I am all for supporting local artists and I feel that “handcrafted in XXX” products make great souvenirs when you’re connected to those places. Still, if some AI hallucinated me a perfect novel for my interests, or generated something I couldnt tell was manufactured or created by a master, I would happily enjoy it.

“How can I tell if this is slop so I can know to hate it” sounds stupid to me: good is good. When it comes to art / food / products, I want the best experience for ME. If I want human connectedness, then I’ll go interact with a human directly.

I can do without wasted water, power, and money, but in the abstract it seems to bother everyone on Lemmy to enjoy something a person didn’t make. I don’t have that hang-up.

  • ComradePenguin@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    If we start by comparing two things. One is the product made by a human and the other is a synthetically made product. If they are exactly the same. Does it matter?

    This should be the basis of this discussion, in my opinion.

    Of course, we can argue that AI can’t create anything as good as humans can. But I think that’s kind of derailing the whole discussion.

    Because if it could, then why do we care?

    I believe the answer to that is feelings. Humans feel connection, humans feel something when we experience / consume something. We feel connected to the artist, we feel connected to the author of a book, we feel connected to the people that crafted something.

    So then the question is, do we feel more when we consume something that’s made by AI or humans? Only if we know

    I believe a lot of the anger actually comes from how it is eroding our shared human experience. Because where we always knew that a human made something before, we are now uncertain. This makes people wary. This makes people unsure if something is created by a human, if it’s right to feel something about it. If I should feel that something connects me to another human, another lived experience.

    In other words, pure logic without feelings makes two exact products the same thing. But humans aren’t without feelings. We aren’t perfectly logical. And we should not strive to be without feelings. It’s one of the things that make existence meaningful.