environmental impact
Even without AI, humans are causing this and it’s getting much much worse. The far right is winning all over the globe, trump is president with his “drill baby drill” and recently opening up national forests for logging. The right is winning and gaining in numbers and they don’t give a shit about the environment.
A communist takeover of AI could eventually lead to it helping with environmental problems. But we ain’t getting anything commie any time soon. Everything looks like fascism is the only thing potentially on the menu.
degradation of the creation of art for the masses of people
Not sure what you mean by this. As a thought experiment, what if, decades to come, AI can produce art that is orders of magnitude better than any human being could ever create? Music, movies, sculptures, whatever… Anti-AI people will disagree, but I want to see what that would look like.
That’s not the point at all. As I said, it’s a thought experiment.
IF, a very big if, AI could create art objectively better than any human (by human standards), is that art less valuable because a human didn’t do it? No. Because it’s the art we’re judging, not the person/process by which it was created.
Additionally, what if humans controlling AI tools lead to the creation of art that is objectively better than art created without AI tools? If it’s better (judged by humans), then it’s better.
I want to see all the potential of these tools used by humans, in addition to whatever else they could provide by themselves, especially if it ever leads to anything like AGI.
“Ai slop” doesn’t to this yet, and maybe it never will, but maybe it will. I want to see what it might be able to do, preferably for the benefit of everyone, not just the billionaire class.