Aurora 🐇🪽

One thing I don't understand from AI Slop VTubers is.. what is the point of alienating yourself from artists and tripling down on your use of it, especially when the AI bubble is popping? Every AI generation resource has been bleeding money at an exponential loss rate. ChatGPT is taking away many of the free usage options and operating on a token system now, due to their own financial losses. We've seen recently through reports that even Google itself is pulling back from AI usage because it's TOO costly for them. These AI corporations are bleeding billions of dollars, and they are barely staying afloat. Many of them have been on the brink of shutting down. Pair that with their resource guarding of RAM and storage (which isn't enough to keep it afloat btw they're constantly struggling to keep up with the demand) and the environmental impacts of the usage of AI.. the water pollution done in several towns across the globe that is having real life hazard effects? Regulation is being passed SWIFTLY to address it because it benefits nobody, even the corporations that made it. These blocks are making it harder for AI to even have the resources to serve you. That, and regulation is being discussed to cull artists in the databases to avoid copyright issues, because their art was used in the seeds without permission. That's a huge slice to its capabilities. Eventually, you won't be able to just click "generate prompt" for your slop content. You'll have to pre-load your token currency and wait an hour or two for your prompt to generate with visible mistakes or in a style you don't care for. Soon, this shit will get expensive enough that you're better off just paying an artist. But wait.. by then, all the reputable artists have blocked you or won't serve you, because you used AI. So then you'll be stuck in a loop - no artist worth their salt will want you to commission them, and certainly not for the prices you want to see. Because you showed your ass in a time where artists needed you most -- during a lot of economic recession and a time-period of AI use that prevents them from getting sales that keep food on their table. People aren't going to easily accept the "I was wrong pwease forgive me uwu I'm only baby" response when you've been barking up and down everyone's trees about how unbothered you are by AI or how great it is. It just burns so many bridges for yourself. These bridges being connections with artists and other content-creating vtubers who actually RESPECT people and their artists. These people won't want to stream with you or accidentally align themselves with your viewpoints. So again, what is the point? To save a few bucks while the janky AI machine is struggling to churn? Is it really worth the cost of worthwhile connections in the sphere?