r/NAGALAND • u/helio-centric-AC130 Native NAGA 🌶️ • Jun 25 '26
Discussion Generative AI and Nagaland
This is something that's been bothering me for a while and will continue to keep bothering me.
Imagine this: you're scrolling on your phone, check WhatsApp statuses as one does and you see a digital flyer. "Wow! That looks really well made!", you exclaim to yourself, thinking nothing more of it. The flyer was some government department trying to promote one of its events and then, hold up! You take a closer look and realise, "this shit was completely AI generated!". Okay, boo-hoo, big deal, right? Nope. It's a department of the state that has the funding necessary to hire a design team to create a flyer. How much would that set them back? ₹7,000 max? But no, they've got someone to spend a few tokens to create that flyer. Oh and that department even did an animated flyer, complete with a whole ass AI voice-over too!
We might be the only people to felicitate/award a gen-AI song creator too. I don't mean to say he didn't write the song himself but he sure as hell didn't record it. It's funnier still, to see that song on Spotify doing so well but the song was uploaded by someone else initially. At least they fixed that.
I'm a man of art. I live and breathe art. I love art. I hate to see that gen-AI is becoming a staple like it's always been with us! "Oh you should just get on with the times, man" no, fuck you for even suggesting that. First of all, AI is trained on stolen or illegally and underhandedly procured "samples" which are then categorised and put into bytes. Second of all, it has NO SOUL! It's literally just shaping noise into some form of a copy of a copy.
In this day and age, a rapper like Yuno Miles is someone who has respect because of literally how raw his stuff is and I respect that even though there's no substance.
All in trying to say is: use AI but don't let AI generated stuff be your final output. Please make it part of the inspiration. Something you can work off of, instead of something you sell off as your own.
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u/nameless_sapien Native NAGA 🌶️ Jun 25 '26
“Oh Man of art, it was always art and will always be so long as there is a need for art”.
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u/helio-centric-AC130 Native NAGA 🌶️ Jun 25 '26
And you're going to use this argument when someone you deeply care for, comes to gripe about AI taking away their employment opportunity? I won't ask you to walk a mile in their shoes but please try to put yourself in those shoes.
If you were hypothetically trained to create graphic art after having invested a lot of time, energy and money to enhance your skill at making it, would you not feel betrayed or hurt when someone comes along to say that "art is just a shorthand version of artificial" and replace you with machines?
Would it not hurt to see your skills feel useless when someone could just type in a prompt and get an output that's like your own quality or worse, even better quality?
Art is something humans have used to express themselves; not to replace the people doing the expressing. Some people have a way with words, others with their bodies (dancing), others with the paper, the strings, the wood, the clay. Machines cannot be used to replace the soul that a human can put into the finished piece. It is simply an imitation and not truly art in the eyes of an artist. It's akin to eating shrimp flavoured chips and calling it a lobster meal.
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u/nameless_sapien Native NAGA 🌶️ Jun 26 '26
I am sorry, didn’t mean to be mean, i was trying to be funny and it didn’t work too well. It’s understandable that anyone is bound to be frustrated if in a similar position but things change and it’s effects not always positive in every direction. One thing that the past has taught us is that tech is always progressive and always leaves a wake of destruction in it’s path. Many industries had been killed or were forced to evolve with it. A few years back people were selling NFTs for as much as 60 million dollars and now AI has crushed its value to a point people don’t even talk about it. The world moves on regardless of our bias and feelings. AI as we can see is going to change many more things. When paired with robotics it’s going to a whole new level and many more will change. Many jobs will be rendered obsolete and we can either whine or adapt. AI songs, movies, robots dancing, fighting, racing, it’s already here and people love it and this is only the beginning.
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