Capitalism decided to run the "million monkeys banging on a million typewriters you eventually get Shakespeare" experiment except with AI and now we are flooding the internet with dogshit instead of a million pages of gibberish and the occasional haiku dedicated to bananas.
Yeah this is a massive problem for us 3D artists. Finding references has become a big problem...
But keep pumping out takes that AI is necessary to express yourself or that we're stupid luddites for hating this stuff!
I normally avoid struggle sessions on this topic since practically no one involved seems to A) use AI in any way or B) feels the squeeze of these things but I'm going to start getting a bit more involved now that this is affecting more people, and I'm sorry but if I see more takes like "AI is helping me deal with my aphantasia and ur a bigot for dismissing it" (a real fucking take ive seen on here btw), I will reply guy you to death.
I remember back when I used 4chan, there was a guy on the art board who liked drawing birds. He was asking if anyone knew how to get into contact with academic/scientific publishers because he wanted to provide drawings for bird researchers. I still think about him sometimes
That last one horrifes me. The restoration looks nothing like the guy. They've just erased the dude's image from history like a particularly disliked Pharaoh.
Yeah as an Ecology student, I have noticed this too. It's insane. The amount of websites that are just inane shit generated by ChatGPT is irritating too.
I used to find the dead internet theory pretty uncompelling. What does it matter if most Youtube comments are bots, who reads those anyway? But I didn't really think that tech moguls would empower the bots to actively destroy actual useful parts of the internet.
I wish that bottom photo was slightly wider so I could use it for my Steam PFP. Can someone with the Adobe thing please extend it to square or 3:5?
Real talk: The US should make a law that ANY "AI" generated images are clearly marked. It won't stop the flood of bullshit online but at least more legitimate publications would be better, and it would probably make a healthy information consumption habit.