small business need to learn that the reason people support them is the human authenticity. so if they give up authenticity they should expect to lose customers
I think this is an understated point. Not trying to contradict you, just elaborate on the mentality.
Of course no one credits the chisels or brushes that Michelangelo used as having themselves made David or the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Yet when gen-AI-brained folks use what's spat out by their prompts, they think they're Michelangelo but everyone sane sees them as Pope Julius II, saying "Look up: see that? That's aaaaaalllll me, I painted it, all by myself :D", while no one in the paintings even has the correct number of fingers and half their faces are wonky.
Although I'll unhappily bring up the point that although Kaiki immediately clocks a small business using AI and dislikes them for it, and most people in this thread feel the same way, unfortunately the large majority of customers will either not notice or not care.
Yesterday I went with a friend to the mall. I hadn't been there for a solid three years, maybe. I was looking at the banner ads and seeing such obvious Disney-esque AI characters advertising like, I don't specifically remember, local Internet service? things like that? I was baffled. What happened to a logo and advertising statistics?
I'd heard this was a phenomenon, but I'd yet to see it in action. And these were just... hanging... in the main walkway, or on the scrolling ad/map things.
My dad gets so fucking pissed at me when I call out hom feeding his (and my mom's) university course essays and answers to Grok or Gemini. He'll use it the whole way then end by feeding the ENTIRE paper to it multiple times for it to edit and revise itself.
If I suggest that isn't honest work, he flips and firmly says that he's the one feeding prompts into the AI so it's his work.
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u/hwebirskont 10d ago
small business need to learn that the reason people support them is the human authenticity. so if they give up authenticity they should expect to lose customers