In a post-scarcity solarpunk future, I could imagine some reasonable uses, but that’s not the world we’re living in yet.
AI art has already poisoned the creative environment. I commissioned an artist for my latest solarpunk novel, and they used AI without telling me. I had to scrap that illustration. Then the next person I tried to hire claimed they could do the work without AI but in fact they could not.
All that is to say, fuck generative AI and fuck capitalism!
@atrielienz ok, this is just insulting. I write code ONLY because I want to create things. I have dozens of open source projects that I’ve built over the years. But I don’t care about writing the code even though it’s fun sometimes.
I write the code to create the thing. And if artists cared about creation they’d use whatever tool they could. The only reason to not want an AI alternative tool is to create a moat to keep getting paid for work that could be made cheaper.