Procreate's anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives

It uses too much power.

They steal from those that actually create work and don't pay them for the [sarcasm] privellege [/sarcasm]. People have to eat and as creatives we need to be paid for our work, or those feeding the models data need to create the work themselves which they can't do because most of them have invested 0 time or effort into actually being creative in that way. Which is why they do this, because most of them have no actual skill and are envious of those who do.

I also, just in general don't want my conversations to be used to fuel some bot that makes money for someone else. It's bad for privacy and also, what am I getting out of it? Nothing materially beneficial that I can see and it'll probably endanger mine or someone else's life.

Its results are often bad, as in inaccurate or downright dangerous.

It's just the latest line in a long list of scams designed to give money and power to those on the top of the pile already, see: Cryptocurrency, nfts, loot boxes, microtransactions etc.

I'm mostly on your side but I did just cancel my gpt4 subscription.

There's several factors but the main one is that it just uses a whole lot of power and materials eventhough I don't really need it.

For example it helped me learn about electronics, and it was effective at that. But I feel it's more efficient to just buy an ebook. It just feels slightly less convenient, but actually is healthier for my focus.

It's kinda like with bitcoin. It isn't a net positive given our current situation. It's a waste of the scarce resources we have. And we need to get to net 0 ASAP and stop mining like there's no tomorrow.

The other thing it was good at was searching information and providing it in a uniform format, rather than the mess that is the web rn. But installing Firefox and a bunch of extensions solved most of that. And search engines allow for generating an LLM response when I feel it would really help, so that fills the gap.

There are multiple reasons:

• for plenty of use cases where it's supposed to help, it just plain doesn't work (software engineering being my main use case, but it does not help find obscure songs/games either).
• it's fundamentally unsafe, which matters in a lot of cases where the evangelists want to put AI into.
• the resource usage to train models is crazy. To the point of delaying Google's carbon neutrality plans for instance. It's also expected to put a significant toll on energy grids worldwide for the years to come, which is the last thing we need on a burning planet.
• it's being pushed by evil actors like big tech billionaires, who aren't trusted to do the right things with the tech.
• it's already proven harmful (cf Air Canada's chatbot, or the idiots on today's other HN LLM subject saying they use it for medical advice or electric work among many examples)
• it's overhyped, much like crypto. Way too many promises, and it does not deliver.

My sentiment on the reliability is shared in my team, among people that used it a bit more: it's a garbage machine.

I do fear it might train a generation of software professionals that don't know how to code, which is going to harm them (unemployable) or the people they serve, but I might be overreacting due to the fact that the only a person I knew who claimed to use LLMs professionally was a hack who's using LLMs as a palliative for general lack of skills and low output. Come to think of it, this is precisely the kind of people that should be cautious around LLMs, because they can't review the LLM's output accurately for dangerous hallucinations.

I do ask ChatGPT questions sometimes, but honestly pretty rarely. I use it as a complement to regular search, and nothing more, because it can't get the basics right most of the time.