Post #2853032

2026-02-13 11:44 UTC

@sjn@chaos.social Simply, I see such AI things as yet other tools; it is not the end of the world, and fighting against them is no different from fighting against cameras, digital art, CGI in cinema, the whole cinema (versus theatre), and so on. So why AI mark only? One could add the Handcrafted mark vs Industrial. Is that a quality marker? Not necessary so: a lot of handcrafted things are simply bad products, plain and clean.

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@gisgeek@floss.social 2026-02-13 11:50

@sjn@chaos.social Anyway, thanks for your poll; it sparked a possible blog post where I could better articulate why quality is a human-driven goal, not something intrinsically present or absent in AI-aided design. High-quality or good enough are often the choices in many fields, regardless of tools.

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@sjn@chaos.social 2026-02-13 12:07

@gisgeek@floss.social I get your analogies, though I'm afraid they might be failing you. The #LLM tools today aren't like CGI or digital art or the introduction of television. Your examples are are tools of the hand and of trade and media. #AI tools are tools of the mind. They aren't just a support for thinking, but increasingly a _replacement_ for thinking, and this includes all the consequences that come from this. We regulated the use of tools to avoid the bad behavior. Maybe do the same with AI?

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