Procreate's anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives

It uses too much power.

They steal from those that actually create work and don't pay them for the [sarcasm] privellege [/sarcasm]. People have to eat and as creatives we need to be paid for our work, or those feeding the models data need to create the work themselves which they can't do because most of them have invested 0 time or effort into actually being creative in that way. Which is why they do this, because most of them have no actual skill and are envious of those who do.

I also, just in general don't want my conversations to be used to fuel some bot that makes money for someone else. It's bad for privacy and also, what am I getting out of it? Nothing materially beneficial that I can see and it'll probably endanger mine or someone else's life.

Its results are often bad, as in inaccurate or downright dangerous.

It's just the latest line in a long list of scams designed to give money and power to those on the top of the pile already, see: Cryptocurrency, nfts, loot boxes, microtransactions etc.

I'm mostly on your side but I did just cancel my gpt4 subscription.

There's several factors but the main one is that it just uses a whole lot of power and materials eventhough I don't really need it.

For example it helped me learn about electronics, and it was effective at that. But I feel it's more efficient to just buy an ebook. It just feels slightly less convenient, but actually is healthier for my focus.

It's kinda like with bitcoin. It isn't a net positive given our current situation. It's a waste of the scarce resources we have. And we need to get to net 0 ASAP and stop mining like there's no tomorrow.

The other thing it was good at was searching information and providing it in a uniform format, rather than the mess that is the web rn. But installing Firefox and a bunch of extensions solved most of that. And search engines allow for generating an LLM response when I feel it would really help, so that fills the gap.

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