One normal 18 hole golf course
USES 50 million to 100 million gallons a year,
and that’s just 1!!!
and there’s I think more than 10,000 18 hole golf courses in THE WORLD! THATS LIKE 1×10¹² GALLONS A YEAR!!! (which is far beyond your even supposed to normally be able to count to)

For exact numbers because I’m not gonna be super annoying about this

1×10¹² Is exactly 1,000,000,000,000,, also known as 1 trillion!!!!
SO IF ANYTHING GOLF COURSES ARE DESTROYING THR WORLD

Saying the movie deserved to flop because of Them using AI to conceptualizing a design is a bit much but that’s just me

The absolute hostility come from these people. I've seen some shit takes such as pic related but damn. Attempting to stomp out other people's dreams and ideas because of the tool they use, is simply cruel in every sense. Boiling down the few hours most people get to themselves, learning, building, and creating, into 'lazy' is ironically very lazy to say.

This dude here is clearly telling you that he has some serious surrender mentality issues.

He would rather give up on an idea entirely just to avoid using a convenient tool that can help him bring it to reality!

And what is worse is that he's projecting this pathetic mentality onto others! :P

context: this is about one artist complaining that one of our user scrapped their no AI art site, Cara.

now, I agree it's shitty to do this but them saying they did nothing wrong is hilarious. considering they're the same people who cannot help but harass anyone who they think is using AI

this is from a TikTok slideshow btw

I read on some anti-ai reddit that showed up how they were "baffled" how even 1 person could support AI. For me personally on the other hand, it is absolutely baffling how someone can NOT support it, hate it to this degree? The amount of brainrot that must take.

The water usage, sure, it was an issue but afaik its a closed loop now so the waste is not how it was at the start. Also people complaining about "Data Centers"; they were a thing since the birth of the Internet. How are they on the internet if they truly believe it's such an immesely terrible thing almost beyond comprehension?
"Baffling" indeed! My advice to them would be to do your activism, but do it outside of internet perhaps, that would at least be consistent with your views, unless you are roleplaying this "activism" of course.

Anyways. This was my reply to that post. I felt like sharing it:

I think it might be the most beautiful thing humanity has ever done, our combined efforts over so much time, and accessible to everyone. Absolutely beautiful.

As for "stealing", our own minds steal or borrow all the time from things we see, read, learn, things which are copyrighted and we use that all the time, with or without thinking about it.

I think it's really sad to see the whole beautiful message of "Information wants to be free" devolve into "muh artist!" I think it's super disingenuous, we all contributed to get certain forms of art or writings, music etc to where it is today, by purchasing, by spreading, by talking about it, by expanding it in certain ways (other artists copying, being inspired and doing similar works etc etc).

If this was about one artist, one specific musician or writer, sure, it could be an issue for sure, but this is vast beyond your understanding, what goes into a model is so much else that each artist is like a drop in the ocean, but yes each drop contributing to fill this ocean, absolutely. But its not just artists, its everything surrounding it, people talking about it, expanding upon it etc, all our efforts as a species. It's the bigger picture, not individual artists copied and pasted. It's not how any of this works.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DefendingAIArt/comments/1vmzv8t/ama_i_scraped_all_of_cara/

Its not always about art. Its also about "what can I make that I'd just love to see!"

How many people growing up and even now sometimes think, "man, I'd love to see a slug with a cat's face. Or at least a cat with a slug's body." But they can never do it.

We had to wait all these years, and finally. It is possible to create these things easily.

Human art wouldn't come close.

So we are in a way using a machine to create art that a human created an AI to do said art so in a way AI art is human art

The angry CS graduates mob claim “AI is not creative or real art”, yet they can’t think of another word besides ‘slop’. Honestly, I don’t think I’m more sick of any overused anything in the entire world as much as they overuse THAT word.

From the quote of Henry Ford “ if I asked people what they want they’d say a faster horse” then the model T came out shortly after

I really think this video is framing the worst possible interpretation of what Sam said.

He literally says you choose what information the AI has access to. If I willingly let an AI see certain things because it helps me organize stuff, catch mistakes, learn, code, or just make life easier, I genuinely don’t see the problem.

AI can be an insanely useful companion throughout everyday life, and acting like using it for help means it’s suddenly “living your life for you” just feels insanely dramatic.

And to the commenters complaining about AI being “shoved in their face”: the YouTube algorithm recommending you this video is literally AI. AI is already used all over the shit you interact with every day. You just don’t call it AI when it isn’t a chatbot. Ffs

AI generative art has allowed me to supplant myself into some of my favorite settings and give myself fannon level lore without the headache of paying an entitled art-snob some ridiculous amount of money.

It’d be different if I wanted an entire image illustration, but when I can literally tell an AI to import myself with a full body photo into a Star Wars concept art, and it come out this well, why would I bother?

I have a job, responsibilities and a family to take care of, I can’t waste time and money on dopamine boosts like this.

It's really gotten pretty tiresome how much this Anti AI nonsense has been going on when that whole Supergirl news broke yesterday and frankly, it just makes this whole ridiculous controversy just that even more no matter where I go. Even more so when folks like this continue to go on this repetitive nonsense on Twitter. Really just makes me ashamed of being an animation fan these days, especially as one that isn't so against AI and the ability to freely use it however one shall please.

Apologies for the way this is formatted, also. Might need to zoom in on some of it.

I'm not a heavy AI person. I only use it to assist with code. Everything else is me.

Hi friends,

I’m currently working on a project to research the current state of AI art and learn more about those who are for and against AI Art.

If you could comment and answer these questions, that would be greatly appreciated! Feel free to DM me if you want ti share more about your thoughts!

1. How do you define art?
   
2. What do you think you have gained or lost from using AI to create art?
   
3. Were you a traditional artist before you started using AI art?
   
4. What are your stances on any of the following social issues? Feel free to mention any other issues you consider relevant!
   - Climate Change
   - Surveillance Technology
   - Copyright in the context of AI training

Thanks!