u/Flammenwerfer40

What happens to the Fatui HQ when there is no more Fatui or HQ?

Ok, let's say that a year or two from now AI pops because of mismanagement o algo. A whole bunch of people are acting like that will suddenly cause AI to disintegrate and everyone will See The Light and go back to the Old Ways. That will not happen. You will simply get a repeat of the Dot Com Crash, but AI itself is too big to fail. If we have an AI Crash, the main things that will happen are:

>Stock market gets fucked up because of course it does

>AI startups and small AI businesses collapse due to being unable to find funding

>People stop caring about AI-run companies (like that one cafe run by Claude) because they get seen as a fad (and thus they either collapse or scale back AI usage)

>If it gets really bad, a small to moderate recession happens and technology stagnates for a few years

>The big corporations like OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google survive and arguably get even more powerful since the market has consolidated further due to startups collapsing

>AI doesn't go away, but it gets less ambitious

Any time I point this out, I either get told that "it will be different" or just hear the sounds of crickets. Just goes to show that antis are illiterate in more ways than just technology usage. The only way that AI ever dies off is if it's banned or strangulated through regulations (which is a whole separate conversation, and also disgustingly authoritarian to be in support of).

The biggest most persistent cope I have seen from antis is that "Art is about the process and not the result". It refuses to die like a cockroach that has its head cutoff. This harebrained (or should I say cockroachbrained) excuse is repeatedly used to elevate even the most abysmal of human artwork over AI outputs because the "process" is elevated above the result. This is frankly an insult to art, suggesting that sketches or other "proofs" are actually more valuable than the finished result, which has led to absurd accusations against human artists of using/being AI and forcing people to upload speedpaints or other things in order for their artwork to be valued in the eyes of antis.

I do not give a shit about how an artwork was made, only how it looks. If AI art is to be devalued, then the only intellectually valid reason to do so is inferiority on a purely technical and aesthetic level in the same way that poorly made human artwork is also inferior, and not some stupid participation award nonsense like “soul” or “effort”. This is because AI (as well as poor human artwork is not capable of producing distinguished and technically competent artwork on a uniquely individualized level; it cannot capture a level of detail that is necessary to capture the full extent of a complex artistic vision (for instance, an AI could generate a "futuristic gunship", but it could not generate a Pelican from the Halo franchise without at least getting several details wrong, let alone generating without mistakes a futuristic aircraft design that I have in my head from scratch when there are no references of it in existence because it's in my head).