@burly @eniko I wish they cared *more*, but.. no, using AI will directly affect market results in a number of situations, and there's decent evidence that people/critters are in fact voting with their wallets on this when they know what's going on and when they feel empowered to.

Political action is necessary, but don't make the mistake of assuming the masses are totally 100% indifferent to artistic quality. They're not.

@burly @eniko this idea gets pushed a lot, and on one paw, yes, political action is necessary, and on the other paw, no, AI sentiment is overwhelmingly negative across the entire political spectrum in the US at least and there's pretty strong evidence that AI in advertising decreases attachments to brands, and games made with AI get fewer downloads, and the aggregate data is pretty clear that people do actually care about this.

It's not as fatalistic as people say.

@eniko As if the way they're going to market their blog is by individually going to everypony who sees a link and on a one by one basis going "it's not what it looks like!"

Which seems to me like a bad marketing strategy, but what do I know I'm just a fox.

@eniko I've talked to some bloggers about this and said, "hey, if you have AI generated art as your header, I assume the text is AI generated too" and they've just kind of been like.... "but it's not".

"Okay, but do you see how your blog now looks identical to every other spam blog? Do you see how you've adopted their branding, and how the first thing I see screams 'this is AI'?"

"I guess I do yeah, but.. well rest assured it's not."