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Nobody cares if you use AI

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  • @Goldiblockz said:
    i don't click on album art that is clearly ai generated, looks like slop shit made by people that throw tantrums when they cant shade an apple thinking it's the end all be all of sketching

    Which is worse? That or the videos where the creator makes a stupid face to get more clicks?
    I honestly don't know. But I lean toward the stupid faces as being worse. 😂

  • @wim said:

    @Goldiblockz said:
    i don't click on album art that is clearly ai generated, looks like slop shit made by people that throw tantrums when they cant shade an apple thinking it's the end all be all of sketching

    Which is worse? That or the videos where the creator makes a stupid face to get more clicks?
    I honestly don't know. But I lean toward the stupid faces as being worse. 😂

    😂😂

    A human at least told the other human “I’ll give you money to feed your family if you make stupid faces with my product”

    AI is offering you rosebuds.

  • wimwim
    edited January 2025

    @Goldiblockz said:
    "Just ask ChatGPT"

    That annoys the hell out of me too. I don't know which is worse, realizing that a friend or loved one really trusts that output without checking, or realizing that they think I'm the kind of person that would. Or realizing that they can't be bothered to provide actual source material when they're telling me I'm wrong about something.

    A forum member recently did just that via PM over some trivial point in a thread. What really bugged me is this person is probably a lot more intelligent than I am. It was insulting in some way I can't quite put my finger on. I determined in under two seconds that I was done with the conversation.

    The huge difference is Google used to give me a source, a trail, a trace back to a community where I can ponder and get further education and happiness. Where I can contribute and make friends. If they get stuck they can ask me a specific question with ease.

    You can ask ChatGPT to provide links to sources. In the rare times I use it, I use it as a more efficient search engine, but then take the time to go to sources and make up my own mind. I start from the stand of skeptisim no matter the source too. It's just the way I'm wired.

  • Very few are concerned about how the sausage is made, well until the time nears that they will become the sausage.

  • That sums it up perfectly @knewspeak 👍

  • ...> @knewspeak said:

    Very few are concerned about how the sausage is made, well until the time nears that they will become the sausage.

    Except with generative art/music/what have you, everyone will be making the sausage.

  • Nobody cares if you use AI if you can use it the way that nobody finds it was actually used.
    Which vast majority of people can't do, because it is really not easy and it is form of art itself :-)

  • @dendy said:
    Nobody cares if you use AI if you can use it the way that nobody finds it was actually used.
    Which vast majority of people can't do, because it is really not easy and it is form of art itself :-)

    😂

  • Nobody cares if you use AI

    Do we need a "Nobody cares what you think of people using AI" thread?

    (Sorry. I'm bored this morning.)

  • @wim said:

    Nobody cares if you use AI

    Do we need a "Nobody cares what you think of people using AI" thread?

    (Sorry. I'm bored this morning.)

    Haha.

  • edited January 2025

    @wim said:

    Nobody cares if you use AI

    Do we need a "Nobody cares what you think of people using AI" thread?

    (Sorry. I'm bored this morning.)

    Or just "Nobody cares what you think." 😂

  • @reezygle said:
    @wim said:

    Nobody cares if you use AI

    Do we need a "Nobody cares what you think of people using AI" thread?

    (Sorry. I'm bored this morning.)

    Or just "Nobody cares what you think?" 😂

    That would be a great name for the forum.

  • @offbrands said:
    How often is ChatGPT correct on this for your programs? Is the first question I would think of yanno.. and also I think that if you can run a local ai to your system to use for your own search engine is kinda cool and is the least harmful way of using ai in general. This isn’t the generative product that I have a major issue with. Frankly having a go-to coding teacher, writer, or editor without having to bother anyone, while solitary, is helpful in many situations.

    This is a point of curiosity for me. What is it that draws the distinction between a GPT and a "generative" product? In either case, the fundamentals are the same:

    • model is created by ingesting massive amounts of training data
    • model is further tuned to enhance its ability to infer what the user is asking for
    • model receives prompts from users, runs inference, synthesizes result in the desired format

    There is no major high-level difference between a model that synthesizes text output in response to a prompt and one that synthesizes an image in response to a prompt. Despite that, I have noticed a skewed reception to text generation vs. what is commonly considered artistic generation. Not just here, but in general. And, to be sure, there are plenty of people who have no love for GPTs either.

