We're living in a world where LLMs and diffusion models are being used to constantly cheapen the stuff we see online for a quick buck at intentional best or to spread misinformation or replace workers with its output at the intentional worst

Generative AI is not magic, it takes a heck of an effort to get people to understand that it is just matrix algebra behind the scenes, especially those in power and with money

That much we should know and we should absolutely inform those who believe it is magic and denounce those who use it for nefarious purposes (and encourage ethically sourced material for creations), absolutely call them out, fully encouraged, and I respect NG leadership for not budging to the wave, deciding to block AI slop entirely

But one thing you should not do is act like a bull and charge forward with hostility the moment you see "AI" uttered by some person when referring to actual useful technologies backed by machine learning (ML)

For some people the mere mention of "AI" (which by now has become a buzzword) has now them raising flares and setting everything on fire due to misinfomation and that's concerning

Machine learning has its proper uses and is beneficial to most people if not everyone, and it makes me sad to think about how people were flaming the Spider-Verse artists using machine learning to reduce tedium from their work to, for example, make expression lines, or other software used to assist with coloring animation frames. I remember Clip Studio getting lambasted after adding image-GenAI to the main program (rightfully so). It was removed, and then they explored adding other useful features that make use of ML such as autocoloration or shadows, while trying to be useful to artists, and they still got the fallout after apologizing and being more conscious about it (thankfully that's waning nowadays)

Manual moderation in an ever growing online media lanscape is excruciatingly hard to do by hand, especially on big sites. I find that one of machine learning's biggest strengths is classification, which automatic moderation requires in order to be helpful to actual moderators

Hell, even in games for dynamic behavior; not even ML backed--AI is what developers called NPC behavior before the buzzword came in :P

Just something I wanted to put out there. Figured it'd be something cool to add to my NG blog, given i recently stated my opinion about it in a forum post (but didn't want to hijack it with this wall'o text lol)