Ai "art" In Any Form Makes Me Sick To My Stomach And Worse, Instead Of Worrying About Thefts That I Can

Ai "art" in any form makes me sick to my stomach and worse, instead of worrying about thefts that I can scare off with a big watermark, I have to worry about some freak feeding my art to the soulless AI hive.

I assume this is how voice actors feel about AI too, helpless and angry.

Helpless because there is barely anything we can do to stop anything we can do to stop it.

Angry that others are so soulless to take our hard work and feed it to a machine that could our jobs and our passion away so a robot could do it for free. I hate AI more than anything I hate anything else.

hey jonny, i just thought you'd want to know that character.ai has an ai-generated imitation of your voice and i'm not sure what other websites might have it or where it originated :(

Yeah, it's a fucking garbage state of affairs but, as a somewhat well-known performer with a pretty distinctive voice it doesn't exactly shock me. Needless to say I think anyone who used this is a mediocre waste of skin and if they ever tell me in person they've used it then 50/50 I punch them in the teeth.

I can't wait for a couple of years when it all collapses just like every other niche-but-interesting-technology-with-limited-use-cases-sold-as-a-universal-panacea-to-gormless-CEOs grift (blockchain being the best example). Because the thing is, none of these things actually make any money and cost a vast amount, so as soon as all the dumb venture capital funding dries up and AI is required to actually start paying for itself, the bubble bursts and the whole industry is fucked.

That said, it's gonna be rough when it happens - a lot of companies have invested very heavily in AI and they're going to be hurting badly. I know of more than one media company whose idiot executives invested ridiculous amounts into NFTs and ended up laying off massive swathes of workers when that obvious fucking scam collapsed. I suspect the AI crash is gonna be even worse than that. And by then it will have drowned the Internet in slop. We'll see, I guess.

Anyway, anyone who uses AI is a soulless fucking husk of a person who cannot tell half-digested vomit from culture, and I would pity them if they weren't making the world such a measurably worse place to exist.