petrol_sniff_king

@petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ghibli posting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know that thing our colelctive parents do when they want to win an argument so they just start attacking you for random things you did 6 years ago? That’s exactly what this person is doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horses ARE Forever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh. I’m gonna guess no. Is there an anime lady with robots?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horses ARE Forever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  God, this image is cool. Very NaissancE, if you’ve ever played that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Human beings have a soul you can appeal to?
  Not every single one, but enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do tell!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha ha! We got this one for free!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This speaks for itself⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do think they have an obligation to be pretty. Pretty things make people happy. It’s a contribution to the social project we’re all working on.

  A walkable city, not that a McDonalds drive-thru is specifically part of that, should have greenery, places to hang out, and pretty buildings to look at. People should like being wherever they happen to be.

  The main reason this McDonalds looks like this is austerity. At least I think so. Big gray cubes are cheap to build and easily templateable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I run on AMD or Intel, so uh, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got sum Zucc?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit that’s scary

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuked from orbit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  > calls people media illiterate
  > says other people are being too hostile

  My god, that was a good laugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuked from orbit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Elon actually hands these out to people who don’t want them because they were unpopular and an easy means of telling chuds apart from… uh, chads? There’s a good chance hers is a forced advertisement and not something she’s actually paying for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want any. :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure your stocks will be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 1 Reddit Refugee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeeeeess. I need to install something that auto-removes google’s AI answer at the top of every page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calcrelatable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do try.

  Not very hard, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calcrelatable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.