because everyone is still in an obsessive honeymooning period where they can tell the difference between generative outputs and manmade works at all times and they’re special enough to always be able to just know all the time, unlike those people who are just too dumb to know the differences.

i think once people accept the reality that they’re going to be fooled and there’s nothing they can do about it they’ll reassess their values and figure out more productive things to outrage farm about, but that might just be wishful thinking. we’ve lived in a post-truth world for quite awhile, it’s just painfully obvious now. (rhetorical) you will either learn to productively live in this world as it is or you’ll be jaded and hateful your whole life bc you decided to cling to values that fundamentally cannot exist in the current status quo anymore.

the point is, you do have a choice here. barring the total collapse of society as we know it - ML/AI research and generative techs are never going away, no matter how much tumblr wiccans pray to the moon for it to happen. a lot of people lack the wider context of the like, century-ish of history behind the machine learning industry. this is a very old space. these events were a very long time coming. everyone being a reactionary about it doesn’t actually care, bc if they did they’d have cared before it was the cool thing to be doing.

we can build a better society but we cannot do it without the means of production, which by now includes massive data centers, render farms, and other IT infrastructure powering the current ML/AI boom and all of big tech as we know it. acting like these things don’t exist just bc of a justified deep-seeded hate of big tech neofascists is the most ignorant fucking take i’ve seen grip the commons in my life and im still of the opinion there must be a degree of astroturfing involved because people on average just cannot be this dumb.