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curl-6 1 day ago
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Norion said:
curl-6 said:

Slop is absolutely a big issue. People hate it and people are sick and tired of almost every platform being flooded with mindless AI garbage. 

Regulation is badly needed, yes, because the problem is ultimately one of human nature; even if something is potentially useful in some ways, most people are going to use it shitty ways because it hands bad actors the ability to do bad things more quickly and easily.

When a technology's applications are so overwhelmingly harmful and bad (like I say, I'm being generous in saying at 1 in a 1000 cases are good) it's just common sense that people will oppose it, especially when it is increasing making our lives worse.

I have no issue finding good stuff to watch, play, read and whatnot thus it truly doesn't bother me at all so I can't really say much other than that's an aspect that I just can't relate to. At it core I suppose it comes down to me thinking the trade off of even just one good piece of art coming into existence thanks to increased ease is worth however many more low quality works that happen.

That mindset of mine also applies to the 2nd part. I place more importance on people being able to good things more easily and benefit from it than people being able to cause harm more easily. Like social media gets a lot of deserved criticism but I'm glad it exists for the people that have benefited from that.

I'd say the ratio of good to bad is way more balanced than that but we've gone into that before so no need to repeat that debate. The main thing is that I can't relate to the last part either cause AI hasn't made my life worse at all, in fact it's improved it somewhat so far. For opposition in general something important to keep in mind that it varies massively be country. Public sentiment in the US and the Commonwealth lean negative but it's a lot more positive in other places like Asia so the technology certainly isn't making lives worse in general.

AI slop is not art. Art is communication, human expression, AI content is mindless and meaningless.

And it absolutely making people's lives worse, it's a driver of anxiety, depression, psychosis, and other mental health issues: the destruction of jobs, the devaluation of art, the enshittification of society, these all contribute to poorer mental health outcomes.

It's being used by authoritarians for surveillance and coercion of the population, it's driving up prices at a time when people are already struggling to make ends meet, it's threatening to crash the economy, it is dumbing down and rotting people's critical thinking skills, people are being forced from their homes to build unnecessary data centres, it's wasting colossal quantities of resources, the list goes on.

It is overwhelmingly bad for society, humanity, and the planet, the few benefits are negligible compared to its multiplicity of harms.