20th July 2025, 1:36 PM
I think there's a lot of reactionary reaction to AI based on a dramatically narrow viewpoint of what AI even is. Furthermore, it displays staggering closemindedness and categorical rejection, which is unbecoming of imaginative and progressive people.
If you use a LLM to write for you or to generate an image, and you call it your own, you are fraudulent.
If you use a LLM to help you write your own material, it can be a tremendous creativity multiplier. You can brainstorm with it. You can use it to edit. You can use it to collect your notes and categorize all the elements so that it is all easily accessible. If you use an LLM to help you visualize an idea, or to show you examples or what a specific object looks like in a dozen different styles, or you want it to generate color palettes, all to help you create an image based on an idea you generated from your brain, that makes it a wonderful tool.
Furthermore, to be perfectly frank, I don't think much of the argument that it "steals" from art, because I think that point of view is almost certainly an astroturfing campaign stoked by the likes of Disney and other media conglomerates, who actually do stand to suffer from AI generated knockoffs of the intellectual property they own. And, tbh, I don't feel bad for them at all. All of Disney's keystone IP at this point was either acquired from the original artists, or created by original artists who have mostly been long dead, and you and I all know they'll be using these tools themselves without a moment's hesitation if it will save them bux. Small time artists aren't being stolen from or hurt in any meaningful way, unless their "art" consists of sort of consumer-grade slop designed to be printed on plastic wrappers that end up in a landfull. AI can definitely do that.
I am not saying there aren't legitimate concerns, but some people have developed a legitimate phobia about the subject, and it will not be to their benefit.
If you use a LLM to write for you or to generate an image, and you call it your own, you are fraudulent.
If you use a LLM to help you write your own material, it can be a tremendous creativity multiplier. You can brainstorm with it. You can use it to edit. You can use it to collect your notes and categorize all the elements so that it is all easily accessible. If you use an LLM to help you visualize an idea, or to show you examples or what a specific object looks like in a dozen different styles, or you want it to generate color palettes, all to help you create an image based on an idea you generated from your brain, that makes it a wonderful tool.
Furthermore, to be perfectly frank, I don't think much of the argument that it "steals" from art, because I think that point of view is almost certainly an astroturfing campaign stoked by the likes of Disney and other media conglomerates, who actually do stand to suffer from AI generated knockoffs of the intellectual property they own. And, tbh, I don't feel bad for them at all. All of Disney's keystone IP at this point was either acquired from the original artists, or created by original artists who have mostly been long dead, and you and I all know they'll be using these tools themselves without a moment's hesitation if it will save them bux. Small time artists aren't being stolen from or hurt in any meaningful way, unless their "art" consists of sort of consumer-grade slop designed to be printed on plastic wrappers that end up in a landfull. AI can definitely do that.
I am not saying there aren't legitimate concerns, but some people have developed a legitimate phobia about the subject, and it will not be to their benefit.
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