#(non-huge music artists only avoid getting sued for every musical idea by not making enough money to be worth going after)

[sera-wasnever]

People who latch onto ai as a buzzword thing to hate are both a) buying into the marketing of everything called 'ai' being the same magic artificial intelligence technology and b) entirely limiting their idea of what it is to how it personally affects/might affect them. You will not stick it to the exploitation of artists by loudly condemning like... Sci-fi that explores the concept of artificial nonhuman sentience just cause they refer to it as artificial intelligence.

#yes I have seen many people with this take #so strictly confined to how something affects you and your community specifically!! #as if artists are the only people to have their jobs taken by machines. #as if it was fine when it happened to farmworkers to calculators to typists to weavers to swordsmiths to... you get the idea #as if dependence on your training being the most efficient way for a profit seeking entity to make what they want to sell is sustainable #or even fucking DESIRED for the state of the artform or whatever #this economic system and art are inherently incompatable #programs marketed as ai are not the cause and blindly rallying against whatever ai means to you isn't the answer #in fact it'd probably hurt you if you succeeded in either banning the tech (ppl would lie abt using it cause u can't make ppl unknow things #(and it'd be so hard to legally define without being meaningless or also catching tech that could like. save lives.) #or if you got perfectly enforced more stringent copyright (just. look at what happened to the music world. it's a hellscape) #(non-huge music artists only avoid getting sued for every musical idea by not making enough money to be worth going after) #(and huge ones stick with what has been done enough times that no one could even claim to own it or give nonsense songwriting creds) #anyway. just an understandable but short-sighted and self-centred reactionary worldview exemplified by getting mad at 'robots good?' scifi #I have seen so many instances (irl) of people on principle refusing to learn anything new abt the scary thing #when it's my friend talking about like. building certain navigation systems. cause it's called ai. #ghost.personal #<= cause this is pure frustrated rant not My Thinkpiece