How Does AI Affect Your Online Shopping?

[Umbran]

So the bible should be considered 'slop', just as most religious texts?

Mod note:

Your religious commentary is not appropriate for these boards. And maybe claiming religious texts harm people is not going to make you sound like the rest of your points are thoughtful.

 

[DragonLancer]

For myself, whether a product was AI produced would not impact my decision positively or negatively. I do think that if a product was made with any AI elements, even just a little, then it should be made public that that is the case and what exactly was created with AI.

If a product was published by a company (or individual) with the funds to hire writers and artists then they should not be using AI, and I would not buy that product. However, a random person at home writing and publishing a PDF adventure or sourcebook for sale as a cheap PDF then I would have no issue with AI art (probably can't afford to pay an artist) but I wouldn't buy it if the product was AI written. I guess that's my line in the sand.

 

[Cadence]

My answer of not liking it assumes AI is equivalent to large language models and their variants (and not the expansive definitions of AI that include seemingly any form of predictive statistical modeling or machine learning) or rudimentary things like spell/grammar checkers or less powerful versions of photo editing/video rendering.

As an aside, I am still giving money to google and data usage/ad views to FB for various things they continue to do in spite of their llm creep everywhere and am not particularly happy about it, but but the pain of switching apparently demonstrates my threshold.

As far as blacklisting, I think I'd wait to see if they fix it when confronted. Much earlier in ai art usage at least one product by a user on here had it, but then they went back and fixed it. I would hate for them to have been blacklisted.

And I admit I would be really, really tempted to listen to AI generated versions of lost recordings of transcribed radio shows (like the 78 missing Candy Matson ones - only 14 exist still). I guess I could have it generate them myself, but will hold off and wait for someone to recruit people to do it some day maybe.

 

[Deset Gled]

How did the early CGI movie stuff evolve to what we have today. How much better will it be in 30 more years. Remember Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers and poor Jar Jar Binks. Ever watch one of these today and think about how cool it was and how lame it is today.

I don't remember many people other than George Lucas being happy with Jar Jar at the time. And that's ignoring the character and just talking about visuals. In fact, I remember the comparisons from Phantom Menace to the Original Trilogy being some of the strongest arguments of why practicals are better than CGI.

Very specifically, I remember the importance of practicals that kids can interact with on set being discussed on the special features of the Zathura DVD. Even at the time, it remember thinking that the director's commentary was taking very thinnly veiled shots at Jar Jar and how much it looked like Jake Lloyd and Ewan McGregor looked through him rather than at him. And Zathura was released in 2005. And the director was Jon Favreau.