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 :)
I have my doubts that what you’re describing actually uses “AI” in any modern sense of the word (no matter of what the marketing might say), that seems like something that can be done reliably using plain old frequency analysis. Regardless, this kind of application of AI, where it analyses a fuzzy source of data and tries to find a signal in it, is not really the kind of AI this community is really complaining about.