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I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

People are just looking for attention because that’s what we place value on. It’s much easier, louder, and more effective to have a hate fueled zero nuance dogpile than have a reasoned opinion about something. I’d bet a lot of the loudest AI opponents use it. They’re just riding the outrage train.

I don't use it unless it's forced on me at gunpoint and most of the people I know are the same and we're all very vocal haters. I just think that the people being ridiculous are still being ridiculous even if I agree with them. 😂

I use AI as a software dev resource where I feel it’s less problematic, but never to generate content for me and I can’t even fathom using it for writing or art. I think that’s a very valid stance to not use it at all. But I also think people using AI art never wanted art to begin with.

This is a hard topic to boil down to 300 characters, but art is fundamentally about emotional connection and that kind of requires a person on both sides. I know a lot of artists make their living off people that don’t care about that. And AI + Capitalism is a mess.

And maybe I’m stupidly idealistic, but I think as long as everyone that actually cares about supporting real art sticks together and helps each other. There’s enough of us out there that slop can be mostly irrelevant until the bubble bursts and it’s expensive AND irrelevant.