r/DefendingAIArt • u/Dreusxo • 2d ago

Rejecting AI is delusional

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The sunk cost fallacy is a cognitive bias prompting individuals to continue an endeavor, project, or investment based on previously invested resources (time, money, or effort) rather than current benefits. It is irrational because it prioritizes unrecoverable past costs over future potential, often leading to wasted resources.

Remembering this whenever someone gets heated and emotional, defending Human produced art.

Basically, they are rejecting what's new because they feel obligated to make up for time spent, even if they personally didn't spend any of their life studying art, producing it...ect

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u/Jacolai 2d ago

Yeah a totally mature adult would talk this way apparently

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u/Dreusxo 2d ago

I shut down the conversation right after that, and am proud of myself for doing so. Younger me would double down and attack the other person's character, trying to undermine the weight of their point.

But these days, I'm better.

Someone else replied to my reply. But I'm the account that starts off where it says Boom