    I understand this thread is getting contentious, but I'm asking because I am really interested to understand. I think that writing is also a creative act, and I'm curious why generating an image is seen as more damaging than generating a piece of written work.

    I have been running local models at home for a little while, and I agree that having a local search engine on my computer is pretty awesome. I also understand and agree on most points regarding the implications to creativity. My personal take is that this is a point of divergence between art and business, and likely an irreversible one.

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  • @wim said:

    Nobody cares if you use AI

    Do we need a "Nobody cares what you think of people using AI" thread?

    (Sorry. I'm bored this morning.)

    Well, sometimes i feel like at current stage of humanity nobody cares what other people think.

  • @offbrands said:

    @tom_ward said:
    I have been running local models at home for a little while, and I agree that having a local search engine on my computer is pretty awesome. I also understand and agree on most points regarding the implications to creativity. My personal take is that this is a point of divergence between art and business, and likely an irreversible one.

    I agree with you. It’s likely irreversible. I’ve tried local models to understand it better and it’s often just not great. An anecdote - I just had my roommate type in on Apple Intelligence in their Mac in Image Playground “sleepy sloth” for several attempts. None of the sloths were sleeping. Like what are we even doing? It’s all trash. It’s not good. Even if you’re a good prompter, what’s the point? What’s the expression? I’ll ask again, what are we doing here?

    This changes very soon.. did you saw this ? It allows run powerfull generative models locally.
    I give it maybe 3-4 years and this kind of power will be inside your phone (or you will run personal LLM server like that one bellow and your phone will be remotelly connect to it using API - which is basically doable already now).

    https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/jetson-generative-ai-supercomputer/

    Also i see potentialy huge transforation in people running such devides connected via internat into decentralized network capable of run big AGI.. that would be endgame .. Same way how Bitcoin created unstoppable decentralized hard money, this will create unstoppable decentralized AGI...

  • @offbrands said:

    @tom_ward said:

    @offbrands said:
    How often is ChatGPT correct on this for your programs? Is the first question I would think of yanno.. and also I think that if you can run a local ai to your system to use for your own search engine is kinda cool and is the least harmful way of using ai in general. This isn’t the generative product that I have a major issue with. Frankly having a go-to coding teacher, writer, or editor without having to bother anyone, while solitary, is helpful in many situations.

    This is a point of curiosity for me. What is it that draws the distinction between a GPT and a "generative" product? In either case, the fundamentals are the same:

    • model is created by ingesting massive amounts of training data
    • model is further tuned to enhance its ability to infer what the user is asking for
    • model receives prompts from users, runs inference, synthesizes result in the desired format

    I mean fundamentally you’re aware that how much power a picture holds over text, right? A picture tells a thousand words?

    All in all I’ve only said that I’ve been okay with that because it’s the oldest of the technologies, by several years, and is the lesser evil of the lot. I feel like you should be well aware of how the real world works to some degree, to break it down like a dev (I know that you made mass) is borderline pedantic. I’m not trying to be rude, but really? Explaining the tech stack? C’mon.

    There is no major high-level difference between a model that synthesizes text output in response to a prompt and one that synthesizes an image in response to a prompt. Despite that, I have noticed a skewed reception to text generation vs. what is commonly considered artistic generation. Not just here, but in general. And, to be sure, there are plenty of people who have no love for GPTs either.

    You sound like an AI here. Like reread that, and objectively, does this sound at all like a human with a soul? I believe you wrote it. But you’re coming at this in the most tech brain style possible. It’s utterly devoid of any empathy, it almost sounds like a line from Spock on Star Trek.

    Again, I’m really not trying to be rude, but really? I’ve read other posts by you and I don’t recall them being written as such.

