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[dhampyresa]

I was reminded to ask about this by a locked post and schneefink's recent post.

I have opinions about using AI [1] to produce stories and/or visual work, but they're not as supported/sourced/considered as I want them to be.

So I ask: What are your opinions? Have you read/watched/listened/etc to anything you thought was interesting on the subject, even ones you don't agree with?


[1] It's machine-learning, dammit.

Comments

[fiachairecht]

I despise it to the point that I find it actively hard to talk about, honestly. There's nothing intelligent about it and honestly I think even calling it machine 'learning' is being overly charitable - there's no retention even if statistical models improve over time. It's ethically awful (plagiarism! for one!) and environmentally disastrous (see: bitcoin) and imo any potential benefits for individual creators are massively outweighed by what corporations + people acting in bad faith can and are already doing. Like I've worked in tech for over a decade, I know how shit the ethics here are overall but - jfc.

About content generation in uni classes, not fandom, but Bret Devereaux's essay on how text generation is harmful to students is my go-to thing to link. Long but so, so worth it.

Anyway, submission of works made by content-generation tools is fully banned in any fanwork exchange I run.