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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
As a CS student, I wonder why us and artists are always the one who are attacked the most whenever some new āinsert tech stuffā comes out. And everyoneās like: HOLY SHIT PROGRAMMERS AND ARTISTS ARE DEAD, without realizing that most of these things are way too crappy to actually beā¦ good enough to replace us?
My guess would be because most people donāt understand what you all actually do so gen AI output looks to them like their impression of the work you do. Just look at the game studios replacing concept artists with Midjourney, not grasping what concept art even is for and screwing up everyoneās workflow as a result.
Iām neither a programmer nor an artist I can sorta understand how people get fooled. Show me a snippet of nonsense code or image and Iāll nod along if you say itās good. But then as a writer (even if only hobbyist) I am able to see how godawful gen AI writing is whereas some non-writers wonāt, and so I extrapolate from that since itās not good at the thing I have domain expertise in, it probably isnāt good at the things I donāt understand.
Smirk Iām in.
Look mom, Iām vibe-coding a SaaS!
I feel like aggressive proponents of genAI are so because they are intimidated and/or jealous of the people they say they will replace. They lack the skills and critical thinking to become good at the task they want to replace, but also unwilling or unable to put in the work.
Instead of reckoning with this, they construct a phantasm where artists are āgatekeeping artā, and genAI is going to disrupt that gatekeeping. Meanwhile I think deep down they know that what genAI produces is derivative by definition, and not āreal artā by any means.