So, lately I have been seeing AI bros always using the “It democratizes coding/game dev/modding/drawing/music creation/video editing/insert a hobby that requires actual skills” argument. And it always just irritates me.
Like, democratizing a skill means giving everyone an equal opportunity, which is what free (specially FOSS) tools do, think Krita, Blender, Godot, etc… You get the tools that you need for said hobby free of charge thanks to the GOATed people that maintain them. And then you learn it.
But AI, it just works on the basis of who has more disposable income to feed the capitalist machine. Like where is the “democratization” when the person with more money gets the better experience. Isn’t that the era of paid software all over again? isn’t that literally the opposite?
Yeah, so that is the end of my rant, I just wanted to vent out to people who will understand that sort of thing (talking about a fine echo chamber ;) )
And I hope people point out that stupid argument when they see meatproxies using it :)
It’s the exact opposite! It privatizes skill. Instead of people learning skills themselves, those skills are owned by the AI company and need to be purchased for continued use and can be taken away with the press of a button.
But if I learn a skill, no one can take that away from me.
I’ll also add it commodifies the output of said skill, the whole point of ai seems to speed up productivity in order for the output to be marketable faster, which just goes against what art is about for example
yeah, exactly, even if they use local models (cuz I am sure some people will try to use that as an excuse), it is still the same problem, just pushed to the hardware cost instead of the tokens
anyways, always happy to see people that haven’t been swallowed by the AI craze