General Discussion

job raising them.). I hope for their sake - well, for everyone's sake - that the backlash against AI continues to strengthen.

AI image generators cheat the artists whose work was ripped off, cheat society in general because it deserves better than AI slop...and cheat every aspiring creative who might, because of AI, give up on dreams of a career in the arts. There are all too many kids now already giving up on those dreams, switching majors if they had been studying art, or giving up at an even younger age. One of my great-nephews, now in his midteens, was told by his dad, who works in IT, that he probably should forget about any career in videography bscause that will supposedly be all AI soon. Kids are being told to train to be plumbers or electricians instead, and while there's nothing wrong with that as a career if it's what someone wants, newcomers flooding those jobs will likely bring pay down...and even more importantly, AI bros want robots using AI to take those jobs, too.