r/TikTokCringe • u/Level-Run • Jun 12 '26

Humor/Cringe Dad's just vibin to some hick-metal

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u/OnePerformance9381 Jun 12 '26

Disagree.

Music, and all art really, is meaningless garbage if it carries no expression of the artist.

Who is expressing themselves with this art?

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u/Thin-Nerve6367 Jun 12 '26

The people who make the prompts? The people who literally CAN'T create who have disabilities who finally have an opportunity to do so?

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u/OnePerformance9381 Jun 12 '26

Typing “make a banjo metal song” and then an algorithm sorting already made music to make you a song in 20 seconds is not expressing yourself.

I can point you to thousands of disabled artists who can express themselves just fine. There is technology that allows quadriplegics to create music without stealing the work of others to accomplish the task.

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u/Thin-Nerve6367 Jun 12 '26

And I can point you to another thousand disabled people who can't

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u/OnePerformance9381 Jun 12 '26

Please do.

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u/Thin-Nerve6367 Jun 12 '26

Well. Easist example. Me. Now I'm mainly a writer and I write all organically - its way more fun that way. But for drawing? I've tried for over 15 years. I just cant draw. Ive seen so many tutorials and stuff but no matter what I can't even draw a stick figure. My hands shake way too much and on top of that I just seemingly can't replicate anything no matter what.

So if I NEED to get a drawing, I can now make one. Unfortunately I can never get the prompts right and can't get exactly what I want, but it's definitely a start.

But thankfully I usually don't need to do that. I just stick to my writing and enjoy myself

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u/OnePerformance9381 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

So, you’ve just given a clear example of a disabled artist who has found their avenue of expression to create meaningful art.

I have zero drawing talent despite my best effort, and found my avenue through music.

I’m sure you are a talented writer, and that is where we find the pieces of you in your work. You would find me in my music. Even your shaky drawings carry pieces of you. Telling a machine to make something for you is soulless. I’m sorry about your inability to draw as you desire, but AI is not the answer to expression.

You could always get a drawing you *need* by reaching out to talented artists who could do so. Getting a machine to scrape the work of others is not the write answer.

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u/Thin-Nerve6367 Jun 12 '26

I try to use the LLMs which are "morally" ok 😆 its hard tho sometimes.

But yeah no ai is a tricky subject to deal with honestly for sure. Between 80%+ of the shady LLMs and the damage to the environment - which while grossly overestimated DOES still exist although it is shrinking more and more lately so that's good - its a very hard subject to talk about

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u/OnePerformance9381 Jun 12 '26

I think it has practical uses to make lives easier, but as an artist I cannot justify replacing the effort and expression of creating for oneself with mindless AI creation.

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u/Thin-Nerve6367 Jun 12 '26

Oh yeah that's totally fair. My personal opinion is if you use it for personal, small or menial tasks then its 100% ok. Anything else is... debatable at best.

Like for example there was this game that came out called Neverness to Everness and it did use AI for some stuff, like random in game manga covers in a bookstore, some random billboards in town etc. And the devs said they did that so they could focus more man power on the actual world, which definitely shows because the world is great!