In a post-scarcity solarpunk future, I could imagine some reasonable uses, but that’s not the world we’re living in yet.

AI art has already poisoned the creative environment. I commissioned an artist for my latest solarpunk novel, and they used AI without telling me. I had to scrap that illustration. Then the next person I tried to hire claimed they could do the work without AI but in fact they could not.

All that is to say, fuck generative AI and fuck capitalism!

  • What makes you sure it’s a grassroots movement? The harassment I’ve gotten for sharing stuff generated from AI horde leads me to believe Fuck_AI and similar spaces might be filled with Astroturfing trolls. When they lie and use extortion to try to silence their opposition that leads me to believe they aren’t credible.