I used to be indifferent about LLMs generating code. I thought it was probably a useful tool that would be used to increase efficiency and so on. Nothing new there. I assume that's what most people would have expected. Maybe that's what they're still expecting.

My disgust for it grows with every day that passes. I started wondering about insane things that might make no sense if you think about them more than I have. I am not an anti-capitalist, but only because I don't really know what it means. I don't know anything. No idea what capitalism is or what communism is. However, I feel like, in many ways, the economic and social system we live in now rewards greed more than it should. I want to avoid making arguments about "humanity" or "soul", because these are meaningless terms, but I think we might all be pointing towards the same concept.

This is relevant because I am starting to think that AI-generated-art might be the missing puzzle piece. So far, creative people (by which I mean passionate artists) have been generously outputting breathtaking art at an inconceivable rate. Itch, Steam, Bluesky, Twitter, Reddit, random art channels on Discord servers, all of them full of the result of hundreds or thousands of hours of passionate work. Individual artists spend their entire lives honing their skills just to be able to realise what they have in their mind.

Now, evil scumfucks have used this vast collection of art to train their robots to produce empty replicas. There is no such thing as "AI art". Anything generated by a robot lacks meaning.

But everything is art!

No, everything made by humans is art. If you study any piece of art, you can look at each brush stroke (so to speak) and know that there is intent there. Even a quick sketch is full of meaning and intent, even though the strokes look haphazardly placed. If you move one of them, the whole thing falls apart. It's a set of careful, valuable decisions.

By delegating decisions to a machine, you dilute your art. If the only decision you make is in the form of a prompt, you are no better than the "idea guy". No art to speak of.

Still, at least you had an idea.

I've noticed a disturbing pattern where vibecoding achievements are completely unoriginal. It's always "mash X and Y together" or "X clone in Y". They can't actually invent anything. Even with all the power of LLMs, they still lack the originality and creativity to actually come up with something new? Once again, much like the technology they rely on, they use what artists have created in the past. I say "use" because they're doing it to the detriment of those artists. It's as if they are using human creativity as fuel for their sickening robot shit.

Vibecloning is the practice where someone takes a piece of art and goes

Hey Claude, please recreate this but do it in Zig and make it faster and better.

Or something to that effect. It'll spit out some bullshit nobody cares about, and then it is refined until it approaches the original work very, very closely. And of course, they will claim it's not stealing or copying. I mean, they didn't even see the source code! How could they copy something they have no access to? It's conveniently irrelevant that these models were trained on data it had no right to.

Do you see the pattern? Art is burnt to create meaningless facsimiles. Burnt, because there is no incentive to share anything any more. Why would I spend countless hours working on something if it's going to be violated anyway? I'll share it in person, with those closest to me, and nobody else. This is fine on the surface, but if all other artists follow this principle, I will never get to see cool art online again... That would be a catastrophe.

Now that I've "established" that this practice is harmful and that AI generated content is not valuable or meaningful, I want to explain what makes it the final piece of the puzzle. The Venn diagram is meant to show that

• Artists tend not to be greedy, because developing the required skill is always a disproportionate investment.
• AI generated content is a sign of artistic indifference, usually motivated by $$$

Before, the Greedy and the Uninspired were dependent on artists to craft their product for them. This made being an artist sustainable and worth pursuing (gotta eat). These days, this void is filled by abominable robots.

I have no basis for this, but I'll say it anyway. I feel like this spells the end of widespread innovation and creation. As artists and other creative people (this includes mathematicians!) are eaten, not necessarily replaced, by AI, it'll have nothing to feed on. And then we all die, I don't know.

Stop using AI for your drawings, music, videogames, stories, etc. Not in whole, not in part, not at all! Program with your brain and draw with your hands.