#ai rant

There is so much AI art in the cardiophile world! Not so much writing that I know of, but definitely art, animation, and video.

Okay, now some of it I can understand. If you’re no movie maker, VFX artist, animator of 2D or 3D, or prop person, then getting the scene you want can be almost impossible. Especially if the scene you want is violent, gory, and involves internal organs.

It’s much better to use AI to create a heart removal scene than to go out and actually do it for real. You get what I’m saying?

HOWEVER

Having said that... Please, for the love of whatever you believe in, tag it as AI!

I'm tired of running across untagged AI content in cardiophile spaces. I like having the ability to filter out AI content because I personally dislike AI. I also know that I am not alone with this opinion/preference.

Honestly? Go cultivate some creative skills and create your own content you can be proud of instead of letting some AI produce endless and inaccurate slop.

If you’re too lazy though, tag your AI slop as AI.

Nowadays the vast majority of academic research, papers, any highlevel information, is owned and distributed by databases like HeinOnline, WorldCat, Westlaw, etc. and are only accessible to people with institutional access (yes you can get access to some of these databases through your public library or by making an account, but the pay barrier still exists for LLMs).

In order for chat GPT and similar AI programs to have access to those resources, they have to pay for the use rights, which they largely dont at the moment (they’re too busy going bankrupt building data centers).

So asking AI anything is like asking a random man off the street to run a google search for you--it cant replace a doctor or a lawyer with special access to the right answers.

I have definitely been in this position myself where, on top of navigating my wish to make my art accessible to working class people like me, the downgrading of my visibility gets to a point where I feel like I need to charge less for my art, and that’s especially difficult when I’ve spent literal years on working on it, and poured my own funds into it, and made sure I use archival quality materials for my physical works.

I’ve also been noticing so much more AI slop everywhere, even when you try to block it, it permeates 100% of everything online, completely random stuff. Which just adds to this perception that there’s this real human competition out there when really it’s all fake, corporate, profit-motivated garbage.

The worst part is that I believe them when they say, “I can’t redesign my living space without that stupid copilot thing.” (I may have paraphrased some). This is honestly ridiculous, what happened to people learning new hobbies and skills by just messing up a ton? What happened to human beings making their own decisions? I don’t see my dog asking Grok or whatever it’s called when he needs to be let outside, are we becoming less independent than house pets?

yeah this might be a little heated but i feel like its so disrespectful not only to the icons, but to every artist throughout the ages stolen from that had pieces of their art mushed together into a gross amalgamation and sorry excuse for worship art.

if you want to use art in our worship, find one of the probably thousands if not billions of pieces of art made for that exact purpose online made by someone real.

and if you want to make art so bad, make it yourself with your own hands. i promise no matter who or what you are worshipping is not going to care about your drawing ability and the quality of your work. your faith and intention is what matters.