just fyi the jewel encrusted hotdog post is ai art unfortunately

Hi, by virtue of my professional background, I have enough of an understanding of both actual human neural networks and statistics to say that, from what I can comprehend of how they work, AI image generators aren't stealing art the way I would define it. I could explain why but I don't want to make this an essay. If anyone knows better please do correct me. I also think most AI art is shitty and is giving nothing, but that's beside the point.

I do think the use of AI art is a huge labour issue under capitalism, the same way that, say, buying a background actor's likeness for a small price and then CGI-ing it into a bunch of movies instead of paying the actor by the hour is a huge labour issue (even if the actor gave their consent and no laws were broken). I think this should be solved by some kind of legislation, but I'm too ignorant to know how to do it without making copyright laws crazy stringent. Because of this, I try not to share or interact with AI-generated art that looks like it could be aimed at some kind of commercial purpose or like it could take away from a human artist's livelihood. This is as a way of signaling to anyone involved that I find this a social issue that I'd like to see resolved.

Anyway, the jewel-encrusted hotdog IMHO is a shitpost, the same way that ye olde Godzilla account is a shitpost, or the Gay Sex cats, and I don't think using AI for shitposts is bad in itself. So I don't really care that it's AI tbh.

(It also doesn't apply to hobbyists who are writing their own code and tinkering with the concept to no commercial purpose because these are clearly folks putting genuine effort into enjoying their weird hobby like everyone else on here. I've seen them receive death threats for trying to explain how this thing they enjoy tinkering with actually works and I think this is reflective of the ugliest and most insidious of fandom tendencies.)