ClamDrinker

@ClamDrinker@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hijiri in the city sky⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a cool idea for a drawing~

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s in part because they see their future through the lens of them oppressing objective developments, so EVs and batteries will never happen in that fantasy. They took a liking to AI for example despite it being relatively new development purely because it helped them in that department. They will only embrace something if it’s ‘their’ idea, and they have a lot of shitty ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While that’s true, why is YouTube’s response to kill it as quickly and silently as possible? Like, I get that sometimes you’ll have to drop support for things, but there should be a phase out period during which people can either backup and re-upload videos with those captions to preserve them. They could and should honestly provide support for that.

  Now they are literally decimating people’s hard work and on top of that pissing off actual partners. Not saying it will be successful, but cutting into people’s business like that is the kind of thing you can get sued over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a great idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t a conspiracy, nor a secret, and nobody is claiming it is. It’s just psychology for the sake of profit maximization, which literally every company that likes to make a profit participates in. Why are you winding yourself up so much over something so uncontroversial?

  You should go work in retail for a year or two, because then you will know this isn’t exactly uncommon knowledge and even the people stocking the shelves know about it. Hell people that understand psychology need to shop too, so they know it too as they move through the store. If it’s a conspiracy to you, that says more about you than anybody else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a great idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are not everyone. It doesnt have to work on everyone to be effective. And at the end if you want to reject it or not, it’s there, you can read up on it if you didnt already make up your mind. For grocery stores, it’s about large sums of money, so they do care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  An important feature is that you can basically download (and thus, own) the music you pay for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a great idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You really should look into it more (it’s not a secret if you look for it) because OP is right. Yes, they’re selling thousands of things BUT they’re also designing that space to make you take as long as possible to get through it. The answer for why that is, is simple. People buy more. You don’t have to have an “issue” navigating with it, because you just don’t notice if you spend 5 minutes more walking through the place. If it was so egregious to be noticed easily by people, they would stop coming and the benefit evaporates. So it’s a balance.

  It’s not even that, grocery stores bake bread and spread bread smell since it perks people up and makes them more willing to spend, play specific music that calms and soothes you so you’ll walk slower. When you walk into a grocery store, you are walking through a highly specialized environment to maximize profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you might misunderstood what Bandcamp is aiming for here. They’re explicitly trying to still allow it when humans are using it (responsibly) as tools. This is essentially a ban on AI where no human is involved (or not involved enough), where the music produced is focused on quantity over quality (slop). That’s a fine and nuanced distinction for a music distribution platform in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt they would just blanket scan all music and ban that which they think is AI (aside from how that’s practically impossible). That’s the kind of thing a lazy big tech company would do. I wouldn’t be surprised if this will just end up being on a report basis, at the very least with human verification once steps like banning would be taken. Because otherwise it would be pretty disastrous for the reasons you mentioned, since it would ban legitimate artists. Not to mention the bar of “substantially AI” would need to be judged by someone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, no worries, none taken. Have a good one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wise use of Gaps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just love the idea that Yukari puts entirely too much effort into learning a random hand skating trick, just to piss off Reimu in style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not quite sure what you’re trying to say. The article literally says:

  Bandcamp’s policy targets the latter end of that spectrum while leaving room for human artists who incorporate AI tools into a larger creative process. Which is what I’m applauding and affirming, so I’m not sure what you’re saying I’m saying is opposite to what the article says.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good on them on recognizing that slop is undesirable and shouldn’t be encouraged, but that a full ban also kills the nuance of creative freedom and creates painful situations where a single AI tool anywhere in the process (even indirectly) gets hard work rejected, which could hamper aspiring creatives in their ability to (start to) make a living when they are not what (most) people have issue with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, asset flips or pure ai slop are often not something you would consider a ‘real game’. They are closer to a scam than anything. And they certainly wouldn’t be published by a reputable publisher. I think that’s also what OP was referring to, a game that meets some minimal level of development and involvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kind of a chicken and the egg problem though, that happens on any new place, so it’s tough to sell them on that unless they already like what’s being talked about. I think it’s probably better to stick to the fundamentals of the fediverse and what makes it better than a centralized platform. In this phase of Lemmy’s popularity we need people that stick around and build communities, and they can only really be enticed to do that based on the merits of the platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tankie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty interesting. And I totally agree with your last part. One counterpoint I would have is that local models are often more efficient though, and there’s very little checking you can do on how much your query actually costs in the cloud, while using it at home you can monitor your GPU usage and your power bill. But yeah at the end of the day using it as little as possible is a good habit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tankie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does not but that wasn’t my point. It was that that not all forms of AI usage are the same. The same way someone driving around an EV that they charge with solar power isn’t the same as someone driving a 1969 oil guzzler (or something equivalent). Local usage more often than not means efficient models, low energy consumption, and little difference to other computer tasks like gaming or video editing. But when the conversation is around AI, there is always the explicit expectation that it’s the worst of the worst all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tankie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The existence of offline models highlights a nuance that some people deny even exists though, causing people to talk around one another. I wish it would be more widely acknowledged, as it would make some around AI conversations easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s truth to that currently yeah. I think my points still stand as well though, and in the long run you will still be out worse even if the upfront cost is currently cheaper. It also just seems contrary to the free and open nature of Linux, but if you don’t already own something you can upgrade and are currently strapped for cash, fair enough. But that’s also not going to change if you sink 400-500 dollars into it and that’s your budget for the next 5 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just… don’t by consoles at all. Buy a mini PC (which you can upgrade too) or wait for the Steam Cube? Why still funnel money into a company that seems to be adamant that it owns that machine (and lets be honest, could try and use any kind of kill switch or safeguard to stop you from doing so) and will wield your money as a weapon against you. It’s like soliciting a stalker because you enjoy receiving random gifts in the mail with totally no strings attached.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Among games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hate to say it, but you might be missing out on something you won’t ever be able to experience. It’s like with episodic releases of TV shows, half the fun is sitting with friends discussing and overthinking what just happened while you wait for the next episode. Being there too long after community wide revelations, you can’t experience that head space of mystery and surprise again. Deltarune handles the episodic releases very well honestly, I’d understand if it was a series of bad partial releases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not completely true. It just needs to be data that is organic enough. Good AI generated material is fine for reinforcement since it is still material (some) humans would be fine seeing. So more like: it needs to be human approved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s really no good way - if you act normal they train on you, and if you act badly they train on you as an example of what to avoid.

