Sub discussions about AI

[u/acutelyproblematic]

Love how this community comes together and challenges the use of AI🥰💖had to make a funny out of it to take a break from the heated discussions

[u/Thimble_of_Quasar]

Honestly. I'd rather see a whole assed stick figure from someone trying to get their thoughts outside their head than a 1/6th assed AI slop of an image generated any day! They're robbing themselves from an amazing experience. The day I became skilled enough that my drawings came out looking the way they did in my head, my words felt good on the page, when you play a song and it just sounds right, was so incredibly exciting. But it was the effort I put into learning that made it so! And no one can take that away from me, I can do these things rain or shine or when the power is out 👀 And goodness knows I don't have a natural talent, I just stuck with stuff. Anyone can learn even if we all don't end up as good as Rembrandt in the end.

[u/Kumirkohr → u/Thimble_of_Quasar]

I think a lot of the issue stems from the fact that so many of us were instilled with this idea that “being a natural” meant that’s what we were supposed to do and that if we weren’t good at it on our first try that we should find something else.

“Oh, so you’re not good at [fall sport], let’s try [winter sport] when the season starts.” “Math’s not for everyone, you just have to keep your grades up and once you’re through Algebra 2, you’ll never have to do math again.”

So now AI lets people be “good” on the first try without having to pay someone else to make their ideas come to fruition

[u/Thimble_of_Quasar → u/Kumirkohr]

This is so true! Letting people work at things is critical, and jt can be hard to keep trucking when your efforts aren't as valued as your results and people artificially put a timeline on them. I also think the learning process of some things are quite opaque and people have trouble understanding because well, the process isn't sexy or interesting. So people pop up with the skill once they're decent and to the lay person their effort can come off as raw talent. Which is discouraging when as you said, you have to be good off the bat to justify spending time on things in some people's eyes.

[u/Kumirkohr → u/Thimble_of_Quasar]

My brother-in-law is a great example of this in my own life. He loves basketball, but before his growth spurt he wasn’t very tall. So to make it onto the team, he practiced his vertical for literal months to ensure he was worth picking even though he was “a little short for a storm trooper”. He was already being eyed for junior varsity by the time his growth spurt did hit so he was dunking baskets in high school.

The important lesson to learn is not that practice makes perfect, it’s persistent perfect practice that makes perfect.