    Generative text isn’t being used to nudify minors. AI, and their models, are.
    a web archive link

    That’s one of the many issues I have with that. I don’t feel the need to post a bunch of articles showing why I believe what I believe overall about AI, that’s just one that recently bothered me even more so. Plus we both know that they get ignored, or not read. So what’s the point

    We live in an age of disinformation, misinformation, and one where the vast majority of people do not read, they scroll and see things and repeat and believe them. I shouldn’t have to tell you, a human being, why text is vastly less concerning than the image generators and the video ones. You should know why they are. I know you know why they’re vastly different. At least I hope so.

    I understand this thread is getting contentious, but I'm asking because I am really interested to understand. I think that writing is also a creative act, and I'm curious why generating an image is seen as more damaging than generating a piece of written work.

    Writing is a creative act, and many cases of generative AI being used to pump tons of trash misinformation, and blatant lies is a major issue. Aside from the fact that I’m more than sure that you can, while stepping back, understand that images will hold a power over public sway, far more than text in this day and age, this thread turned into an image generation topic because of album covers. Because this is a music based forum.

    If anything, the earlier comments I made was trying to rationally find a middle ground, but I realize that just furthers confusion somehow, as you’ve laid out, potentially in an earnest way, though, I can’t say one person on this thread has done so in any way, been earnest that is. Which is fine. It’s all good.

    I don’t think there’s a positive to any generative ai. I don’t, at all. Furthermore, I regret my earlier comments trying to find middle ground and causing any confusion.

    I find the act writing, rewriting, drawing, editing, creating music, all of it, to be the pinnacle of the human expressive experience and the most genuinely gratifying feeling that one can feel if they give themselves the grace and have the ability to do so.

    I think that using AI robs creators of the act of creating. Full stop.

    I have been running local models at home for a little while, and I agree that having a local search engine on my computer is pretty awesome. I also understand and agree on most points regarding the implications to creativity. My personal take is that this is a point of divergence between art and business, and likely an irreversible one.

    I agree with you. It’s likely irreversible. I’ve tried local models to understand it better and it’s often just not great. An anecdote - I just had my roommate type in on Apple Intelligence in their Mac in Image Playground “sleepy sloth” for several attempts. None of the sloths were sleeping. Like what are we even doing? It’s all trash. It’s not good. Even if you’re a good prompter, what’s the point? What’s the expression? I’ll ask again, what are we doing here?

    If everyone here wants to use AI on their works, go for it, I’m just blatantly saying that it will put into question anything you create. Yeah the majority of people don’t care, I’m not sure I would want to attract those fickle people towards my creativity, but hey, different strokes and all.

    Hmm. Glad to know you aren't trying to be rude. :joy:

    When I get responses like this, it makes me wonder if I've come across as condescending or rude myself. If I have, I apologize.

    The bottom line is I don't know what people here do or don't know, and knowledge of how these systems work is what I have to share in this discussion. What seems pedantic to you may be useful information for someone who doesn't already know it. If it's not welcome, I'll take the hint.

    I agree with pretty much everything you're saying regarding the output of the AI. You're right that pictures are much easier to weaponize than words. What makes me curious is how we've become so fragmented in our knowledge, and to be honest that is the thing that truly scares me about AI. In my observation, we see text-to-text, text-to-image, text-to-video, text-to-audio, and so on as being distinct from each other. In terms of their output they are, but in terms of what they are, they are fundamentally the same. To me, this lack of understanding is one vector through which we're going to lose control of it.

    Where I think that relates to this thread and this larger forum of music creators is this: We seem to be OK with some things, and attack other things. If those things are built on the same general framework, where does that gray area come from? This is an all-or-nothing technology, in my opinion. I'm not calling you out for this, in fact you've made it clear you are uncommonly uniform in your feelings. But, it's something I see all over the internet and in the workplace.

    I understand you are concerned with the loss of creativity and the sadness that brings. I am truly with you on that, while also being grateful that I'm still able to create for the joy of creating with as little "help" as I choose. That said, I'm a very technically-minded person, which you've been kind enough to point out, and I am equally concerned with our loss of knowledge and the sadness that brings for me.

  • @dendy said:

    @offbrands said:

    @tom_ward said:
    I have been running local models at home for a little while, and I agree that having a local search engine on my computer is pretty awesome. I also understand and agree on most points regarding the implications to creativity. My personal take is that this is a point of divergence between art and business, and likely an irreversible one.

