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My hot take on the AI vs creativity debate. For context I'm a filmmaker and mess around with all creative aspects of bringing something to the screen.

It's the same argument with automation. Growing up in the 2010's you couldn't go long without being asked to consider whether robots replacing human jobs was ethical or not. Short answer was no, since it's replacing unskilled labour and would lead to millions of people around the world losing their income. But back then the jobs in question were specifically unskilled labour, something NON INTELLIGENT.

The first wave of AI being creative as I remember it was the shitty generation of landscapes and around 2020 ish. Same thing as today where it would create images based off of prompts, but it was really shitty and would only barely resemble what you had in mind, and couldn't even do anything specific. It was closer to a gimmick than anything.

The second wave in my memory was when Nvidia and a bunch of companies made software that could generate landscapes based off of prompts or some unique software with brushes and stuff. The stuff was, all things considered, usable and decent looking.

And the third wave is what happened as soon as chatGPT came into existence, and the modern debate. The weird thing is that (as far as I remember) people weren't raising hell during the first two waves. It was only until after the art became good and the technology became able to understand more advanced prompts did we complain. We recycled the arguments from automation because it was essentially the same thing, but now there was an argument that AI art has "no soul".

That last argument really stands out, because I genuinely don't believe a majority of people have what I consider a soul, not even creatives. I think it's something that has to by the individual through discovering and defining their meaning of life. Yet, even the soulless are asking for AI to be limited or stopped being developed because it may stifle their creativity or employment prospects.

How I see it? Knowing that it could very well prevent me from being able to make a living from doing the thing I've decided to dedicate my life to? I say bring it on. I think this is the defining struggle of creatives of our generation, to be able to prove their worth against frankly superior soulless artists.

Want to be employed for being creative? If you can't beat AI then you probably weren't going to make it too far anyways.

Want to express creativity for yourself? No one's stopping you, create your magnum opus.

I know about AI being trained on existing artists art and how it's going to just further the evil capitalist machine but as it is this is where I stand.

[sideburnguru]

The one thing Naruto does better than One Piece

Character development, simply because of story structure. In One Piece side characters usually don't stick around for more than an island, excepting a few over the course of the Emperors saga. But in Naruto they're allowed to stay around and because it has a much more dramatic tone they talk it out a lot more.

One thing in common is that the best fights from both of them are a clash of ideals.

Gaara vs Rock Lee - Natural talent vs Hard work

Luffy vs Ussop - Defending his position as captain vs Stubbornness over not willing to let go of the Merry, considering his attachment to it from Kaya and viewing himself as weaker and more disposable than the rest of the crew.

And yes those are the best fights in their respective series, no room for debate.