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highplainsdem

(58,292 posts) Mon Sep 1, 2025, 01:03 PM Sep 1

John Scalzi: Using AI to generate pictures is like kicking artists in the teeth & then laughing at them while they bleed [View all]

In case you don't know who John Scalzi is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scalzi

Because I know actual human artists whose work was appropriated without consent to train these "AI" models (as of course mine was, repeatedly, for LLMs), and using an "AI" to generate pictures is like kicking them in the teeth and then laughing at them whilst they bleed
— John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) 2025-09-01T16:44:33.402Z

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John Scalzi: Using AI to generate pictures is like kicking artists in the teeth & then laughing at them while they bleed [View all] highplainsdem Sep 1 OP

Enjoyed his "Old Man's War" series FBaggins Sep 1 #1

He's a good writer, of both fiction and nonfiction. Also a talented amateur musician who highplainsdem Sep 1 #3

Starter Villain MurrayDelph Sep 1 #4

I enjoy most of what I've heard Wheaton narrate FBaggins Sep 1 #5

The same with making AI music which is being done by people who should know better plus AI is driving up ImNotGod Sep 1 #2

Right. This applies to all generative AI trained on stolen intellectual property. highplainsdem Sep 1 #6

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