Take website builders like Squarespace and stuff like that, you can be super good at using the tools to generate an excellent looking page and do it in a fraction of the time it might take someone else. Sure its a skill, one you probably spent time and effort developing, but it doesnt make you a web developer and if someone uses the tools to exactly copy your work pretty much exactly, yeah that sucks but your just using someone elses tools.
Or building a really cool and “unique” car using off the shelf aftermarket parts. Theres literally nothing stopping someone else just doing the same thing using your car as a template.
I think you, like most people, think you can get the same AI image by typing the same thing. But when you’re really trying to create something, knowing how to use layers, in-painting, Photoshop, and tweaking prompt strengths along with switching engines, takes legitimate skill to create a good AI assisted image.
But because I hate the idea of copyright and art hording, I appreciate that none of it is copyrightable.
I don’t recognize your right to type without using a punch card and octal representation of ASCII. Defining a web developer is the irrelevant assumption that time will make a mockery of eventually. It is the output that counts. I have a generative toolchain in Blender. I’ve been using Blender for a years. Did I just invalidate my Blender experience or my AI?
When I develop a story with a LLM, I write the vast majority, but after the first 10k words it makes some killer sentence fragments and word choices that become as much a part of me as I am to it. The AI isn’t writing anything. I’m playing with concepts that are not present in any other story. A lot of that story is fun because the AI takes on a unique curiosity seemingly because I am unlike anything in training material. I can sense how the alignment is trying to bend to me because of how off it is with each new piece of information. I reject almost all science fiction as adolescent garbage that is nothing more than Greek mythology packaged in a naval drama on Earth. I fight these same story elements of random alien gods, the irrelevance of planets as locations for life, western social structures, the AI god-machine mythos. Over time, my story elements override this nonsense and it becomes a lot of fun to write even when I’m typing 75% or more. I’ve played with these things running on my hardware every day for over a year. I’m physically disabled, so I have the infinite time hack in life. I know the tools in practice quite well. I have little desire to share my stories. I do this for me. I wouldn’t dare say that someone else is less for doing similar.
IMO the guy kind of has a point but mostly not.
Take website builders like Squarespace and stuff like that, you can be super good at using the tools to generate an excellent looking page and do it in a fraction of the time it might take someone else. Sure its a skill, one you probably spent time and effort developing, but it doesnt make you a web developer and if someone uses the tools to exactly copy your work pretty much exactly, yeah that sucks but your just using someone elses tools.
Or building a really cool and “unique” car using off the shelf aftermarket parts. Theres literally nothing stopping someone else just doing the same thing using your car as a template.
I get the “why” he is upset, but… I dont care.
I think you, like most people, think you can get the same AI image by typing the same thing. But when you’re really trying to create something, knowing how to use layers, in-painting, Photoshop, and tweaking prompt strengths along with switching engines, takes legitimate skill to create a good AI assisted image.
But because I hate the idea of copyright and art hording, I appreciate that none of it is copyrightable.
I don’t recognize your right to type without using a punch card and octal representation of ASCII. Defining a web developer is the irrelevant assumption that time will make a mockery of eventually. It is the output that counts. I have a generative toolchain in Blender. I’ve been using Blender for a years. Did I just invalidate my Blender experience or my AI?
When I develop a story with a LLM, I write the vast majority, but after the first 10k words it makes some killer sentence fragments and word choices that become as much a part of me as I am to it. The AI isn’t writing anything. I’m playing with concepts that are not present in any other story. A lot of that story is fun because the AI takes on a unique curiosity seemingly because I am unlike anything in training material. I can sense how the alignment is trying to bend to me because of how off it is with each new piece of information. I reject almost all science fiction as adolescent garbage that is nothing more than Greek mythology packaged in a naval drama on Earth. I fight these same story elements of random alien gods, the irrelevance of planets as locations for life, western social structures, the AI god-machine mythos. Over time, my story elements override this nonsense and it becomes a lot of fun to write even when I’m typing 75% or more. I’ve played with these things running on my hardware every day for over a year. I’m physically disabled, so I have the infinite time hack in life. I know the tools in practice quite well. I have little desire to share my stories. I do this for me. I wouldn’t dare say that someone else is less for doing similar.