Spockydog

Well, I disagree completely. But then again, it's probably fair to say I'm biased to some extent. Personally, without the assistance of ChatGPT, my invention would probably be stuck in my living room forever. It has literally changed my life. I have used this tool to help turn my idea into a company potentially worth hundreds of millions of pounds. And directly because of assistance rendered by ChatGPT, I could be on the verge of doing something really good in the field of sustainable agriculture and crop security. And I'm sure I'm not the only one. People just have to accept that, as with most technological advances, some industries are going to be negatively affected. That's life. That's the way it's always been. And the way it always will be.

OK. Tell me what's been stolen in my whimsical desktops. The likeness of a cloud? Or a Border Terrier?

So you're denying my experience as a consumer of art. You are saying that all the emotions I feel looking at these images are worthless because a computer made them. Honestly, you can just feck right off with that superior art-snob attitude.

Guess what, Scot. I might be an uneducated oik, but one thing I do know for a fact. Neither you, nor anybody else, gets to say that is and isn't art. You might think you do, up there in your thatched Ivory Tower with your wax tablets and phonograms and 20-inch TV. But nobody making this stuff cares what you think.

Scot, here's an experiment.... Q. What is art? A. At its most basic, something you look at or listen to that pleases and/or moves you emotionally. Agreed? Now, look at these. A while back, I was feeling really, really down. So one day I told Dalle I was in need of cheering up, and asked it to create some whimsical desktop wallpapers featuring my dog, Maggie, and her late big sister, Kolo. They affect me emotionally every single time I look at them. Especially this one. Yeah, they are not exactly Caravaggios, but so fucking what. I don't care. They make me happy. So please don't try and tell me that this isn't art. Because only an art-snob would say such a thing. And everyone knows there isn't a more boring person on the face of the earth than a fucking art snob.

Break a leg, man. Hope your dreams come true.

Who said I'm okay with it? As I get older I'm simply getting better at not getting upset by matters that are completely beyond my control. I don't see the point of fifteen pages of Scot trying to squeeze ChatGPT back into its toothpaste tube.

I don't even know what that means. Anyway, look, I come from a creative background. Most of my family are creators. My nephew is an artist straight out of art school. I fully support the humans. But what is the point of this discussion, really? The thread was started by the board's biggest luddite and technophobe. Who, frankly, just seems to want to fight over the issue. He's doing the usual shtick of just ignoring counter viewpoints. He doesn't care about any of these arguments, so why fucking bother. My last word on this. A lot of the problems raised here are not AI issues. They are human greed issues. Simple as that.

What, you mean like they already do when filling up scenes with CG crowds and shit?

Yeah, and I was a budding rockstar when the internet almost destroyed the recording industry. The world changed then, and me and a lot of my contemporaries just had to accept it and move on.

An actors face and voice is a unique thing. An artistic style is not. Nobody owns Art Deco or Impressionism.

No. That is completely different.

Do me a favour. Pop over to Dalle and knock me up some concept art of the Lazyscrog deployed inside a greenhouse on the surface of Mars.

Of what, precisely?

Get over it. The world has changed.

Okay, but someone explain what's the difference between a professional artist spending their youth and young adulthood copying work by other artists (cos that's what they all do - every single fucking one of them) whilst developing their own style. And then should these artists be forced to pay royalties to all the artists whose work they copied while honing their skills?

Scot, have you ever tried to get a bespoke image, for something specific that doesn't yet exist, out of an AI? I've tried, several times, to save myself some money by generating some concept art for my business. It was impossible, and I am pretty creative. I got nothing worthwile and in the end sprung for the £1500 to get it done professionally, by a human.

I remember when Photoshop came out, and all the accompanying handwringing. Like Photoshp, AI is a tool. Nothing more. In order to get worthwile results, you need to know how to use it. And as for the plagiarism. Don't make me laugh. Or are we expected to believe that the artists you want to protect never copied copyrighted material when learning how to draw? Learning to draw is all abput copying stuff. That's how humans learn, and that's how AIs learn. Tell me, what is the difference?

Mate, I spent one New Year's Eve in Whitley Bay. One of the best nights of my life, but I've never known cold like it. That breeze off the North Sea is deadly. And the weather is definitely a factor for these footballer types.

We'll just take Isak then.

I think he'd prefer London and the Champions League, no? I've seen people saying because he's bought a house on Tyneside, he's not leaving. We'll see, but after the past few windows, I trust Edu and Arteta to get someone in soon. If it's Bruno, the rest of the league might as well give up early. Rice. Guimaraes. Odegaad.

Why not? I think we've shown that if we go after a player, we've got a pretty good chance of getting them. And apparently we've already begun talks with his team. He might want to go to City, but unless he wants to be KalvinPhillips2.0, I wouldn't recommend it.

Poor Oliver Dowden. Dude's face literally looks like a smacked arse. Totally eviscerated by Raynor at PMQs. She's great, btw. Easy to see why the wankers are so desperate to destroy her.

Wow. That's the big boy stuff.

I am a Taurus. I am extremely good with my hands. Always have been. Moooooo.