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hechelion347 days ago(+5)

AI is here to stay, whether we like it or not.

AI isn't a passing fad, because it basically enables results that take a normal human years to develop.

Typically in history, when a technology allows for lower costs and mass production of goods (real or virtual), it tends to stay and revolutionize the world, and generative AI follows that pattern.

It's true that there's a hype, comparable to when smartphones or tablets became widespread and there were people who thought the entire future would be just that technology. That hype is a bubble that will eventually collapse. But even if the hype bursts, it won't reverse the entire mass production of AI-generated content, especially in fields like video game creation and programming.

Every day we'll see more and more games created by generative AI of very low quality and fewer and fewer games created by hand, but these will continue to exist, and we'll have to live with this new reality.

Let me clarify, it's not that I'm for or against it, I'm not sharing my opinion, but rather what I think will happen with this technology.

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redonihunter347 days ago

I was gonna bring the smartphone analogy. Beat me to it.

AI is not the first tech that comes along and suddenly is everywhere. The internet itself counts too.

There will be two aspects of AI. How ordinary people use it in their everyday life. And how professionals (and some hobbiests) will use it to do things.

But no matter how it will turn out to be used, we need some type of consensus how to treat AI things. Things like games are one thing. But AI is used to fake politicalized pictures and lie to people. Evil governments can do very nasty things in terms of propaganda. Trust in governments and media is eroding for quite a while now and AI is not helping there. Hmm. Maybe it could, actually. Teach an AI to verify, if something is AI made or something like that.

But yeah, the tech is gonna stay. The question is, how and who will use it for what purpose and in what extent. There was this famous quote about how much memory a computer would need, that did not turn out so well...

I am also not for or against it, in general. But I am very concerned. And I think any shortsighted solution will not do. Like trying to ban AI that was trained with non consented materials.

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