people ask why I don’t like AI.

this. this is why I don’t like AI. not because I think it’s a danger to humanity, not because i’m just jumping on the bandwagon, but because it removes creativity.

yes, I got the memo that scratch won’t be adding generative projects.

but in general, I despise most generative AI platforms. they take away creativity from real artists and writers and the such, and they allow for the spread of misinformation much easier than before. the only type of generative AI that I’m fine with is the assistive AI that comes with some art programs, but only because they don’t generate pieces, they help the artist make pieces. at least it retains some of the originality and creativity.

and don’t even get me started on the people who get paid to “write prompts” for AI. It’s the stupidest, most low-effort job I’ve ever heard of.

(edit: i’m also okay with platforms like ChatGPT because they’re really just demonstrating what their model can do. they’re not trying to market it as a generative AI to solve all problems, they’re just trying to show people what they made.)

luckily it seems Scratch isn’t interested in adding script generation with AI

looks like 4.0 will probably just add different AI powered blocks/plugins, (edit: improved facial recognition, has been a feature since 2021) facial recognition being one of them on Scratch Lab, as well as body tracking and object detection

https://lab.scratch.mit.edu/face

https://raise.mit.edu/research-projects/creativity-with-scratch-and-ai/

https://resources.scratch.mit.edu/www/lessons/en/ScratchLearningResource_ScratchAILesson.pdf

Yay! New scratch upda—

AI? Really? AI? They want to inspire creativity and they are including AI? How on earth will AI help kids create? If anything, it will stop the learning process because, instead of creating art or code that is creative and requires skill, kids will just write a prompt.

in case you missed it

a new position on the scratch foundation’s website went up recently, and the job description confirms that scratch 4.0 is in development. says it’ll feature a “re-imagined online community and creative ai”… whatever that means

no word of a release date, but that’s understandable. i’m actually kind of excited for this, i feel like scratch’s online community hasn’t been working super well recently so hopefully this’ll fix some of those issues. as for the ai thing… please no. so many things can go wrong with that…

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59371b611e5b6cbaaa211ff9/t/67211c6ce386eb15e68bc5bb/1730223212541/Senior+Back-End+Engineer.pdf

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Why is Al generating images and I'm washing dishes. That's the opposite of what I want. I want ai to do dishes so I can generate images