anti-ai's perverse incentives
Anti-AI content encourages me to (find more people willing to) work more with AI. You and I have much to learn when it comes to such a captivating, emergent set of technologies. I also get the impression that such content shows how much certain people with anti-AI sentiments:
- Disregard AI end-users, whom largely expose preferences for product over process and may have never been interested in markets for non-AI equivalents.
- Hyperfixate on process over product, making passion and excitement for consumption wholly dependent on assumed perceptions of the same for production.
- Discount factors like tool assistance, accessibility, and others readily involved in "human" artwork.
- Ignore the history of technological development, particularly the modern conception of intellectual property and prior.
- Underestimate the chilling effect and unseen damages that artificial barriers to entry create as a result of patents, copyrights, and similar constrictive regulations.
- Sometimes deride copyright for some if not most creative disciplines, but not when it comes to anathema like AI art or writing.
- Play dangerous status games with disastrous consequences and collateral damage, involving tactics like witch hunting, purity spirals, and scapegoating.
- Underestimate art - whether masterpieces, "slop", or anything in between - for how creative it can be found and how remixable it can be by someone (that might not think like them).
- Write about what they can't be bothered reading.
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