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- Comment on Christie's First-Ever AI Art Auction Earns $728,000, Plus Controversy 3 days ago:
That print does actually look pretty nice, but I hate how inconsistent the two images are. It’d drive me fing crazy to have those prints on my wall when the continuity of design is so clearly lacking.
- Comment on The Echoing Abyss 1 week ago:
Why do they all look so… Orgasmic?
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 3 weeks ago:
I’m afraid that we seen to disagree on who an artist is and what is a valid moral trade off.
Is it really the democratization of art? Or the commodification of art?
Art has, with the exception of extraordinary circumstances, always been democratic. You could at any point pick up a pencil and draw.
Ai has funneled that skill, critically through theft, into a commodified product, the ai model. Through with they can make huge profits.
The machine does the art. And, even when run on your local machine the model was almost certainly trained on expensive machines through means you could not personally replicate.
I find it alarming that people are so willing to celebrate this. It’s like throwing a party that you can buy bottled Nestle water at the grocery store which was taken by immoral means. It’s nice for you, but ultimately just further consolation of power away from individuals.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, I might have went a bit ham on you there, it was late at night. I think I might have been rude
- Theft does not depend on a legal definition.
Intellectual property theft used to be legal, but protections were eventually put in place to protect the industry of art. (I’m not a staunch defender if the laws as they are, and I belive it actually, in many cases, stifles creativity.)
I bring up the law not recognizing machine generated art only to dismiss the idea that the legal system agrees wholeheartedly with the stance that AI art is defensibly sold on the free market.
- There is no evidence to suggest AI think like a human / It hardly matters that AI can be creative.
A) To suggest a machine neutral network “thinks like a human” is like suggesting a humanoid robot “runs like a human.” It’s true in an incredibly broad sense, but carries so little meaning with it.
Yes, ai models use advanced, statistical multiplexing of parameters, which can metaphorically be compared to neurons, but only metaphorically. It’s just vaguely similar. Inspired by, perhaps.
B) It hardly matters if AI can create art. It hardly even matters if they did it in exactly the way humans do.
Because the operator doesn’t have the moral or ethical right to sell it in either case.
If the AI is just a stocastic parrot, then it is a machine of theft leveraged by the operator to steal intellectual labor.
If the AI is creative in the same way as a person, then it is a slave.
I’m not actually against AI art, but I am against selling it, and I respect artists for trying to protect their industry. It’s sad to see an entire industry of workers get replaced by machines, and doubly sad to see that those machines are made possible by the theft of their work. It’s like if the automatic loom had been assembled out of centuries of collected fabrics. Each worker non consensually, unknowingly, contributing to the near total destruction of their livelihood. There is hardly a comparison which captures the perversion of it.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 3 weeks ago:
Counterpoints:
Artists also draw distinctions between inspiration and ripping off.
The legality of an act has no bearing on its ethics or morality.
The law does not protect machine generated art.
Machine learning models almost universally utilize training data which was illegally scraped off the Internet (See meta’s recent book piracy incident).
Uncritically conflating machine generated art with actual human inspiration, while career artist generally lambast the idea, is not exactly a reasonable stance to state so matter if factly.
It’s also a tacit admission that the machine is doing the inspiration, not the operator. The machine which is only made possible by the massive theft of intellectual property.
The operator contributes no inspiration. They only provide their whims and fancy with which the machine creates art through mechanisms you almost assuredly don’t understand. The operator is no more an artist than a commissioner of a painting. Except their hired artist is a bastard intelligence made by theft.
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 3 weeks ago:
Flirting is a pretty nebulous term.
My personal definition of flirting is any positive expression or behavior which:
- Is an exception to your typical behavior or affect.
- Targeted at a specific person, typically someone new.
- Is heightened or marked by increased volume, nervousness, etc.
examples:
A typically reserved guy pulling you aside and animatedly asking about your interest.
A woman who normally doesn’t touch you is repeatedly teasing you about your shirt, pulling on the fabric.
A good friend begins to repeatedly and unexpectedly invite you over for one on one movie nights despite obvious inconveniences.
That’s just my opinion, though. I believe most people are looking for these heightened expressions of flirting to confirm interest.
- Comment on Meaning/implication of “you don’t have to do this” in this context? 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps they assumed that you felt obligated to speak to them, and they felt the need to absolve you of that obligation. That would be the literal meaning of the phrase.
A different interpretation could be that they didn’t want to continue the conversation. In this scenario, they would prefer to be silent, and by suggesting that, “You don’t have to do this,” they have given you a sort of symbolic agency in ending the conversation, implying that both of you would rather be silent.
- Comment on Car diagram 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s not from David Lynch’s Dune, is it? I can’t find a scene which matches.
- Comment on Hold on! 1 month ago:
Here is my face, sir.
