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- Comment on And then I'll sell my AI, so everyone can make drawings - EVERYONE can be an artist! And when everyone's an artist... no one will be 4 days ago:
I have a different take.
AI today is basically a mechanical school. Students are trained to give a specific answer. This is at the heart of how all machine learning works, including generative AI. Even image generators do this.
“Here’s a million examples of what the pixelated representation of a hand looks like; now go and make a derivative copy.”
This is fine for objective facts, like physics and history. It is useless for art.
Merely drawing a hand is not art, it’s an objective truth (do typical humans have 5 or 6 fingers?). But art school is not about objective truths. Art school teaches creativity. Specifically challenging ideas and expression.
AIs can’t fundamentally challenge ideas and express themselves because they lack personal experience, personality and individuality.
Society at large has been fooled into thinking that speech (LLM) and other generative AI lead to AGI. But the reality is that these models have more in common with encyclopedias and stock image libraries than intelligence.
- Comment on MAZANOKE v1.1.0: Self-hosted local image optimizer in your browser — now supports HEIC, clipboard paste, and more 5 days ago:
Surely the SVGO package can be compiled into a browser bundle.
I might look into this myself…
- Comment on MAZANOKE v1.1.0: Self-hosted local image optimizer in your browser — now supports HEIC, clipboard paste, and more 6 days ago:
Does this support SVG, i.e. SVGOMG? If not, that’s a glaring omission.
- Comment on Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout 2 weeks ago:
Right. The only difference between a tariff and a VAT, is that the VAT applies to all products indiscriminately, where as a tariff only applies to imported goods.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 4 weeks ago:
Maybe keep your shitty politics out of your shitty product next time, and then you won’t face political consequences.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 month ago:
There’s a line to draw between exploiting tenants, and compensation for providing dwelling.
You might even argue the OP creates this ambiguity based on interpretation of the wording, or poor communication.
For a productive conversation, let’s be crystal clear where that line is drawn.
- Comment on Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies? 1 month ago:
Maybe it’s the other way around… Maybe people predisposed to being lied to will have political views that are that lie.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 month ago:
Americans don’t really value freedom. Not really. Americans pretend they like freedom, but they will give up all their freedoms for the slightest bit of convenience, and because social media told them so.
Am I talking about consumer electronics, or politics? Impossible to say.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 months ago:
US policy doesn’t get to dictate how websites operate in non US jurisdiction. The US acting like it gets to bully the rest world into doing whatever it wants is the whole issue at hand. That’s the point: the trump admin wants to use US influence to intimidate, bully, and antagonize other countries by disrespecting their sovereignty.
- Comment on 'Ending that completely': Facebook gets rid of fact-checkers in wake of Trump's election 3 months ago:
The generation that warned their children about brain rot have succumbed to that brain rot.
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 2: Electric Boogaloo 3 months ago:
Oh well. Federation makes this a non issue.
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 3 months ago:
Tobacco company selling cigarettes to kids. More at 11.
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 3 months ago:
I’m pretty liberal and haven’t had much issue with lemmy.ml. Stay away from lemmygrad.
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 3 months ago:
Been on Lemmy since the App/API ban. Haven’t looked back at reddit since, other than the occasional search result pointing to someone’s q&a.
Side note, anyone else tired of all the sanitized AI slop that pervades search results? The only websites worth visiting these days are user forums (incl. reddit/Lemmy) and wikipedia.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 months ago:
There is no justice in the US right now. Why bother holding this person accountable when we can’t even hold the highest position in the land accountable for their crimes. The social fabric is unraveling.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
First we learned that idiocracy was a documentary. Now we are learning that Minority Report was a documentary too.
Damn, what a time to be alive.
- Comment on It's a tradeoff 5 months ago:
ELI5
- Comment on The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance 5 months ago:
This situation has come to be, through the ignorance and inaction of ordinary people. Your attitude is part of the problem.
- Comment on Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump 5 months ago:
Corporate censorship. These companies are too powerful and tyrannical.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 6 months ago:
We don’t need immortal billionaires sucking up everyone’s oxygen.
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 6 months ago:
You would never say
"What’s YOUR name?
“How old are YOU?”
“Where ARE you from?”
?
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 6 months ago:
I grew up with a Nintendo controller in hand.
There’s a very good reason I now game almost exclusively on PC. None of what Nintendo is doing is going to convince me to come back. Quite the opposite in fact.
- Comment on PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug 6 months ago:
Cause consumers let them.
Why do consumers let them? It’s just step one of enshittification : first, be nice to your customers until they become dependent on you and you’re the only game in town…
- Comment on Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title 6 months ago:
OG had three CD’s, three major acts, across a pretty epic journey. Breaking it up into three parts is really not that surprising.
Personally, I love the expanded development of characters like Jessie.
- Comment on When you inhale helium from a balloon, do you weigh less? 6 months ago:
Let me take this a step absurdly far:
You may be slightly more buoyant (and therefore apply less force on a scale) everytime you breath in. It’s not the presence of air that has this effect, it’s the decrease in density of your total body (mass/volume) that has that effect. (Helium just contributes a fractional more difference in density compared to air, but how much you breath in probably matters much more than what you breath)
Except, maybe not. Because the air you breath in partially dissolves in your blood. Dissolved matter does not decrease density, rather the opposite: it packs tightly into the voids, increasing mass for the same volume.
How much of an effect this has is hugely debatable, probably depends on a dozen biological and circumstantial factors, and this is where my knowledge ends. But it’s fun to imagine.
However, if you can imagine inhaling but holding your breath at the same time, creating a vacuum in your lungs, then yes, you would be more buoyant, even more than inhaling helium, and the scale would read slightly less.