Hackworth
@Hackworth@lemmy.world
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 1 day ago:
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Which feels poetic.
- Comment on AI Traning 3 days ago:
- Comment on AI Traning 3 days ago:
All the data centers in the US combined use 4% of the electric load, and one of the main upsides to deepseek is that it requires much less energy to train (the main cost).
- Comment on "I don't think he knows about the second LA fire" 1 week ago:
- Comment on So why did we stop worshiping the sun? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Time travel is easy, it's just lame 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Thank you for your service 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Par for the course 2 weeks ago:
In a culture that exacerbates hierarchy, exonerates ego, and exalts control, true humility is too painful to even consider.
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 3 weeks ago:
Four legs good, two legs BETTER!
- Comment on Behold currently! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Feel the Joy 4 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, this thread:
- Comment on The Hot Dog Class 4 weeks ago:
Manna Kendrick?
- Comment on What are your bank details? 5 weeks ago:
Companies that give personality tests in the hiring process are largely looking at your “agreeableness” score. We’re constantly taught that the default answer should be “Yes.” If you’re creative, you might push it to “Yes, and…” But a plain “no” from anyone who isn’t explicitly labeled as a “leader” is a non-starter in systems obsessed with hierarchy.
There are really only three options. Try to climb an existing hierarchy. Make your own hierarchy and place yourself atop it. Or operate within and between hierarchies without unnecessarily validating their existence. That last one’s increasingly difficult by design.
- Comment on Sure, mom, liberals are racists 1 month ago:
/checks comments to confirm they’re all arguing over what liberal really means.
- Comment on Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. 1 month ago:
- Comment on marketing 1 month ago:
Duck Duck Go and Claude concur, fwiw.
- Comment on I get it, but you're both part of a bigger problem. 1 month ago:
Oh, I was really just focusing on video production and entertainment in the next few years. If we’re talking AI’s influence on the information landscape as a whole and humanity in general: I think we’ve discovered how to make a spark- maybe how to gather kindling. We’ll have this fire thing figured out soon, and then who knows what happens. I have no doubt that too much is going to get burned as we learn the dangers and limits of the flame. But civilization awaits us if we survive. I dunno what that means for this technology. Like really, I can imagine so many seemingly equally plausible 2050s that I can’t plant a flag in one. From utopian to dystopian to down right mediocre, I wouldn’t know where to place a bet.
- Comment on what a moment to live 1 month ago:
Oh, they’re both quoting James Cagney in White Heat from 1949.
- Comment on what a moment to live 1 month ago:
I think it’s from Edgerunners.
- Comment on I get it, but you're both part of a bigger problem. 1 month ago:
So I’ve been producing video professionally for ~25 years, and judicious use of gen ai allows me to do some things that I wouldn’t have the time/resources to do otherwise. As a simple example, Premiere’s generative extend will add a few seconds to the end of (basically) any video clip (basically) seamlessly. Often that’s all the pad I need to improve a cut. The alternatives (re-shoots) are expensive, time-consuming, and approved on a need basis.
Many of the same concerns about the market being flooded with low quality content were raised with the advent of video and again with digital video and again with HD video. The barrier to entry for film is high; for video, it’s virtually non-existent. But I don’t think anyone would claim today that video was a bad idea. AI is in some ways the same kind of democratization of production technology.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t address the ways in which it’s not similar. We can set up a completely automated workflow right now that will quickly generate YouTube “content” and probably make a profit. We could do this before gen AI, but not with such hallucinatory gusto. YouTube is currently being flooded with this crap. But just like people left Twitter (or reddit) when it became overrun by bots, people aren’t going to stick around for your platform full of AI content (at least not until it’s much better).
The IP side of this is mostly funny to me. They’re already talking about a “post-plagiarism” world in academia. I don’t see how copyright survives gen AI at all long-term, frankly. As an artist who saw his first published feature film on pirate bay the same day - it just doesn’t bother me. I’ve only ever really gotten paid to do specific work for a client. I don’t expect to get paid for things I make to express myself artistically.
But I hate that I’m shackled to Adobe for a variety of other reasons, and if someone has a good suggestion for an open source alternative to After Effects, I’m all ears.
- Comment on I get it, but you're both part of a bigger problem. 1 month ago:
Algorithms that value engagement over quality are the bigger problem. Stock footage and AI are both fine and basically unrelated to this problem.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 2 months ago:
I haven’t logged on to WoW in a few years, but it’s really interesting to hear what’s become of instance handling. I was on the fence about it in '03-'04, when the discussion was about whether or not instanced dungeons (Lost Dungeons of Norrath for EQ) were a good idea long-term. At the time the discussion sounded a lot the discussions about fast travel. Or maps, for that matter.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 2 months ago:
I knew most of the good bards on my EQ server in '03. Half the reason I bothered to develop my character was to try and keep up with them. Now pretty much the only thing that’ll keep me playing online multiplayer is casino gamification, so I don’t start.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 2 months ago:
All the companies are gonna form up like Voltron over the next decade or so, leaving a handful of megacorporations to lord over our cyberpunk dystopia. It’s just easier if all their logos already look the same.
- Comment on Can't sleep, he's watching 2 months ago:
I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me before this foggy photo, but that thing sure is cyberpunk, huh?
- Comment on whatcha gonna watch? 2 months ago:
- Comment on I spent 6000+ hours of my life building this character 2 months ago:
Ditto, I was about to start waxing poetic about my bard.
- Comment on Whelp 2 months ago:
Oh, my friend, how did you come to trade the fiddle for the drum?
