incidentally, if you frequent the "AI" space and are wondering why certain services have gotten "stupider" lately, it's because running this stuff is INSANELY expensive, so they're being throttled. the amounts of energy and computational power required for that is nuts, we're talking about power bills in the six, seven figures kinda stuff, maybe more -- the numbers aren't that well publicized
they cut the power to those systems (and made them "dumber") because the numbers don't add up unless they find a way to either get infinite amounts of venture capital money injected into them constantly or a source of free or extremely cheap energy they can suck up from the rest of the world. the first is there, but the money required is so high they are actually starting to consider pushing for the second one. and the more people use these services, the more the costs rise -- an unavoidable direct correlation that will only get higher.
that's the dirty secret of "AI". the numbers don't add up without constant injections of cash or, and this is key, finding ways to get governments to subsidize them -- unless people want to pay subscriptions for those services that would make Adobe products blush. and this is why they're pushing so hard to portray themselves as the future of humanity. they need to make us believe we can't live without them for that to happen.
So many reasons to laugh every time someone assumes this tech will be "even better" a few years down the road
@ my fellow artists. it is not inevitable or predetermined. it is not set in stone. the idea that AI slop is going to get better and better and eventually outpace human creatives is a MARKETING PLOY, and certainly not a reason for you to give up or quit. don't let these guys trick you into despairing the same way that they trick gullible CEOs and venture capitalists into investing in their trash heaps
Unfortunately AI art is.... actually much cheaper to use and is practical for people on home GPUs. Turns out human language is SUPER HARD and getting useful results requires crazy huge data sets and specialty hardware to be okay. Meanwhile AI art is going to exist and grow even without money being involved. We're unfortunately kinda stuck with it.
But the good news is while they have certainly made Chat GPT dumber, I think we as a society are also realizing how inherently dumb it is. It seemed like magic when we were using it to write funny poems or whatever but when you start using it or see it used for serious things -- as you see streamers play dumb AI dialog games or w/e... you see the repetitious patterns, the dodging of answers or making decisions, and just the fact it's all... statistical averages. You see AI art and while the quality gets better, and sometimes it can even trick you (even though mostly it's obvious as hell), when it tricks you it's like... a normal picture of Hatsune Miku? There are functionally already infinite Hatsune Miku. Anything it does well has been done to death. It can't surpass and grow creative because that's just... not something it can do??? it's an averaging machine. You want shlock? It can generate you infinite shlock. But there was already infinite shlock. Brands are realizing using AI art is basically akin to using clip art. It feels cheap.
All these resources don't make AI any closer to being creative or actually intelligent in the same way a more powerful processor doesn't make your computer closer to being creative or intelligent. It makes these things more coherent but in the end, it's about mimicry, not creativity.
Like sure, as much as I hate it, there are some creative uses that people can find using these tools and there are some legitimate uses, but none of them validate the incredible waste and scale of it all.






























