Absolute Perfection (Art by Melissa Stone)

We are.

"I see you have six fingers on your right hand...I know someone who is looking for you."

No such thing as “ethical regurgitative (what the morons call generative) ai”. If the model has even a single work not properly licensed and/or paid for then it is exploitive and should not be legal
- I’m late to the party. I’ve only come across the term “regurgitative AI” today, but as of now I’ve seen it twice. I love it (the term, not the process)
  
  I’ve been using it for a long time now, personally never heard anyone else use it to describe them. Always thought it to be a more appropriate term to describe how they actually work
- I think the problem is simply that the other choice seems even worse. We either have unethical AI which is open source and free to use, or we get restrictive censored ethical ai owned by the copyright industry. I dont look forward to a future where openai can tell me what I can and can't generate, with everything else being illegal.
  People have a misconception that AI will get shut down or small time artists will somehow get a slice of the pie. What is actually being decided is if they get to screw us with a monopoly or not.
  
  Even an open source unethical regurgitative ai is absolutely shit, might be slightly less shit but still shit. If it’s built off of stolen work then it should not exist, no question. Sure the cat is out of the bag already but that doesn’t mean we should settle for something that is objectively terrible because it is slightly less terrible than the alternative.
  
  Copyright debate notwithstanding, why do you feel like AI is so important that crippling it would be bad?
- “ethical regurgitative (what the morons call generative) ai”
  I love that term, it is incredibly apt.
  The always relevant: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381278855_ChatGPT_is_bullshit
  
  I also always read ai in my head as artificial idiot rather than artificial intelligence

The best response to the "challenge" in the second image I've seen was a furry fetish digital artist that went into the woods and used a stick, a knife, and a lighter to make a big titty dragon lady charcoal drawing on a rock.
The line between "assisted by tools" and "the work was done by the tools" can be fuzzy as tech keeps advancing, but AI image generation is quite clearly past that line.
- Source (Bluesky)
  Also followup:
  Source (Bluesky)

I love AI pixel art because a majority of people generating it use a model that's not limited to a grid or color palette and it becomes a blurry jagged mess

Omg, I love the extra fingers on the AI character. xD

I downvote AI content when it winds up in my feed. I recently discovered I was banned from an AI, "art," community for, "downvote trolling," (AKA disliking content). At first, I was annoyed, but then I looked at the community and realized it was one guy sharing, "his," art over and over again for virtually nobody and I just felt sad.
- For some instances/communities, downvotes are meant to mark content as irrelevant to the topic or not contributing to meaningful discussion.
  
  Yeah, not the first time I've heard that, but I think it's a bad system for communities that aren't news/information based. Posts wind up in people's feed based on upvotes and activity. By only downvoting only based on the rules of the community, it artificially raises the reach of content that the broader instance might not like.
  There was a blowup about this a few months ago with the .world vegan community. A lot of posts were obnoxious memes insulting non-vegans, and a mod started banning anyone who ever downvoted them. Posts insulting the majority of the instance suddenly went from 55% upvotes to 95% upvotes and the whole thing became an instance-wide fight. The other mods eventually threw that mod out, but the whole community fell apart.
  At the end of the day, it comes down to whether you think it's the user's job to block every community they don't like or the mods job to accept criticism from the broader Lemmy base. I think it's the former, especially when you consider the new user experience. I don't think it's good for a first-time visitor to see a bunch of AI slop or rage-baiting posts with high upvote ratios just because of the individual communities' guidelines.