Fair enough I guess.
That being said, I am still Team ‘Lasts spend half a day making a cheese cake’ vs box cake. But I’m not going to ask others to follow my lead. (I am also just air frying tenders for dinner, so I’m also lazy at times)
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knitwitt@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI think it’s like making a cake using box mix. Of course home made is infinitly better but at least you still have a cake at the end of it.
Maybe this soulless AI cat guy will have some human spirit put into them when the creator puts them into a really personal digital puppet show that allows them to express themselves through writing and storytelling as opposed to 3D modeling.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Aeri@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve used it for simple tasks for coding because ultimately I’m not a coder and don’t really want to be but I needed something scripted and no real humans were interested in helping.
KernelTale@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
As somebody who made a cake out of bought mix and from scratch both are good. I don’t think it would taste that different if I made the cakes which I do from a mix from scratch instead. Though I do most of them from scratch because I find finding a good cake mix to be hassle and making it myself less so.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Box mix cakes aren’t worse than homemade; if you’re going for that very light, sweet type of cake then you won’t be able to do better at home, because industrial mixing machines are much better at creating the homogeneous mix required for those cakes.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Someone made that cake mix, though. A team of people came together, worked out how to make that mix at scale, tasted, iterated, and finally shipped the product.
This is getting cake mix by scooping up a random amount of the statistically most likely ingredients for a cake. No thought, no idea, no quality control even. Just the most statistically likely cake mix.
Sounds fuck awful, man.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Someone made that cake mix, though. A team of people came together, worked out how to make that mix at scale, tasted, iterated, and finally shipped the product.
Nobody cares. I don’t think you care. I’m serious - I don’t think, before today, when you ate a cake you bought from a large store or made yourself from a box mix, that you got any measurable amount of enjoyment from the mere fact that the product was developed by people. I think you got 99% of your enjoyment from the cake being delicious.
This is getting cake mix by scooping up a random amount of the statistically most likely ingredients for a cake.
The statistically most likely ingredients for a cake are going to make a good cake. I actually have a cookbook that has a recipe for “the average cookie” which literally takes an arithmetic mean of the ingredients in a dozen or so cookie recipes, and the result is quite good. According to the book, I mean, because I never had the will to bake cookies containing 2.35 eggs or however much it ended up being. (The book is “cooking for geeks” and is excellent, by the way)
The problem with averaging stuff is that you might accidentally average out more than one completely different type of cake and end up with with a little bit of cocoa powder, a little lemon, a little coffee, a little pistachio, etc etc. But this problem doesn’t really occur with AI in the way you’re implying, because it’s statistically very unlikely to have all of those ingredients in the same recipe.
Another problem with “most likely” is that you might only get vanilla sponge cakes because they’re the most common - most likely. But this also doesn’t happen, because it’s very unlikely that someone would reply with a vanilla sponge cake recipe to a request for a sticky chocolate fudge cake.
We can see the problems with AI content in the OP’s post, but that’s not really relevant to the comment that set off this sub-thread and analogy which was asking why people would use AI for something like this. If you’ll let me speculate, I think what you really want to say is that AI comes up with some utter shite, and you’re trying to talk in broad terms about how AI works to explain how that happens - but if that is what’s going on, you’re off the mark. It’d be better to just bring us back to the point that AI comes up with some utter shite! Of course, bringing that back to the question, people can be quite tolerant of shit responses in some situations, like if there are no consequences for mistakes, or if they can filter the output for quality themselves.
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Scienficially anyways, boxed cake will almost always be better than scratch.
Its more like Steamed Hams. You pass off garbage as your own creation, and your house burns down in the process. No one gains anything of value except you get a +1 to social standing with the person you lied to for no reason.
HuePony@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
“May I see it?”
knitwitt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe if you’re making the exact same type of cake. To me, boxed cakes always taste way too sweet, and I think it’s strange that tyere are no fruit chunks in them instead of powdered fruit.