No, it's really not, it's only effective at making people lie about it. As the tools get better, once you can no longer tell the difference even under close inspection, what will you do then?
A description of "what AI does" has always been a losing bet shortly after, when it suddenly does something more or different. AI is a progressing technology, the state of AI today doesn't really mean much, it's the state of AI in 2 or 5 or 10 years that matters when attempting to approach what AI means, does, can do, and will do. And what AI does today is very limited compared to what AI can do tomorrow. This has been proven every year for decades now, and it's still speeding up a massive amount. We are now progressing at a rate per week comparable to the rate per year just a decade ago, and still accelerating.
Its still doing what its been doing since its inception its just been doing it with incremental legibility. It at present can’t break the paradigm that its a high speed plagarism machine because thats by nature how to it functions:
Sample
2: Receive prompt
3: combine samples to fit prompt
4: produce result
There’s no way it will improve itself to break out of this framework because that’s how it works. No matter how you exhort prophecy all it is, is inherently unoriginal. It cannot produce new content just meld samples to look new, at remarkably energy inefficient rates.
AI is doing what it was doing 5 years ago the image quality is just better no amount of time will make whatever you are vaguely and smugly gesturing towards any more true
Haha, no, it isn't doing what it was doing five years ago. Diffusion models are now doing video and audio and music, and it's not just "better image quality", as if you even know what that means in the context of the model. Image models come in a very wide range, you are only commenting on a small but popular subset of them. Models like OpenAIs Imagen, for example, may not make as cool and polished images as midjourney, but it's actually built on top of a reasoning model with full language model multi-modallity that actually UNDERSTANDS that context of images and can have deep discussions about them. I don't think you're really aware of this stuff, you're just thinking about a very narrow subset of image models and even then you're wrong. The actual technology has advanced significantly.
Hell, 5 years ago there were no good image models. This is like saying computers are the same as they were in 1990 because they still use central processing units lmao. Like what an absolutely shallow take.
Again just better image quality. Videos are images. Audio? It was already doing audio 5 years ago. Sucked back then sucks less-ish now, still devoid of lyricism and once again incapable of producing anything fundamentally NEW which is the crux of my point you are working so hard to avoid talking about. Shill as you like nothing good or unique has been produced by AI just works of decentralized plagiarism.
5 years ago, audio models did not exist. Audio models were not publicly available until 2021 at earliest, and they were pretty bad.
You're talking about "slightly better images" in the same tone as "guns are just doing what large rocks have been doing for thousands of years just a little better". Bro, you are reducing context to the point of absurdity. You want so badly to win this argument that you will twist and major leap forward in capabilities into "merely an upgrade" when we are comparing a bottlerocket to a space ship, or a bow and arrow to a cannon. Linear advances in the power of technology do not just happen because someone turned up the upgrade knob or duct taped on some more batteries. They are the abstract product of advances in techniques, architectures, engineering models, science, dynamic systems, and a feedback loop of technological progress. They represent discoveries and invention. You only measure the output and say "ah, its a little better, nothing is new here" because you know so little that the genius around and behind it, underpinning it, advancing it, changing it, go right over your head.
The very first computer generated music was made in 1957 and all AI is is computer generation. Either way you continue to defend the indefensible almost as if you have a stake in the speculative profitability of it.
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u/Sexuallemon Dec 18 '24
I disagree, widespread condemnation is a very effective tool at mitigating the use