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- Comment on Everyone has a phase 4 days ago:
It’s Swedish, I think.
- Comment on Everyone has a phase 4 days ago:
An actor is not the character they play.
- Comment on Everyone has a phase 4 days ago:
*Radcliffe
- Comment on 5 days ago:
ambitious
no multiplayer paywall
lol, fuck off. Better late than never, but this shit turned me away from consoles a long, long time ago.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 1 week ago:
Pointing out who is likely to be a fan of hers isn’t “blaming the victim”. It’s being realistic about what she has to deal with. It shouldn’t happen, but bad people exist. Can’t ignore that.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 1 week ago:
Shitty? Yes. “Enshitification”? No.
- Comment on Necesse Version 1.0 | Launch Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, so “boring” to just not say shitty, denigrating things out loud. Poor you. 🙄
- Comment on Necesse Version 1.0 | Launch Trailer 2 weeks ago:
So you get it’s a shitty thing to say, but you’re saying it anyway. Thanks for clarifying.
- Comment on The most valuable advertising keywords could be "ublock origin" 2 weeks ago:
Bookmark it. Or download a copy to have on hand locally.
- Comment on We'll be seeing an uptick in UFO sightings soon 2 weeks ago:
AI might hallucinate things that aren’t there when used in computational photography when it’s trying to fill in the gaps.
So it’s putting things that “aren’t there” in when it’s…filling in things that aren’t there? This is why “hallucinate” is such a problematic term. It obfuscates the fact that this is what these programs do with everything - they were designed from the start to make shit up. It’s not “hallucinating”, it’s fulfilling its core programming function.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Inb4 it’s just flame wars all the way down.
- Comment on Flashbacks scenes in Movies/TV should be depicted as being more blurry than present scenes, since most people can't actually remember a past event that accurately. 3 weeks ago:
They’re primarily a tool to remind audiences what happened/is relevant, but it’d definitely be interesting for a show to unceremoniously alter flashbacks in similar ways to how brains alter real memories.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 3 weeks ago:
I love containers, but it has a pretty frustrating and unfriendly ui. If something else allowed sorting and categorizing, I think that’d be an upgrade.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 3 weeks ago:
You’ve stated as much already. If we’re just repeating ourselves here, I’ll just copy-paste.
That you can’t see or appreciate the intent of the artist behind those doesn’t mean it’s not there or not important.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 3 weeks ago:
Agreed.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 3 weeks ago:
That you can’t see or appreciate the intent of the artist behind those doesn’t mean it’s not there or not important. Why they were made or how they are used in the end is not important. All that matters is how they were made.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 3 weeks ago:
the how is really quite irrelevant
That’s our point. The how is entirely relevant. It’s what makes art interesting and meaningful. Without the how and why, it’s just colors and noise.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 3 weeks ago:
The impact on livelihoods is important, but it’s ultimately unrelated to defining what art is. My consideration of art is not one born of fear of losing money, but purely out of appreciation for the craft. I don’t think it’s entirely fair to suggest all the criticisms against generated art is solely borne of self-preservation.
In regards to corporate “art”, all the things you listed, even stock images, are certainly not the purest form of artistry, but they still have (or, at least had) intent suffusing their creation. I suppose the question then is - is there a noticeable difference between the two for corporations? Will a generated logo have the same impact as a purposefully crafted on does? In my experience, the generated products I’ve noticed feel distinctly hollow. While past corporate assets are typically hollow shells of real art, generated assets are even less. They’re a pure concentration of corporate greed and demand, without the “bothersome” human element. Maybe that won’t matter in their course of business, but I think it might. Time will tell.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 3 weeks ago:
I made a comment about a week ago about how copying people’s art is still art, and it was a bit of an aha moment as I pinpointed for myself a big part of why I find image generators and the like so soulless, inwardly echoing a lot of what Inman lays out here.
All human made art, from the worst to the best, embodies the effort of the artist. Their intent and their skill. Their attempt to make something, to communicate something. It has meaning. All generative art does is barf up random noise that looks like pictures. It’s impressive technology, and I understand that it’s exciting, but it’s not art. If humans ever end up creating actual artificial intelligence, then we can talk about machine made art. Until then, it’s hardly more than a printer in terms of artistic merit.
- Comment on Exciting bat news!!! 3 weeks ago:
It’s a cutie, too.
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 3 weeks ago:
Two of the best games out there, and they both still hold up, imo. The original also recently got a graphics upgrade to put it in par with the sequel, which is nice.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 4 weeks ago:
They all value money over everything else, so that tracks.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 5 weeks ago:
Missed the news, eh?
- Comment on People with six fingers can get away with anything, because everyone will assume that any videos of them were AI-generated. 5 weeks ago:
There was a Radiolab podcast about people dealing with that. Sounds rough, hah.
- Comment on People with six fingers can get away with anything, because everyone will assume that any videos of them were AI-generated. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity 1 month ago:
I’m unsure if you’re speaking as a previous admin or just as a user, but if the latter, would it not have been easier to just block the user directly?
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 month ago:
…wut? The refrigerator has a gaming mode??
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 month ago:
Based on what?
You’re actively arguing for vote manipulation on the part of moderators.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 month ago:
It’s also blatant vote manipulation in keeping their personal content from being lower on the front page. Ban all the downvoters and suddenly your posts look very popular!
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 month ago:
I’m not talking about blocking users from seeing votes - the nature of federation requires, at the very least, that admins are able to see the data flowing into their instance, which includes voting records. From that point, all it takes at that point is a purpose-made instance to be spun up that will catalogue all the votes that it federates with and publish them. In fact I’m pretty sure this already exists.