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Daniel at UponArriving ✈
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Daniel at UponArriving ✈
@uponarriving
Attorney turned travel content creator TikTok: https://t.co/y4wxI0BYZ9
Katılım Ekim 2014
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@dflieb Resisting AI's encroachment into kids' creativity and motor skills is an extremely valid concern. It's good your kids are still drawing. But I don't think there's a conspiracy or something re: the pushback. They are legit concerns & big tech often shows little regard for them.
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This tweet went somewhat viral, and one interesting observation is that nearly 100% of the many dozens of critical quote tweets are from anon accounts.
Anyway, I think it’s great for my kids’ creativity, and it doesn’t stop them from drawing with crayons. Technology is a tool. Use it however you wish.
David Lieb@dflieb
Hit Christmas gift this year: Stickerbox. Press button, describe something, AI generates an image and prints on a sticker. Great product design. We’ve printed hundreds of stickers so far. Made by one of my YC Summer 2009 batchmates!
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@morgoth_raven @ABAOProductions The photography analogy is problematic for me b/c AI is more like commissioning a photographer to capture something for you. There's taste involved but nothing like the creativity/skill required to execute in the moment.
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This is the kind of comment I respect, nuanced, professional, experienced.
You're right, Aharon, toxic AI evangelism exists. Overpromising. False timelines. Creating unrealistic client expectations. This hurts everyone.
But distinguish that from what I do: 5-day production workflows. Extensive iteration. Sound design. Integration with Photoshop and other tools. This isn't the "magic bullet" you're critiquing. Where I push back: prompt-only is not an artist. Photographers "just point camera." Camera handles technical work. Still artists. The concept, vision, curation - that's where artistry lives. Same with thoughtful AI use.
My core point: I've never seen AI artists attacking traditional methods. But I see traditional artists attacking AI methods daily. That's the asymmetry I'm highlighting - not denying your industry concerns, but noting who's actually on the offensive.
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Notice how AI artists never tell traditional artists/haters to "push buttons" and try AI. Never shout to put down the pencil, it's 2025.
But traditional artists/haters constantly tell AI artists to pick up a pencil.
It's like tattooed people vs non-tattooed people:
Tattooed people don't give a fuck if you're not tattooed.
But some non-tattooed people won't shut up about tattoos being wrong. Confidence is quiet. Insecurity is loud.
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Daniel at UponArriving ✈ retweetledi
"the time spent making it mean absolutely nothing."
Except that is what gives creative work all the meaning and purpose in the world.
OscarAI@Artedeingenio
@xshadowpanther The only thing that should matter, the only standard that should be applied, is the final result. The tools used or the time spent making it mean absolutely nothing.
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Art devoid of human struggle simply isn't interesting to me.
Robin Poe 🐑@RobinPoedev
we will soon enter a generation of "artists" who cant answer the questions "how did you get that idea?" "what inspired you to make this?" because the answer will be "i asked Grok to generate 4 epic fire demons and i thought no2 looked cool so i copied it"
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@billywoodward Can someone please explain the gatekeeping argument to me because it always just sounds like gatekeeping = enjoying the products of your work ethic, talent, and skills. What am I missing?
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Hot take from Cuban - he’s spot on here
“The number of gatekeepers drops every day and will eventually hit zero.
If you know how to tell a great story, you will LOVE AI.”
Mark Cuban@mcuban
Creators should LOVE Ai. AI doesn’t make uncreative people creative. It allows creators to become exponentially more creative. Creative iteration that used to take hours , days or weeks, can happen in minutes. The different routes you wanted to take but didn’t have the money or skill to do. Now you can do. The number of gatekeepers drops every day and will eventually hit zero. If you know how to tell a great story, you will LOVE AI. 99 % of content fails. With AI the cost and time it takes to experience and learn from those failures drop like a rock. The people who should HATE AI are those that try to control distribution and the creative process because they are the ones that control platforms and tools. It’s all going to change. Only this time it won’t take decades like it did with streaming.
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@VorosTwins Videos, photos. Let users opt out of them as well.
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@ProudSocialist How fitting that TIME stole another's photograph to make AI the person of the year.
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TIME copied this iconic photo of the workers who built our cities to crown the tech billionaires who are using AI to decimate and destroy the working class.
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2025 was the year when artificial intelligence’s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back. For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year. time.com/7339685/person…
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@exillvs @marmaduke091 Do you think having a feed inundated by fake travel photos (not disclosed as AI) is the stuff of dreams? Genuinely curious.
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@marmaduke091 we live in an age dominated by people who have lost their childlike wonder and curiosity, including most "artists" and creatives. AI represents an unimaginably expansive creative playground, truly the stuff of dreams. it's irresistible if you have the "spark."
