You did name her Eris...Goddess of Discord...

Also funny how you mentioned your kids avoided AI like the plague to get a good ed. The problem isn't that the tools exist, it's that they are being forced on people who don't yet know how to do it themselves and will never learn. So when the tools are paywalled? No education and no way to fix that.

The creative field was the canary. Animators, illustrators, game devs etc are experiencing the highest layoffs right now due to "AI" but what is actually happening is they are firing them with no way to replace them. The machine can't do it. And neither can the prompt writers. Just complete loss.

Unfortunately that is not the kind of judicious and prudent use we are seeing. They are trying to use it to replace many processes that on their own can be tedious but as a whole teach us how our world works and how we can interact with it. The joy and frustration of creation is part of being human.

I was an art teacher for several years, I agree. We're monkeys who got skilled at making tools and love to tell each other stories. AI, even LLMs, can be a useful tool as long as we still understand how to do it ourself the hard way first. Keep the basics and build higher and farther with tech.

Oh absolutely not. Disney wants to build their own AI/LLM. They don't want to stop it, they want to *own* it. Disney has been a bane to creatives for the last 85 years and has completely destroyed the public domain. I don't think Disney or OpenAI will do the people you are trying to help any favors.

Using it like a tool, I can understand. There was a tool in Clip Studio paint, a popular paint program, that would auto color line art for artists and many illustrators loved it. It was a part of the process, not the whole painting. When we stop being a part of the process we stop understanding it.

I can see the use for coding, copy and paste will always be useful. The problem I am seeing is what is lost when we skip over the process of learning a skill and end up straight at the answer. Why did teachers make us show our work in math class? There is critical thinking that is lost when you do.

A lot people give up and tell themselves they'll never get there. Art is a skill and sure a lot of us use short cuts/tricks but in the end we are still a part of the process. The only part of an artist in an AI generated painting is the millions of artists work it trained on to make a passable image

I was in 6th grade the first time I was able to draw something how I pictured it. I had been drawing for four years by then. It was joyous. I'll never forget it. Part of making something is the path there. We all have taste, we know "how" something should look and get frustrated when we can't do it

There is nuance here. The problem is the people with money/power are trying hard to have "no limits" put on what they can do with this tech and the anti-AI side finds that rightfully disturbing. Machine learning has uses. I do not trust people like Elon Musk and Sam Altman to decide those uses.

I agree. I am an idealist. I can see ways in which to use this technology to greatly improve various industries efficiency and output for the better. To improve people's lives and give them more time for creativity. That is not what the majority of it is being used for, the exact opposite actually.