LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Camping with the far-right: What I learned from a year undercover 4 days ago:
These same people vote for trump and they would support Reform, to them Musk doing the nazi salute is a signal that it’s their time to take the stage.
- Comment on Tens of thousands protest Germany's far right as Musk backs AfD 4 days ago:
Too little too late. It’s all too late.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m sorry I don’t understand, when you say “my gf is dating me but she’s obsessed with dating guys.” Are you saying “other guys”, or are you not a guy?
Because you post on the bisexual community, but then you also say “she messages other guys.” so I’m just trying to get a clear picture here.
Either way you’re like 15? Just run. You got your whole life ahead of you. Trust me there’ll be plenty of people who will be nice to you. There’s plenty of fish in the sea, even if you’re queer (and I’m not really sure you are hence why I asked).
- Comment on Robot packers and AI cameras: UK retail embraces automation to cut staff costs 1 week ago:
What staff costs? They pay them like 10p for getting up at 6 in morning, half an hour before they’d gone to bed in their rolled up newspaper, then slice them in half with a breadknife and dance about on their graves.
- Comment on An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off 1 week ago:
Bleak as the world may be, Stewart’s writing always gets a smile and a laugh out of me. He’s got a remarkable ability to put the absurdity of our moment into simple and funny English, his famous “thrown in jail” sketch being perhaps the best example.
He’s absolutely right, too. We’re all here so on some level we already know that. This is no time to dilly-dally, we need to cultivate our alternative online spaces and cooperate and work together.
- Comment on Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination 2 weeks ago:
I’m curious - why would someone need to bloodlet? I’m ignorant AF on this but I thought this was like, dark ages medicine?
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 2 weeks ago:
I totally agree, I think to encourage enthusiasm for work he should make all his employees equal shareholders with a stake in the business so all can benefit and run brewdog as a worker owned co-op, but something makes me think he won’t.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 weeks ago:
We simply lose things that bring people joy and for what?
Why would you campaign to strictly make people less happy?
I disagree completely. Idk but creating beings millions of people joy, anything that democratizes it more accessible is a good thing. AI has absolutely brought many more people joy.
A world where a technology exists that can query the sum of human knowledge and skill to translate ideas into form but is gatekept because few people like feeling special is a horrifying dystopia and I can’t imagine how someone could be so fucking evil as to really wish for that.
Like really, I want to keep giving y’all benefit of the doubt that you simply don’t consider a perspective outside your own, but you don’t make it easy.
This technology makes some of those enjoyable jobs
Technology is what made those jobs enjoyable and accessible to those who do them now in the first place.
Nobody is forcing you to use AI or any technology, you can still farm goats and use them to make drums before you lay out a beat, people will probably be pretty impressed if you did that.
Why would you want to remove the jobs people enjoy and are passionate about just for the sake of it?
If they are passionate about their craft for the sake of it they will keep doing it, if they are doing it as a job then like with any other job market when new technologies or trends arrive they will have to adapt.
To put it in perspective with an analogy: It’s an absurd notion for instance that new programming languages should be banned not for their quality but simply because not every developer will learn them, and it’s an absurd notion that someone who loves programming in C for the sake of it cannot do so just because Java exists.
Having DAWs did not make it illegal to mess around with an old rompler and a step sequencer for the sake of it, nor did orchestra plugins eliminate violins, but market demands orchestral music done quicker, you either do this or don’t.
If it wasn’t for the horrible system we live in
This would be the case for every system that still has some market demands, even something like anarcho-communist cooperative based market economics would favour technological advancement and efficiency every time and some jobs would simply not be in demand any more.
There is simply no economic system that makes any sense where someone would need to hire an orchestra for every sting on kitchen nightmares instead of using a VST or sample library or now in the not too distant future - generating one.
I fully agree that we need to change the system to ensure when these technological advancements happen that people don’t end up on the street.
However, I’m sure most would agree that even though it was not fair to e.g. human computers, the move to electronic calculators is a net positive for society.
Similarly endlessly distributable digital copies of books etc. democratized media to a massive degree even if it put libraries at risk.
but it does not make life easier,
It definitely does make life easier for many artists, for instance you can upscale old media or restore media where the original was lost to time, game devs can use AI-generated assets for background stuff like adding nigh-infinite variety to textures that would be impractical for an indie dev to do or a sole dev can compensate for whatever skills they lack manually etc.
it does not get us better things
I think with regards to quality it’s completely value neutral, I’ve seen plenty of dogshit AI art, but also some really good unique stuff. I think it just follows Sturgeon’s Law.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 weeks ago:
My experience is simply the polar opposite of yours.
