> And if they use AI and you can't tell the difference, does it really matter?
Yes. It devalues artists further (on top of only existing due to grand scale theft of art). It also is slop devoid of intention.
If that's not enough, it's ecologically devastating. I would rather not waste millions of gallons of water on slop that gets generated and thrown away.
Precisely - the amount of damage that openai and llms have done to human knowledge sharing and discourse is incalculable. Now we not only have to deal with humans manually writing junk due to perverse incentives, we also have to deal with people passing off machine generated junk at scale.
And we're destroying the environment through rapidly increasing resource consumption to do so. This situation is incredibly fucked.
Yes. It devalues artists further (on top of only existing due to grand scale theft of art). It also is slop devoid of intention.
If that's not enough, it's ecologically devastating. I would rather not waste millions of gallons of water on slop that gets generated and thrown away.