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Remember when the world shat on CGI endlessly 25 years ago?
It's like all of this is the fault of a pattern of human nature, instead of one specific technology.
Remember when Pixar and DreamWorks destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in order to erect enormous Gray boxes filled with computers that run complex operations 24/7, consuming massive amounts of fossil fuels and fresh water, leading to unmitigated pollution; not to mention political corruption, global surveillance, rolling back privacy protections, and economic gangsterism that hasn't been seen in 100 years?
People be like "ai is just a tool" and yeah, but thats also incredibly reductive considering what AI actually is. Maybe it is a tool, but it is a tool that uses us, not the other way around. What gets called a pattern of human behavior, used to cause wars and uprisings. the pattern isnt something essential to human nature, it's socially constructed.
The fact that we find ourselves in these patterns over and over shows that the ruling class has learned to fuck us in a way so that we complain but not actually try to do anything to change society. Which shows the lack of actual freedom we have in order to live by our actual human impulses.
You act like data centers are a new concept that was invented in the 2020s. We've had data centers even before we had the Internet.
Rich assholes make those kind of decisions to pump trillions into AI pipe dreams, just like the rich assholes who run Hollywood.
That's because we're too scared to project violence to solve the core problems. The best we have is useless protests that don't sway psychopaths, because psychopaths don't have feelings.
The incredible scale of data centers that are trying to be built out with for AI is environmentally catastrophic in BOTH energy and water usage. That is new. Don't condescend the rest of us by conflating the idea of some data centers and an enviromentally catastrophic amount of data centers, it is a lazy way to make an argument.
Violence doesn't solve core problems you dangerous idiot.
Then, tell me, what's the next step after protests that do nothing and failing to convince cult-programmed individuals to vote correctly?
Definitely not to tangentially encourage people to do violence on a thread about an unrelated topic.
The difference between a human artist working with digital media vs analog media is a difference in materials.
The difference between art and AI is AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.
You can use anything to make art, AI techbros didnt prove that, my point is AI is a shitty self-defeating tool that hides the theft of our public commons of shared art made by humans behind a bunch of bullshit technobabble.
edit Also yeah CGI did make movies a lot lamer in some ways...? Do you know nothing about movies? Have you not lamented with others how you miss the prevalence of Live Action films and Practical Effects because now film makers almost always take the easy boring route out with CGI that misses the point of film in the first place?
If we can compress the entirety of human art, music, literature made by billions of people into the size of a 4-10 GB model, at around 1 person per byte, then we must have not been very creative in the first place.
What an awful, cynical way to look at reality.
You were the one suggesting that all of human art could be compressed into a file that could easily fit on a USB stick:
These are your words.