Quote Originally Posted by Red-thunder View Post
The problem for all of this is that you need to treat it as a tool, not a replacement of your labor.
That right there... that is the problem with AI.

The people who hate it are acting like it's a replacement for their labor. The people who are truly excited about AI are using it as a tool.

If your prompt is "do all this for me" or "make a picture for me" then that's not using it properly. That's going to create some AI slop. That people using it for that are trying to make a quick buck with AI slop, and that is quickly saturating their respective market with AI slop so that it's not profitable anymore anyways.

If you put a proper, intelligent prompt into it that, in specific detail asks it to do something very specific, like analyze something, extract information, summarize something, or even when making a picture if you specifically describe what you want it to draw or edit in paragraphs of detail, then it won't be this random slop that lazy prompt writers find it to be.

My dad wanted me to do something that involved converting a lot of unique data from one website to another unique format for another website, which included the conversion of images, directories and embeds, and it would take me months, and I wanted to do other things like play FFXIV, so I wrote some giant paragraphs explaining exactly what I wanted it to do to produce me several python programs to convert the data and it saved me months of work. It still required me to do some of it manually but it saved so much time even just coding it.

I used it as a tool to achieve my own aims and vision faster, and nothing more. The biggest controversy seems over art, but even an artist could direct it to draw what is in their mind if they give it a giant paragraph explaining the vision in their head and keep writing those paragraphs until it reflects what's in their mind already. The issue is when a lazy person just says "make the art for me" and has no vision of their own really.