That’s not AI!

Wait, where's it from then?

I kid.

O, that sucks :(

So someone just slapped the Meta AI logo in the bottom right corner to be tricky? Doubt it.

The hell it isn't.

🤣

This is the first legitimate use of AI I’ve ever seen

As an Australian, it’s not a great rendition of a platypus

Oh, that’s just because you haven’t seen AI platypus 2.0

Not Australian, but as someone who has seen a platypus before, it sucks.

This is the correct answer

Nope, illegitimate

🤣

no

Still no

no such thing.

what about generating alt text

invalid comparison. alt text generator is not trained by stealing people's work.

llms and specialised alt text gen. models definitely do "steal" works through scraping and etc

then it's also bad.

The thing is, do you truly trust AI to accurately describe an image or video?

images? yeah! i made a bot for another platform that uses gemma and the descriptions it gives in the majority of cases are accurate. obviously there's hiccups at times but it's way better than having *no* alt text at all videos i'm unsure about, i haven't tested it

You know what's better than either? Manually doing alt text yourself. If AI had told me that the sky was blue, I'd wanna check outside to be sure it wasn't wrong because it's just making shit up.

i write alt text manually myself, but fact is most people don't and most people won't, which is where llms can really help visually impaired people or those who might get overstimulated.

people who don't do use it, don't because they don't care, they're not going to magically care just because there a tool that would make it easier. especially if that tool is inaccurate anyway.

I know this, my wife is blind. If people are too lazy to manually do it, what makes you think those same people are gonna make sure the description is actually accurate?

i'd assume that the people using ai for this are people that recognise the important of alt text, and *would* check. obviously, some people aren't going to check, people are silly, but at least this way there is SOMETHING instead of nothing, right? i sometimes have visual processing issues, and ...

... the smallest bits of context can help. so even if what the ai outputs isn't the most accurate, it could still be helping someone, which in my opinion is a net positive

gen ai to make things more accessible seems like a pretty legitimate & beneficial use case

anything trained on plagiarism is not legitimate.

The alt text that's included in embedded GIFs is completely useless. I always have to redo it because whenever it isn't just flat-out wrong about the contents, it's horoscope-level vague. Entrusting accessibility to a nonsense generator is worse than not caring.

Generative AI is so power hungry that they’re planning to reopen Three Mile Island. Also, look up “genAI content moderation in the global south” for some of its ethical concerns.

yeah there's issues with gen ai, unfortunately. it's not going away though, so why not use it to help people? ~two months ago i calculated the carbon emissions that my bot produces per image, and it's minuscule, ~0.03072 grams of CO₂ per image

"unfortunately it's not going away". it is if people won't use it *shrugs* you defending it just make you part of the problem.

are you *more* okay with fully open source models that are ran by individuals rather than big companies in massive data centres? just trying to work out your viewpoint a bit better, no hostility meant

"Not the worst thing possible" and "good, worth supporting" are two different things. In all cases, any generative model trained on arbitrary datasets without credit permission is intrinsically bad, even if there are levels of bad within that set.

Hey the OP blocked me I think, I can see the comments but not the post — I forget what this was originally, does someone mind reminding me?

It would go away if enough of us stood up for the values of people/planet over profit/convenience.

I don’t have a problem with the concept of AI — I mean it’s right out of sci-fi and it’s cool we live in a time when we can experience that! But AI, as you said, is not one thing. In general, I’m more concerned with a) the environmental impacts, b) the copyright infringement, c) the human rights

violations, and d) the notion that it’s “better” to avoid difficult thinking and creative processes in order to make an efficient end product. I believe, as cliche as it sounds, that life is about the journey and not the destination. We grow as individuals, both intellectually and emotionally, as

No. Even a crude MSPaint drawing is preferable. Like, a lot preferable. GenAI slop sucks.

Gozilla vs. Mothra vs. Ebirah vs. Hedorah vs. Megalon vs. Platypusra

And it actually looks like a platypus. Because it is. Not some weird GenAI platypus kaiju hallucination.

I like Bluesky with regards to most things, but the ridiculous screeching about any use of AI seems excessive

It's ridiculously excessive. I tried to find if any artist made art of a giant platypus attacking a city & couldn't find any. So since it didn't exist & I wasn't going to pay to have an original made AI it was! So I don't know exactly what this image plagiarized & I'm sure no one else can either.

This fucking sucks dude. Get rid of this fucking slop.

Mean probably liberals seem fine with the plagiarism machine that’s bad for the planet AI adoption makes things easier for billionaires, have some respect and draw even if it’s ‘bad’ it’ll have more soul than whatever this slop is

Thanks for burning up another Olympic swimming pool's worth of water, Jason

That has RFK's eyes

This isn't even the point. It wasn't "the right thinks this rad &/or unrealistic thing is bad" like a "what liberals want" joke. It was about Adams being erratic & how media is desperate to make him still seem sensible. All that energy was wasted but it only proved you support Mark Zuckerberg.

THIS IS THE WEAPON OF THE ENEMY. WE WILL NOT USE IT. WE DO NOT NEED IT. Take this down. Delete it. You are buying into the very things the enemy wants you to be enslaved by. Using genAI hurts artists and creators of all kinds. Even if used for satire, it still does harm.

I came here to ask just how big the platypus was. Still hate it is AI but well played.

no

Ew, slapping a cropped picture of a platypus over an image of times square would have better served the joke than the slop from the plagiarism machines.

At least they used alt text, I guess?

Never will, there's literally so many tools freely available to make shitty actual art that can get a point across. No one needs the space heaters fed with stolen art, photos, and writing.