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- Comment on Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song 1 week ago:
I don’t want any. :(
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
but I justify it by pointing to things like splatter or fluid acrylic painting.
The counter I would give here is that those are just techniques. The challenge, then, is whether the generation machine can be made to do things that are interesting and meaningful. I know it can produce spectacle, but spectacle and meaning are different concepts.
I don’t know much Pollock, but isn’t he valued largely for his process and expressionism? I’m not making this accusation of you, you do seem to actually care, but a lot of people who bring him up seem to think that his work actually is random and unintelligible—I don’t think that it is.
I will concede that the process of interacting with the generation machine to produce something is a creative one, I just don’t think it’s anywhere near what a lot of proponents claim it be.
I’ve used Suno, and my lasting impression of it is that it was fun, sometimes really funny, and overall kind of soul sucking. As a musician, there were essentially no times that I felt anything produced there was mine. It was just novelty. Some of it sounded really cool, but none of it was an expression of me or what I was really looking for.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I think that ultimately my push back is on the folks that argue that it can’t be art.
I’m not really jumping in on this discussion, but I did want to add one thing:
I can believe two things at once.
AI generated media can’t be art … because the whole purpose of a generative AI machine is to alleviate the burden of decision making. The fewer places you let something decide for you, the more “art” you can imbue into your project. Art is a communicative effort.
Artists can use AI generated media … but the points of interest, the meaning, would not (necessarily) be the decisions the machine made.
An example above, I forget if it was you or someone else, shows a pen sketch of a scene then filled in by the generator, and I think the artist there can be given credit for the perspective, the framing of the subject, the mech-suit, the sci-fi aesthetic; but I wouldn’t credit them with the tally marks on her left shoulder, or the shape details of her eyes, or the various light-up displays that dot the walls.
There’s also something to be said for choosing as opposed to creating outright, but I think we’re losing ourselves in myopic details at this point.
The bottom line is that, aside of any ethics issues, I’m not that upset about AI media that’s honest about what it is. I watch youtube channels that depend on AI for their performance art. But, AI proponents love selling this technology as a replacement for people, which is a sentiment I find… disgusting. Inhuman.
And, I find it really sad the way a person who spent the better part of their life perfecting a style and technique can be essentially shoved out of their own niche by the 10,000 style-copy images a generator can make in an afternoon. This isn’t like photography, where painters and camera-snappers can coexist in separate styles of image production: AI generators can replace both.
Sorry, I thought all that was going to be just two paragraphs.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t even make sense. Conservatives love, love, love AI.
Hey, does anyone remember that 500 billion dollar infrastructure package Trump wants to give AI companies? You should, it was two weeks ago.
- Comment on Double Date 2 weeks ago:
The new game is Miside.
The older one is Doki Doki Literature Club. - Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 1 month ago:
I’m sure your stocks will be fine.
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 1 month ago:
Yeeeeess. I need to install something that auto-removes google’s AI answer at the top of every page.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 3 months ago:
I don’t know the specifics, but there is such a thing as keyboard rollover. MOST KEYBOARDS—whoa, sorry. Most keyboards support up to 6 keys at once, but it might be that they’re still divided into sections with lower rollover numbers, such as the arrow keys and space. Some “gaming” keyboards support up to 25 though, so your best bet if this bothers you is just upgrading to a spiffier typer.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 3 months ago:
I do try.
Not very hard, but still.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 3 months ago:
There’s actually a neat reason for this! The way that simple keys work, like those in a calculator, is by connecting a circuit and letting a small amount of voltage through. This is usually fine because the keypad is broken up into different rollover zones, which is how multi-key input works. But if you find and press keys that are all in the same zone, their voltages add up and can actually overwhelm the little cpu in there. Really old calculators were really easy to break because designers never thought users would need to press keys like division, multiplication, subtract, add, square and square root all at once, which as you can imagine, caused a massive power spike.
Now, is any of this true? I have no idea dude, you’re calculator was probably fucking haunted or something. I’d have taken that thing to a seance with a ouija board immediately.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 3 months ago:
My favorite was MathAlly. I still have it through some built-in android backwards compatibility emulator, but once it goes, it goes. They haven’t been on the app store for years.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 months ago:
What, do you people own the word prompt now?
See, this piss-poor reading comprehension is why you shouldn’t let an LLM do your homework for you.
