zazo
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- Comment on Using The Wind And Magnets To Make Heat 1 week ago:
Isn’t this just a DIY brushless dynamo? Am I missing something? Still cool tho
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 1 month ago:
If you don’t think building chairs or sculptures requires solving “intellectual” challenges you’ve never tried building a completely wooden multi-axial interlocking joint furniture…
- Comment on UK judge cast doubt on the existence of climate crisis 3 months ago:
I guess we’ll have to start calling it the environmental calamity? or how about we’re-all-going-to-boil-to-death-because-of-dumb-fucks-that-are-too-stupid-to-be-allowed-anywhere-near-positions-of-power or is that a tad too long?
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 5 months ago:
My dude, my grandfather got fired after the collapse of the soviet economy because “artist” wasn’t a productive enough job to be kept around, but he still made art for 20 years after without getting paid because his purpose in life was to create art, not to sell it.
And sure the theft argument would be valid, but that’s a strawman, because Adobe have already trained their own image gen model on fully licensed images and real life artists are already paying money to use it, so they must see the value in it.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 5 months ago:
But like, it will happen anyways. You can’t stop Musk from shoving Grok down everyone’s throats and firing 80% of his work force to replace them with AI drones.
If we saw the potential in these tools, and decided as a society to just let the machines do all the stuff we don’t want to do, and we all got to do whatever meaningful beautiful things our hearts wanted, then sure.
Yes, literally this, my argument is literally we use all our efforts to fight for this, as making something beautiful out of a shit situation is literally all life has and I feel always will be.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 5 months ago:
Any artist who stops being an artist because someone else can put words into a computer and get a big tiddy goth gf pic out, wasn’t really that interested in making art in the first place.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 5 months ago:
That’s a good attitude to have and I’m not advocating for putting down our arms and waiting for big tech to steamroll us all.
But as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, the people making the AI models are fully aware they are contributing to a technology that will take away their own jobs, because they think that it will create other, even more interesting jobs in the process. (see trad artists swearing off photography in it’s early days because it was “mechanical and soulless”, only to realize it’s creative potential years later)
My advice would be to continue being aware of the negative history of things, but don’t let it blind you to the positive aspects either.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 5 months ago:
See, that’s the crux of the argument I feel. You can’t have one without the other, you can’t have voice generation for the mute without that technology also displacing voice actors in the process.
That’s why I think the Luddite approach doesn’t work, we can’t forcefully break the machines that are capable of so much good because they’re also capable of so much bad.
Instead we should focus on helping those that are most negatively impacted by their existence, while supporting everyone that is already being positively affected by them. (like the UBI mentioned in my other comment)
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 5 months ago:
It’s fine to get paid for your skills, but from experience I can say that developing skills just to get paid is also rather soulless.
Since, sure, I can bet there’re furry artists that love drawing sexy tigers to bits, but I can guarantee there’s a not-so-small percentage that would much rather draw something else, but the yiffing money is too good to pass up on.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 5 months ago:
Do you think the software engineers who are developing the AI models (which have been trained on freely given away code) are just stupid and are willingly creating a machine that will take away their jobs because they don’t understand the impacts? Or could it be that they do understand the stakes, but continue on despite that because of (as you mention) the unfathomable good the technology can bring? I would hope most people would be willing to sacrifice their wellbeing now for the betterment of everyone else in the future.
If you’re still understandably worried tho - just start a garden and begin building tightly knit communities now, since you never know when a solar flare will wipe all our technological progress away…
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 5 months ago:
Ah yes, because the favorite part of the process for every artist is the hours spent going back and forth with their client touching up the most minor details instead of creating art they actually want to make…
Idk, I feel AI art only affects commercial artists who first and foremost care about making money off their art form. The ones that actually make art for the love of the craft (without expectation of getting anything in return) aren’t really affected in any way.
TL;DR Let UBI free artists from the capitalistic yoke and let the oligarchs use AI to automate the soulless part of art creation that nobody enjoys anyways.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 5 months ago:
Look I’m not supporting mega rich assholes extracting even more from working people, but would you use the same argument for textile weavers and the Jacquard loom? Sure a lot of people lost their jobs at the time, but most, if not all, respecialized and we got computers in the end so would you say it wasn’t good progress? 🤷
- Comment on Different social class different rules 6 months ago:
You don’t genuinely believe the US cares about Israel and doesn’t just give out trillions of their defense budget so they have a strong foothold in the middle east to prevent the caliphates from uniting, do you?
- Comment on Different social class different rules 6 months ago:
Oh oh, are we on Jeopardy! I’ll take “Brutal Middle Eastern Imperialistic State” for 500, Alex!
- Comment on US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art 9 months ago:
Software Engineers have entered the chat
- Comment on Success Saturday - 2nd September 2023 9 months ago:
lol was not expecting to see an Osie in the wild - that in and of itself is a pretty dece win