Most artists I’ve known are extremely upper class, at the very least they come from very privileged backgrounds, and usually had the safety net required to take gap years for unpaid apprenticeships or to start bands, have capital to invest and can afford to lose it, can live with parents and rely on them financially waiting for publishing deals or comissions money or adrev etc etc.
Come to think of it IRL I actually have never heard of a “working class” artist, other than in the strict Marxist sense in that they’re not an owner class.
Even if they work a low paying or shitty job part-time they almost always have very high QoL due to those privileged backgrounds. One guy who went into the arts I know has a day job that paid half mine out of the gate, but he had way more disposable cash because his parents paid his rent and bills.
I’m not saying that arts are just a passtime of the rich mind you, (though I do think the rabidly anti-ai types have a “fuck you got mine” streak) I think it’s survivorship bias ultimately, those who can be full-time or even decently part-time professional artists in some capacity are the ones who have privilege.
Meanwhile 99.9% of people in CompSci were the hustler-grindset type working folks trying to escape poverty or otherwise move up the ladder, either real career chasers who are all about networking or grifters/scammers/shady characters you’d see betting on horses and hanging out in money laundering candy/barbershops.
Most people had at least 1 job just to afford rent, many had 2 (uni is pretty much free here in the UK).
The only rich people were drug dealers in blacked out BMWs and Chinese immigrants with Rolexes and extremely strong spice vapes and no knowledge of English.
The remaining 0.1% were genuinely gifted kids who pursued PhDs and just nerds (me) and they were all usually not super well off locals or they were immigrants from shithole countries of families who could afford to send their kids overseas and not much else, where they prolly didn’t need to work semester time but they couldn’t fuck around either (also me).
Idk about Silicon Valley, I’m not American nor have been, from what I’ve seen people who talk about the “bay area” on Mastodon are either insufferable cunts or some kind of weird internet people/hacking savants/furries though.
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 3 weeks ago:
Oh dear. Well thanks!
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 3 weeks ago:
Idk I honestly don’t even know which iPhone is latest anymore, my gut says 8 but I know that there’s also iPhone X which was somehow the first one with an OLED screen and why I remember it.
Last one I owned was the 5S, great phone, but their branding and looks haven’t appealed to me since then.
- Comment on Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit 3 weeks ago:
Bruh. Meanwhile I’m still with my free and libre Mistral-7B I refined using my own WhatsApp messages and I almost never use it…
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 weeks ago:
So do you have a rebuttal or? Because this is the way I see it, using music because it’s what I know more:
I get an idea in my head for a melody or piece of music -> I either lay it out on an instrument or in a DAW piano roll or on paper -> I tweak and refine and add/remove elements -> I export the file and upload to a website.
The actual creative spark is the first step, the rest is a matter of speaking the language and skills at using the tools of choice to convey ideas clearly. Both are skills in and of themselves but one is about technique, the other is about a well-trained imagination and analytical mindset.
Prompts in that case are just another language like notes and scales. Then you add onto that LoRAs, controlnets, refiner models, custom refines of existing models, embeddings, weights, sampling steps, classifier-free guidance scale, and it’s quite a lot to actually learn and use effectively.
I don’t see how it’s any less creative whatsoever. Less skilled? Sure, absolutely, it can be. No denying there.
Maybe you could say it’s also less intentional, but plenty of art has unintentional elements which doesn’t make it any less creative.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 weeks ago:
Why don’t they then? And why do they now that AI is around?
Almost as if there’s a barrier to entry there for most people that’s been removed.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 weeks ago:
But the prompt is the creative aspect. It’s always the idea, and the rest is convention and form. And lol, modern poor aren’t going to have access to charcoal, paper, tine or a deathbed, but they’re going to have a smartphone, hence it does indeed make creative expression more accessible.
I’d never have even tried music if I couldn’t pirate a DAW, plugins etc etc.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 weeks ago:
They absolutely do all those things though? Like render farms consume fucktons of electricity and they absolutely rely on theft because every artist uses references not to mention asset packs etc. and you are absolutely posing as an expert on the subject feeding people misinformation without any AI (probably). I’m sure someone editing film would consider your optimised premiere stream deck a device for someone who’s “stopped thinking” as well, without any AI at all.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 weeks ago:
Eh, I make my own music and somewhat play guitar, I don’t even use samples because it feels personally a bit like cheating myself out of the most challenging and interesting part, though ofc plenty way more talented and successful musicians sample all the way, so it’s just a personal stance.
