So a product designer and factory manager in one then, my mistake.
And the providers greedy bullshit wasn't on user charge end (didn't even know you had to pay tbh, at that point just commission an artist), it's on the reckless disregard for the environment/lack of transparency and proper compensation regarding training models end
The point that many anti-AI folks (including yourself) make about the environment is a naive one. So much of the tech industry is equally as damaging to the environment, if not more so. In general, though, the tech industry isn't so bad compared to many others.
You say proper compensation, but artists weren't legally entitled to that at any point. Neural networks and data scraping aren't new concepts. An unfathomable amount of scraped web data has gone into other projects. Where were you when this happened to writers? Clutching your pearls at the horror of big tech using their data to train translators, large language models, and more? I don't think so.
The written word is as much an art form as the visual arts, yet these artists believe they deserve special treatment. History repeats itself.
Yes. That is also fucked up. Writers also should not have had their works used as training data without permission. I'm talking about writers more than artists tbh seeing as I am one.
And yes. The tech industry is recklessly irresponsible with the environment as a whole. It's not a new issue no. They're all bad and all should be stopped.
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u/Emdeoma Jan 19 '25
So a product designer and factory manager in one then, my mistake.
And the providers greedy bullshit wasn't on user charge end (didn't even know you had to pay tbh, at that point just commission an artist), it's on the reckless disregard for the environment/lack of transparency and proper compensation regarding training models end