I think intellectually handicapping a large number of the general public is essentially what a casualty of memetic warfare looks like.
To use a non-political example(not partisan politics I mean, I understand everything can be tied to politics in some way) I saw an anti-AI post on the YouTube community page, it was a meme that said 'how I feel not using generative AI to run my D&D game' (presumably too make Pictures of NPCs or Locations of interest or to help generate large amounts of details when your players end up going down a story path you don't expect), this us a perfectly reasonable choice, even if i think every DM could use the aid offered by LLMs like chatGPT every once in a while.
However, when I scrolled down to the comments, many of the anti-AI supporters believed absolute lies about how generative AI works. One comments categorized image generation as thw AI searching Google images and remixing the pictures it found. Another said the average prompt on ChatGPT used enough energy to power a single family home for a whole year.
People believing obvious falsehoods is the result of the anti-AI push from creative type who are protecting their livelyhoods or defending thw dignity of their artistry. And in holding the line against AI, they've spread misinformation to large amounts of people who follow them or are in their social circles. And have potentially given them a handicap for learning how to live with what might be the biggest technological innovation since fire.
I think intellectually handicapping a large number of the general public is essentially what a casualty of memetic warfare looks like.
To use a non-political example(not partisan politics I mean, I understand everything can be tied to politics in some way) I saw an anti-AI post on the YouTube community page, it was a meme that said 'how I feel not using generative AI to run my D&D game' (presumably too make Pictures of NPCs or Locations of interest or to help generate large amounts of details when your players end up going down a story path you don't expect), this us a perfectly reasonable choice, even if i think every DM could use the aid offered by LLMs like chatGPT every once in a while.
However, when I scrolled down to the comments, many of the anti-AI supporters believed absolute lies about how generative AI works. One comments categorized image generation as thw AI searching Google images and remixing the pictures it found. Another said the average prompt on ChatGPT used enough energy to power a single family home for a whole year.
People believing obvious falsehoods is the result of the anti-AI push from creative type who are protecting their livelyhoods or defending thw dignity of their artistry. And in holding the line against AI, they've spread misinformation to large amounts of people who follow them or are in their social circles. And have potentially given them a handicap for learning how to live with what might be the biggest technological innovation since fire.
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