cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/41098657
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/huh-2
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Once I realized this, all those inept AI laundry-folding videos became hilarious.
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/41098657
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/huh-2
Alt text
Once I realized this, all those inept AI laundry-folding videos became hilarious.
Bonus panel
‘Ordinary’ is doing a lot of work here. I can think of a lot of ordinary people I’ve met who hate AI art. Seems more accurate to say that not everyone is put off by it.
Does seem to be a generational element though, with older generations not caring as much. Case in point is one of the pinball places here. The owner’s been an AI art enthusiast for a while, younger folks hate it to the point that they’ll actively avoid the place, the older ‘I was a pinball wizard in the 80s’ crowd don’t seem as bothered.
100%, my older relatives embraced it wholeheartedly while people younger than me seem to have more negative feelings as they’re being told their career prospects are over thanks to AI, regardless of how true this is. You can even see this divide in entertainment, many mainstream youtubers are clearly aware of how much their (predominantly young) audiences hate AI and respond accordingly, and that’s not to say they don’t have ideological issues with it, but I feel like we’d see a lot more indifference if the audience didn’t hate it as much.
Just when I thought I was done with it forever, back to topics in Digital Humanities I go. Surely differences in generational attitudes towards AI art is something someone in a DH department has been diving deep on these days…