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Hating everything AI and hating everyone who uses AI in professional/hobby work is truly dark ages stuff.
It's the same kind of reaction people had to:
→ Photography ("it's not REAL art")
→ Synthesizers ("it's not REAL music")
→ Digital Art ("just clicking buttons")
→ The Printing Press
→ Recorded music (Sousa called it "canned music" that would kill singing)
→ Writing itself (Socrates thought it would destroy our memory)
...the list goes on forever.
The Luddites weren't heroes. They were just scared. Every single time: moral panic, gatekeeping, and being on the wrong side of history.
You are not saving the world. You are just making it a worse, dumber, less fun place.
liz 🌙@AstoundingSwift
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Big Tech can’t wait for a world where thinking atrophies and even our nurturing instincts are outsourced. A world where society depends on them to function in almost every way imaginable. That’s the product-market fit they’re chasing.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?" Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
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Daniel at UponArriving ✈ retweetledi
Google continues to HIDE data from publishers — so we can’t see just how badly they are screwing us over with AI Overviews & AI Mode
Google Search Console breaks down data for forums, images, videos — basically every feature EXCEPT the 2 Google is using to “re-imagine” search
Barry Schwartz@rustybrick
Nothing to announce when it comes with breaking out AI Mode and AI Overviews in Google Search Console @JohnMu
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@realSergeLuke @CreeCoder @ChuckYouSuck I just can't get on board with the idea that "AI is just doing what humans do." Even if they are conceptually similar on the micro-level, the output and impact is worlds apart.
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@uponarriving @CreeCoder @ChuckYouSuck Zoom out to institutional level or academia as a whole, it is another trillion dollar company/industry.
Stripped to the mechanical level, human learning and AI training is the same - building matrices from other matrices.
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@realSergeLuke @CreeCoder @ChuckYouSuck A trillion dollar company scraping the entire internet w/out consent to maximize shareholder rev and using that data to put the humans who created it out of work is the same as a student learning the basics of a given topic?
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@CreeCoder @ChuckYouSuck When you went to college, were you a thief of other people’s knowledge?
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You wouldn’t believe it by these comments but it’s possible to adapt and stand up to big tech’s exploitations at the same time.
Chrisy | Homemade Hooplah@homemadehooplah
Oh, look, it's the anniversary of when the career I spent a decade building began to die because a single company decided that the entirety of the world's creative effort was theirs to take & exploit, forever ruining the internet & all concept of verifiable proof Ghouls FUVM
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Please someone tell me how this is good or even sustainable for the web long-term?
Nate Hake@natejhake
1. Be Google 2. Scrape this recipe blog 3. AI sloppify it 5. Skip “Step 4” 6. Pass it off as a “family recipe” 7. Don’t link to source 8. Force websites to provide content for your AI 9. Repeat for whole Internet 10. Profit off others’ labor 📈🤑 howsweeteats.com/2020/11/best-s…
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Can't wait to create my first photo album of me visiting places I've never been. Even if I were single and thirsty on dating apps, this would make me feel so sad to spend time doing.
Jane Altoids@staticbluebat
I think the point of looking at photos like these is it reminds you of things you’ve done in your life, why would you want a picture of yourself eating a fake meal or looking at fake art. Don’t you want to live a life
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@Bruce_Wu_tc @neilturkewitz Thr intent, scale, and output of human inspiration and AI exploitation are vastly different such that I don’t think the comparison holds.
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@neilturkewitz If “derivative” equals exploitation, then culture itself is exploitation. Language, art, music all built on what came before. The irony is that humans remix endlessly and celebrate it as creativity, yet when AI does the same they suddenly cry theft.🤡
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Daniel at UponArriving ✈ retweetledi
This! Stop with the fake analogies. AI is not like the camera. It’s not like recorded music. It’s not like the printing press. AI is rooted in exploitation. It could not exist in the absence of existing works. It is wholly derivative.
DJ Pain 1@djpain1
The only thing AI can be compared to is colonization. Autotune, drum machines, DAWs, etc aren’t comparable. They didn’t infringe on millions of creations, they didn’t cause catastrophic job loss and they still required human operators. These fake analogies are propaganda.
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@StilyanX @cinamarina I think some will utilize that bandwidth to "upgrade" their thinking in their specializations. But AI is seductive. Big tech will do anything for engagement and happily turn brains to mush if it means $$$. For the masses, I think the net impact is cognitive loss.
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Interesting to see some of these use cases. Automated room preferences are cool but not a fan of over-automating the hotel experience. Luxury hotels need warmth. I'll always be far more impressed by a human remembering my name rather than a machine.
travelandleisureasia.com/in/hotels/ai-s…
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