Comment by Imustaskforhelp

Okay I understand your point and I agree with you. Maybe, my wording was a little harsh and I understand your point.

lets see, the thing that I am trying to say is that, in my opinion even with AI art, that is not the point.

The point remains whether anubis is actually useful at what it does and is it worth it.

Also I understand free ruined the internet very quickly, but this is free and open source. Open source has made the internet better a 100 times imo.

I genuinely don't think that the author had any wrong intentions with using AI art.

and since we have opened the box, might as well, talk about the AI thoughts.

Basically, I think that there are two schools of thoughts towards AI/Ai art. Its efficacy at doing what it is advertised to say, its effect on markets, its effect on climate.

The efficacy at doing what it can do : I absolutely agree that there is a lot of hype around it but AI art even open source models have become good enough for some very "basic tasks" imo, Like I had a discord server and I actually used AI art as the logo because people wanted a logo and I am not an artist and I can't comission anyone just for something so small. I immediately told everyone this and nobody seemed to care and afterwards and after some more people joined,literally noone asked if it was ai generated or not. I was expecting a single person to notice but nope.

Another point is about climate, I think that AI itself is pretty efficient, there were posts about how it compares to a lightbulb but the problem is how massively it is used at scale and how much the demand can change and how it can affect the power demand of that datacentre and if power demand changes, then that requires the power generators to tweak their speed and tldr, in that process, it becomes really inefficient but still I am actually surprised that we are calling out on AI when there is bitcoin which literally all it does with its pow is waste energy and there are other cryptocoins which can literally have close to 0 fees and instant but nope the crypto market is in a bubble. Stablecoins are the only good thing to come out of it.

Now that being said, its effect on job markets. I am not an artist but I imagine it is frustating to see AI replicate art. but the point is, nobody wants AI art!! There is no economic incentive to make AI art unless genuinely can't comission someone (which is what I did in my server) or just are using it as a backup art untill you can comission one (which is what anubis did) but in my opinion, if someone can't already pay like I couldn't in my discord server, I would have just build one myself or used some CC:0 art with full credits .

Which is why I don't consider AI art "art". Its a backup, more like editing. The people will throw wrenches at you if you get caught using it. And that's a good thing. but we do need to realize maybe using ai art as a backup and people should definitely push against ai art so that if possible, real artists gets the job done.

I don't consider ai art to be anymore of a gimmick but even then, I mean I can understand if people are using ai art as backups untill they can comission real art or build one themselves.