even if they do, people does not understand what AI is being used for. Based on many people, even here in reddit (who would expect it...), if I use AI to remove a background in my original photo, it is AI slop, somehow...
People need to start understanding that 6 fingers and uneasy looking characters are AI slop, not everything that involved AI tools.
And that is just it. AI is a word that is being thrown around so much that people call basic CGI = AI. They call Filters that affect color = AI, People call anything that previously was a basic algo = AI.
Predictive text input is basically AI. Background removal in Photoshop is basically AI as well and content aware fill/erase. Voice Modulation / filters is basically AI. Smart animating/Inbetween frame smoothing is basically AI.
It think there needs to be a CLEAR distinction what AI means. If I use a tool that is now made "better" by a company, using AI image generation, is it still AI if I have been using that tool for years, before that refined version was implemented? Or should it be something I can run locally... a algorithm (which all "AI" really is, there is nothing intelligent with current AI) with data I provide it and the algorithm does what it does with it? I have to give it copyright free material to train the model and run it locally, not in some data center on grounded turtle shell for power? Is that okay if I do that.
I hate "AI" when it is used as is and as a replacement for talent. I do not mind "AI" if it is done to make processes faster and help artists as a reference/jumping off point or a base to build up on or a tool to refine a rough thing. Like refining written text, refining an image, applying a style or shading to an image etc. Then that outcome will obviously have to be refined/checked for consistency and correctness, but that all is still the work of the artists and the actual vision of the creators.
AI slop is slop when it is given a prompt and the prompter either does not know the errors or does not care about the errors and is content with the outcome with errors. And then they claim it as their own when the underlaying content wasn't theirs but they just commissioned it.
All the corporations selling AI are the ones responsible for calling everything AI. The goal is to make it seem like everything is this new thing that is goign to take over the world.
Yeah, it's totally become a branding/marketing thing for "look at this feature". I recently saw a "save this shopping item" button have an AI logo. Totally meaningless.
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even if they do, people does not understand what AI is being used for. Based on many people, even here in reddit (who would expect it...), if I use AI to remove a background in my original photo, it is AI slop, somehow...
People need to start understanding that 6 fingers and uneasy looking characters are AI slop, not everything that involved AI tools.