I get it.
I don’t like it, but I get it.
I agree with some points made, but I still think the generative AI models shouldn’t have been released out to the public so quickly, I think it should have been done in a slower and more controlled manner, not in such a way as to “give big companies or the government a monopoly on AI” as some claim, that’s stupid, just to give the internet and its communities time to prepare for the influx of AI slop, set up policies for the content so its easier to differentiate between AI art and real art*, and at least try to slightly reduce the amount of gross misuse of the technology.
*(its fucking impossible to moderate when so many people are mindlessly sharing stuff they find, and can’t tell from a glance if something is AI generated, and there’s no regulated identification methods for software to use to automate the process. Right now its at least doable manually because there’s some telling details if you look hard enough, but its quickly getting too hard to identify by eye).
Things changed faster than I or anyone could have planned for, you compare it to previous technological advancements but this happened within a few days compared to the months or years that most other technologies took to be widely adopted.
I was interested in developing AI stuff myself, as I’ve always wanted smart tools for my own specific personal use cases to help make my processes quicker. I was even working on some AI software in my own time before all this shit exploded onto the internet, but now what I was working on is completely pointless with months of work wasted. I was at least aware of the ethical implications of what I was making, and as such would not have released it to the public, but the people who eventually beat me to it (and did it better) put it out there for free, clearly without consideration for moral/ethical implications, and now what a surprise, it’s caused problems.
Also updated graph, plus for anyone who didn’t see it in the last thread
Daily AI upload rates (
) for the past ~365 days
Though I cannot account for images deleted prior to recording because I don’t have API access to that anymore. I noticed that when my script counted the amounts for prior recorded days it was actually less than before, so some were definitely deleted since then. So this graph can’t be 100 accurate.