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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9828550" data-attributes="member: 20564">Okay, generative AI is a tool.  As a tool it can be useful.  My go-to is that they've trained models on decades of weather patterns and can come up with forecasts faster than the big simulation models, and for less compute (= energy, cooling, water, etc.)That said, the two major types of tools that a product would use are LLMs (ChatGPT and ilk) or art.  And both of those have generally been trained on material that has been unethically sourced.  So I'm not for use of that.  There are repercussions to that, where small creators who would not be able to afford things like interior art may be put to the wayside.  I had to examine that, but I don't believe that gives them the right to use unethically sourced material directly, even if the other option is it never gets published.The line is fuzzier if the author(s) used AI non-directly.  "Hey, give me a list of steps to organize what I need to do to kickstart something" and other organizational issues, doing things like generating lists that are then human-curated for ideas but not used directly, or even generating links to specific research/information hard to find with a search engine.While this specifies that I can't examine the product ahead of time, I assume I have the tools I normally have while purchasing online, such as ratings and reviews, including from other sites.  An indie game that people are raving about and has 4.7 stars or Overwhelmingly Positive or whatever system is being used to rate have that from people who have seen the product.  So it doesn't reduce the value, since that's been determined by it's current content, which has part AI, even if it may change my buying decision because of ethics.  iPhones may have been put together with child labor in the past so I wouldn't buy them then, but that doesn't make the value delivered by the iPhone less.</blockquote>

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