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I'd like to think that one can hate both of these things and want them to be changed for the betterment of society. But I have been owned in the marketplace of ideals, and that's just my two cents any how.
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AI was meant to be a tool, not as a replacement for artists. The issue with the ethics of what these AI are trained on (people SHOULD be compensated) and how we utilize it to make positive progress for society are other conversations, for sure. It needs to be regulated, but we as the working class cattle that we are, we cannot stop it. Technology moves forward no matter what, so the best we can do is how we engage with it.

[quote=@Mao Mao]Plus, I don't just hate gen-AI for purely environmental reasons; they're just ugly as hell to look at, and I don't want to see them on my roleplaying site.
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Yeah, they certainly look unnerving. The way these generative prompts AI uses have improved scares me a little. Just compare it to the results a few years ago.