MeaanBeaan

@MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the lifestyle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Coraline

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, why would I give a shit? Let them die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “And this kids is why you need to be very careful when operating the band saw.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not. They’ve definitely lost lawsuits before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m the Republican Governor of Ohio. Here Is the Truth About Springfield.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the Cognitive Dissonance here is palpable. He really got nolstagic for Nixon coming to his hometown when he was a kid?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Celebrate Pokémon Emerald’s 20th with Stunning Art ROM Hack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

  “I should call her.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This process is akin to how humans learn by reading widely and absorbing styles and techniques, rather than memorizing and reproducing exact passages.

  Machine learning algorithms are not people and are not ingesting these works the same way a person does. This argument is brought up all the time and just doesn’t ring true. You’re defending the unethical use of copyrighted works by a giant corporation with a metaphor that doesn’t have any bearing on reality; in an age where artists are already shamefully undervalued. Creating art is a human process with the express intent of it being enjoyed by other humans. Having an algorithm do it is removing the most important part of art; the humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3: Patch 7 Now Live!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My Durge run has been pretty fun. Cut off Gail’s hand when he was reaching out of that rock and never had to deal with him again. So that was cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Mario Sunshine’s Biggest Mod Now Ready for Download⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo really only has a history of taking down fan remakes of existing Nintendo games or games that are charging money. They’ve never to my knowledge had a free fan game or romhack taken down nor do I think they’d have any sort of legal grounds to do so even if they wanted to. And this essentially boils down to a ROM hack. Which is almost certainly completely safe from Nintendo’s lawyers since it doesn’t contain any Nintendo made assets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Educational⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just yesterday I was playing the Batman telltale series. In it, Mayor Dent, during his descent into becoming Two Face, blows up a city block in Gotham in an attempt to thwart a terrorist organization. Two Face was put in a mental asylum for the action. I vote we do the same thing to Netanyahu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just ads, but also unactionable anaphylaxis! It’s a steal really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enemies of glory have no honor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet she’d be a kick as klingon actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not on this planet… Yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to last-gen consoles next month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Without checking I’m going to go out on a limb and say no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ID Scanners Can Change How Your Local Bar Treats You—and Whether It Lets You In.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck no you can’t take my picture to share with 2000 other establishments to see if I’ve been a bad boy. That’s an easy way to ensure I just don’t hang out in your bar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is completely and utterly your own opinion, not a fact. I know several people who can’t draw for shit, due to various reasons, but now AI allows them to create images they enjoy. One of them has aphantasia (They literally cannot imagine images).

  Never claimed it wasn’t an opinion. And I fully acknowledge that tools can make creating art easier. Hell, I even support the use of machine learning tools when making art. When used as tools and not as a means of creating art wholesale they can enable creativity. But, I’m sorry, writing a text prompt for an AI to produce an image is not making art (for the person writing the prompt). It’s writing a prompt. In the same way that a project manager writing a brief for a contract artist to fullfil is also not creating the art. The AI is producing the art (and by extension the artists who created the works the AI was trained off of). Your friend with aphantasia is not.

  This is basically trying to argue there’s only 1 correct way to make “art”, which is complete and utter bullshit. Imagine trying to say that a sculpture isn’t art because it was 3D printed instead of chiseled. It makes 0 sense for the method of making the art to impact whether or not it is art. “Expression” can take many forms. Why is this form invalid?

  Again, I never said any form of art was invalid. Not even AI art. Nor do I think AI art isn’t art. AI art is perfectly capable of creating something worthwhile by means of its content. It’s basing it’s output on worthwhile works of art created by people after all. I’m merely arguing AI art is unethical. If you made a mural out of the blood of children you murdered it’d still be art. But it sure as shit wouldn’t be ethical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could say that about literally all art

  Except I couldn’t. Because a person being influenced by an artwork and then either intentionally or subconsciously reinterpreting that artwork into a new work of art is a fundamentally different thing from a power hungry machine learning algorithm digesting the near entirety of modern humanity’s art output to churn out an image manufactured to best satisfy some random person’s text prompt.

  They’re just not the same thing at all.

  The whole purpose of art is to be an outlet for expressing ourselves as human beings. It exists out of this need for expression; part of what makes a work worth appreciating is the human person(s) behind that said work and the effort and skill they put into making it.

  …and this is the crux of it - it’s not anything related to the actual content of the image, it’s simple protectionism for a class of worker. Basically creatives are seeing the possibility of some of their jobs being automated away and are freaking out because losing jobs to automation is something that’s only supposed to effect manufacturing workers.

  Yes it has nothing to do with the content of the image. I never claimed otherwise. In fact AI art sometimes being indistinguishable from human made art is part of the problem. But we’re not just talking about automating someone’s job. We’re talking about automating someone’s passion. Automating someone’s dream career. In an ideal world we’d automate all the shitty jobs and pay everyone to play guitar, paint a portrait, write a book, or direct a film. Art being made by AI won’t just take away jobs for creatives, it’ll sap away the drive we have as humans to create. And when we create less our existence will be filled with even more bleakness than it already is.

  Again, the argument is it’s nothing to do with the actual result, but with it being done by an actual human as opposed to a mere machine. A pixel for pixel identical image create by a human would be “art” by virtue of it being a human that put each pixel there?

