mindlesscrollyparrot

@mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the children don’t have a choice, so I assume you’re talking about the choice to target the militants there and not in another place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, specifically militants who are fathers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hamas uses phones, hence the “Where’s Daddy?” attack, which is not directed at tunnels. It’s more-or-less designed to hit civilians. The clue is in the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you make a painting now, it wouldn’t be based on those thousands and thousands of paintings since, although you have seen them, you apparently do not remember them. But, if you did, and you made a painting based on one, and did not acknowledge it, you would indeed be a bad artist.

  The bad part about using the art of the past is not copying. The problem is plagiarism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Inspiration is absolutely a thing. When Constable and Cezanne sat at their easels, a large part of their inspiration was Nature. When Picasso invented Cubism, he was reacting to tradition, not following it. There are also artists like Alfred Wallis, who are very unconnected to tradition.

  I think your final sentence is actually trying to say that we have advances in tools, not inspiration, since the Lascaux caves are easily on a par with the Sistine Chapel if you allow for the technology? And that AI is simply a new tool? That may be, but does the artist using this new tool control which images it was trained on? Do they even know? Can they even know?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the AIs should mix their own pigments as well, instead of taking all the other artists’ work and grinding that up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Leads in 5 Key States, as Young and Nonwhite Voters Express Discontent With Biden⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’m sure that voting Trump in (by not voting) is totally going to stop it.

  This isn’t a both sides bad thing - it’s a one side bad, other side literally talking about using nuclear weapons thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England gets 27 new bathing sites – but no guarantee they’ll be safe for swimming⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The water companies have been paying dividends to their shareholders while not doing anything to upgrade the sewerage system. Certainly the people won’t want to pay twice for the upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t a big deal, but we do need the language to evolve a little bit. The problem with they/them is that it implies that you don’t know the person, or that it doesn’t matter who they are (like you say, you can’t or don’t want to use a more specific pronoun). It can feel quite rude to apply it to somebody that you do know.