I am all for supporting local artists and I feel that “handcrafted in XXX” products make great souvenirs when you’re connected to those places. Still, if some AI hallucinated me a perfect novel for my interests, or generated something I couldnt tell was manufactured or created by a master, I would happily enjoy it.
“How can I tell if this is slop so I can know to hate it” sounds stupid to me: good is good. When it comes to art / food / products, I want the best experience for ME. If I want human connectedness, then I’ll go interact with a human directly.
I can do without wasted water, power, and money, but in the abstract it seems to bother everyone on Lemmy to enjoy something a person didn’t make. I don’t have that hang-up.
Many people hate human created content if you tell them it was done with AI and vice versa. It’s not the content itself but the story people tell themselves about it.
It’s the same as saying all toupees look bad. No, only the bad toupees that you can detect do - the rest do not.
THIS is kind of what I’m about. “All plastic surgery is bad,” well, no. All plastic surgery you can tell is plastic surgery is bad and that’s a pretty unimpeachable perspective.
But there is also a middle ground - plastic surgery that isn’t immediately obvious, but makes the person look “off”. I think even the best models are still stuck at this level for now.
That isn’t a middle ground, it’s the same ground. It’s something that is noticeable and bad.
I think that’s because art is more than its technical merits. It’s about intent. Human made art is special because only that person, in that time, could’ve created that exact work. AI cannot do that. It can only rehash what other artists have done before. So, while it can look good or write a funny story there’s nothing special about it. It literally produces meaningless works.
I’ve seen videos, songs and pictures that I didn’t know were created by AI at first and I was impressed, but once you learn they are, they become worthless. Why? Because why give consideration to appreciating art that had no consideration in its creation? No thanks.