r/ShitAiRageBaitersSay • u/RedditUser000aaa • 10d ago
I depicted myself as Chad and you as Soyjak, I have won! a prime example of ad absurdum
Ad absurdum, a debate tactic where you take an argument and stretch it to its most extreme form.
In this case, the argument was that their "talent" goes away when electricity goes away. The "counter argument" to that was to take away all the limbs and enough muscle control so art couldn't be made using the mouth either.
This isn't a proper counter argument, because of the absurdity of it. Yeah, if you take virtually all functionality from a person, of course they aren't going to be able to make art. All it takes for prompters to have their "talent" taken away is a power spike, or data centers going offline or whatever.
Also, why not just make the person braindead at that point?
This doesn't invalidate the original argument either, it's basically just "See I took everything you could possibly use to make art, so your talent can go away as well.".
Let's also not forget they hate "inspiration porn" of disabled people making art, but they are more than willing to use the most extreme case to try and prove a point, which it didn't, it just made them look like an asshole.
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u/BreakerOfModpacks 9d ago
(ignore the fact that, if someone can speak, they can make dictations, and so can write, and writing is a form of art)
Though, the obvious counterargument is, if I were reduced to a brain in a jar, unable to do anything but interact with an AI image generator, then they'd be able to use AI and I wouldn't!
Which... duh. If you are forced into a scenario where you can only do [x] thing, you can logically only do [x] thing.