  My recommendation: Make sure its really hard for them to guess which you are so you hopefully end up in the wrong pile. Use slang they have a hard time pinning down, talk about controversial topics, avoid posting to places easily scraped and build spaces free from bot access. Use anonimity to make you hard to index. Anything you post publicly can be scraped sadly, but you can make it near unusable for AI models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s always just people that mess up on the form. But they also monitor the sign rate and saw some periods of higher than normal signing in the middle of the night in the EU - indicating someone might have ran a bot to sign with invalid information. The EU only validates the signatures once the petition is closed, so they need a safe margin where even with a significant amount of invalid signatures, they still make it. Afaik 1.2 mil is about what they would expect for a normal vote of this size to be safe, and 1.4 mil is basically more than enough to compensate for any bad actors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ross explained it in his last video - there are reasons to be skeptical and unsure if it’s truly there until at least 1.4 mil signatures. And more votes is never bad. So both need more attention. If it reaches people in the EU it will also reach those in the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This so very much. I’ve been saying it since 2020. People who think the big corporations (even the ones that use AI), aren’t playing both sides of this issue from the very beginning just aren’t paying attention.

  It’s in their interest to have those positive to AI defend them by association by energizing those negative to AI to take on an “us vs them” mentality, and the other way around as well. It’s the classic divide and conquer.

  Because if people refuse to talk to each other about it in good faith, and refuse to treat each other with respect, you can keep them fighting amongst themselves, instead of banding together and demanding realistic, and fair policies in regards to AI. This is why bad faith arguments and positions must be shot down on both the side you agree with and the one you disagree with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A court will decide such cases. Most AI models aren’t trained for this purpose of whitewashing content even if some people would imply that’s all they do, but if you decided to actually train a model for this explicit purpose you would most likely not get away with it if someone dragged you in front of a court for it.

  It’s a similar defense that some file hosting websites had against hosting and distributing copyrighted content (Eg. MEGA), but in such cases it was very clear to what their real goals were (especially in court), and at the same time it did not kill all file sharing websites, because not all of them were built with the intention to distribute illegal material with under the guise of legitimate operation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I add 4. the integrated video downloader actually downloads videos, in whatever format you would want, and with no internet connection required to watch them. This to me is still the biggest scam ‘feature’ of Youtube Premium. You can ‘’‘download’‘’ videos, but not as eg. an mp4, but as an encrypted file only playable inside the Youtube app, and only if you connected to the internet in the last couple of days can you play it.

  That’s not downloading, that’s just jacking my disk space to avoid buffering the video from Youtube’s servers. That’s not a feature, that’s me paying for Youtube’s benefit.

  I cancelled and haven’t paid for Premium in years because of it. When someone scams me out of features I paid for, I don’t reward that shit until they either stop lying in their feature list, or actually start delivering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Zun Slop" post⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting that I’m not the only one that remembers the days of digital artists being considered as “cheap”, “worthless” or “cheating”. I found an old reddit threads that discussed it roughly just before genAI became a thing, and I could see the exact same things being said for the more reasonable AI usage these days: reddit.com/…/is_there_a_stigma_around_photoshop_n…

  It just ends up being a ‘well known secret’ among professionals, and capitalism will find a way to monetize the hatred of those not in the know (willingly, or unknowingly) anyways. It’s fueled a long history of the “I can pay artists very little because their work is incredibly easy with Photoshop anyways!” mentality too, which ends up harming artist’s wallets too.

  Those who claims to be artists by sharing raw generated images will remain frauds, and those who manages to integrate gen AI in their artist pipeline will be able to create better art pieces.

  This is just a great point imo. And it’s why we should encourage truthfulness. In my opinion, while there are roads to be an artist that uses AI in their process, just like picking up a camera can lead to becoming a photographer, that’s not a given just because you have access to it. You will still have to imprint the work with your artistic spirit, and if the AI does all the work for you rather than assist you in line with your creative decisions, you just don’t fit my definition of an artist, even if the result looks good.

  I hope in a way that ZUN will have ended up making this topic more approachable by choosing to come out and explain them publicly. It’s hard to ignore or reject ZUN’s prior works without AI. Maybe it will cause Touhou to be among the first communities to move past absolutist stances fueled by hate into more understanding and productive nuanced stances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Zun Slop" post⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The topic is definitely interesting to discuss in good faith, so I think it was great to post it for that reason. But yes my tone was mostly directed to the specific mentality shown in the main url. It’s still very interesting material to read for the rest, so thank you for posting anyways.