I’d say actually it’s that experience, just making art as self-expression that has thoroughly inoculated me against artbro talking points.
I’m not against creative industries, nor am I pro corpos, but AI is just a tool and now that anybody can make images, the drawing people seethe, sorry not sorry, I’d rather make creativity more accessible than please egos of a select few rich kid narcissists.
- Comment on AI Generated X 3 weeks ago:
This post reeks of Reddit 2.0 typical AI-bashing. I love AI and I’m glad this is a fun place free of corpo shills and useful idiot anprim types.
- Comment on AI Generated X 3 weeks ago:
Bro the only one wasting time here is you. I like AI content and come here for it.
- Comment on AI Generated X 3 weeks ago:
Why are you even here? This is the AI cave.
- Comment on I have a good feeling about this one. 3 weeks ago:
Oof man. I’m so sorry, that’s rough.
I’ve had to deal with similar things on a lesser degree in 2018, wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but what you’ve gone through does sound like genuine hell, and you’re one hell of a soldier for making it through, not to mention being able to talk about it like this to strangers on the internet, you’re amazing.
I hope you can get to a better place one day and that you have a good support network, this is heavy shit, a burden shared is a burden halved and all that. Hope 2025 gives you a break. Good luck!
- Comment on I have a good feeling about this one. 3 weeks ago:
No it’s objectively true :)
- Comment on I have a good feeling about this one. 4 weeks ago:
2015 - 2016 was rough… 2017 was pretty good, 2018-2019 were pretty awful especially the latter. 2020 was pretty decent but 2021 was better. 2022 was not good, 2023 was better, and 2024 was all around great but with some dark spots.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 4 weeks ago:
This just makes your house a target for robbery because the criminals who deliver on the side will think you have lots of money
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 4 weeks ago:
Americans be crazy. I never tipped in my life and ain’t about to start.
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 1 month ago:
I love dairy milk, especially and exclusively UHT Milk. But fuck the dairy industry so much.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
Average lemmy.world poster
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
Nothing new, they always had. This isn’t about that anyway
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 2 months ago:
I mean, maybe check the sources yourself, they’re pretty clearly linked and nicely arranged in a doc for you right under the video?
It’s astounding that here I am being humble enough to link a good explainer on the topic rather than being arrogant enough to link the primary sources as if I’m an expert on the subject capable of fully interpreting multiple papers, and here you are, dismissing one of the most well-respected science communicators on the planet today as a “YouTube cartoon”.
Is this why we live in a post-truth world, where folks with zero media literacy or critical thinking ability, think there is no difference between this and PragerU or between The Sun and The Guardian? It’s all just “cartoons” or “news” innit?
No wonder the country is in the fucking gutter.
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 2 months ago:
This is a good thing, I’m glad the public is accepting of this.
It’s time we move away from the Christian work ethic view of obesity as a personal and moral failing and follow the science - if you are fat, it’s mostly genetic because you are simply wired to be hungry more than your friends and these drugs fix that.
healthline.com/…/is-obesity-genetic-or-environmen…
According to a 2022 clinical reviewTrusted Source, more than 500 obesity-related genes have been identified in humans.
These genes can affect body weight in many ways. They can create changesTrusted Source in insulin metabolism, inflammatory responses, blood pressure, fat deposition, and the level of circulating fat in the bloodstream. They can cause you to want to consume more energy (i.e., food) but can prevent you from using it effectively.
Without them your choice is to be miserable (with all the MH outcomes that follow this long-term like depression) and hungry all the time, or to be fat and miserable due to obesity related illness like heart disease etc.
Instead of all that, we can simply block excess hunger, a trait once probably evolutionarily crucial yet no longer useful in the world of excess.
I’m someone who was overweight all my life until I started vaping, nicotine appetite suppression changed my life, I’m now skinny and by many of my ex-partners’ description pretty fit, to be treated not as some fat slob but as a human being that’s actually pleasant and even attractive is life-changing to my mental health and self-esteem, no longer is my body some wreck beyond salvation out of the gate but something I care about and for.
I hope for the same feeling for many others may come thanks to these exciting developments.
And not to get soapboxy for the moment but as usual, it turns out that blaming the “sick” for the “disease” was wrong and telling people to “eat less” or “exercise more” is as nonsensical as telling someone with ADHD to simply “focus” instead of giving them the amphetamine they need to make up for the low levels of dopamine they have - or even this country’s favourite passtime of denying gender dysphoria exists and that puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries fix it with non-existant regret ratss, as if simply fixing a patient’s problem with treatment is a crime.