- Comment on TFW you see the toilet paper after the first wipe when your haemorrhoids flare up badly 1 month ago:
Get a bidet, friend
- Comment on Is Soviet playground! Is fun! Go play on playground while Papa reads Pushkin. 1 month ago:
Not gonna lie, that looks fun as hell to play on
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This is not a service I personally use, but I’ve thought about it: services like mysudo let you select and create new phone numbers. anonyome.com/individuals/mysudo-plans/
In your situation I might research and select a service like this. Then create a few disposable numbers. Give one to your trusted friends and family, another to employers and banks, etc, and the third to anyone else you need to contact.
Once you’ve transitioned everything important to the new numbers, get yourself a new phone number, and don’t give it to anyone. Maybe just your parents, for emergencies.
This has 2 downsides and 2 big advantages I can see.
Cons:
1, it cost you monthly. I think 3 numbers from mysudo is little $5 a month 2, it’s a pain to transition folks to your new number.
Pros:
1, if your stalker finds one of your new numbers, it’s easier to change the. 2, you can narrow down who it might be. Like, if you have a number dedicated to work contacts and the stalker starts texting it, you know they either are a coworker or got it from a coworker.
I think Google voice can also give you some free numbers, so look into that. Good luck!
- Comment on Things weren't bad enough and then a Moose attacks you 2 months ago:
Just as the guy dodging the moose, his little dog is jumping to attack it. Little dogs are hardcore
- Comment on How was trying to get a job different THEN vs NOW 2 months ago:
Turns out that eliminating 70% of all viable workers from employability creates job security for boring, cis men.
- Comment on I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime 2 months ago:
Exposure to violence is bad. Fostering a society where violence is commonplace, bad. Exporting violence to places and people unseen, all bad.
but I’m not really sure that illegal or extra-judicial killings are always wrong. Sometimes evil people are protected or above the law. If a Russian citizen shot Vladimir Putin dead tomorrow, I’d be happy with it. I’d be happy to see a sandy hook parent kill Alex Jones, if they could do it without consequence.
It’s not that I believe that murder should be legal, Nor do I believe in capital punishment. Institutional violence is bad for the reasons I listed earlier. But, a lone gunman shooting an evil man is not institutionalized violence.
- Comment on AAAAAAAAAAA 3 months ago:
Even worse than ai…
- Comment on That's... normal 3 months ago:
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- Comment on A Bend to the Supernatural 3 months ago:
And somewhere in Sweden Simon Stålenhag sneezes.
- Comment on Chinese company busted showing off humanoid robots that actually have humans inside 6 months ago:
I have to say after watching the videos, boo to the corpo for the weird exploitative lies, but kudos to the two women for staying in character! They legit put effort into moving like the real robots around them, and all while in what were probably uncomfortable costumes. I hope they get positive social media attention!
- Comment on Someone finally figured out a good use for NFTs: Peter Molyneux is using 'land' sales from his failed blockchain game to fund the development of his new project 6 months ago:
He is not
- Comment on How the fuck do you meet new people? 6 months ago:
I’ve made a lot of IRL friends online and at work.
If you’re between jobs, consider doing something like Americorps. People of all ages do it, not just young folks, and its temporary. I think of it as summer camp for adults, but you get paid and in some cases housing.
Back in 2017 I was super into VR. IDK what the communities are like now, back then the demographics were older, but I got a big social fix from it. An oculus quest 2 or 3 is affordable. Almost all the best games are social, “face to face” talking. It’s like having a public arcade in your closet.
I made the most friends back in 2011 by posting art online and commenting on other artists’ things. People love chatting about their hard work. I ended up meeting loads of them in person. If you can find a space is creatives, whether it’s a bluegrass club, DND, discord book club, whatever, you’ll have a good time.
And, don’t beat yourself up about being lonely. Life moves in cycles. Remember, it just takes meeting one extrovert to suddenly gain a crap ton of friends. Or, maybe you’ll collect them one by one. Regardless, I feel you. Be well.
- Comment on Too easy! 6 months ago:
I apologize, but I’m not able to click on or interact with elements in images. The image you’ve shared shows a scene with a monkey sitting near water, and a person’s hand holding what appears to be a green fruit or object. The text at the top of the image says “HOW TO TRICK A MONKEY”. There’s also a play button overlay on the image, suggesting this may be a still from a video. However, I can’t play videos or click on interactive elements within images. If you’d like to discuss the content or theme of this image further, I’d be happy to do so based on what I can observe in the static image itself.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
And / or, a bad person!
- Comment on Youtube's web UX team is a joke. 7 months ago:
I’m so happy that new pipe is working again.
- Comment on The scientific method 7 months ago:
The whole premise of this meme is a bit silly. If there was a corpse floating near the beach, I think most people might wait for the corpse to be removed, and perhaps even a reasonable cause of death to be determined, before entering the local area. The same is true for pools.
- Comment on end your free trial 8 months ago:
I use virtual credit cards from privacy.com. for trials I set a $1 limit and forget about it. It’s pretty useful for legitimate subscriptions too, since I can pause or end them just by pausing the card.
