In a post-scarcity solarpunk future, I could imagine some reasonable uses, but that’s not the world we’re living in yet.
AI art has already poisoned the creative environment. I commissioned an artist for my latest solarpunk novel, and they used AI without telling me. I had to scrap that illustration. Then the next person I tried to hire claimed they could do the work without AI but in fact they could not.
All that is to say, fuck generative AI and fuck capitalism!
@AIhasUse Generative AI isn't the equalizer, it's *free (as in freedom) and open source* Gen AI that's the equalizer.
If we only allow corporations to use creative works for profit without allowing the model to be used and even reshaped by the same artists freely, then we just shift more power to the wealthy.
If we *force* them to distribute it publicly to everyone, then it just opens up more opportunity for creative expression, whether new, or an expansion of existing artist's capabilities.