I don't personally support/like AI art, but I had an interesting question
Do you think AI art would be ethical if someone made the model themselves, trained it off their own hand drawn art ENTIRELY, then donating an upper bound of "environmental impact cost" to charities?
@crusaderanim I'm not too aware of the actual impacts of AI on the environment, but it does seem massively overblown by statistics taken out of context.
I think it is significant but not world ending significant, and would probably optimize itself as it gets better.
@alightinastorm For now, I still want to naively believe that it won't eventually feed on all the art, but I understand why you guys think your own way too
@alightinastorm I feel like this is where the conflict of interest begins to happen, and I honestly don't feel like theres a right answer at the moment for me, I do think as the technology inevitably advances, it will definitely be easier to make a stand then
@alightinastorm I was primarily against it for 2 big reasons
-Theft (One that I think is still prevalent, but I'm thinking it's going to be inevitable anyways and thinking otherwise is naivety)
-Environment (This one has always been murky to me, a lot of misinformation spreading..)
@alightinastorm@MrCollison Very glad to be able to learn all this.
Fortunately, I seem to be getting more useful opinions and being taught new things instead of whatever this was
@ithaaka The ability to concede and realize some people know more than you is very important. I am anti-AI mostly, but I like to hear and understand the opinions of why pro-AI people, people who are INTO that kind of stuff and know more about it than me
@ithaaka I literally never said that we should normalise it. It was a thought experiment I made because I was curious to see what both sides thought, (yes, no) and then it would give me the information to make a personal judgement based on that.
I'll never insult people over opinions
@alightinastorm I see! This was very informative as someone who is generally anti-AI in the creative space, and I am very happy you shared this with me.
@ithaaka I made the post in good faith so I'm confused why you're bringing where I'm from into this??
Also, that was my mistake but I should've clarified the LLM is also hosted locally so it'd be akin to using your own electricity to do normal PC work