In my opinion, AI just feels like the logical next step for capitalist exploitation and destruction of culture. Generative AI is (in most cases) just a fancy way for cooperations to steal art on a scale, that hasn’t been possible before. And then they use AI to fill the internet with slop and misinformation and actual artists are getting fired from their jobs, because the company replaces them with an AI, that was trained on their original art. Because of these reasons and some others, it just feels wrong to me, to be using AI in such a manner, when this community should be about inclusion and kindness. Wouldn’t it be much cooler, if we commissioned an actual artist for the banner or find a nice existing artwork (where the licence fits, of course)? I would love to hear your thoughts!

      • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        the human brain follows the laws of physics; it therefore follows that human creativity is already computational.

        • patatas@sh.itjust.works
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          2 months ago

          Three problems with this:

          1. If computation means “anything that happens in the universe” then the term ‘computation’ is redundant and meaningless.
          2. We do not know or understand all of the physical laws of the universe, or if those laws indeed hold universally.
          3. Our consciousness does not operate at the level of atomic physics; see Daniel Dennett’s ‘compatibilism’ defense of free will vs Robert Sapolsky’s determinism. If we’re vulgar materialists, then it follows that there is no free will, and thus no reason to advocate for societal change.