    I agree with you. It’s likely irreversible. I’ve tried local models to understand it better and it’s often just not great. An anecdote - I just had my roommate type in on Apple Intelligence in their Mac in Image Playground “sleepy sloth” for several attempts. None of the sloths were sleeping. Like what are we even doing? It’s all trash. It’s not good. Even if you’re a good prompter, what’s the point? What’s the expression? I’ll ask again, what are we doing here?

    This changes very soon.. did you saw this ? It allows run powerfull generative models locally.
    I give it maybe 3-4 years and this kind of power will be inside your phone (or you will run personal LLM server like that one bellow and your phone will be remotelly connect to it using API - which is basically doable already now).

    https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/jetson-generative-ai-supercomputer/

    Also i see potentialy huge transforation in people running such devides connected via internat into decentralized network capable of run big AGI.. that would be endgame .. Same way how Bitcoin created unstoppable decentralized hard money, this will create unstoppable decentralized AGI...

    Yes, you nailed it. This is happening! The $20/month internet-only era of ChatGPT will be seen in a few years as the tip of the iceberg. You can setup these local and decentralized networks already, and the next few years are going to be wild. However we feel about the consequences, we're all going on the ride now.

    Also, Nvidia had another bombshell at CES:
    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/project-digits/

  • @wim said:

    @reezygle said:
    @wim said:

    Nobody cares if you use AI

    Do we need a "Nobody cares what you think of people using AI" thread?

    (Sorry. I'm bored this morning.)

    Or just "Nobody cares what you think?" 😂

    That would be a great name for the forum.

    Or just the whole internet 😅

  • edited January 2025

    -time out-

    i literally couldn’t care less about this , but since this temperature is continuing to rise, I’m going to issue a blanket statement/warning/however you want to take it, but let’s not let intelligence masque our emotional intent when posting clearly provocative messages, and if it continues here (or anywhere else) , threads that incite enough protest, flags, and outrage from other offended members or users will just be closed and messages will be edited accordingly: politics, religion and personal etc won’t be tolerated anymore in 2025 on…so please keep that in mind when engaging with someone you really know you should just ignore or not reply to

    Thanks

    ——-

    Time in

    ——

  • @dendy said:

    @offbrands said:

    @tom_ward said:
    I have been running local models at home for a little while, and I agree that having a local search engine on my computer is pretty awesome. I also understand and agree on most points regarding the implications to creativity. My personal take is that this is a point of divergence between art and business, and likely an irreversible one.

    I agree with you. It’s likely irreversible. I’ve tried local models to understand it better and it’s often just not great. An anecdote - I just had my roommate type in on Apple Intelligence in their Mac in Image Playground “sleepy sloth” for several attempts. None of the sloths were sleeping. Like what are we even doing? It’s all trash. It’s not good. Even if you’re a good prompter, what’s the point? What’s the expression? I’ll ask again, what are we doing here?

    This changes very soon.. did you saw this ? It allows run powerfull generative models locally.
    I give it maybe 3-4 years and this kind of power will be inside your phone (or you will run personal LLM server like that one bellow and your phone will be remotelly connect to it using API - which is basically doable already now).

    https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/jetson-generative-ai-supercomputer/

    Also i see potentialy huge transforation in people running such devides connected via internat into decentralized network capable of run big AGI.. that would be endgame .. Same way how Bitcoin created unstoppable decentralized hard money, this will create unstoppable decentralized AGI...

    For those who are following NVIDIA and those interested in what is coming next, this is an interesting watch. It’s the CES keynote presentation from the CEO:

    https://www.youtube.com/live/k82RwXqZHY8?si=2zZxBYV3-SsVb83d

  • @yellow_eyez said:

    -time out-

    i literally couldn’t care less about this , but since this temperature is continuing to rise, I’m going to issue a blanket statement/warning/however you want to take it, but let’s not let intelligence masque our emotional intent when posting clearly provocative messages, and if it continues here (or anywhere else) , threads that incite enough protest, flags, and outrage from other offended members or users will just be closed and messages will be edited accordingly: politics, religion and personal etc won’t be tolerated anymore in 2025 on…so please keep that in mind when engaging with someone you really know you should just ignore or not reply to

    Thanks

    ——-

    *

    Respectfully, this is not the way to foster collegial conversation.

