This place is weird.

DISCLAIMER: WAS SUPPOSED TO POST 2 DAYS AGO BUT ACCOUNT WAS TOO YOUNG LOL

I'm in a Discord server with a few of my arts-y friends from school, and they were talking about this place, as we're all kinda on the fence with AI. If it's important to you: I like the more assisted driven side of AI, but am not a fan of the generative side.

So I've been checking this place from time to time, but have noticed a weird trend. This is supposed to be a place of discussion, yet I've seen so many posts that are just like, "Look at my AI art!" or "This just happened with AI!" without adding anything to it. This isn't discussion around the legality, ethics, and general use of AI, it's just promotion of it, which goes against what this sub is supposed to be about.

I don't get this, I really I don't. I'm probably not gonna contribute much here and am going to go back to lurking in the shadows, but I hope this post will allow actual conversation around AI, rather than turning it into an echo chamber of sorts. (I have heard the horror stories of how some places here can turn)