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AI art steals from the poor and has no place in modern society (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] blanketswithsmallpox 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sure I’m paying for a pencil and paper, but you don’t need massive investment into means of production to create that.

... now that's a silly take. A nearly $300 billion industry.

Paper creation is one of the worst sources of pollution and water drains on the planet. Far, far, far more than anything dealing with AI lol. Orders of magnitude higher.

Worldwide, the pulp and paper industry is the fifth largest consumer of energy, accounting for four percent of all the world's energy use.

Pulp and paper generates the third largest amount of industrial air, water, and land emissions in Canada and the sixth largest in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_and_paper_industry

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1073451/global-market-value-pulp-and-paper/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_effects_of_paper

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468584419300479

Writing instruments are a $17 billion industry... Get off the internet for a bit. Doomerism is getting to you.

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/writing-instruments-market