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.
What’s funny to me is that people have no problem appreciating the beauty of a sunset or a wildflower although no human intent went into creating those. Objections to AI art expose an unreasonable double standard.
Nature makes nature beautiful. You realize your relationship with it and the universe and all that shit. A painting or a song connects you with someone else and their connection to the world. I just don’t see the connection to be had with a stolen collaboration of impersonal generated emotion made by a computer.
Eh, I can understand not wanting to undermine human artists or not wanting to support artistic piracy, but the damage is done. I would rather look at AI text or a prompt generated picture in most cases because each of these is better than the average person can make. Yeah it’s a little sad but most poets are trash, and same with most artists. I’m not here to watch people have a good time and learn, I want to enjoy and end product and most people… Well they suck at basically everything.