  • @ExAsperis99 said:

    @yellow_eyez said:

    -time out-

    i literally couldn’t care less about this , but since this temperature is continuing to rise, I’m going to issue a blanket statement/warning/however you want to take it, but let’s not let intelligence masque our emotional intent when posting clearly provocative messages, and if it continues here (or anywhere else) , threads that incite enough protest, flags, and outrage from other offended members or users will just be closed and messages will be edited accordingly: politics, religion and personal etc won’t be tolerated anymore in 2025 on…so please keep that in mind when engaging with someone you really know you should just ignore or not reply to

    Thanks

    ——-

    *

    Respectfully, this is not the way to foster collegial conversation.

    Noted (respectfully)

  • Catching up on posts (it’s been a snowy winter so far…). Been learning a ton of new things, which has been awesome and overwhelming in equal measure.

    The goal of this thread is to spark a conversation: Do people really care how a creative piece of work is made?

    Here’s the thing—I’ve been using AI to organize my thoughts lately, and as an overthinker, it’s been a game-changer. I tend to dive into every angle of a topic, overanalyzing to the point where the core message gets lost in the noise. Tossing detailed prompts into tools like ChatGPT has helped me cut through the clutter, weighing the pros and cons without drowning in details.

    Honestly, I’m thankful tools like this exist. Moving between fields is no joke. There’s this weight of knowledge to catch up on, and it’s not easy to navigate. Even with 15+ years of experience playing in bands and an engineering background, it still took me 2-3 years to find my footing in music production. Why? Because there were too many starting points, too many opinions on the “right way” to approach it, and none of it was tailored to where I actually was in my journey.

    Now? I’ve embraced AI tools for more than just text. Image and video generation? Absolutely. I can visualize concepts, combine media, and build ideas without spending years drowning in tutorials. It’s like having a creative partner that speeds up the process without compromising the vision.

    And as for the whole “AI overlord” conspiracy? I’m not losing sleep over it. Are there multiple entities watching our every move? Sure—several, in fact 😂. But when ChatGPT hit the scene, it shook things up in a way that forced competition to evolve. Microsoft teamed up with OpenAI for Copilot, Google rolled out Bard/Gemini, Apple held back (classic Apple move), and a wave of open-source alternatives emerged.

    It reminds me of industrial robotics—same story, different industry. You’ve got the giants like KUKA, Fanuc, and Universal Robots, alongside budget-friendly competitors from places like China that can deliver similar results.

    The playing field keeps shifting, but at the end of the day, it’s about how you adapt. And maybe that’s what creativity is all about—using what’s available to bring your ideas to life in ways that feel right for you.

  • @dendy said:

    @wim said:

    Nobody cares if you use AI

    Do we need a "Nobody cares what you think of people using AI" thread?

    (Sorry. I'm bored this morning.)

    Well, sometimes i feel like at current stage of humanity nobody cares what other people think.

    Sadly, it seems that humanity caring about people even stops short of the thinking part.

  • @AudioGus said:

    @dendy said:

    @wim said:

    Nobody cares if you use AI

    Do we need a "Nobody cares what you think of people using AI" thread?

    (Sorry. I'm bored this morning.)

    Well, sometimes i feel like at current stage of humanity nobody cares what other people think.

    Sadly, it seems that humanity caring about people even stops short of the thinking part.

    We have to go back further than AI for the origins of that. It feels like the emergence of the Internet accelerated things enormously. I feel like it started back with media saturation numbing us to tragedy. But the de-personalization of internet communications has to be a huge factor as well.

    It makes me think of the vast difference between how people think of and treat others when driving vs. how they would treat others in the line at the grocery store. (Though that's changing too.)

  • Also, I'll take the opportunity to apologize to anyone who was put off by my attempts to lighten the mood. I forget that people impassioned about a subject understandably see that only as insulting and/or trivializing a conversation.

  • edited January 2025

    Good to see some bickering and name calling back on the Forum. I was starting to think that the "Other" section had gone soft... :smiley:

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