Hackworth
@Hackworth@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sure, mom, liberals are racists 4 days ago:
/checks comments to confirm they’re all arguing over what liberal really means.
- Comment on Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. 1 week ago:
- Comment on marketing 1 week ago:
Duck Duck Go and Claude concur, fwiw.
- Comment on I get it, but you're both part of a bigger problem. 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
Oh, they’re both quoting James Cagney in White Heat from 1949.
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s from Edgerunners.
- Comment on I get it, but you're both part of a bigger problem. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
- Comment on I spent 6000+ hours of my life building this character 1 month ago:
Ditto, I was about to start waxing poetic about my bard.
- Comment on Whelp 1 month ago:
Oh, my friend, how did you come to trade the fiddle for the drum?
- Comment on Good luck today, Americans 1 month ago:
The “caravan” of scary South American migrants that Trump fear-mongered about back in '15 (Jesus, has it been a decade?), they were largely subsistence farmers that were forced off of their lands by multi-year droughts that were demonstrably an effect of climate change. In just the last few years, it’s almost comical how dramatically present the effects of climate change are. Whether or not we’re able to admit it to ourselves consciously, I think everyone feels it. We’re about to hit a dozen different asymptotes, and we’re clearly not ready. So, turns out, fear-mongering is a particularly successful strategy in this kind of zeitgeist.
- Comment on I screen, you screen, we all screen for I screen. 1 month ago:
Yes, but most of them involve constant interaction with people that have forgotten how to interact with people.
- Comment on WILD 1 month ago:
I was just being a smartass, but I appreciate your commitment to clear communication.
- Comment on WILD 1 month ago:
No, it’s “biologically.”
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 1 month ago:
created by deletor
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 1 month ago:
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
- Comment on Kamala Harris Dropped a New Custom 'Fortnite' Map 1 month ago:
Huh. Grandpa Simpson was right. It did happen to me too.
- Comment on Being an already decided voter in a swing state is swell 1 month ago:
I’m getting this shit from everywhere I’ve ever lived. I can normally ignore my phone for the most part, but I’m actually waiting on updates about the health of a relative. And this shit needs to stop. No one’s changing their mind cause of a text, guys. No one’s like, “Oh yeah, is it time to vote?” Please, just stop.
- Comment on Pee posting? 1 month ago:
I instantly heard it. DEEK
- Comment on Square! 2 months ago:
I don’t really know, but I think it’s mostly to do with pentagons being under-represented in the world in general. That and the specific way that a pentagon breaks symmetry. But it’s not completely impossible to get em to make one. After a lot of futzing around, o1 wrote this prompt, which seems to work 50% of the time:
An illustration of a regular pentagon shape: a flat, two-dimensional geometric figure with five equal straight sides and five equal angles, drawn with black lines on a white background, centered in the image.
- Comment on Square! 2 months ago:
Fun Fact: It is very difficult to get any of the image generators to make a pentagon.
- Comment on Rose Finch 2 months ago:
I think it was Perplexity. Moved to using Flux since that cuddly monstrosity.
- Comment on Rose Finch 2 months ago:
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 3 months ago:
I think this is accurate. But I’d like to restate it.
The Left (as the apparent big tent party full of literal minorities) has been learning to deal with disenfranchisement and the feeling “that their anguish is belittled as a personal failure, and often downright mocked” for its entire existence. Because of a huge variety of factors, the Right is losing some of its influence. They are not handling this well. The Left (being well acquainted with feeling unheard) should have been able to help the Right through this transition. Due to deep seated insecurities on both sides, we are no longer able to help one another as a people. Buckle up.
- Comment on I can't wait 3 months ago:
