pain).

[@emris2697]

@@itmeeeeebip Yes, exactly! They only seem to care about us when it is convenient for them. I’ve only ever heard them use us as an argument for their case. Never heard them actively speak up about and fight for disabled people’s rights otherwise.

[@agent__berry]

disabled artists have been creating for millennia, from the colourblind to the limbless. The accessibility argument is simply a coincidence and a tool for them, it doesn’t actually hold any water if you think about it critically for more than a couple seconds… but that’s too exhausting for ai bros

[@Colddirector]

@@itmeeeeebip It kind of reminds me of an AsumSaus video about the difference between tournament legal and illegal controller mods. Legal mods simply enable you to do what you're doing a little easier while illegal mods do things for you.

[@kyx5631]

I was there, on Twitter. Some AI image generator users were complaining about other users stealing their prompts. There were users... arguing that one should copyright prompts... so that others don't steal them. My brain is not in shape for these kinds of mental gymnastics.

[@ganesang5537]

Hilarious, @this rate, I'm gonna lose it pretty effing soon!

[@fredericksmith7942]

These people are beyond parody.

[@briclare]

“hey you can’t have that, i stole it first!”

[@StardustCorvid]

It's the same shit with techbros whining about copyright over NFTs, but at least the NFTs were made by a human

[@FresosSoapbox]

@@StardustCorvid Most NFTs were algorithmically generated, so the parts that made them up might have been created by humans*, but the final images were most frequently not. (*: later generations were/are not infrequently made from "generative AI" algorithms through and through.)

[@mintee119]

Drew casually dropping bangers like "How are you ever gonna do something for ten years if you won't even do it for one day?" like it's no big deal

[@homiekisser3000]

hes so poetic at times lol

[@teddycinema]

he kinda socrates with it

[@Rat-czar]

bruh I thought the same thing

[@insertaghere]

According to copilot, that's a quote from confuscious

[@youtube.handle69]

I ask myself that all the time lol.. I guess I just never put it into words

[@_xeere]

"be careful, it's easy to get carried away and start having fun making music" this killed me

[@SupaSillyMexi]

Pff! Do something.......for enjoyment?! Inconceivable.....

[@Cynderace]

imagine creating something and actually enjoying it like who would ever want that/s

[@Ar1AnX1x]

bro is terrified of being human

[@Cosmic-Fail]

Actually having fun making something? But that's not using 100% of your time efficiently!

[@bandannadoo]

I've gotten AI to make music and the only thing I do with it is write the most stupid, juvenile lyrics and get it to make a song that sounds like it has actual production value, and when it works it's like the funniest thing ever. Then I browsed the public libraries of other people's stuff and everyone else is taking it seriously, so it's all just generic noise. I guess it's the difference between using AI as a toy or as a tool, and as a tool it's usually pretty boring.

[@emris2697]

At this point we gotta resort to going to the local library if we wanna get accurate information.

[@manonvo8615]

I mean, my library is pretty fun. I like going there anyway. Lets gooo. Like right now they are collaboration with a big museum and they have a REAL dinosaur skelleton on display. For free. In my library. Libraries are cool😌👌

[@bluehydrangea5506]

Me as a library tech student who has spent entire courses discussing info literacy: i feel validated

[@StormSought]

@@bluehydrangea5506 Same!

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

Ah yes let’s bring back the entire thing the internet was trying to replace and go back to the 90s where you had to sift through massive encyclopedias to find any useful information.

[@StormSought]

​@@therealspeedwagon1451 I mean, if the information you're finding online is not useful or accurate, maybe. But many libraries make lists of vetted electronic resources available for all kinds of things.

[@rotta5409]

what's really pissing me off is how much of google image search results are ai generated. recently i was looking for a reference of a japanese police uniform, because I wanted my art to be as accurate as possible. had to dodge dozens of false images of something i wasn't familiar with in the first place. this is so dangerous for people trying to do actual research.

[@Warbek]

When searching for stuff like that I've taken to just filtering only results before 2022 it helps drastically

[@rotta5409]

@@Warbek haven't thought about that :0 thanks, I'll try that

[@_Iemonboy.]

We made the internet to share information more easily than books, but already it's safer and easier to gain information from books again :/

[@lithine]

i fixed it for myself with the "huge ai blocklist"

[@users4007]

​@@_Iemonboy.Soon even books won't be safe, and ai will become more and more delusional because it trains on ai generated content

[@imxoxooo]

somebody on twitter said "AI made me believe in the concept of human soul by making things without one." and its been stuck in my head forever

[@GruppeSechs]

The unfettered prevalence of AI generation is how humanity dies, imo. It'll strip our soul, and that's extinction enough.

[@orangecat9559]

i never really believed in that stuff but this got me thinking

[@snailart9214]

​​@@GruppeSechsehhhh people won't stop making art though. And it all looks cheap and swirly and the same it has a quality that everyone will notice and they won't want it because it'll look cheap. Like the live laugh love mugs.

[@AnnaAnna-vz6ly]

This really spoke to me because I thought the same, it made me return to making art and enjoying it again because it feels like AI took the burden of making "productive" art exclusively for profit, i make art to express myself not to sell it

[@LEYTHLEGACY]

​@@snailart9214the problem is it'll become better and artists won't get paid 😅

[@faydimbleby]

Adobe Stock is genuinely awful. As a casual artist, when I need a reference photo of a REAL animal, it's really annoying to see their gross AI images show up at the top of the search results.

[@RoxanneLaWinSTABBY]

This got me wondering about the fact that all AI generated images are copyright free? So…how are they charging for something that doesn’t belong to anybody? Why not just nick it from adobe? (I tried googling the facts here, but had already forgotten that google’s now just a game of boggle with every word previously typed online and am too hungry to delve deeper)

[@milometric2736]

for real. i was looking for face references for a character with a specific type of face in mind and half of what i found was unusable ai shit

[@KuueenKumi]

The best advice i can offer people now is to use the library. Yes it requires more effort and much much more time, but, for now at least, older print media may be our only source of trustworthy images

[@qtfoxe]

This has been my exact issue. At least it's less bad with the more obscure animals, but it's really frustrating when you just want a decent reference image and it's all just garbage. Why would I want some wonky looking ai amalgamation when looking up 'grizzly bear photography'? it's a mess.

[@norar.2439]

this is why pirating adobe products is okay

[@hamburger_eatspie]

I feel like the world would be much better if trying to sell Ai art classified as plagiarism, since it’s taking assets from real pictures.

[@colorblockpoprocks6973]

unless you can trace a specific image in its entirety back to its inspired source, it is transformative enough to be considered fair use. using the same words to describe a defined scientific term, for example, in a research paper is not plagiarizing the article you found the term from. it's a piece of information compiled with others to amount in your finished paper. just like ai images are composites of tons of other images and visual patterns to create a collage.

[@joeb3017]

@@colorblockpoprocks6973 This is much less cut and dry than you're making it seem. There are a multitude of lawsuits currently underway against generative AI companies from artists, and it's not clear how they will be settled. Already, you can't claim copyright on an image generated by one of these models, so it begs the question: who does actually own the art then? And even if current copyright law ends up interpreting AI art as fair use, it's quite likely that copyright law will be changed to make it not fair use. After all, copyright law was created to protect artists and their livelihoods, and since generative AI is actively hurting many artist's careers this would be a valid reason to update those laws.

[@alfsmith4936]

I can't see how you can sue for it, unless you can prove which elements of your picture (Not one that inspired your art, or one inspired by..) was used and even then, if it's manipulated enough to call a parody, is it not classed as fair use?

[@joeb3017]

@@alfsmith4936 There are many cases where it's quite obvious that a generated image copied from a specific artist, there are even images that copied the artist's signature at the bottom. There might also be legal actions that can be taken to compel AI companies to disclose their training data, since that would more explicitly reveal whose art is being used (don't quote me on this tho). As for the transformative fair use argument (which I think is what you mean by parody), I would argue that this doesn't hold up for generated art. The reason we consider transformative works as fair use is because it gives artists whose art form is transformative in nature (like parody) the ability to hold a copyright on that art. But since you can't get a copyright for AI generated art anyways, it nullifies the point of transformative fair use.

[@ditto3265]

My favorite quote about AI is “We’re letting tech companies open Pandora’s box because they might find a few dollars inside.”

[@Superabound2]

We're letting them open Pandora's Box because there's literally no way to stop them. Like seriously, how do you stop people from developing AI? And even if you could, how would you do it in EVERY COUNTY IN THE WORLD? Ban AI here, and all you're doing is giving China a completely monopoly on it

[@toast2110]

Thats a good one, I’m saving that one for later

[@Cara.314]

it's actually about capitalism "We’re letting companies open Pandora’s box because they might find a few dollars inside."

[@HYDEinallcaps]

@@Cara.314 Work will set you free, Marxist.

[@wyattmiller9539]

This helps feed into the fear-mongering that was the earliest advertising for AI. Hidden in the message that it is dangerous is the message that it is effective and powerful.

[@p0k3f4n7]

I think the worst thing I've seen as an AI search result was in response to the search; "I'm feeling homicidal urges," to which Google's machine responded that you should kill a homeless person, as they won't be missed. This whole thing is a nightmare, nobody who hasn't made their entire personality AI wants it anywhere near anything they want to use with any regularity.

[@xxdesertstorm]

Meta has tons of Muslim and Islamic AI crap and non is removed as Meta has become Allah loving instead of saying no to religions

[@BichaeldeAngelo]

That's not really true- PEW research center shows a majority (57%) want AI to help with household chores that are routine or basic online tasks People want selective use, not necessarily abolishment

[@TheKnewGreg]

The worst part is that I'm sure none of the people responsible for all this AI crap actually use it in their daily lives. No one who has the ability to create these kinds of tools would be able to look past the glaring imperfections. It's like how the people who own big social media websites would never let their kids use it. They know exactly what these things are, they see right through it, but it makes them money so it's everyone else's problem now

[@brierk2769]

oh my god this is horrifying

[@harharharharharharharharha240]

@@xxdesertstormwhat are you talking about?

[@ghosti287]

the way that drew seemed so genuinely angry at the ai video of him is so real and seeing in real time somebody's likeness being taken clearly against their consent makes me feel genuine dread. it's so messed up.

[@Cardinal_claw]

I keep seeing "KZbinr sings!" videos popping up, as well as a court case of a very messed up teacher using an AI voice to get the principal fired so no one would look into him. We're going to see more and more like this too

[@kaitlyn_stark]

There are even AI-generated pornographic images and videos of people that exist, even celebrities. I saw an interview with the actress Xochitl Gomez, who was SEVENTEEN at the time, talking about how she's seen content like that made of her and how scary it is that she can't do anything about it. AI stealing people's likeness in general is horrible, especially for pornographic content, and there needs to be legislation, but the sad truth is that the people who have the power to create that legislation probably couldn't even figure out how to download a PDF.

[@5falltv895]

Idk Id be more upset if a meatcannon video of me popped up. And people love those!

[@5falltv895]

And nobody thinks either media is real so that argument is invalid

[@ghosti287]

@@5falltv895 my issue isn't that it's being misused to make people think it is real, I just personally believe that you have a right to your likeness and it's a crappy thing to do for somebody to use it in an ai without your consent. even if there's no immediate repercussion it still feels like a personal violation and from the seems of it that's how he felt also.

[@TheSporeCell]

what makes me very sad about AI techbros focusing solely on the end product instead of the process, is not that they dont get it imo, its that they dont care, they care about profit/clout, not art or artistic gratification

[@haiiiix3]

“there really is something in how Al art cant get human hands right vs. some of the oldest art we have is our handprints on a wall.” -random tumblr post I saw a couple days ago

[@Brooke-ll6ys]

I saw that too. It really is beautiful in how human we are, trying to leave our mark and create something that lasts by projecting ourselves on cave walls, versus robots just trying to steal a bunch of art and throw it all together, or trust the first thing it finds on reddit

[@yourguitargf]

i love tumblr!!!

[@GreatFox42]

to be fair, many human artists also struggle with hands if it isn't them tracing their own. For some reason hands are just the bane of drawers, human or otherwise.

[@artnerd3727]

This warms my heart

[@twotruckslyrics]

@@GreatFox42Yesss, hands are the reason why all my characters are bugs, i draw them with claws instead!

[@_LAB]

I like the term "Zombie Internet" The uncanny, shambling thing with a false life approaching you isn't a human. It kinda looks like one, it's made from what used to be very human, but it's not. And it wants to consume you

[@2009samiy]

youtube mary and jesus in the quran and mohmmad in the bible and the Torah and the scientific miracles of the quran and mohmmad in hindu scripture … according the bible that you have (Matthew 4:1) Jesus was tempted (James 1:13) God doesn't get tempted (John 1:29) Jesus was seen (1 John 4:12) No man has ever seen God (Acts 2:22) Jesus was and is a man, sent by God (Numbers 23:19, Hosea11:9) God is not a man (Hebrews 5:8-9) Jesus had to grow and learn (Isaiah 40:28) God doesn't ever need to learn (1 Corinthians 15:3-4) Jesus dies (1 Timothy 1:17) God doesn't die (Hebrews 5:7) Jesus needed salvation (Luke 1:37) God doesn't need salvation (John 4:6) Jesus grew weary (Isaiah 40:28) God Doesn't grow weary (Mark 4:38) Jesus slept (Psalm 121:2-4) God doesn't sleep (John 5:19) Jesus isn't all powerful (Isaiah 45:5-7) God is all powerful (Mark 13:32) Jesus isn't all knowing (Isaiah 46:9) God is all knowing .... ...................

[@Honeybunny_bun]

If anything that makes me think of alternatives

[@premiumcheddar9983]

This is so funny because a bot copied your comment and it was right below this one

[@_LAB]

@@premiumcheddar9983 Oh god, they've seen me. Run

[@becauseimafan]

​@@_LAB this is exactly how I'd feel too

[@EbbermanEmily]

People claiming that entering a prompt means they're an artist is like paying for a commission from an actual artist and then claiming that as your own work

[@pong9000]

Plenty of homeowners talk of how they expanded their kitchen and how they built the carport and re-paved the patio, to the barbecue guests.

[@ThatDouchebag]

​@pong9000 There's a difference between "I repaved the driveway" and "I had the driveway repaved." One of them would be a lie, even in your scenario.

[@nazaxprime]

Difference being, the art isnt art any more than the technology itself may be. Its bot too bad fir visualizing concept work or note keeping, but its absolutely horrible at anything actually creative. It really illustrates the difference between genesis and genius.

[@AbsurdistAsian]

Yeah I don't care how many hours they spend on typing prompts, they're still not doing the bulk of learning that any artists go through to get good: colour theory, lighting, anatomy, shading, etc. "I'm not talented". Yeah, a shit ton of good artists were never talented in the first place, becoming an artist takes hard work, not just un-earned talents.

[@Window4503]

@@pong9000It’s understood that they didn’t do it themselves though especially if their guests know they suck at DIY projects. Not a great comparison for AI art as making art to the general public is some mysterious ritual that they don’t have the discernment to call out when it’s fake.

[@milosmith5326]

the phrase "no no yone lodines because i'm poor" feels like it came from somewhere deep in the stupidest part of my brain

[@cmarie7867]

The AI conversation with Livana sounds like one of those riddles you'd have to solve in middle school

[@salvadorfuentes7777]

You mean Olivia right??

[@turntechFreakhead]

@@salvadorfuentes7777 orangatang

[@FIREcrochethairstyles]

omg YES

[@FrumiousMing8]

It reminded me of this AI chat thing I used to play with in highschool (late 00s, early 2010s). I forget what it was called but it literally was just cyclical "conversations" where the AI would contradict itself. Glad to see nothing has changed in the last 10-15 years.

[@chronicbrightside8757]

Ah yes, I too had Riddle Class in middle school, being a kid wizard and all

[@ruoye7]

The rise of ai on pinterest genuinely hurts me. I love to crochet so I usually turn to pinterest of inspiration and jfc it’s filled with ai generated pictures of crocheted animals and clothes. It’s so obviously fake too, the stitches make zero sense. It’s such an insult to all crochet artists :/

[@emmaterris240]

This!!! It’s been so annoying when at first it looks like a cool pattern until you really look at the photo and it’s impossible stitches

[@esavvysavokiii1277]

YES i've seen others talk about this and it's extremely predatory especially to beginners who are just learning and looking for projects to try out. i'm getting back into crochet after years of not doing it, and it's sad how much more cross-reference i have to do with patterns. and pattern makers need even more testers who are public figures in the community just to prove that their patterns are legit. when i was first getting into crochet i could go online, find a free pattern and print it off without worrying whether i was being scammed by something ai-generated

[@jeezduts]

I've had the same problem trying to find interior design inspiration on Pinterest lately. It's all the most bizarre AI nonsense where half the furniture / items in the house are impossible structures that make no sense and serve no purpose. It seems to think that everyone feels their house with needless clutter, or even so many plants that it's basically a jungle. It makes it basically impossible to use it as any kind of inspiration or starting point for a space that just so happens to actually exist in the physical realm.

[@shenaneginss]

@@jeezdutsyes, just today I was looking for interior design photos which I’ve used for years as ideas and inspiration, and it was literally AI photo after AI photo of bedrooms full of stuff, clutter and unidentifiable objects.

[@katerina3312]

Same!I feel bad for new crochet artists who see something ai created and feel bad because they can’t do it when in reality it’s physically impossible to do it

[@felix-the-mongoose]

Spotify is simultaniously refusing to pay real artists because of "possible use of engagement bots."

[@usernameluis305]

Meanwhile smart shuffle literally ruins my playlist for me

[@nobbyfirefly57]

Damn that sucks. How hard is it to pay people? Do they want a lawsuit?

[@contra7631]

This is why stop using any spotify or any kind of app to listen music.Just download all the songs you have in ur playlist in ur memory card or phone storage.

[@TuriGamer]

There was drama about that forever ago Its chinese smartphone farms liking their own crap to get bigger revenue shares They just replaced crappy commissioned music with AI I guess This is nothing new idk how drew completely flubbed that topic

[@qfv33]

THATS GOOFY

[@RetroJolty]

As a virtual pixel artist, people try to copy my work with AI (which I find out about through posts) and I just get a laugh out of how HORRIBLE the outcomes look, yet they call it "art"

[@ona512]

"what you gonna sue me for every pixel and exact hex code I use too??" Is also a kind of response I'd expect from them.

[@jax_firestorm9689]

My father is trying to learn to cook better, and has been asking AI for recipes. They’re often terrible, over or undercooked, and he refuses to try other recipes. The most frustrating part of this is that I am a professional chef in a fine dining restaurant. I can create recipes for him. I’ve asked him if he needs recipes, and he’s said he has them, and then they’re made by AI. He’s not a bad cook, he follows all the instructions, but the instructions are flawed, and he doesn’t understand that.

[@lanasinapayen3354]

Wow that's dark. Sounds like the root issue (except for the AI itself) is that your dad, for whatever reason, rejects human content. Seriously, it's not a normal reaction to refuse recipes that work in favor of AI recipes that don't work...

[@rambaral340]

maybe your father just doesnt like you?

[@Adrian-ep4qm]

Your father is too proud to accept help from his son/daughter, my dad is the same and I hate him for that

[@BlueLiminality]

There are hundreds of cooking blogs and sites he can go to. He ignores them AND his kid's advice for AI?

[@xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888]

thats so gross im so sorry

[@sarcomeresarecool]

Fascinating how Adobe is trying to charge $80 for the rights to an image that can't be protected by copyright, according to US case law!

[@lemin0u]

plus one that is literally stolen from thousands of actual artists

[@georgiab5102]

ok you win this is my fav comment on this video

[@maclendy]

lets sue!

[@lepidoptery]

they probably just haven't bribed the right ppl yet

[@princesslil3852]

You can sell something that's not protected by copyright, it's just that someone else can also take that thing and sell it too. Or give it away for free with zero repercussion. In other words, stealing AI art isn't theft. :3

[@DAngeloWallace]

Another fantastic video, Drew! Your humor and insights never fail to make my day. The way you break down topics with such wit and intelligence is truly unmatched. Keep up the great work! - a real comment that i wrote with my human mind after definitely watching the video

[@_b_o_ring]

dangel wallence

[@adotnerd]

speedran the video fr

[@MultifandomMF]

danglo walc

[@amberhernandez]

Nice try, D'Angelo (if that is your real name). Unfortunately for you, the REAL D'Angelo Wallace would _never_ start a sentence with a capital letter!

[@SamTheMan666]

That's what a bot would say.

[@VivekNemana]

People need to just start going back to the fucking library

[@xyrissavage4983]

[@StardustCorvid]

I miss going to the library, honestly. I should get a library card again.

[@ona512]

Techbros are yorking politicians so they shut down all libraries so they can profit on hoarding books.

[@rashditto6503]

“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes”- Joanna Maciejewska

[@qweee3913]

Would you pay the same for an AI art as you would for real art? No one on earth would, AI will never replace artists if people don't value AI art as much. Instead of actual art, AI is mainly used for advertising and other situations where you just want a pleasant picture to look at rather than a handwritten detailed painting

[@aw2584]

​@@qweee3913 thing is we already cant see the difference between one and the other, and AI is only gonna get better. So yoyll have 1 real artist and 9 fske artists using AI, and when youll be trhing to buy real art all 10 of them will claim its real.

[@paulkelleyvieth]

or, more likely, so that you can do somebody else's laundry and dishes . . . somebody who works at a company that stole your art and writing to program a robot to make terrible knock-offs of it.

[@xitcix8360]

Doing laundry and dishes is way harder lol, I don't get why anyone takes that quote seriously

[@spicytee133]

@@xitcix8360 The quote means that AI should do menial dumb labor while humans should be left to use their creativity. I don't get how dumb labor is more difficult than making good art.

[@daanwilmer]

Fun fact: there was an actual study about the efficacy of parachutes compared to normal backpacks when jumping from a plane. It found no difference at all. Though, it has to be remarked that, for ethical reasons, they could only perform this test with the plane standing still on the ground. It's also notable that this paper was published on april 1st. Obviously, this context was completely overlooked by the AI.

[@FileCode1459]

i mean, a closed parachute and a normal backpack probably are pretty similar anyways. if the parachute doesn't open, they'd certainly serve the same purpose

[@Arobsite]

It did mention that the study was on planes "within a few feet above the ground" at the very end if you look at it, but it still blatantly misunderstood the question.

[@lestersmug11]

hilarious

[@user-himenes]

Damn thats hilarious, thanks a lot for providing this info

[@nonamepasserbya6658]

4chan trolls and Google, name a better nemesis duo

[@julieneff9408]

"Maybe Twitter's doing better?" The answer will never ever be yes.

[@BadgerOfTheSea]

It used to be yes. There was a golden age 2012 - 2015

[@Robsidians]

@@BadgerOfTheSea before tumblr and elon

[@Grexsome]

@@Robsidiansbefore tumblr? Tumblr’s been around since 2007

[@homogenicmp3]

Twitter has always been a shithole but man Elon ruined it even more.

[@franciscorocha8192]

And we'll still call it Twitter

[@joanaliker3630]

Claiming ai work as your own is like commissioning an artist to draw your oc and claim that you made it

[@thekaticorn99]

“if you’re consistently consuming media you don’t like in the year 2024, that’s a skill issue” is a quote that needs to be thrown at everyone on the internet

[@Nathan47223]

Nobody is consuming things they don’t like. Humans do things that make them feel good, things they don’t like doesn’t make them feel good.

[@ambiarock590]

Honestly. As an avid music lover, I don't like the radio (revolutionary statement, I know) but I have found my good shit: power metal and symphonic metal. Those genres are so good. If you cannot find good music these days you're doing something wrong. My favorite band has to be Beyond the Black, the emotion in their songs is so good.

[@dreamqueen8612]

AI is also annoying on Pinterest too. Trying to save artworks or fashion design ideas and accidentally saving AI work. 🙄😒

[@nman551]

And it’s so soulless

[@SolarDanii]

FORREAL

[@unknowable4147]

It's so annoying to realize

[@dreamqueen8612]

@@unknowable4147 makes it worse bc now your feeds going to have even more Ai art

[@Nulldron]

oh my GOD I know. I found this amazing concept drawing and it was FUCKING AI!!!!

[@LucyBean42]

We're at peak Hapsburg AI, where the AI is training off AI so much, the inbreeding has killed their kids.

[@maclendy]

great comment

[@milcahreyes5287]

Carlos II approves of this comment

[@Flesh_Wizard]

The bots have gone full Alabama

[@KingOfGaymes]

Thank god for that

[@kiwi_2_official]

ouroboros family tree tier ai

[@hannahw2863]

This is genuinely probably one of my favorite takes ever on generative ai

[@yungbreakfast9487]

I feel like I'm constantly loosing interest in online stuff just because of how predatory things are becoming. Comment sections are flooded with bots or really mean people (like why?), and everything looks like a scam subscription to make me waste my money. Even the normal softwares are getting obnoxious

[@shaianna.1222]

I feel the same. I've quit a lot of the social media I used to use frequently because of toxicity

[@fineless]

I'd be more afraid of over-friendly people in comments. How often did it hapen to you in your daily real life that some stranger on the street came up to you, told out a bunch of compliments (considering you are a male, and we don't get one for decades) and then pushed few hundred buckes in your pocket? Yeah, to me neither. Bots. Mean people are real. Always have been. And normal people are getting only more angry of how things are going on currently, tho.

[@BotFisherman]

You'd be better off keeping to yourself with how the internet and its culture is evolving (or devolving). Gives ya more time to worry about youself and solve your own problems rather than put mental and emotional energy into something that may be real or just another scam or story made up for attention.

[@steggopotamus]

Exactly what I was thinking, we better figure out how people met each other before the internet, because the internet is turning into a noman's land.

[@zanemob1429]

@@finelessI try and be genuinely kind to everyone to the point where people think I’m disingenuous or a bot online… I’m just a really nice person because I want to be. If you are nice it feels nice and they’ll maybe use that gained happiness boost to be nice to others and so on. I just want to make people happy and be happy man… I’ve been through a lot so I’d rather not add my pain to the world already full of too much. Its also extremely easy to be nice. Why not?

[@elstonngunn4193]

Crazy thing is I before this video there’s a ad made by ai, it’s inescapable at this point

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

It's concerning

[@D44RK_Iced_Yogs]

It’s just bloating the internet man. It doesn’t help that people WILLINGLY use text to speech nowadays, so it’s hard to actually tell if some TikTok is a random guy or some fucking AI.

[@ensommeille5315]

​@@D44RK_Iced_Yogs Plus media literacy and critical thinking seems to be down the gutter. People think it's only old people that get scammed so easily but younger generations are so easily fooled by stuff like this (maybe not the art, lol). The amount of times I've been shown a TikTok that's just blatant misinformation with that TTS voice because the person who watched it doesn't do any of their own research and just believes whatever they see is terrifying. I'm genuinely scared for future generations raised on all this BS tbh

[@Coolbeans-s3t]

Bro that literally happened to me- I don’t even use grammarly and it gave me an ai ad for it 😂

[@Coolbeans-s3t]

@@ensommeille5315omg that’s so real- it’s like a stereotype and it’s so false nowadays

[@Maglors_grief]

Pinterest has become unbearable due to ai. I'll search something on there and sometimes all the search results will be bad ai images. It's literally impossible to escape ai because it's on every app.

[@lemin0u]

there needs to be an anti AI plugin or something

[@xoxokaleigh]

Omg YES I'm so sick of AI on Pinterest of all places 😭

[@swinginparoniria]

i use pinterest regularly (like, regular REGULAR) and im thankful that i never once encountered any AI contents, even if i did it wouldve been memes and / or ironic posts

[@lesbiangoddess290]

ME TOO. Its so irritating

[@joannamarieart]

Google image searches have the same problem 😢

[@stingReyyy]

As an artist I really appreciate you taking the time to compile all this into one big rant about the shit that has been going on with AI

[@aditinath]

"i would rather make something shitty on my own, than watch a computer make something good" one of the best lines i've heard.

[@seigeengine]

That's cool, but not everyone has infinite time and nothing else they'd rather be doing with it.

[@GhostAdjacent]

@@seigeengine”I’d rather be doing something else with my limited time” like trying to provoke a fight in a KZbin comments section of a comedy channel?

[@seigeengine]

@@GhostAdjacent I'm not the one harassing strangers with hate comments.

[@Zargabaath]

If you don't have the time to do it then maybe just don't do it? You aren't an artist if you don't create art. You aren't creating art if a program is doing it for you.

[@seigeengine]

@@Zargabaath If you don't have the time to walk 50 miles to your job, just don't do it. Y'all need to get a grip.

[@oliverknagg5109]

Terminator 7 will just be robots with 80 fingers and weird stacked eyes yelling ‘amen’ at each other

[@stijnlandman7319]

Chicken? 3:14

[@EmyN]

😂

[@lotsoflovetoyou]

Biblically accurate ai Terminator 7

[@LobsterMobster25]

And shrimp Jesus will be there

[@ioannad1857]

recently went to a Gale Ann Hurd Q&A where she was talking about how much she can't stand AI. ironic that people ignore the movie that screamed issues with ai at us lfmao

[@dogteeeth]

something i saw recently was along the lines of "i want ai to do work so i can focus on art, not for ai to do art so i can focus on work" and i think that really encapsulates a lot of what i think about ai edit: this comment got more attention than i thought, idk, the most important thing i think i can say is that you should enjoy and invest in things that people create that you enjoy, especially when they create passionately. art is such an extremely human trait, it should be experienced at a human level.

[@RonWrightwrites]

@dogteeeth someone made that a tweet on x. only she used "washing dishes and do laundry" in place of your word 'work' Otherwise, it is the exact same wording as yours. She got tons of likes and re-tweets ( or maybe should be called re-X's 🤣 )

[@MarioGoatse]

Yeah we’ve all seen that tweet. Dozens of comments already spammed it hours ago.

[@MarioGoatse]

@@RonWrightwritesApparently she never heard of a washing machine or a dishwasher.

[@jason.s.music.]

that's the fun part about humanity right now. Its ran ENTIRELY by billionaires that want even more money. It has become virtually impossible for advancements in technology to help the average person. It is almost certain that every new invention for the rest of human history will be bought out and designed with the SOLE PURPOSE of making everyone else work more and enjoy life less, so that the billionaires can continue stealing everything and using the entire world for themselves.

[@MilesToGoGo]

Right like I’ve used chatgpt to help me write cover letters for job applications because I have such a hard time with that sort of thing. Of course I went in and tweaked it but it can be such a useful tool it’s just too bad we have to ruin everything

[@tokagefumei6656]

"GenAI increases accessibility" crowd devastated to learn that being talentless and lazy does not actually qualify as a disability under the ADA

[@heavenly2k]

I dont think enough people are giving Drew credit for basically doing investigative journalism. He has pivoted to making actual video essays rather than just commentary and I like it a lot. Drew is too smart to be relegated to just talking about Team10. Although we love those videos too lol

[@cadesmandela1935]

This content is why I enjoy drew more than other similar creators that I used to love back in the day. I’m sorry but I can only watch so many Reality TV reaction videos

[@simonsanchezkumrich8489]

His funny videos are way more entertaining and funnier, but these type of videos are still okay i guess

[@notamberp]

I’d give him more credit if he didn’t come back just once a month….

[@akaInfamous]

​@@notamberpQuality over quantity. Plus, shit like this takes time.

[@yeahok8259]

Good point, yes! I always know it's gonna be a quality video whenever he uploads. He really puts in the work and speaks his mind

[@zizzleberries]

AI does not democratize art, free, open-source software like Blender does. Before Blender was a thing, the only way you could make quality 3D animations and renders was expensive software that costs thousands of dollars, but after Blender basically anyone could do it for free. We need more stuff like Blender and less AI.

[@Kongongongg]

Ai is democratize art tho. Is also an open source software for your local pc

[@theX24968Z]

they do not want to democratize it. they want to make it cheaper so they do not have to pay to impress normal people.

[@LEYTHLEGACY]

​@@Kongongonggbut no one's getting paid with AI 😂

[@beetlelovr2441]

@@Kongongongg art is already democratic 😐 go pick up a pencil and paper

[@Kongongongg]

@@beetlelovr2441 more democratic

[@thebrickwallfae5938]

"The best part is, I didn't make the music myself." THAT THREW ME. For me, the best part IS making the music myself. Heartbreaking to see your art reduced to this.

[@Dr.Quarex]

People who prioritize money over everything else will destroy every industry in their quest to make a little more money

[@sumkin]

​@@Dr.Quarex capitalism, baby!

[@iamapokerface8992]

cringe

[@cheeplethebulldog1420]

If they find prioritizing an art to robots then they have no opinion or taste. They shall be SILENT

[@mathmatics8034]

@@sumkin capitalism is far from AI. Its the best system man not AI has came up with to allow as many people as possible to grow and make a living. I take it your young and potentially unemployed. you will understand in time skywalker. Good luck making a living off art without capitalism. Travel around the world grow a little and check out other systems at work . . . . . . well wishes

[@EngineerMonkey-zp3yj]

Most of the people on Character AI are kids, by the way, around the ages of 12-16, typically using it to talk to their favorite characters. Well, "talk".

[@soup4241]

wait what is charachter ai used for exactly.. i saw someone saying that they were shocked when drew talked about it. WHAT DOES IT DO or actually nvm i think i kinda know

[@EngineerMonkey-zp3yj]

@@soup4241 Character roleplay, oftentimes erotic. Whatever you're thinking is probably right, as well.

[@Elly_Bee_]

​@@EngineerMonkey-zp3yj I'm 23, I use it when I need comfort but don't want to bother my friends or when I feel like talking to a fictional character. Never used it to talk to a "real" person because it feels wrong, I just talk to my comfort characters

[@ryuuseirune]

​@@Elly_Bee_character ai steals from fanfic authors on ao3. they literally profit from work that's available publically for free, which is still incredibly screwed up imo. imagine you spend hours of your time writing a 100k word fanfiction and then some site scrapes your work (and all your friends' works) so that a person can talk to their favorite character on a website. that's messed up

[@bumbabees]

@@ryuuseirune yeah, been a whole thing in the fandom community recently. a lot of people have been locking their works in the hopes it makes ai scraping harder. i dont really care why people use ai, so long as it is stealing art by real people, i dont think engaging with it is right. not when people are this desperate to make sure their hard work stays theirs. not when im one of those people myself.

[@Tyler-zx7xn]

"I don't understand why we're in such a rush to replace all of the work that humans have done." ooooh that's a great line

[@princekyun]

ffxiv player spotted

[@biomefest]

@@princekyunwhat about ffxv 😛

[@Ilyak1986]

That's a lie. Of course he understands. Because money. And because plenty of people want to "make" something, but don't want to have to put in ten years to TRY to get good enough to simply have sufficient skill at making something, let alone marketing it to enough people ("if you GET LUCKY, people might actually see it!") for them to see it.

[@matthewmcguire5564]

@@Ilyak1986 I believe this line in context was referring to the phenomenon of AI creating incredibly similar stock photos that already exist. So like...if you needed a photo of a horse, why do we need to replace the zillions of real photos of horses on google images with an AI photo of a horse that is probably worse. Hyper specific phenomenon that isn't actually adding up to any saved dollars and cents, it's just weird and unnecessary.

[@Ilyak1986]

@@matthewmcguire5564 ah, in that case, sure. Could be for people trying to get the AI to make a better stock horse photo, or another stock horse photo. That leaves me scratching my head myself.

[@babyvia6712]

Claiming that AI has helped you “create art” is like going to McDonalds and ordering a burger and claiming that the employee “helped” you “cook” the burger. You told them what you wanted, and then you got it, but you didn’t make shit.

[@2amCryptid]

@@Jaysearching wtf are you not agreeing with?

[@thatfunkadeus]

@@2amCryptid Hate mobs when someone only agrees with 99% of their script:

[@glassphoenix9095]

one of the first arguments against ai art was that its like getting a professional baker to make and decorate a cake for you and then passing it off as your own at a bake sale. you didnt make anything and youre taking credit for someone else's skill and labor

[@montymolemmn]

@@Jaysearchingam curious in what way you don’t agree? Genuinely wanna know other perspectives as someone incredibly anti-AI myself

[@What-ish]

​@thatfunkadeus Because any large group of people who disagree with you are, naturally, a hate mob.

[@EClare137]

idk why ai was made and immediately used to do artistic things. Robots are supposed to make life easier, not take away the few joys we have access to. Make ai clean the trash out of the ocean or something idk

[@Shrouded_reaper]

The AI was made to do these things first because they are the easiest thing to do. Robots have been making people's life easier for decades now. You don't have to do laundry, dishes, lawn mowing, mopping or vaccuuming anymore unless you are petty enough to count the one minute it takes to load and unload things from the machines or to empty the roomba...

[@Yurt_enthusiast7]

The tech bros went for the thing that's easiest to make money from instead of things that adds actual value to society

[@Keisuki]

AI was "immediately" made to do artistic things... AFTER it was first used to do the following: - Voice recognition to help those who can't type - Audio Transcription to help those who can't hear or can't easily understand voices - Diarization to improve the above - Translation to help people communicate across the world - Image classification - Facial recognition - Content moderation to vastly (but imperfectly) reduce the amount of spam, adult, and absolutely vile content that you see - Optical Character Recognition to allow us to convert huge amounts of our history into digital form where it can be preserved - Voice synthesis to help those who can't see - Detect fraudulent transactions to prevent people who steal your card information from impersonating you as successfully - Analyze and classify tumors, neurological disorders and bone fractures

[@insertnamehere7228]

A lot of art is done digitally so I would imagine it’s easier to make a computer program to do that than make a whole ass robot to clean the ocean

[@aspol12]

@@Shrouded_reaper i still have to do all of those things. i can't afford those lol

[@blzrdphoto]

28:07 I’ll be honest, I made it this far through the video and never realized you were the “road work ahead” guy from vine. That video is a core memory for me. Looks like I need to sub.

[@sunla]

I went to buy space-themed stickers for my daughter on Amazon, and the first dozen or so listings were just collections of AI-generated art stickers. I knew this would be a problem. On her last day of school, she came home with AI-generated art stickers from her school. They are hideous. One is a parrot without an eye and it has a separate tiny bird for a cheek. It upsets me sooooooo bad. Especially as an artist who wanted to really put myself out there... And now everything is gunked up. The internet has cancer. The internet is sick with an aggressive cancer.

[@ethansnyder2234]

That really struck me, calling AI cancer for the internet. You're right. That's one of the most well put things I've ever heard. It's excessive, it's bloat, it disguises itself as real, healthy art and it suffocates all things real and genuine until the internet dies. That just makes so much sense to me.

[@seigeengine]

The irony is that the cancer is humanity. AI hasn't become sentient. It's not doing this itself. It's humans that are using AI to do this. WE are the problem.

[@monbub]

It's sad that her school didn't want to put any effort into finding quality stickers made by an actual artist.

[@mafukun]

This is so real. I went back to school shopping and they had were a bunch notebooks with horrifying AI generated covers ☹

[@SlapstickGenius23]

@@mafukun I’ve seen adverts with AI images too. They’re filthier than even non-ai digital images.

[@Ducksen]

At first I was scared to lose my job since, I'm an artist; it was so much scarier to realize it wasn't just my job that was fucked but the internet as a whole

[@t2jhkt3b8adb5]

Actually the people who commission for AI stuff would've never commissioned you in the first place, I was worried at first too but then realized those who pay for art would never pay for generated images.

[@jjay350]

Yup, basically anyone who came to the internet for anything genuine has lost what they came there for.

[@dariazhempalukh]

It even internet, the whole society sadly

[@Valhan177]

​​@@t2jhkt3b8adb5I feel like this is a great point. If you actually pay for art, you'd definetly feel the difference anyway.

[@fredEVOIX]

the entire media industry is toast what else would you expect when by posting their content on the internet and allowing big tech to forbid it's use by anyone only so they could deep learn data train on it to resell that to others "not stealing" "not copyright infrigement" as long as it's them that do it...when Shazam which was already worked behind the scenes a decade earlier but you had to call a phone line to identify tracks when shazam became a thing we all tought it was super cool how wrong we were it became a tool to distribute stars....yellow stars

[@tia3831]

I think the real nail in the coffin for AI is that it looks cheap. Not the art itself, but the fact that a business using AI generated 'art' sends the message to customers and investors that it doesn't have the capital to pay a human being to create for them.

[@naesala]

I always think of that one tweet that compares it to wearing an obviously fake chanel bag.

[@aniyilator]

@@naesala Exactly. It's like yeah, you can technically show that you've "created" a product for your brand/company, but now I have zero faith in your business' ability to deliver anything real

[@LawnMowerfromHell]

@@naesala I think you mean ChnnlLE bag

[@hana-a-cha]

True, it's like You can't even afford subscription to a stock image service? Seriously?

[@starknit]

this exactly. i've been holding onto this thought as well

[@nicholasadams2374]

"If the tool is doing everything for you, you are not an artist." You are a real one DG!! Respect.

[@firebrandr]

“It would take me ten years to do that.” “Okay. What’s the rush?” That really hit me. I needed this. AI defenders: please find somewhere else to argue.

[@rayboy1798]

The time will pass anyway.

[@livviemon]

there's so much pressure to achieve constantly and to do it at the youngest age humanly possible that it makes you feel like you just shouldn't try at all because you're too late :( i love rebelling against that and taking things at my own pace now

[@brittneybrisbin744]

Same

[@DanielAyy]

Actually kind of inspirational, I didn't expect that.

[@Bunny_Bill]

Ikr. My brain lives second to second, but now I really feel motivated to learn and create

[@Blahblah-il2dv]

I am 44 years old and I grew up along with the internet literally. I still do not understand exactly when people went from, don't believe anything on the internet cause its the internet. To OMG it's more real then real life and I will die to defend it.

[@00shivani]

Right!!! And the “well google says this dadada” like even GOOGLE PRE-AI wasnt the best source of information if you dont know how to research your sources.

[@camille1324]

I mean I don’t think that’s necessarily the same group of people. Imo, people who are engaging with AI are mostly duped people ignorant that it’s AI (and therefore not a demographic who ever internalized “don’t believe the internet”) or greedy opportunists looking to dupe people. In which case their philosophy is “go ahead and believe everything you see on the internet so I can exploit your dumb ass.” The other group of people, who say it’s the greatest most beautiful future for all mankind or whatever, are a negligible minority of basement dwelling contrarians and hopefully will remain that way. But who knows.

[@Vrikrar]

That's actually a really interesting point because it's really hard to pin exactly when it happened. I feel like it had to be a generational shift, which is I guess a little comforting, because kids growing up during this stage aren't going to believe a thing anywhere from anyone. Hopefully.

[@drunkpaulocosta]

Well the issue is philosophy isn't mandatory. And thats where you are basically taught to think critically when reading ect. The internet just requires the same skepticism as newspapers to navigate. And the moment we stopped teaching kids about editorial narrative and trying to read between the lines. Was the moment people stopped needing it

[@drunkpaulocosta]

Using* not needing

[@himecharlotte]

someone once defended ai art to me saying 'I don't have the money to invest to learn art ai is helpful to me you're just privelaged' like my brother in christ I STARTED DRAWING on my NOTEBOOK IN CLASS during NOTES, it literally doesn't get more accessible than that

[@celestialbunny]

⁠@@seigeengineno, people who are too lazy, insecure in their skills, and apathetic to the creativity and history of humankind that is found in art, are the problem. it's easy to now that ai isn't a problem. but wait until there isn't a shred of humanity left in the world, for better or worse. no, im not fear mongering. it's already happening right in front of u. you're willing to be ok with ceo's and billionaires replacing human ingenuity and the essence of our creativity? for what? a measly ai drawing anyone could do. ok with individuals excusing their own inept behavior and excuses ? i truly wonder why the rich and lazy people are so quick to replace one of the few things that we do so well. people look down on ai "artists" bc they have no true respect for the craft. for the thousands of years it was built on. the human history. it's not just pretty things to look at, it's revolutionary and tells us our history. it can insight change and send a message. why are people so apathetic to that? ai "artists" will never understand the joy of honing your craft to make something beautiful and sharing that with others. so sad 😭 there's no beauty in something that takes 5 mins to work on. like fast food. it's cheap and accesible, but doesn't mean anything compared to home cooked meals with ur family. doesn't beat waking up early to make something that's meaningful and delicious. that you spent hours working on. u can take the easy way, but will there be true satisfaction in it 🤔 yeah IDC if you read all of this thank u 😭

[@Wote89]

@@seigeengine Ah, yes. Because the person who actually has a developed skill is the insecure one and not the techbros cosplaying as something other than a drain on society.

[@Hydro_Waterbottle]

@@seigeenginewe should cook you

[@therealstemarman2846]

​@Wote89 how are ai artists insecure? They type words and get pictures out of it. Normal artists are the ones losing their minds over it. Literally the entire discussion surrounding ai art started because people are insecure about being replaced

[@earniebert3345]

@@therealstemarman2846would that not scare you? The possibility of being replaced by some robot created to do your job better than you? Actual artists have a right to be mad.

[@TheLunablackheart]

"KNOCK KNOCK WHO'S THERE?! EUROPE! EUROPOO! NO EUROPOO!" actually took me out. Gets funnier the more I watch it.

[@Reioa]

KNOCK KNOCK

[@soysaucebottle]

⁠WHOS THERE

[@jacobkoeppe4091]

EUROPE

[@noPotatoesAtAll]

EUROPOO

[@NormalCleanCars]

in 1997 or around there, the goverment of Canada made a commercial about a house hippo. The Hippo looked real and the commercial could fool you into thinking house hippos were real. and then it said: Don't believe everything you see on television. Never seen a commercial age so well for the internet

[@2amCryptid]

I dunno about you but my house hippos are very real

[@invaderliz]

I think that was in one of Kurtis Connor’s vids.

[@sherbear6625]

I seen it in the early 2000’s when I was a kid!

[@imperlast2]

theres a new version of it for the digial age but the house hippo was great as a kid

[@cyrus2395]

I love the house hippo commercial, such a classic

[@RamunDev]

What annoys me the most is that all these sites don't have a "AI" filter so i can find human art much easier

[@drunkpaulocosta]

I've written 40 emails to Google and KZbin demanding them to take this issue seriously and allow premium users to remove shorts all together from their feed and all users to report a video as A.I. and remove their content for m my algorythm. Until more of us email them complaining about more than "The new update wont let me fullscreen" and other technical issues. Then that aren't going to do anything. And it's going tobet worse. I mean one of their own executives commented on this recently that AI is lowering the quality of the users experience. And the algorithm directly pushes addictive content on us. But what he never mentioned was how none of it would matter if we could choose as customers to see the content or not. He basically spent a half hour shitting on TikTok for doing it intentionally. But YT still has no failsafes or control mechanisms in place which would solve the issue. Everyone who likes shorts will keep it. Everyone who doesn't won't. YT just wants to compete with TikTok and is going to cannibalise itself until we might as well just use TikTok It's amazingly predictable where this ends

[@drunkpaulocosta]

We don't need a filter. We need a law stating that content is or isn't AI made. Or it can't be posted. And we need to once that's in place have an option to turn AI content off. As it is we are giving Google full power to control the direction our minds go. And we can see the track ahead goes over a cliff edge. It's on us to treat our addiction properly. Get clean. And move on with our lives in a healthy way And it's amazing how much creativity exists in the real world. Just nobody wants to be there anymore

[@Froggycolouring]

What’s worse is when people don’t tag their ai posts as ai, so even though the tag exists it’s useless (Btw just ignore the bot bellow me, don’t go to it’s channel because that’s exactly what it wants)

[@sarcasm-83]

Yeah and how many sites will have people in charge of moderating that can't tell the difference between real and AI anyway? I can, as I've generated them just for my own fun and seen a bunch of AI generations, but ... not many have.. and it'll only get harder to tell... I fear there won't be any way to tell in the future, since so many can't seem to be responsible or honest with this.

[@ThatOneDudeThatLikesPurple]

​@ville__ ragebait

[@bonebag1961]

Murf and Grok sound like bullies from an 80's movie

[@fledgeking]

Supervillians, more like

[@Soggycheeseee]

I genuinely might use those for my fantasy world. Troutsville could use some goofy orc fellas

[@FeiFongWang]

More like henchmen from a Monty Python skit

[@NotFutureBoy]

biff's long lost brothers fr

[@PotterMarauder]

They sound like troll or ogre names

[@aidank.4291]

the thing that first broke me about AI was when someone took Keith Haring’s Unfinished Painting and filled it in. literally peak example of taking all of the humanity out of something in the name of making it look “good”

[@imlewishehe]

This AI trend is literal cancer. No matter how many accounts you block, more will always find their way back to your timeline

[@cadesmandela1935]

KZbin mid roll and pre roll ads have been taken over the ridiculous AI images and voices, even large companies like MeUndies will use that disgusting smug old man voice

[@tovahwulf]

I feel like it's just NFT bros being annoying and/or salty because NFTs fell off.

[@NyQuilDonut]

It's only going to get worse as AI gets better too.

[@jungtothehuimang]

I constantly get the stupid Twitter bots that say L I N K I N B I O like leave me the fuck alone

[@Bduboff]

I'm just curious on when this trend will end?

[@spodsder]

One thing that really pissed me off about AI, Pokemon held this art competition with 3 image submission limit, and the results ended with 6 ai images taking up winning spots all by the same guy just with slightly different enough names. 6 real, different artists could've had one spot each, but ALL SIX of those winning AI photos were all taken buy one guy and his little robot thief with grimmy little hands Edit: Apparently the images were disqualified! Thank god! And thank you to the people who let me know! But I'm still pissed he was able to win before pokemon disqualified the images Second edit: Please, politely, shut up. I don't care how convinced you ai bros are, ai "art" is stealing, it's easy as balls, and shouldn't belong in a fucking art contest. You have your fucking ai image contests, you don't need to get your grimey fucking hands on the actual talent it takes to make art.

[@StarkMaximum]

"It is not enough that I succeed. Others must fail."

[@itslike60minutesonacid]

ohhhhh this makes steam hiss out of my ears

[@WaltzerCerealMuncher]

He made six? He just wants to see the world burn at that point.

[@itsyaboinadia]

there was also an ai art competition and the winning image was an actual photograph taken by an actual man with an actual camera. he said he hopes the audience wont be upset about being deceived, considering thats exactly what ai does. edit: *A winning image, i looked at the article it was 3rd place and got the peoples choice award. the photographer, Miles Astray was then disqualified

[@Sulzbach-dk7ov]

It is about the outcomes.

[@ishouldfindagoodname2416]

It’s amazing that Drew can spend 30 minutes talking about something that terrifies me - not even providing solutions or answers, or anything - and I walk out feeling better about things.

[@testmonkey2535]

this is so true lmao

[@aw2584]

Cuz there is no solutions, it will only get worse, but for now AI is hilariously bad and so you feel bettet by seeing how this thing youre scared of is actually comedically incompetent

[@thisisfyne]

I guess it's just reassuring - on a fundamental human level - to see that other people too are appalled by the current applications of AI.

[@SpaceMissile]

it's got "well, at least somebody acknowledged it" vibes

[@Nathan47223]

AI will become unfathomably good in the next 10 years, and artists will not be able to compete sadly.

[@user-uu3vc7bd2y]

People saying that AI makes good art gives the same energy as saying that the level 9 CPU in Smash Bros is a really good fighting game player.

[@seigeengine]

It depends on what you're looking for and how you're defining art. Generative AI is a great tool for generating images of ideas. It's particularly good because it can combine concepts in ways that you can't find examples of. Like, if I wanted a centaur on a dance floor in a club eating cake, I'm going to guess nobody has ever drawn that, and if they have, I probably couldn't find the image if I tried, but as long as it understands what those pieces are, a decent generative AI model could put them together into a fairly decent image with some tweaking and care. It has limits. It has problems. But mostly, people are just butthurt about it, and have no actual argument. And what constitutes "good art" is purely subjective. I highly doubt if we both hit up an art gallery we'd agree on what pieces constituted "good art." Ultimately, there's a lot to say about companies profiting off of artist's work, and about how lame it is that artists are going to lose jobs to generative AI... but yeah, no, the backlash to it is like 95%+ "wah I don't like it wah!"

[@samanthaw.861]

I saw a Twitter post saying something along the lines of “AI art convinced me of the existence of the human soul because I’ve seen what art looks like without it” and…yeah, that about sums it up.

[@qweee3913]

Which is why we need to advance AI further

[@kiwiseatpumpkinpie1709]

@@qweee3913nah, we good bot

[@smfreij]

@@qweee3913more soulless art! MORE I SAY!

[@m.f.3347]

​@@qweee3913who's we?

[@Hahahahaaahaahaa]

Until you find out a bot wrote that tweet.

[@NeedForMadnessSVK]

I didn't believe in human soul until I saw "art" created by AI. I thought corporate music, stock photos and footage and direct to video films were soulless, but all of those things have so much more soul than anything AI has ever created.

[@exnsao]

i'd take disneys direct to dvd sequels over ai baloney any day

[@mignob]

There is something interesting about how deliberately bland and soulless corporate music is. There is nothing interesting about ai music.

[@Inveterate-introvert]

​@ville__is that you Skynet?

[@R37ARD3D]

@ville__no. *you’re* a poo

[@What-ish]

​@@exnsaoSome of those direct to dvd sequels are even, dare I say it, tolerable.

[@ObbyCloud]

AI users calling themselves artists is functionally the same as commissioning an artist and saying you made the end product because you described what you wanted.

[@food7479]

Except that the AI is infinitely more efficient than the Artist. Talk about AI is a waste of energy and water, that artist would drink up to two liters a day for what takes the AI just milliliters

[@jacobkoeppe4091]

​@@food7479 Maybe but the artist is still a living human, with right to live. AI is just some robot people made for money. I would rather give an artist a 1000 Dollars than AI a single one.

[@ava_marie_v]

​@@food7479 Buddy, our power grid is only now being overloaded. Because of AI. If your dumb point was accurate all the artists in the world would have overloaded the grid already. But they haven't. Because AI is far less efficient

[@food7479]

@@jacobkoeppe4091 Then lets implement UBI, how does that sound

[@food7479]

@@ava_marie_v Ai is way more efficient timewise, maybe not electricity wise, but really thats only a temporary problem.

[@Astra_Dystopium]

Bro someone needs to make a horror movie with those AI generated videos. They were psychedelically horrifying.

[@Colddirector]

There's a video called "Pooky Park" that uses the uncannyness of AI generated video to its advantage, it's pretty cool IMO

[@noq3543]

I NEED TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS 😂

[@40watt53]

nobody needs to make shit with these, did you even watch the video?

[@Astra_Dystopium]

@@40watt53 it's a joke you weirdo

[@nakamotorskrskrvroom8038]

I don't want that ngl, I'd rather watch something psychedelically horrifying that's a product of human creativity

[@dollgoblin429]

My Dad is a tradesman who's always wanted to be an artist. After my brother and me grew up, he started learning art from KZbin. I was so so proud and happy for him. He was particularly into watercolours and even started getting requests from people to paint commissions. THEN, AI. He's obsessed. He's given up actually making art and just generates AI nonsense to post to Facebook. He is still really proud of it, and everyone EATS IT UP. It gets even MORE PRAISE THAN HIS ACTUAL PAINTINGS WHICH TAKE HIM WEEKS TO MAKE. He sees absolutely nothing wrong with it. I wish I could say I'm proud of the engagement he gets online for his 'art' but it just makes me want to cry.

[@maclendy]

ooooooohh wow, tell this to more people/post it more!

[@BillyBoi911]

Damn that is brutal

[@spacebassist]

god, that's rough. i'm in a constant state of wanting to be better at my hobbies but i would feel *hollow* if i tried acting proud of some AI slop i provided the input for i hope something changes, even if it takes until the majority agrees that AI's kinda crap

[@Farticuss]

Damn that's depressing. I'm also a tradesperson who'd rather spend more time drawing and painting but by the time you've put in a week of back breaking work you just don't have the energy anymore. I'm getting more time in now that my oldest daughter is 5 and can hold a pencil properly but I'd definitely do it more if I worked less. Also I have no interest in making AI slop and wouldn't feel proud about the output as it wouldn't hold my thoughts and feelings.

[@dollgoblin429]

@@Farticuss It's hard work and leaves you so tired. Def make time for whatever you can, even if it's doodling on scraps between jobs. Also I love that you draw with your daughter too

[@norris0325]

I'm a pastry chef. We've started to get people coming in with AI generated pictures of cakes asking for us to recreate them. Spoiler alert we can't. And then they get mad at US for false advertising our abilities. Like ma'am, you're showing me a picture on your facebook feed from a profile just titled Cakes. WE DID NOT POST THE PICTURE. NOBODY DID.

[@joshikyou]

That's just crazy!

[@jeezduts]

This part of it all scares me because it makes me wonder if AI itself isn't really the threat, it's that people are actually dumb enough to be fooled by it in its current, very primitive state...

[@Xoiland]

How much of a Karen do you have to be to just ask for some random pastry that’s not on the menu and be mad when it doesn’t work out?

[@bluelfsuma]

​@@jeezduts You _wonder_ that? That's always been The Threat. To Everything. AI is just making it more obvious. Every day-ever since the internet became widespread-new depths of the gap, between the gullible and the intelligent, are discovered. Making it harder to ignore. But the _really_ scary thing is that the gullible breed at a higher rate, and the malleable spawn are abandoned, left to ferment into fools. Because manipulative buttcocks have a taste for *_mold._*

[@SceneWins]

Bonkers

[@Cationna]

Considering this video includes two examplex of people straight up using Drew's image without his knowledge and against his consent, I don't think it was angry enough. How tf did we get to a place where this is acceptable.

[@MuhDog]

Why would he be angry at people for using his image? If he did not want people on the internet to use his image then why would he upload it to the internet?

[@LJCG777]

Being an idiot on purpose doesn't make you a not idiot.​@@MuhDog

[@dazberry4038]

​@badlyplanned9259 lol the ratio

[@wongledongle340]

Also when they use the voices and the likeness of dead people... Ugh it's so grim.

[@thatfunkadeus]

@ville__ Wow that's a very intelligent and responsible rebuttle that makes your side of this discussion seem very dredible and not at all like butthurt children disproportionately defending their favourite youtuber

[@isabellalam08]

Please don’t have any scandals, Drew, you’re one of the last good ones left 😅

[@ArloMathis]

"You guys remember when they told us AI was going to do all the menial labor and let us have the arts to do with all our free time? Now the machines are making all the art and the essential workers are still working themselves to death in three jobs..." I think about that sentiment a lot when this stuff comes up.

[@laceydavin7445]

Literally

[@user-zu2jw5ib6y]

actually it's the robots that's gonna do the menial labor

[@jakobbailey]

Someone posted this quote already but "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." -Joanna Maciejewska

[@-_XD]

Who said that ? Nobody, you made sh*t up. Nobody ever said that about AI at all.

[@Athiax.]

⁠@@-_XDimagine being that stupid. Literally Google her name followed by AI. It's the first result but nah you just wanna be an asshole even though you're blatantly wrong 😂

[@StupidEdits]

I'm glad someone isn't just saying "It's probably not ethical but you can't deny that its impressive" and turning to the more realistic "this looks like shit"

[@nman551]

RIGHT

[@lgbtthefeministgamer4039]

the problem is you can't sustain that argument into when it doesn't look like shit

[@sketcher445]

⁠@@lgbtthefeministgamer4039Sure, but why make an argument that isn't relevant to what you're talking about right now?

[@beepatpen]

​@@lgbtthefeministgamer4039 yeah but even if it looks great the argument of "whats the point" still counts.

[@emiliew5553]

@@lgbtthefeministgamer4039why would that matter if it still looks like shit and we have no reason to believe it’ll get better

[@BenStoneking]

It’s weird that we’ve heard of people going to jail for forging paintings and selling them (something that is still a lot of work despite the intrinsic thievery of it), yet it’s legal to completely steal the entire history of hundreds of thousands of artists and produce derivative work with zero effort at all.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

It's legal because corporations are doing it

[@hecanseeme8210]

Yeah forgery is only illegal if you try to sell it as authentic. It is also actually more difficult than the original was in most cases. The AI thing is a big problem.

[@micahfoley9572]

it's cuz the monetary value of art is in the provenance, not the beauty. to me it's kinda similar to how human deaths don't often spark wars, but destruction of or theft of property often does.

[@winxpusr]

Technicaly it's not legal. the companies are simply profiting while they are not punished.

[@Bleargghhhh]

@@micahfoley9572 heard of a little ole war called world war 2???????????

[@DrewK4334]

Using AI in life is like downloading cheats from a video game and then ruining the game for yourself.

[@Klikkable]

"If youre consistently consuming media that you dont like, in the year 2024, thats a skill issue." Great qoute.

[@staubspricht9434]

idk why, but qoute made laugh

[@sentienttaco9134]

A while back, I came up with, in the middle of a conversation: "You can't complain of the smell if you choose to keep wading through a sewer." Doesn't really roll off the tongue as well, but it's the same principle.

[@Klikkable]

​@@staubspricht9434i always mess up uo vs ou in quote

[@AidanRahder]

@@Klikkable the letter Q pretty much always has a U immediately after

[@Liberty40]

@Klikkable Lol it's not a quote. Because he actually said it he didn't quote it.

[@CocoTheMii]

"How are you ever gonna do something for ten years if you won't even do it for one day?" drew out here casually rewiring my brain as we speak

[@visix.o]

dude literally i had to pause and take a sec at that one

[@Cat-es7fc]

ME TOO

[@sberky98]

GEOMETRY DASH PFP RAAAA /POS

[@kirakiraaa222]

@@visix.oreal

[@anima099]

I've never seen Drew be so angry, yet also so poetic with the way he articulates his rage about something he truly loves: Creating art. Also, that AI script DEFINITELY ripped off a bunch of popular youtubers.

[@jraff2735]

More like the Popular KZbinrs Ripped off the AI script, which ripped off a bunch of small creators which will never be compensated for all the money that was stolen from them

[@qweee3913]

How do you know that so many people prefer real art over AI art, yet still think it will ever take the place of any artist? No one is forcing anyone to enjoy AI art. if no one enjoys it, it will never replace artists. AI art will always just be a tool that people use in situations where they just want a pleasant picture to look at instead of a whole detailed hand-drawn painting

[@drmixtape3996]

@@qweee3913 Quick question, were you born last night? Corporations will do literally anything to not pay ppl, especially artists. AI art is ALREADY taking jobs and replacing artists.

[@MNHRI]

@@qweee3913it’s not about what people prefer, it’s about what costs the least to the shareholders of a company.

[@zakarylittle6767]

@@drmixtape3996 AI "images" are ALREADY taking "redundant" jobs and replacing "lazy," artists "who are unwilling to learn new tooling". There fixed it for ya.

[@bluehydrangea5506]

As a writer, it honestly disgusts me that people r showing up in writers groups pushing AI and saying that real writers r a dying breed. Meanwhile agents and lit mags are putting out statements that they refuse to accept AI written manuscripts. Then again, kindle is being inundated with that crap.

[@kkeopii]

ive also noticed a growing issue where social media companies will attempt to label ai generated images as 'made with ai', only for real images made by real people with real people in them to end up being labeled as 'made with ai' as well

[@TigerHollywood]

Ultimately that's because social media companies are using AI to flag those images, and it struggles finding the difference is between something real and something AI generated. Which is weirdly poetic.

[@aerospacenut]

I’ve found any images edited on photoshop and then uploaded to Instagram now just auto get flagged as ‘made with AI’ regardless if it that’s true or not. The reason being it seems Photoshop now just adds a ‘made with AI’ metadata tag to your image, even if you didn’t touch Gen AI tools. It’s incredibly frustrating.

[@puperman4208]

It did that to me, pissed me off so bad I just wanted to delete the post altogether

[@andybaldman]

"I don't understand why we are in such a rush to replace all of the work humans have done."

[@GiggaGMikeE]

Because it makes a very small pool of people very rich and there's always going to be an army of deluded simps for those kinds of people.

[@Starsberrysmoothie-kd1cm]

@@GiggaGMikeEso true

[@goldensloth7]

Cause work is a lotta work

[@commanderkarkat2488]

This one hit me hard while watching this

[@andybaldman]

@@commanderkarkat2488 Me too.

[@piffba]

The worst thing I’ve ever seen is when AI “completed” that one unfinished painting meant to symbolise how the artist died early because of aids. A truly devastating, beautiful painting with a very clear message AND THEY “FINISHED” IT. And it was a goddamn ugly finished version too because it didn’t take the artists intention with the piece, how it “could have looked when it was finished” (which it WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE) and just repeated the pattern in a weird way that didn’t make sense. It still makes me mad.

[@zeitgeist2720]

Of all the reasons to truly dislike AI… this is easily the least meaningful one.

[@sweatpantsromance]

you're talking about that keith haring painting "unfinished painting", right? yeah that person was ragebaiting people

[@leshommesdupilly]

The worst thing you´ve ever seen, **so far** :D Judy's assassination was something I never thought I'd witness, let alone be powerless to stop. Our history together made it all the more unbearable. We met on the job, an unlikely duo of a bunny and a fox working together to uncover the truth in a city rife with prejudice. We grew close, and for a time, it felt like we could change the world. But then, after Judy's abortion, everything shifted. Our relationship, once built on trust and shared dreams, crumbled in the wake of that argument. We went our separate ways, and it was years later that she was elected mayor, a beacon of hope for so many. It was supposed to be just another speech, one of her countless efforts to bring Zootopia together. But when that shot rang out, everything changed. I saw her fall, her body collapsing as chaos erupted around us. The memory of her lifeless eyes haunts me, a stark reminder of the world we now live in. The group responsible, the so-called "Purity of Zootopia," claimed they were protecting our society from predators like me. They played on the fears and prejudices that had been simmering beneath the surface for years. With Judy gone, they seized power, manipulating the sorrow and anger of the masses to justify their cruelty. They began rounding up predators almost immediately. "Savages," they called us, as if we were less than the citizens we'd always been. The slurs cut deep, but the violence cut deeper. Families torn apart, friends disappearing overnight. They didn't care about innocence or guilt; being a predator was enough. My life turned into a constant struggle for survival. Once, I was a cop who believed in change, in a better future for all species. Now, I'm just another fox trying to stay out of sight, to avoid the wrath of those who see me as an enemy. I've seen too much blood, too much pain inflicted on those who did nothing to deserve it. The Purity of Zootopia operates with brutal efficiency. They wear their ideology like armor, convinced they're righteous. Their propaganda is everywhere, painting predators as the ultimate threat to our city. "Keepers of Peace," they call themselves, though peace is the last thing they've brought us. They thrive on fear and division, using every tool to maintain their grip on power. I've watched friends dragged from their homes, seen them beaten in the streets. And I know, deep down, that it won't stop until they've either broken us or we've been erased. Every day is a fight to remember who we were before all this, to hold onto the belief that there can be more than this hatred and violence. Judy's death wasn't just the loss of a leader; it was the spark that ignited a powder keg. And now, Zootopia burns with the fires of bigotry and fear. The city she loved, the city she dreamed of uniting, is tearing itself apart. And all I can do is keep moving, trying to survive in a world that's lost its way.

[@leshommesdupilly]

They forced us to wear distinctive signs, crude badges marked with a snarling predator, a symbol of our supposed savagery. It was a scarlet letter, meant to mark us as dangerous, untrustworthy. The laws against predators became more draconian by the day: curfews, restricted areas, bans on certain jobs. The message was clear-we were no longer citizens; we were the enemy. I often found myself staring at the television, a bitter ritual that only deepened my despair. The screen was a constant stream of propaganda from the Purity of Zootopia. “Predators must be controlled for the safety of all,” the smooth-voiced announcer would declare. “Their instincts make them unpredictable, a threat to our peaceful society.” Every word dripped with venom, painting us as monsters that needed to be contained, if not eradicated. It disgusted me, but I couldn’t look away. It was like watching the slow death of the city I once loved, the city Judy had fought so hard to protect. The faces of the news anchors were always calm, composed, as they spewed their poison. “Reports of predator attacks have decreased by 40% since the new measures were implemented,” they’d say with a smile. “Order and safety have been restored, thanks to the Purity’s vigilant efforts.” But I knew the truth. The decrease in “attacks” wasn’t because of safety-it was because predators had been beaten into submission or forced into hiding. The so-called peace was a sham, a façade built on the backs of those too terrified to fight back. My own life had become a shadow of what it once was. I moved from place to place, never staying too long, always looking over my shoulder. I couldn’t trust anyone, not even old friends. Many had been taken away, their faces now just painful memories. The few who remained were as scared as I was, their spirits broken by the relentless oppression. Every day was a battle to keep a low profile, to avoid the enforcers who prowled the streets. They were always looking for an excuse to make an example out of someone. The slightest provocation, the smallest misstep, and you could find yourself on the wrong side of a baton or worse. The city had become a maze of danger and despair. The once vibrant districts were now patrolled by armed guards, checkpoints set up to control the movement of predators. The skyline, which once symbolized hope and progress, now felt like the bars of a cage. I wasn’t sure how much longer I could endure it. The weight of it all was crushing. But what choice did I have? To give up was to accept defeat, to let the Purity of Zootopia win. And so I kept moving, kept surviving, driven by the faint hope that maybe, one day, things could change. Yet every night, as I lay in whatever hideout I’d found for the evening, the thought gnawed at me: How much more could I take before I became the very thing they accused us of? A savage, driven mad by the cruelty of a city that had lost its soul.

[@leshommesdupilly]

A few months later, the inevitable knock came. It was early morning, the sun barely casting its light over the horizon. The sound was sharp, insistent, a prelude to the nightmare that was about to unfold. I opened the door to find uniformed officers standing there, their expressions cold and unyielding. "Nick Wilde, you and your family are to come with us," one of them stated, his voice devoid of any emotion. There was no point in resisting; I knew this day would come eventually. My family, the few loved ones who had managed to survive this long, gathered in silence. The fear in their eyes was a reflection of my own. The journey to the camps was harrowing. We were herded into transport trucks, packed tightly with other predators. The air was thick with despair, the sounds of quiet sobs and murmured prayers filling the cramped space. The truck jolted and rumbled over the uneven roads, every bump driving home the reality of our situation. I tried to keep my family close, offering what little comfort I could. My mother, frail and terrified, clung to me. My sister, always the strong one, held her own fear at bay for the sake of her young son. The child, barely old enough to understand, looked up at us with wide, questioning eyes. As the hours dragged on, the heat inside the truck became unbearable. Some of the older or weaker passengers began to falter. An elderly lioness collapsed, her breaths coming in ragged gasps. We tried to help her, but there was little we could do. She died before we reached our destination, her body left among us as a grim reminder of our own fragility. When we finally arrived, the sight that greeted us was worse than I had imagined. The camp was a sprawling expanse of barbed wire and watchtowers, a grim fortress designed to contain and break us. The guards shouted orders, forcing us into lines for processing. It was a dehumanizing procedure, stripping us of any remaining dignity. We were assigned barracks, crude wooden structures that offered little protection from the elements. The days blurred together in a haze of forced labor, inadequate food, and constant surveillance. The guards were merciless, punishing the slightest infraction with brutal efficiency. One evening, my sister’s son fell ill. There were no doctors, no medicine-just the cold, hard reality of the camp. He weakened quickly, his small body unable to fight off the sickness. We did what we could, but it wasn’t enough. He died in my sister’s arms, her anguished cries echoing through the night. His death shattered something inside us. My sister, once so strong, became a ghost of herself. She moved through the days in a daze, her spirit broken by the loss. My mother, already frail, deteriorated rapidly. The lack of food, the constant stress-it was too much for her. She passed away quietly in her sleep, her face finally at peace. I buried them both, the graves hastily dug in the hard, unforgiving ground. The camp was filled with such graves, silent testimonies to the lives extinguished by hatred and fear. I couldn’t afford to mourn; survival demanded all my strength. Every day was a struggle, every moment a battle against despair. But I held on, driven by a flicker of hope that refused to die. I told myself that I had to survive, for my family, for the memory of those we had lost. Yet as the days turned into weeks and the weeks into months, the weight of it all became almost too much to bear. The camp was a place where hope went to die, where the future seemed a distant, unattainable dream. And still, I clung to the belief that someday, somehow, this nightmare would end.

[@emberleaf2341]

HAS BOB ROSS TAUGHT US NOTHING????!!!!

[@seigeengine]

Bob Ross espoused the joy of painting. That is, that you should paint to enjoy it. AI doesn't stop you from painting because you enjoy it.

[@TurtleBoxOfficial]

Fun fact about AI music. I write music for video games, have done this for over 100 great little indie titles. Anyways, one day I found out a bunch of my music was being ran through this AI Music software designed to make quick soundtracks for your indie game. And I found this out because the company emailed me asking for consent, I said no, and then they did it anyways by buying one of my albums (and then refunding it c : ) and running it trough their software. Except the software was so bad it just accidentally recreated like 15 of my tracks and I've been trying to legally battle this for a few months now.

[@weaver-lofi]

could you make a video about the results of this? I’m really curious about what this would entail, because that’s genuinely fucking crazy lmao

[@bloopledoodle969]

Hope you’ll be ok. I also wanna make my own video game and this entire AI thing is frustrating to me

[@TurtleBoxOfficial]

@@weaver-lofi There's a video on my channel about AI music and how it's sort of becoming an issue on NewGrounds and Itchio (indie game site). I sort of just make AI music, discuss the tells, ect. I was planning on telling the story about my work being yoinked but wanted to save it for another vid.

[@TurtleBoxOfficial]

@@bloopledoodle969 I'm totally okay! I'm fortunate enough to have legitimate lisencing and copyrights for all my releases and at this point the Legal shit has become more about waiting for them to respond / compensate. The worst part though is my work is just in their system forever, it can't unlearn what it steals. So the least they could do and what I believe we're agreeing to is passing me royalties on the tracks I caught just ripping mine off and any future tracks that are fed my work or work using my work as learning material.

[@MrPlannery]

Twas ever thus. I've seen big clothing companies steal indie designer's work, change a tiny element and then mass produce it for profit. The small scale designer really can't do anything about it, as they don't have a massive legal firm on retainer. Good luck!

[@sweetsartcorner]

absolute fire video, I work in a web design agency and the way 99% of the staff talk about genAI is horrifying, they really cant wait to replace themselves with machines

[@jjay350]

Today's big tech scene is a complete disaster.

[@sh0werp0wer]

There's just something utterly depressing about AI. Automating shitty repetitive tasks is fine, but what's with this craze to automate literally every meaningful and creative thing a human can do? Is the ultimate life goal to just sit on your coach and get wasted all day? Where is this heading?

[@TheIssieBean]

I work in tech and joined just before the boom. Last job I was surrounded by NFTs bitcoin and metaverse grift. I miss those days tbh... this is far more depressing. There's literally nothing else being talked about or improved on. What happens when it crashes? The org visited a school to hype ai to them, and all the art kids at the back gravitated to me (I was doodling), and expressed a genuine fear and sadness about their futures before they even start. I couldn't say anything except that I felt their pain. 26 years of hard work made worth even less in an already ruthless underpaying market. It's hard to find hope... is there any?

[@shalalaanais]

I work as a designer for a rich media agency and I've seen it a lot too. Also, the way they believe our work gets immediately easier if we start to implement AI tools - the reality is that AI sometimes just makes it harder because of the horrible results it drops, lol

[@Blernster]

​@@sh0werp0werthat sounds awesome

[@a1exneedsahamdleplease]

32:13 “how are you ever gonna do something for 10 years if you won’t even do it for one day?” Is so motivational I feel like I need to put it on my wall or something

[@user-ou3vc3yp4y]

typa mf to laugh at minion memes lol (Nah I'm saying this cuz I think u an old head if you put up motivational posters on walls)

[@larfee5191]

​@@user-ou3vc3yp4ywhen millenials laugh at people who they assume are older

[@user-ou3vc3yp4y]

@@larfee5191 Yes, but you are also generalizing which is what I am guilty of and what you are making fun of me for but you are also doing the exact same thing you are making fun of me for so you ar-

[@user-ou3vc3yp4y]

@@larfee5191 aka you hypocrite!!!! 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯

[@user-ou3vc3yp4y]

@@larfee5191 also mf got that "Don't hit me up, only real ones know whats going on" ass profile picture lol. With the uhm, covering your camera with your thumb on snapchat lol.

[@ryanmcgoldrick7076]

It was awesome seeing you get so passionate about art man, don’t ever change.

[@KekerikiGreen]

Honestly I feel like Drew’s intelligence and creativity sometimes flies under people’s radars but his counter to the AI pandemic is honestly pretty indicative of those strengths. Please do get angry more, Drew. You drop hella bars when you do.

[@vincentadultman6226]

ikr, his conversation with AI Olivia was hilarious lmao

[@katyb6009]

the jaystation video does a really great job of this too imo

[@Nathan47223]

This video confirmed he’s less intelligent than one would think. Believing that AI won’t improve in the coming years is astronomically naive

[@KekerikiGreen]

@@Nathan47223 Oh brother.

[@Noordledoordle]

@@Nathan47223 I don't care how "good" Gen AI gets, I don't want it. It's sludge. Even if the AI pics become perfect, I don't want them clogging up search results.

[@katx1202]

Crochet AI really pisses me off. It tricks people into thinking you can do things with crochet that aren’t really possible especially because it can’t even get the look of the stitches right.

[@crocodileteeth6994]

It’s also really sad when older people like my mom or grandmother buy patterns based off of an AI picture of it and then it doesn’t work out. And it’s getting better and better and harder to point out the fakes for them

[@RojinDrawsStuff]

Ikr. Ive been crocheting half my life and the recent increase of ai patterns over the past year annoys me to death...

[@ebonydarknessdementiaraven4610]

Those AI videos are genuinely scarier than a lot of "horror" material to me personally - not because they're good, they give off that uncanny valley, soulless, hellish vibe that creates a pit in my stomach

[@xxFortunadoxx]

You should have seen them about half a year ago. They were lovecraftian abominations then. Now they're just really goofy videos. In the next year or so they're going to get really good and people need to be ready for it.

[@StorMyKilo]

@@xxFortunadoxxomg watch coopnoops video on AI movies… from a year ago. dude it’s scary as hell

[@trashyCorn.12]

​@xxFortunadoxx man with 40 fingers eats ramen noodles and then morphs into an spaghetti abomination and also the bowl phased through the table and now the house is the sky

[@kylebroflovski6382]

Yeah they're genuinely terrifying.

[@kokocaptainqc]

its the silent hill nurse effect....youre looking at an empty husk wondering when and how it will move and what it will do because you have no clue how its been set