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651 points openchampagne | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kittikitti ◴[04 Feb 25 16:53 UTC] No.42935030[source]▶
When I did this almost 2 years ago with Midjourney, people came at me and started harassing me. It was just a party invite but people hated that I used AI. I guess I just needed to wait until the gatekeepers or a rich white man to do it for it to be socially acceptable. The pain from these AI luddites was real. I have strongly negative feelings for how Big Tech manipulated everyone into attacking everyone who was doing AI but them. They made it seem like the only ones to protect us from AI was them but the pain this caused didn't go away.
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1. beeflet ◴[04 Feb 25 21:13 UTC] No.42938796[source]▶
you probably released your thing right when anti-AI art started taking off online. Even though people generally dislike AI art now and see it as tacky, you have to remember that Apple can do no wrong. So when they use AI image generation as a gimmick, no one wants to embarrass themselves and be like the next ballmer saying that the iphone won't take off.

Same goes for Apple's moves in the VR space: no one wants to come out and say that it's a stupid idea, because weirder things have worked in the past. Airpods are a counterexample and were initially seen as gimmicky and overpriced, but are now everywhere.

I think it just goes to show that a lot of consumer tech depends on the company image and wider culture. Google glass was pretty much ahead of its time, but was killed due to terrible rep, even though thats exactly the type of thing people are trying to make now.