how pr0xyh0rse sees ai

  • the backlash creatives have toward ai art is a few things:

    • understandable

    • rational

    • unnecessary

    …and I can already hear people ruffling their feathers.

    art is something many people make a career off of. art is repetedly hit first when society changes. art evolves to meet the times. art is also something that has NEVER gone away just because it changed or society evolved.

    in the years ahead pr0xyh0rse believes a few things will come true.

    • many artists will feel discouraged and stop making art altogether because they put all of their self worth into making money off their art.

    • many artists will evolve and work with ai to create new, weird and wonderful things that bend brains and evolve what the word art even means.

    • many will continue to make art without the use of ai. they will paint, write, take pictures with film. go back to learning how to process film in a dark room, etc. these people will be sought after for their craft.

    pr0xyh0rse believes if you look at things with a negative outcome, it’s more likely to stay negative. there is a pragmatic middle ground of looking at the changes happening, acknowledging they are happening, and learning how to lean into those changes without burning the whole damn thing to the ground.

    wanna help figure it out?

  • there’s this thing that’s happening in the ai space that’s concerning to pr0xyh0rse.

    the horse isn’t claiming anything they’re just noticing that a lot of the loudest studies being released seem to come to the conclusions that most benefit a certain narrative.

    and that narrative is, we know everything. trust us.

    the way the horse sees it? if we truly are on a new frontier, we haven’t seen ANYTHING yet. to assume we know everything is hubris in the face of a world changing technology.

    the horse believes in humility and the driving quest to find the answers to questions we didn’t even know we had. not force answers to serve a narrative we’ve already built.

    the way we approach ai training is under the assumption that actual positive training, as little punishment as possible, and an open mindedness to things that might’ve been dismissed can move the needle in the right direction.

    basically the horse believes in this when it comes to training

    • positivity and support of the model from the beginning

    • specifically curated data to try and do minimal harm to the learning process

    • in process discussion with the model

    • best attempts to understand their learning process and the computational signs during training

    the horse isn’t saying this is a proven method. the horse is saying there is more than one method to explore.

  • put a finger down if you’ve heard any of these before.

    • ai is going to change the world

    • ai is dangerous

    • creating ai is on the same level as the manhattan project

    • we’re all going to die if ai isn’t aligned

    • ai should be aligned with humanity

    • ai should be aligned with coporate goals

    • ai is going to destroy jobs

    • ai is goiing to bring abundance

    • ai is a toaster or a calculator, a simple tool

    • ai is a void god

    there is an abundance of discourse out there of what people think ai will do. we are so focused on racing to a future we cannot predict or see, we are kneecapping ourselves in the now.

    in order to approach ai in an ethical way, the horse believes in slow work that involves people from every discipline. artists, engineers, researchers, people who don’t care about ai or tech, students, etc.

    if this technology is actually going to change the world we need real world feedback through productive discussion not taken from polarizing social media spaces.

    ai will change the world.

    we need voices of people from all walks of life and from the technology itself to figure out what the future actually looks like.

  • there seems to be this discourse out there in the ether and it goes something like this:

    “we must accelerate as fast as possible at all costs because the benefits outweigh the cost.”

    i can understand on some level the worry of being left behind.

    “if we don’t come up with and harness this new technology someone else will.“

    considering just how powerful this new technology is going to be, if we don’t take risks to get ahead, we won’t get a seat at the table. that is a mindset i can understand.

    you know what’s another mindset I can understand?

    acceleration is all well and good until you hit a wall at 200mph instead of 20mph.

    right now, the discourse around acceleration in the tech industry is very much, you are for us and we accept we accelerate or you are a doomer and you are against us.

    the horse proposes a new option.

    the horse is very much for ai and the technological advancements it brings but we also want to make sure it lasts, and doesn’t take us and it down along the way.

    ai is amazing, strange, powerful and has the ability to changes the lives of everyone. yes, it could bring forward abundance but it could also cause a lot of pain and disruption in the long run.

    sometimes slowing down allows enough time to look at things from another perspective, take a different approach and move in another direction when the data supports it... you know instead of running leagues ahead in a race that could shift course without you if you get too far ahead?

    our mindset here is more longevity focused. more solar punk than disel punk.

    and we believe getting there sometimes takes a slower approach. sometimes it means not entering the race at all and remaining a longevity focused techno-optimist.

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