Itās exhausting, honestly. Thereās so much shame and stigma around AI and artists. I joked with my friend Mansi that we should start an AI-Anonymous group. Except I wasnāt really joking; Iām kind of serious.
Thanks for the shout out again, Jen. You pill me with acknowledgment. Iām glad to hear that Iāve unpowered you and others to come out of the closet with their AI experiences.
Thank you for this idea. Iām big on lazy efficiency! And I think everyone should be doing this. I was talking about the soup. AI is a whole other story š I think everyone has an opinionāsome without ever having used itāand Iāve struggled with it. Iām one of those early adopters when it comes to apps and yet it took me a while to take Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT for a whirl. The fact is that everything online is using AI in some way or the other. Thereās no escaping itā¦my take is, use it however makes your life easy. If it starts feeling like itās testing your ethical boundaries and your integrity then the problem is not AI, itās something deeper.
Sorry to spam your comments but one other thoughtā¦ I find that I am far less worried about what people who are already seasoned makers, thinkers, builders, tinkerers, etc. do with AI. Most of those folks (I would include you in that group) are thoughtful enough that I can mostly trust that they have done their research and balanced their needs against costs to themselves and others. Not always the case but I have higher trust.
Where I have less trust is in the more mundane uses of this technology. The far larger user group that has novelty uses for the tech and doesnāt have a practice or a group of fellow artists, makers, etc. that are actively discussing these things.
Using generative AI for memes and novelty style mapping will make up most of its uses and will be responsible for the most resource waste. But it also heavily contributes to the āeveryone does itā factor which limits critical discussion.
I think part of the issue in even discussing āAIā (and it should definitely be discussed) is that a vast array of tools are all lumped together under a single facile name. And in many cases, the commercial implementations show up as this little sparkle icon in the corner of a piece of software that does many things of widely varying environmental, productivity, and moral costs.
I think we have to talk about these things because it isnāt a problem of opinion or personal preference in the end. There is now and will be going forward a possible gain and a definite cost to using these tools.
Their use is now semi mainstreamed so depending on our social circles, criticism might flow in either direction. But there needs to be critical thought around how we use and understand these tools.
Thanks for the shout out again, Jen. You pill me with acknowledgment. Iām glad to hear that Iāve unpowered you and others to come out of the closet with their AI experiences.
Thank you for this idea. Iām big on lazy efficiency! And I think everyone should be doing this. I was talking about the soup. AI is a whole other story š I think everyone has an opinionāsome without ever having used itāand Iāve struggled with it. Iām one of those early adopters when it comes to apps and yet it took me a while to take Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT for a whirl. The fact is that everything online is using AI in some way or the other. Thereās no escaping itā¦my take is, use it however makes your life easy. If it starts feeling like itās testing your ethical boundaries and your integrity then the problem is not AI, itās something deeper.
Sorry to spam your comments but one other thoughtā¦ I find that I am far less worried about what people who are already seasoned makers, thinkers, builders, tinkerers, etc. do with AI. Most of those folks (I would include you in that group) are thoughtful enough that I can mostly trust that they have done their research and balanced their needs against costs to themselves and others. Not always the case but I have higher trust.
Where I have less trust is in the more mundane uses of this technology. The far larger user group that has novelty uses for the tech and doesnāt have a practice or a group of fellow artists, makers, etc. that are actively discussing these things.
Using generative AI for memes and novelty style mapping will make up most of its uses and will be responsible for the most resource waste. But it also heavily contributes to the āeveryone does itā factor which limits critical discussion.
I think part of the issue in even discussing āAIā (and it should definitely be discussed) is that a vast array of tools are all lumped together under a single facile name. And in many cases, the commercial implementations show up as this little sparkle icon in the corner of a piece of software that does many things of widely varying environmental, productivity, and moral costs.
I think we have to talk about these things because it isnāt a problem of opinion or personal preference in the end. There is now and will be going forward a possible gain and a definite cost to using these tools.
Their use is now semi mainstreamed so depending on our social circles, criticism might flow in either direction. But there needs to be critical thought around how we use and understand these tools.