It is strange to propose a boycott without saying why. Why are you against people using AI generation tools?
Personally, I find the text that ChatGPT generates useless and unpleasant to read, and have downvoted it on suspicion several times on LessWrong already. (It doesn’t much matter whether my suspicions were correct, the text quality was downvoteworthy anyway for its leaden vagueness and platitudinousness, and high-school essay structure.)
BTW, ArtStation is no longer removing “No to AI” images: at least, I see a bunch of them there. It now has a policy that AI generated content is allowed on the ArtStation marketplace but must be tagged as such, and users uploading their art can tag it to indicate that it is not to be used as training data for any AI.
It is strange to propose a boycott without saying why. Why are you against people using AI generation tools?
Personally, I find the text that ChatGPT generates useless and unpleasant to read, and have downvoted it on suspicion several times on LessWrong already. (It doesn’t much matter whether my suspicions were correct, the text quality was downvoteworthy anyway for its leaden vagueness and platitudinousness, and high-school essay structure.)
BTW, ArtStation is no longer removing “No to AI” images: at least, I see a bunch of them there. It now has a policy that AI generated content is allowed on the ArtStation marketplace but must be tagged as such, and users uploading their art can tag it to indicate that it is not to be used as training data for any AI.
Boycotting LLMs reduces the financial benefit of doing research that is (EDIT: maybe) upstream to AGI in the tech tree.