Flutterby™! : the personal cost of Gen AI

the personal cost of Gen AI

2025-05-18 01:19:43.515091+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Elf Sternberg: An obsession, a confession, and a time to just go on

I never posted anything that I generated because I recognize the ethical problems in image generation “AIs.” It’s funny how many of the people deep into this, er, hobby, recognize that this isn’t AI at all and simply call them “diffusion models” of one sort or another. I don’t want to take money out of artists’ hands; I want more artists making more art, not less. The number of story ideas I extracted out of these, good grief, thousands of hours I soaked into that thing over the past 30 months I can number on one hand, because it’s literally 5. Out of the million images I generated, I kept five.

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