- Comment on Shigeru Miyamoto comments on AI, says "Nintendo would rather go in a different direction" 4 months ago:
This comment reminds me of when Bitcoin became the world’s dominant currency.
- Comment on Shigeru Miyamoto comments on AI, says "Nintendo would rather go in a different direction" 4 months ago:
Do you mean the voice of Mario…?
I do not want an AI voice to puppet his corpse for the next 150 years.
- Comment on That explains it. 4 months ago:
Being this unaccountable is why your kids don’t talk to you.
“Asherah, I’m sorry for being weirdly fixated on advice that doesn’t matter.” See, you could start there.
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 4 months ago:
I also noticed that they were talking about sending arguments to a custom function? That’s like a day-one lesson if you already program. But this was something they couldn’t find in regular search?
Maybe I misunderstood something.
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 4 months ago:
All right, I guess I’m here to collect then. We doin’ paypal or what?
- Comment on That explains it. 4 months ago:
Just cant resist provoking hostility to feed that persecution complex, can you.
See, this is unhinged. You’ve been antagonizing them this entire time.
You’ve criticized them for bringing up rape, and yet you just can’t seem to leave them alone, can you? Weird.
Some poor sap has come in here just to say something like “McDonald’s shouldn’t run their coffee machine so god damn hot if it’s going to fuse labia together,” and you’ve come in to correct the record: “Hm. Well. Actually, the only safe way to handle hot coffee is not to buy one. I’m very smart.” Cool. Thanks, dude. I don’t know what that has to do with anything, but I’m glad the abstinence-only sex ed seems to be working for you.
- Comment on That explains it. 4 months ago:
But if said old men decide to comment something like, “would love to squirtle on those jigglypuffs” on the revealing image, we’re suddenly entering nonconsensual territory.
I would love to know which women are set off by this.
- Comment on That explains it. 4 months ago:
Man, you must tell a lot of women online that their titties are bumpin’.
- Comment on louder for those in the back 4 months ago:
Thank you linking me to Wikipedia.
- Comment on louder for those in the back 4 months ago:
It’s like those lies people would throw around to create fear like fascists do with minority groups.
Dude, that’s so right. You should take that to the holocaust museum.
- Comment on louder for those in the back 4 months ago:
the same arm xD
- Comment on That explains it. 4 months ago:
That’s right! Exactly.
For instance, this is public, and if a bunch of random weirdos came in here and started saying things like “whoa, who let the monkey out of his cage?” or “I’m about to put something on his public platform = 1,000 unsolicited dicks,” there’s absolutely nothing you, or I, can do about that—and it would be wrong to do anything, of course!
You’re cool, man, you get it.
- Comment on Thank you! 5 months ago:
It isn’t coffee. That’s about a -31 on the “what kind of coffee is this” scale.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 5 months ago:
Your taxes pay for the library.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 5 months ago:
Arguing why it’s bad for society for machines to mechanise the production of works inspired by others is more to the point.
I agree, but the fact that shills for this technology are also wrong about it is at least interesting.
Rhetorically speaking, I don’t know if that’s useless.
Computers think the same way boats swim. Arguing about the difference between hands and propellers misses the point that you don’t want a shrimp boat in your swimming pool. I don’t care why they’re different, or that it technically did or didn’t violate the “free swim” policy, I care that it ruins the whole thing for the people it exists for in the first place.
I do like this point a lot.
If they can find a way to do and use the cool stuff without making things worse, they should focus on that.
I do miss when the likes of cleverbot was just a fun novelty on the Internet.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 5 months ago:
If I as a human want to learn a subject from a book, I buy it
xD
That’s good. - Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 5 months ago:
It’s not because what they’re against is the consolidation of power.
If the principle “information is free” can lead to systems where information is not free, then that’s not really desirable, is it.
If free information to inspire more creative works can lead to systems with less creative works, then that’s not really desirable, is it.
- Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭? 5 months ago:
Oh, I’m well aware.
I wrote up a long reply to someone who essentially said “emojis don’t add meaning” about how this willful, and I do mean willful, ignorance about a medium of communication is kind of like rejecting the invention of technicolor film for being a frivolous gimmick. It’s a silly position to have, and I might even argue anti-intellectual.
Buuut I didn’t want to seem like I was picking on the poor guy, so I didn’t send, haha.