- AI art is already incredible controversial, since everything it produces has been trained on the work of human artists without their knowledge, consent, or compensation. Broderick makes a good point that this isn't the first time the New Kid on the Tech Block has been poo-poo'd in the public. Things like Wikipedia and Photoshop were seen as lazy, unethical shortcuts for years. Now they're incredibly common tools in our research and creation processes. - Perhaps AI art could go the same way -- something that feels icky now might be completely ubiquitous in a few years. I kind of doubt it, considering that right now [[{6.4} using AI images in marketing is the digital equivalent of a fake Chanel bag]]. But an interesting take I hadn't considered. - [[2024-03-25]] -- Thinking more about this, do we care that the bag is fake because it's lower quality or because it wasn't really created by Chanel? Which is a more reasonable concern? - If we're worried about quality, the tech is just going to continue to improve. Will we really care when AI-gen art at least *feels* indistinguishable from *our* art? - And, you know... There's something here about, like, the bell curve of giving a shit about things like brands. About art. About creating or being something new. - Like, most people don't care if you have a fake handbag because they don't care about designers. But there's a point where it becomes such an integral part of your Status that people feel the need to knock you down a peg (at this point, is it the bag that's tacky, or the general inelegance?). But then there's *another point* where the tackiness becomes forgivable... - In my head, I'm picturing, like... Maxine from [[Palm Royale]] versus Shein girlies. Maxine's bag is tacky because she pretends it isn't; bags from Shein aren't tacky because, IDK, they aren't pretending? - Is the tackiness from the lack of self-awareness? - I'm not talking about actual artistry or [[{6.1a3} artificial intelligence can never replace the human experience|soul]], but what the general consensus will be around this type of material... Will we be accepting of it, but only in a kind of self-deprecating kind of way? - And, on that note, does that make AI-gen art out of reach for [[{1.2a1a2a2b} silence, brand|brands]]? - **ai in the classroom** — [[2021-04-04]] - Just read David Humphrey’s [CheatGPT](https://blog.humphd.org/cheatgpt/) article and he says: > I don't want to be like so many of the teachers I had, who were skeptical of the ability for students to safely incorporate computers, then CD-ROMs, then the Internet, into their learning. - We’ve always been skeptical of new technology, which maybe isn’t a bad reflex to have. But this is happening quickly & we need to adapt… How will *educators* feeling about ChatGPT in five years? - [[2025-04-25]] chatgpt released a new image generator recently and people went crazy for it. it performed really well, at least for the first couple of days. it already seemed like people were becoming less critical of ai-generated images in some contexts. i think this note is still true, but things *are* shifting.