This is not very thought out but just my own thinking "Comsci nerd" part first - I'm not actually that much of a comsci nerd lol I do competitive coding decently well but I'm not top 30 national level coding or anything (unlike a few of my classmates help) - last year in a class we used python to "code image recognition" but it was really just pulling from libraries lol. And that's basically coding lol copy pasting with logic. AI too but copy pasting without logic. Sometimes consensual but in the art case nooooo which sucks. I just added the comsci nerd to the title because I don't feel great about all the negative language towards "techbros" and "programmers" in the art community so using that as clickbait yes. art: I used to be quite active on DA, but kind of grew out of it? I didn't like how the algorithm seemed to LOVE the 5 minute low quality cat doodles (and I've heard others express the same thoughts, not getting the same recognition for the stuff they actually worked hard on :P) and they have been pushing so much AI stuff it doesn't feel great. I've always lived happily with the mindset of "my art's not good enough to steal lol L" but AI doesn't do that kind of judgement-for them, the more the merrier! And AI will never forget, even if DA implements these "opt out" features (that should be opt-IN) and then makes you check a box EACH TIME. I'm too lazy to do that so byebye DA. (honestly, I wouldn't mind getting paid to let AI use my art. the stuff they generate would look worse though :')) There's just so much stuff AI could be doing that isn't using up so much energy to generate images. I get mixed numbers from various sources but they're decently big, something like amount of energy to charge a phone for one image and stuff- and of course things like playing video games uses much more but playing video games isn't also morally weird, most of the time? Nevermind the "energy use" argument doesn't really work when I'm saying it :') but doesn't hurt to put it out there as a thought I didn't want to sound pompous with a long title following my name qwq and didn't add it to the title but as an example I do very casual birding and I'm really bad at identifying shorebirds because I see them so little in the first place and bird/species ID apps benefit GREATLY from using AI - example, iNaturalist is a cool citizen science species ID app but to manually verify sightings the community would take an average of 18 days to get through one and AI can do it with decently high accuracy rates in a few MINUTES! I personally think this is a MUCH BETTER WAY TO USE AI because EDUCATION IS GOOD and learning about the species around us can make people more aware/eager to help preserve them. And this helps scientists/people who share this data because they learn more, I believe. AI making some images isn't like that - it doesn't help the people who are feeding it data because they don't get stuff in return or anything and actually are getting hurt because "wow AI can do this in seconds we don't need you artists anymore" and the people using AI to generate images aren't learning the fundamentals of art or anything like that. very pathetic In conclusion don't hate on AI and go use it to learn about birds around you instead of plagiarising another anime girl with six fingers thank you! Thumbnail is anacaxi but extra spiky