  I’m not certain I understand what you’re asking. But If the human is the one making the decision on where to put the pixel then yeah that would be fine. But at no point am I arguing about whether or not AI art is “art”. That would just be a dumb semantic argument that’d go nowhere. I’m merely discussing why I believe AI art to be unethical. And the taking away work from creatives point is only one facet as to why I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see this argument a lot as a defense for AI art and I see a couple major flaws in this line of thinking.

  First, it’s treating the AI art as somehow the same as a dirivitive (or parody) work made by an actual person. These two things are not the same and should not be argued like they are.

  AI art isn’t just dirivitive. It’s a Frankenstein’s Monster of a bunch of different pieces of art stitched together in a procedural way that doesn’t credit and in fact obfuscates the original works. This is problematic at best and flat out dishonest thievery at worst. Whereas a work made by a person that is dirivitive or parody has actual work and thought put into it by an actual person. And would typically at least credit the original works being riffed on. This involves actual creative thought and human touch. Even if it is dirivitive it’s unique in some way simply by virtue of being made by a person.

  AI art cannot and will not ever be unique, at least not when used to just create a work wholesale. Because it’s not being creative. It’s calculating and nothing more. (at least if we’re talking about current tachnology. A possible future General AI could flout this argument. But that would get into an AI personhood conversation not really relevant to our current machine learning tech).

  Secondly, no one is worried that some hypothetical shitty AI video is going to somehow usurp the work that it’s stealing from. What people are worried about is that AI art is going to be used in place of hiring actual artists for bigger projects. And the fact that this AI art exists solely because it’s scraped the internet of art from those same artists now losing their livelihoods makes the tech incredibly fucked up.

  Now don’t get me wrong though. I do believe machine learning has its place in society. And we’ve already been using it for a long time to help with large tasks that would be incredibly difficult if not impossible for people to do on their own in a bunch of different industries. Things like medicine research in the pharmaceutical sector and fraud monitoring in the banking sector come to mind.

  Also, there is an argument to be had that machine learning algorithms could be used as tools in creating art. I don’t really have a problem with those use cases. Things that come to mind are a bunch of different tools that exist in music production right now that in my opinion help in allowing artists to fulfill their vision. Watch some There I Ruined It videos on YouTube to see what I mean. Yeah that guy is using AI to make himself sound like other musicians. But that guy also had to be a really solid singer and impressionist in the first place for those songs to be any good at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space Marine 2 Devs Cancel Beta To Focus On 'Best' Possible Launch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that not the purpose of a beta? That doesn’t seem like a good sign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit. Completely forgot about rollcage. Wild to me that anyone remembers that game enough to make a spiritual successor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh. This looks great. Thank you for sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI as in machine learning? No I dont think that’s bad. It’s a very useful technology that we’ve already been using for decades in a bunch of different fields. But I’m assuming you’re referring to LLMs which are what’s being integrated into Firefox.

  I would argue that LLMs ARE bad. For multiple reasons. At least the big ones run by these giant tech companies.

  If you’re locally running one with training data provided by you then I don’t see an issue with that really. (except maybe energy consumption issues. Though I don’t imagine a personal use LLM run locally would draw anywhere near the energy that something like Chat Gpt is drawing.)

  I’m very much on the side that believes that what these LLM models do essentially boils down to theft/plagiarism though. So if you disagree with that you may disagree that LLMs are bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did. I’m not needing to switch. At least not right now. (hence the ‘may’ in my original comment) But given the Laura Chambers interim CEO thing and now this LLM integration. Mozilla seems to be making moves that I don’t agree with. But as long as they stay true to their key tennents I won’t need to switch. Which would be good. Because I really don’t want to. But I’ve seen a enough good companies become bad companies that I’m weary for the future of the app. So being aware of what alternatives may be out there would be helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Changes in Forza Horizon 4’s Festival Playlist and Delisting from Digital Stores. | Forza⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was going to be upset because I played the game through game pass and bought the Lego dlc for it but not the actual game. Looks like they’re sending out free copies of the game if you are in the same boat. So that’s good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone have any other good suggestions for Firefox alternatives? Sounds like I may be needing to switch soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Official Trailer and Key Art for Season 2 of Animated Series Star Trek: Prodigy Is Here⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, are you the t-shirt guy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I do genuinely think the pocket operators are cool. At least I did when I thought they were cheap. Had no idea they got that expensive. Though that’s obviously not at all expensive when you’re talking about audio gear. So I’m willing to give them a modicum of leeway there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imo TE has always been a shady company in terms of business decisions. I still for the life of me cannot understand why the OP-1 is over 2 grand. It’s a music making machine with a cruddy keybed that’s not even volocity sensitive that’s also intentionally limited in terms of how you can use it.

  Now, don’t get me wrong. I definitely think it’s a cool little device capable of doing cool things. But there’s no way in hell this tiny thing is worth 2k. You can spend 1/4th of the price on something like an elektron Digitakt or a polyend play and get very similar functionality in an arguably better more robust package.

  TE are a boutique company that intentionally releases overpriced products so they can have this reputation of being a “premium” company. Just like Apple. If it weren’t for their pocket operators (which are arguably closer to being toys than actual audio equipment) I wouldn’t think they’d have anything remotely worth buying.

  Side note: the playdate looks adorable. But, similarly to the OP-1, is very overpriced for what it does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IA aka Inept Assholes