Re:No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
by __loam on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:23PM
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> Do you really expect people to blindly adopt your ideological views if you just state them forcefully enough?
This is the view of most people outside the industry.
Re:No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
by fc417fc802 on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @01:26AM
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I can't say that the things you're saying match what I've encountered from nontechnical folks lately. Most of them are entirely apathetic about the whole affair while a few are clearly dazzled by the results. The entire thing seems to be a black box that they hold various superstitions about but generally view as something of a parlor trick.
The ones that pay attention to the markets appear to believe some very questionable things and are primarily concerned with if they can figure out how to get rich off of the associated tech stocks.
You've presented all sorts of wild assumptions and generalizations about the people who don't share your vehement opposition to the use of this technology. I don't think it's the person you're responding to with the implicit bias.
You've conflated theft with piracy (all too common) and assumed a priori that training a model on publicly available data constitutes such. Do you really expect people to blindly adopt your ideological views if you just state them forcefully enough?
> If using AI is okay for the creative labor, why shouldn't the students also use it for the programming too?
They absolutely should! At least provided it does the job well enough.
Unless they are taking a class whose point is to learn to program yourself (ie the game is just a means to an end). Similar to how you might be forbidden to use certain advanced calculator features in a math class. If you enroll in an art class and then just prompt GPT that likely defeats the purpose.