ebu @ ebu @awful.systems Posts 0Comments 57Joined 11 mo. ago
and furries, for some reason
An opinion is still an opinion no matter how widely held it is.
why did you even bring up your one artist friend's opinion if you're just gonna be like "well actually that's just YOUR opinion" when i disagree
yet I still refuse to call it art.
Duchamp wants a word
And then we have people who are attacking any use of ai images that are willing to call it "AI Art"...
good thing i, me, the person you're responding to, isn't those people. makes me wonder why you even brought it up in the first place
I believe that you believe that.
i also believe you're deliberately trying to be as insufferable as possible, so be sure to add that to the bizarre collection of things you think i believe while you're at it. or better yet: don't
Would you rather have a dozen back and forth interactions?
these aren't the only two possibilities. i've had some interactions where i got handed one ref sheet and a sentence description and the recipient was happy with the first sketch. i've had some where i got several pieces of references from different artists alongside paragraphs of descriptions, and there were still several dozen attempts. tossing in ai art just increases the volume, not the quality, of the interaction
Besides, this is something I've heard from other artists, so it's very much a matter opinion.
i have interacted with hundreds of artists, and i have yet to meet an artist that does not, to at least some degree, have some kind of negative opinion on ai art, except those for whom image-generation models were their primary (or more commonly, only) tool for making art. so if there is such a group of artists that would be happy to be presented with ai art and asked to "make it like this", i have yet to find them
Annoying, sure, but not immoral.
annoying me is immoral actually
as someone who only draws as a hobbyist, but who has taken commissions before, i think it would be very annoying to have a prospective client go "okay so here's what i want you to draw" and then send over ai-generated stuff. if only because i know said client is setting their expectations for the hyper-processed, over-tuned look of the machine instead of what i actually draw
happy to see the draft get fleshed out. good writeup
with how much of a revolving door of covert white supremacists lemmy is, i can imagine it's hard to boot them out faster than they come in. just federation things
they really are just sitting around the campfire telling the exact same shitty spooky story, back and forth, forever, aren't they
what if we simply took the output of the easily manipulated word salad generator and parsed it into instructions for the computers that are in charge of all our communication to follow
Well over a year ago it was actually useful. [...] And it just doesn't come up with interesting stuff any more.
i have to admit i'm deeply curious what outputs you considering interesting enough for twenty bucks a month
i couldn't resist
at least when this rhetoric popped up around crypto and GameStop stocks, there was a get-rich-quick scheme attached to it. these fuckers are doing it for free
And yet, my opponents in discussion
good gods you're going to be the most insufferable kind of person, aren't you
You aren't going to convince me of anything
this was a bit of a given
bet you also think the climate cost of cryptocurrency is also a failing of the energy sector to deliver clean power to the innocent sweet little industrial-scale mining tycoons, don't you
you do an excellent job of writing. several times reading this i had to mentally delete paragraphs of explanations for some of the rationalist thoughts and ideology because you have described it perfectly in just a sentence or two.
shared this with some of my in-tech-but-skeptical friends. you deserve a bigger audience
thinking "typewriter monkeys", but maybe that's too literal
...gods i miss n-gate
"rat furry" :3
"(it's short for rationalist)" >:(
What of the sources he is less favorably inclined towards? Unsurprisingly, he dismisses far-right websites like Taki’s Magazine (“Terrible source that shouldn't be used for anything, except limited primary source use.”) and Unz (“There is no way in which using this source is good for Wikipedia.”) in a virtually unanimous chorus with other editors. It’s more fruitful to examine his approach to more moderate or “heterodox” websites.
wait sorry hold on
in a virtually unanimous chorus with other editors
so what is the entire point of singling out Gerard for this, if the overwhelming majority of people already agree that far-right "news" sites like the examples given are full of garbage and shouldn't be cited?
Note: I am closer to this story than to many of my others
ahhhhhhh David made fun of some rationalist you like once and in turn you've elevated him to the Ubermensch of Woke, didn't you
wow, that side-by-side is so obviously bad i'm surprised it even got posted. usually AI bros try to at least hide the worst of the tech, or at the very least, say shit like "this is only the beginning!!"
also, was not expecting to click that link and see FUNKe. good nostalgia
i started to read and just about choked when i got here
Why did evolution give most males so much testosterone instead of making low-T nerds? Obviously testosterone makes you horny and buff. But I think there is a second reason: you might kill yourself without it. Trans women have high suicide rates.
congrats on the most baffling, condescending explanation for the epidemic of suicidality among trans women. silly transes, it's not the persistent and systemic transphobia that makes you want to kill yourself, it's actually the fact that you have lower testosterone now. it's just science! wait what? "trans men have high rates of suicide too"? nah probably not
Anecdotally, my smartest oldest brother had low sex-drive and small muscles and killed himself. Eliezer's brother killed himself [citation needed] and if he was like Eliezer then he probably had low-T. My low-T nerd friends seemed kinda suicidal sometimes.
it was gross enough to watch this person try to prop up dead trans people to prove their point but even more bizarre to watch them do the same for their own older brother. not gonna even comment on the retroactive diagnoses based on "had small muscles" and "seemed suicidal to me"
and later in the footnotes
Nobody in the comments has presented any first-hand counter-evidence.
"nobody proved me wrong yet" is peak crank
simply ask the word generator machine to generate better words, smh
this is actually the most laughable/annoying thing to me. it betrays such a comprehensive lack of understanding of what LLMs do and what "prompting" even is. you're not giving instructions to an agent, you are feeding a list of words to prefix to the output of a word predictor
in my personal experiments with offline models, using something like "below is a transcript of a chat log with XYZ" as a prompt instead of "You are XYZ" immediately gives much better results. not good results, but better
it is a little entertaining to hear them do extended pontifications on what society would look like if we had pocket-size AGI, life-extension or immortality tech, total-immersion VR, actually-good brain-computer interfaces, mind uploading, etc. etc. and then turn around and pitch a fit when someone says "okay so imagine if there were a type of person that wasn't a guy or a girl"