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recently my friend’s comics professor told her that it’s acceptable to use gen Al for script- writing but not for art, since a machine can’t generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister’s screenwriting professor said that they can use gen Al for concept art and visualization, but that it won’t be able to generate a script that’s any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that Al can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.
It’s only ever the jobs we’re unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen Al will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don’t.
It’s why managers fucking love GenAI.
My personal take is that GenAI is ok for personal entertainment and for things that are ultimately meaningless. Making wallpapers for your phone, maps for your RPG campaign, personal RP, that sort of thing.
‘I’ll just use it for meaningless stuff that nobody was going to get paid for either way’ is at the surface-level a reasonable attitude; personal songs generated for friends as in-jokes, artwork for home labels, birthday parties, and your examples… All fair because nobody was gonna pay for it anyway, so no harm to makers.
But I don’t personally use them for any of those things myself though, some of my reasons: I figure it’s just investor-subsidized CPU cycles burning power somewhere (environmental), and ultimately that use-case won’t be a business model that makes any money (propping the bubble), it dulls and avoids my own art-making skills which I think everyone should work on (personal development atrophy), building reliance on proprietary platforms… so I’d rather just not, and hopefully see the whole AI techbro bubble crash sooner than later.
This can be avoided by using local open-weight models and open source technology, which is what I do.
Yeah, that certainly addresses that issue. I may do the same in the future, just haven’t found the need to do so as yet. For most who lean on AI for the simple tasks mentioned above, they use an AI service rather than a local model.
Were you previously much more pro-GenAI, or am I misremembering?
No that was always my position