What's your most unpopular opinion?

[Weltall]

I'm not indifferent to the plight of artists and writers who will see their skills become less marketable due to AI. AI will not make people stop wanting to create art themselves. If you feel that particular itch to take something from your imagination and manifest it upon some medium, you will do it, and you will probably want to learn techniques, hone your skills, and be better doing the thing you like to do. I find the copyright argument to have some merit, but I also feel like you surrender some practical control once you publish something for everyone to see and access. I'm not saying the gigacorps who operate these LLMs should be able to just harvest data from the plebs willy-nilly, but I do feel like getting worked up over it is kind of pissing into the wind. People who think they can "poison" their imagery to ruin AI datasets are downloading placebos. It will get better. Someone will figure out an antidote, if they care enough to try. It will be an arms race.

I also think a lot of people criticize the capabilities of AI without taking into consideration how rapidly it can improve and learn from its mistakes. The first AI image generator app I used created some funky stuff in impressionist or surrealist style, because it wasn't really capable of reliably doing any details. That was three years ago. Modern ones can fool you if you're not paying attention. You can spot the flaws and the tells, but you might not, next month. Guys, I was talking about this 15 years ago. Human civilization is reaching a moment.

I also do not care for David Bowie and his musical entertainment, though I will make the same exception for the same track.