Nostr devs really underestimate how much people hate ai
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But I just turned some of our Christmas photos into Norman Rockwell paintings……
Loving AI is definitely in the zeitgeist here. Being around people I don't see often over Christmas was an eye opener as to how many people are really against it.
I use AI as a dev and in very specific personal things.
But I would never use it beyond very tight very specific bounds. I don't want it to be everywhere. I don't want to consume or use anything made by AI. And I think that's a pretty widespread stance.
People in power do want AI everywhere though because it gives them more influence and control. Devs, according to power projection theory, are in the same class of people.
Completely agree with you 💯
I’ve loosened my view on using AI heavily in development, but what I can’t stand is poorly architected and maintained slop. There are so many nostr “devs” producing clients that don’t work at all and it’s a major turn off. And if they manage to make it work, the UI looks the same as literally everything else and there’s no real reason to use it.
Turns out, being a good engineer still matters in the age of LLMs.
I don't hate AI, I just think these morons are misusing a tool.
Like they're using a hammer to put screws in, it's retarded and annoying
How? There is only one app I know of that does AI and nostr and its specifically for devs (Shakespeare)
Because of all the "hooray vibez coding" energy maybe?
Yeah, but also images for apps, default banner images, website images, blog posts etc etc.
Generally you see way more usage of AI images in blog posts, pfps and on the timeline on nostr than anywhwre else (in my experience at least).
It also adds up to: This is the place for people who like ai images
Ha! Fair. Guilty. 🤖
What do you think of this theory:
Part of the reason people hate AI in is because of the sense of implicit deception. It's just a database, but it feels like it's pretending to be people. And we hate pretend people from our souls.
It's just a database, but it apes us and that naturally rubs us the wrong way. Too human-ish and yet nobody is home.
Other reasons too, for sure, but what do you think of that about the kind of visceral reaction? Kind of an uncanny valley thing...
Maybe, if think a lot of it is just that it is a terrible aesthetic decision, and that in itself points to a larger red flag. Eg: 'if this dev is making au h an awful aesthetic decision, what does this say about the project in general?'
But yes I think more generally AI images are now pretty much associates with the deception of especially the more vulnerable and gullible, scams and what not. Which no one likes.
For me, I hate the database because it drastically isolates the people who produce the data from the people who use it. The kind of feedback and backchannels that come from two human beings interacting with eachother and eachother's work is the very thing that helps people to improve and is the only reason good data exists in the first place.
A human trained on an artwork will often engage with the artist and that artwork. An AI web scraper never will. People joke about "thank you"s directed at AIs wasting large amounts of energy, but the real waste is that none of those thank-yous will trickle backward towards the people who most deserve them.
That's a very insightful point about the thank yous. Thank you. It's like the inverse of zaps, in that sense.
Set up your lightning so I can zap you! ⚡
No thank you. I don't want my interactions on Nostr to be transactional. Your words are worth more to me and your money is worth more to you.
Followed, specifically for not having a lightning address set up.
AI will obliterate them.
I do not hate the wide and nobile field of AI, a field of computer science old nearly as modern computer science itself.
I do detest OpenAI, the fact that some idiots actually believe their shit, the fact that morons think "vibe coding" is as good as knowing how to code, the whole aesthetics of AI-generated images (generated by the tasteless), those who ruin social media by posting AI-generated text, the whole "in the next 6 months" that has been going on for years and, more generally, the whole recent "AI" business.
As usual, researchers do something good, but businesses make it shit. Money ruins everything.