AI Witch Hunt

Have you noticed that these days almost everything is being accused of being AI?

Digital artists who were creating remarkable work long before AI existed are now constantly accused of using it. Sometimes their work may resemble what people associate with AI - but that may simply be because AI systems were trained on art created by artists like them in the first place.

It seems that everything people create now is under suspicion.

Personally, I sometimes use AI to illustrate my videos because the subjects I discuss are not exactly topics you can easily find stock footage for. But using AI in that way does not suddenly mean that all of my art is AI.

Here is something to think about.

The Demiurge created this reality - this simulation - and the Demiurge itself is a form of artificial intelligence. Then everything we see in this world is already artificial in some sense. Nothing is fundamentally “real” in the way we assume.

An artist painting a picture, that's artifical. A film director creating a film, that's artifical too.

Everything we experience in this realm is artificial, because the realm itself is artificial.

So telling people they cannot create with AI because it is “artificial” is a bit like telling someone they cannot take a shower because it is artificial rain.

What exists here, simply exists. It is neither better nor worse by default, nor inherently right or wrong in that sense.

Some things simply are not worth worrying about. I can only assume that people who constantly accuse others of using AI may be struggling with something within themselves, because they cannot see a simpler truth:

None of this really matters as much as we think it does.

Let people express themselves however they choose. There is no need to police how others create. That responsibility does not belong to you.

The sooner you realise this, the happier you may find yourself becoming.

For my own part, I usually avoid watching YouTube videos that are entirely AI generated - you know the kind: AI voice, AI visuals, AI script, and no real person behind them. But that is not because they use AI. It is because they are often mass-produced by large corporations whose goal is simply to dominate the platform and push out genuine creators.

In general, AI art and AI writing styles do not appeal to me personally. As an artist and writer myself, they are often easy for me to recognise. But what I would never do is accuse a digital artist of using AI without evidence. And even if they did - so what?

AI detectors seem to say everything is AI. That has been proven many times over, so they really cannot be relied upon. Perhaps those detectors are accidentally recognising a deeper truth?

If this reality is something like a simulation, a game of sorts, then how someone chooses to play that game is entirely their own choice.

If you are simply living your life, creating what you want to create, and harming no one in the process, then you are already playing the game well.