Is AI really that bad?

Disclaimer: This post is not meant to attack anyone. If It still does so I’m really sorry, and I will try to work this out a little more.

Hey there, this little article of mine will address the big problem in the current art scene where AI art is seen as highly controversial and the fear of loosing your job grows and grows. Each new AI Model gets closer and closer to replacing a human, and yeah this is true, AI is getting better and better each day, this is because of the disgusting business tactics of company like meta, Twitter (X) or similar. Images and text you upload on Meta platforms no longer is your property, the moment you press send or upload meta owns all the rights to the image you just send, and therefor also the right to use the nice selfie or the art piece you just posted, to be used in a new fancy AI model.

But how bad is it? And how far are we already?

AI, as it is now, already is able to create short movies, high quality images or scary realistic text conversation, with voice conversations also improving on a daily basis. We pump our lives into the internet, the world wide web, without second though, and that is exactly what is so dangerous. The awareness of those tricks companies like meta use, still is not as high as it should be, many people swear on WhatsApp and Instagram, and protect TikTok as if it would define there personality.

Where to resist, and where we already are pushing back.

The currently biggest problem with AI is, that we are pushing back at the wrong places. We are pushing back in the process of creation, we are hating on people who create art with AI or code there projects, but this is not what one should do. The people using AI aren’t the reason for AI getting better and more scary they are just one of the causes. People which rather use an AI model to create a quick piece of art instead of commissioning it from you, wouldn’t have done so anyway. They just wanted to see what there own thought they just had would look like. The argument that people just could learn to draw instead of using AI or just quickly learn how to code, are most of the time not fully aware of how long it took them to get where they are now, those people don’t want to make money from drawing, or use it commercially, they just want to know what there DnD character would have looked like.

But where should we push back then?

Instead of trying to stop people from using AI by bullying them or shadow banning them, we should hold against the reason instead of the cause of the problem. The companies behind the data gathering, Meta, Tumbler, Reddit, TikTok and so on. They are the real problem, they actively sell your data for penny’s later to be used for AI training. We are constantly getting watched by those people, data getting bought and sold by data brokers, and this data lands in the hands of people that don’t have your best interest in their mind.

How to promote your art?

Now obviously the question is, how the hell is one supposed to promote there own art then? Without the help of those huge tech companies it seems to be impossible to create a network of fans and people that find one. But there is hope, Companies like Artstation, Mastodon and more don’t claim the rights to your work and don’t use yours to create AI models, these sites are still big and make it easy for you to be found without selling yourself to those tech companies.

So how bad is AI?

AI on its own is not the problem, its the company behind it. It’s Meta and co. trying to get hold of you and pressing every little penny out of you. But this isn’t just AI, Meta and so already was doing this before hand, milking its users for the data, and most people don’t even care, but maybe now where the effect of this disinterest will slowly start to show and people will start to push back.

The internet is a maze where we are the rats trying to find the cheese, without knowing that there is no cheese…