@AuthorJMac@indiepocalypse.social
Post #1047067
2024-03-29 11:50 UTC
Replies (22)
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@AuthorJMac@indiepocalypse.social 2024-03-29 19:06
Since this post is getting a lot of attention, I wanted to add that I have some books out, if you fancy fantasy genre. I'd love to be able to say, "You know, laundry doesn't pay my bills, but my writing does!" Pick your flavor (epic or urban) at https://authorjm.com/
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@LJ@zirk.us 2024-03-29 12:39
@AuthorJMac yes! This!
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@LJ@zirk.us 2024-03-29 22:01
@Leefellerguy a book I recommended? Or one I wrote? Either way, happy you found your way back to stories!
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@AuthorJMac@indiepocalypse.social 2024-03-29 17:04
@wibble @Uddelhexe But it is. It's taking away fun and fun out of work as well. I used to go to work because it was still fun (even though there were harder days) and I was doing something worthwhile. AI doesn't save on labor in that regard. Labor still has to be done (husband is a maintenance tech and I doubt an AI will ever replace him). It's the creativity and fun that gets taken away by AI.
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@kanrei@mastodon.art 2024-04-03 09:27
@wibble @AuthorJMac @Uddelhexe Well for art, it certainly isn't fun if we would use AI instead of creating our own thing. So yes in that regard it would take away the fun part. Plus people might lose jobs, because companies rather use AI to make pictures. (Even if someone would do those, they might just need one person for it and not more, which they might have needed before.) That's what we mean with losing the fun jobs.
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@kanrei@mastodon.art 2024-04-03 17:38
@wibble @AuthorJMac @Uddelhexe Oh not sure how it went for painters, but at least they still exist. I actually feel like I should draw more with traditional media again, because of AI. :/ Either way, I don't want artistic jobs being gone. (Not even knowing an alternative, feels like anything done on a computer would be at risk.)
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@kanrei@mastodon.art 2024-04-04 09:17
@wibble @AuthorJMac @Uddelhexe Yeah, I just see for myself, I wouldn't enjoy making AI pictures instead of drawing right away what I had in mind. It is ok to dabble around in it to see what it can do, and I sure want to try it out more. But overall I wouldn't find it very fulfilling.
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@toast@sfba.social 2024-03-29 14:47
@AuthorJMac Yep, give me an AI that verifies images are real, not an AI that creates false images.
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@crcollins@writing.exchange 2024-03-29 15:07
@AuthorJMac I want an AI duster that sucks all the particles from the room. @Uncleharvey
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@kanrei@mastodon.art 2024-04-03 09:30
@narinarinari @AuthorJMac Wait, no way AI is made for programmers, like the AI generating text also can generate some code, and it seems like some feel like it could reduce programmers? (I would say they are in the same boat as we artists, no?)
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@MichaelsMind@dice.camp 2024-03-29 15:36
@AuthorJMac I am not advocating for AI writing or art, but the ability for AI to make it is kind of a stepping stone on the way to a full AI robot that will do your laundry and dishes. We're seeimg very competent ai-powered machines being built that are powered off of things like OpenAI. Did they have to capitalize on writing and art to get there? Probably not, but imo it did make it faster. The unfortunate part is we have to try so hard to protect our work while we transition past this part.
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@colby@transportation.social 2024-03-29 15:37
@AuthorJMac I fully agree. The challenge is that there is a correct way to do stuff like laundry and dishes, with material consequences if AI gets it wrong, so not an easy initial use case for new technology that is still kinda random. The element of chance has long been welcome in creative work, sometimes embraced and celebrated.
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@sothach@mastodon.ie 2024-03-29 16:00
@AuthorJMac If it does the laundry and dishes in the same half-assed way it tries to do art and writing, I probably don't want it doing that, either.
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@anakin78z@mograph.social 2024-03-29 16:04
@AuthorJMac I just asked AI, and it informed me that dishwashers, as well as washers and dryers exist.
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@alexanderdyas@mindly.social 2024-03-29 16:14
@AuthorJMac Nobody will make money from cleaning your dishes. People can make money from making and selling art.
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@mike@thecanadian.social 2024-03-29 17:14
@AuthorJMac Very well said and spot on.
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@n69n@neurodifferent.me 2024-03-29 18:29
@AuthorJMac I think about my old design director, who always used to stomp angrily past my desk, and "joke", "You'd think there'd be an app that could do your job by now, HA HA"
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@synlogic@toot.io 2024-03-29 18:37
@AuthorJMac bingo
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@mrcompletely@heads.social 2024-03-29 19:10
@AuthorJMac yep, because all existing LLMs (there is no "AI" outside of marketing) were developed and evolved in the context of competitive capitalism and born from unethical IP-resource extraction. Other LLMs could in theory exist, with ethically sourced training sets, non capitalistic directives and healthier uses, but right now they don't.
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@Pinky@hooray.computer 2024-03-29 19:59
@AuthorJMac fuck yeah! AI to fold laundry! It's the only way we move forward as a species😍
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@Fizzle_Up@seocommunity.social 2024-03-29 20:30
@AuthorJMac 😂 Yes!!
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@therieau@bitbang.social 2024-03-29 20:35
@AuthorJMac I quit I.T. so that I could start a new writing career. I learned this week that a substantial part of my copywriting job will now be programming a computer through a prompt to do the writing that I used to do last week.