After a long period of inactivity, I hopped back onto Spacehey to make a bulletin about how I moved accounts (to here). Out of curiosity I poked around a bit, checked on what folks were blogging about…
The top blog (as of writing this) is this:
On surface level, this is factually incorrect. And it is disturbing the amount of users that have sited this single blog post as truth. That some blank account (run by a 16 year old) makes one claim (with zero evidence besides that it looks like a clone of Spacehey) without any form of documentation of where the AI was used and how.
Saying that FR is an “obvious copy and paste” of Spacehey is ignoring the reason why Spacehey and websites like it exist. Because they are REFINED VERSIONS OF MYSPACE. MySpace has a recognizable look that you can’t really stray away from if you’re attempting to recreate the original.
There are probably tens of other MySpace clones that looks exactly like Spacehey. That’s the entire point of being retro.
I don’t care if it’s “bait”, it’s a very idiotic, low-effort post that somehow has gotten over 450 kudos.
It’s aggravating that the AI claim isn’t even specified, and people immediately panic at the mention of AI even being near a website.
AI is a complex tool used in multiple facilities that’s been around since the 1950s where it was born to amuse humans with chess games, to now being used in life-saving medicine.
By this logic, if we say that ALL artificial intelligence needs to be removed, then we can’t have smarter machines that can help detect cancer.
AI is a tool that can easily be turned into a weapon if in the wrong hands. I am appalled by the greed and destruction that is being caused due to mismanaged AI usage. The fact that generative AI is used for financial and advertising is a spit in the face for the act of human creation, and as an artist myself I am fearful for my future. I am disgusted by the amount of propaganda and hatred that is being generated from AI, and dear God I hope one day we won’t have all these polluting data centers.
