Not even about the potential #AI bubble burst, just normal 'sometimes companies fuck up and die' thoughts:

Imagine if #OpenAI (or #Anthropic, etc) beefs it hard and and they or their AI offerings fail.

Then imagine all these companies who are trying to shed staff by firing humans, shoe-horning in #GAI, and have put all their eggs in the ever-ballooning but still nowhere-near-profitable OpenAI basket.

Further imagine days where things simply don't work -- not because some internet giant has fucked up DNS again and not because workers didn't show up -- because OpenAI has an outage and all these virtual agents 'don't show up for work' or show up to work 'drunk', hallucinating after some update (remember the guy who talked a chatbot into a car for $1?).

We absolutely will at some point see, and to whatever degree depends on the success or failures of GAI companies, a marketing push by some companies, probably after some such epoch, saying things like 'talk to a real human' or 'we're a human-driven business'.

When you use an artificially generated image to promote your stuff, I can’t help but think you’re artificially generating everything else.

If you can’t be authentic with your promotional materials, I can’t trust that your actually authentic.

Those tools are hollow. *YOU* come across as hollow for using them. It doesn’t matter what your justifications are, your budgets, or how desperate you are. Because we all know how the sausage is made at this point, and we all know it’s a *choice* to use it or not. No one is twisting your arm.

No one is forcing you to boost posts that use it. No one is threatening your re-posting auto-bot with ultimatums. Only people with their heads under rocks at this point think your crazy amalgamation with too much contrast and big eyes is actually worth the cost of its “cute factor”.

Just stop. It’s not that hard.

#art #IndieArtist #GAI #GenAI

When you use an artificially generated image to promote your stuff, I can’t help but think you’re artificially generating everything else.

If you can’t be authentic with your promotional materials, I can’t trust that your actually authentic.

Those tools are hollow. *YOU* come across as hollow for using them. It doesn’t matter what your justifications are, your budgets, or how desperate you are. Because we all know how the sausage is made at this point, and we all know it’s a *choice* to use it or not. No one is twisting your arm.

No one is forcing you to boost posts that use it. No one is threatening your re-posting auto-bot with ultimatums. Only people with their heads under rocks at this point think your crazy amalgamation with too much contrast and big eyes is actually worth the cost of its “cute factor”.

Just stop. It’s not that hard.

#art #IndieArtist #GAI #GenAI