Oct 23, 2026, 3:35 PMOne of the things that I resent most about AI is that it makes uncreative people think that THEY created something, so let's normalize reminding these people that they just used a dumb robot to steal someone else's creativity.
- Oct 23, 2026, 3:35 PM
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- Oct 23, 2026, 3:35 PM
And the robot didn't even do a good job, bro.
- Oct 23, 2026, 3:49 PM
It reminds me of that garbage knockoff Banksy-adjacent guy called Mr. Brainwash who just thought of a bunch of dumb ideas and then had actual artists create it.
JayWhiteCatTamer@mastodon.onlineOct 23, 2026, 4:24 PM@Alice Exactly. It’s all so…averaged.
That they don’t get why that feels gross to people indicates they know nothing about art.
FoolishOwlfoolishowl@social.coopOct 23, 2026, 6:12 PM@Alice I was starting to read some guides to creative writing and it struck me how it's exactly the practices such guides recommend that "generative AI" eliminates.
It's exactly in the agonizing process of trying to write your thoughts and finding the gaps, and of revision after revision because it's not quite right, your meaning still isn't coming through, that you actually create meaning.
It's part of my fundamental objection to "AI", that these are tools invented by people who are actively hostile to subjective experience.
Kierkethumbs up convincinglyKierkegaanks@beige.partyOct 23, 2026, 3:50 PM@Alice llmwash?
lonely extrovertrothko@beige.partyOct 23, 2026, 10:11 PM@Alice i think you mean Jeff Koons.
markATLeagle@mastodon.onlineOct 23, 2026, 11:41 PM@Alice the exit through the giftshop guy?
He reminded me of Andy Warhol. Im not too mad about this as a direct line of shittiness
- Oct 24, 2026, 12:30 AM
@ATLeagle I agree that Andy Warhol's "art" was kind of low effort, but at least he was taking his own photos and doing his own screen printing (I think).
Mr. Brainwash was essentially copying Andy Warhol AND not creating any of the art on his own and just hiring artists to make it for him.
Oct 23, 2026, 4:50 PMOh! This woman at work is exactly like that! She walks in to the lunch room with her phone blaring some generic metalcore nonsense and, without being asked, goes "I wrote this. Yeah, AI...." and that's about where I tune out whatever is being said next.
Everything about it is obnoxious
Sco :progress: :flag_mm:Scofisticated@socel.netOct 23, 2026, 5:06 PM@Alice I don't like the idea of being mean to people. I think that can drive them deeper in the LLM well. Just to spite the person being a dick to them.
But I can agree with, kindly, not pretending the generated image is their's. And with not commenting in the image's quality. If only to avoid the temptation of putting my frustration on them. And deny the possibility of them getting the unearned compliment they are looking for.
Bob Thomsonbobthomson70@mastodon.socialOct 23, 2026, 5:31 PM@Alice always reminds me of terrible knock off pop culture t shirts you’d get in the 70s in tourist shops.
New Agesunscream@mstdn.socialOct 23, 2026, 5:46 PM@Alice Same with coding.
Cameron Dutrocamertron@ruby.socialOct 23, 2026, 5:53 PM@Alice 100% agree! That was the sentiment behind https://ruby.social/@camertron/116460284593917158
Chrischrisdjack@mastodon.scotOct 23, 2026, 6:00 PM@Alice While I don't disagree with the fundamental point, the framing here seems a bit superior and exclusive?
Jhooperjhooper@techhub.socialOct 23, 2026, 6:10 PM@Alice AI is essentially crappy trace paper
Oct 23, 2026, 7:50 PM@Alice "I ran a marathon today (I got in the car and drove 42km)!"
PrimaChurliecpfenix@mastodon.worldOct 23, 2026, 8:04 PM@Alice mediocrity is overrated.
Jean-Baptiste Fidéliajeantranscene@mastodon.socialOct 23, 2026, 8:30 PM@Alice It's like saying Steve Jobs wasn't creative because all he ever did was boss people around to come up with great designs.
kramakerkramaker@vivaldi.netOct 23, 2026, 9:56 PM@Alice Exactly like Trump calling itself a "builder."
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘anne_twain@theblower.auOct 24, 2026, 12:52 AM@Alice It's galling in the extreme to see, on facebook, their fakery praised by the gullible.
Archagonarchagon@mastodon.socialOct 24, 2026, 6:22 AM
clausclaus@fosstodon.orgOct 24, 2026, 10:06 AM@Alice Reminds me of the 80s when some people said that sampling is not real music and stealing. Or that a 808 is fake because the sound is generated by a computer. And also when photography emerged in the 1800s and people said that it's only for untalented people who can't draw properly.
So... it's always the intent, not the tool.- intelligentblueintelligentblue@mastodon.socialOct 25, 2026, 5:06 AM
@Alice
That same kind of person just made legal recreations of open source versions of Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office, and a whole slew of other extremely useful software.
It is creative: but only from the standpoint of a boss/patron. Being expressive enough to delineate exactly what you want ... IS a skill. And naturally it causes jealousy (taking out the traditionally coveted skilled labourer). 
Evan Sky artsevansky_arts@mastodon.socialOct 26, 2026, 6:36 AM@Alice eating restaurant leftovers doesn't make you a cook 🙂↕️
