Lumiluz
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- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 6 days ago:
You’re right, my bad. I should have worded that reply better.
I meant it as a tool to help you code etc it’s useful, especially if you know some coding. It can help you to say finish a game by coding mechanics you don’t quite know how to make work which you can then fix up yourself with the desired parameters etc.
If it helps with finishing your idea of a game (especially if it’s something like the first game you’ve ever made), it’s useful in order to learn some of the workflow involved in making a game.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 6 days ago:
Reread what I said, calmer this time.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 6 days ago:
That still doesn’t address that the energy use of AI in your statistics includes all AI rather than just image generation.
If we’re including all AI use cases, we’d have to consider all non-AI use cases on the other end too, not just gaming, such as anime production, 3D rendering, etc that also using graphic card cycles.
And still ignoring the very first question.
So, try again.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 6 days ago:
But we’re not comparing the global energy use of LLMs, diffusion engines, other specialized AI (like protein foldings) etc to ONLY the American gaming market.
The conversation was specifically about image generative AI. You can stop moving the goalposts and building a strawman now, and while at it answer the first question too.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 6 days ago:
•Ok, I know the researching ability of people has decreased greatly over the years, but using “knowyourmeme” as a source? Really? • You can now run optimized open source diffusion models on an iPhone, and it’s been possible for years. I use that as an example because yes, there’s models that can easily run on an Nvidia 1060 these days. Those models are more than enough to handle incremental changes to an image in-game • Already has for awhile as demonstrated by it being able to run on an iPhone, but yes, it’s probably the best way to get an uncanny valley effect in certain paintings in a horror game, as the alternatives would be:
- spending many hours manually making hundreds of incremental changes to all the paintings yourself (and the will be a limit to how much they warp, and this assumes you have even better art skills)
- hiring someone to do what I just mentioned (assumes you have a decent amount of money) and is still limited of course. • I’ll call an open source model exploitation the day someone can accurately generate an exact work it was trained on not within 1, but at least within 10 generations. I have looked into this myself, unlike seemingly most people on the internet. Last I checked, the closest was a 90 something % similarity image after using an algorithm that modified the prompt over time after thousands of generations. I can find this research paper myself if you want, but there may be newer research out there.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 6 days ago:
And if you train an open source model yourself so it can generate content specifically on work you’ve created? Or are you against certain Linux devices too?
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 6 days ago:
Have you ever looked at the file size of something like Stable Diffusion?
Considering the data it’s trained on, do you think it’s;
A) 3 Petabytes B) 500 Terabytes C) 900 Gigabytes D) 100 Gigabytes
Second, what’s the electrical cost of generating a single image using Flux vs 3 minutes of Balder’s Gate, or similar on max settings?
Surely you must have some idea on these numbers and aren’t just parroting things you don’t understand.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 1 week ago:
Same vibes as “if you learned to draw with an iPad then you didn’t actually learn to draw”.
Or in my case, I’m old enough to remember “computer art isn’t real animation/art” and also the criticism assist Photoshop.
And there’s plenty of people who criticized Andy Warhol too before then.
Go back in history and you can read about criticisms of using typewriters over hand writing as well.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 1 week ago:
“AI” is just very advanced procedural generation. There’s been games that used image diffusion in the past too, just in a far smaller and limited scale (such as a single creature, like the pokemon with the spinning eyes
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 1 week ago:
What if they use it as part of the art tho?
Like a horror game that uses an AI to just slightly tweak an image of the paintings in a haunted building continuously everytime you look past them to look just 1% creepier?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What’s ironic about the LLM stuff too is that they are usually developed in Linux, not Windows, and when you do get one working, it works a bit faster. The issue, like most things Linux, is there’s no good GUI options on Linux, because the same people working on it in Linux seem to assume you don’t need one because you use Linux.
As long as this remains the norm, adoption will be slow.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t unsweetened tea either. It’s probably very sweet considering how high in the order agave syrup is
- Comment on How was your valentines day weekend? 2 weeks ago:
… Are you happy at least?..
- Comment on sterile rot 2 weeks ago:
Those exist.
There’s even bacteria that can live in stomach acid and cause terrible issues. Like helicopter
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Elizabeth Eckford had the protection of the federal government (this is it you ignore that she got PTSD so bag from the experience she attempted suicide btw).
Today’s federal government on the other hand is on the side of the people yelling:
You ever hear about the Black Panthers? You know why they were so successful California and the FBI had to intervene to try to disband them? Here’s a hint:
And you know why they were armed? Here’s another hint to how non-armed black protestors were usually dealt with in history (sfw example):
An unarmed protest is a defenseless one with no deterrent for the aggressors. And if you’re protesting against literal Nazis, it’s not going to be peaceful. Even during Trump’s first term people were kidnapped, and he’s way more unhinged this time.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Trump’s people would probably be more likely to shoot you if unarmed, than if the crown was armed.
It’s been shown multiple times (and through history) the the opposing force is less likely to shoot the protestors if the protesters can shoot back, because now there’s also an actual danger to them.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
If people don’t go armed, I’m worried what could happen.
- Comment on Europeans watching US/CA relations implode 4 weeks ago:
Until EU gets Central and South America as strong allies, and probably eventually Japan, this making the much closer rival stronger.
Would be hilarious if it happened.
- Comment on Can we stop asking people who are on the brink of death and suffering greatly to sacrifice themselves for a bunch of able bodied people who refuse to stand up and sacrifice themselves for us? 4 weeks ago:
Eh, I’ve been in your position.
If I still lived there and was still in death trajectory, I’d do it. Not for all the dumdums who should also be doing it (or the idiots who dont deserve it), but to make the world a better place (or at least try) instead of leaving it in the same shit it’s in, including for anyone you love, if there’s any.
I think that, maybe if you were even closer to death (as in actually terminal), you might (because not everyone has the same mindset) see the point, because people who are going to die anyway have something everyone else doesn’t - freedom from consequences. Freedom of choice with societal constraints, because what can any society impose on someone already destined to meet an end soon? They can try, but what is the ultimate deterrent for most humans is non existent for people who are/were in our place.
Sure, you could call it abelist. I call it opportunist. Glass half full kinda thing. Other people, doing what we could do, have the potential to face something much worse than death in a fascist regime. Torture comes to mind.
Someone like me who had kidney failure and did dialysis though? Assuming they want to capture me to torture me, I just gotta take some potassium supplements right after pulling off what I want to and my heart goes weh.
Don’t pat yourself in the back too much either - even if me or you did go through with such an act, we wouldn’t really be a hero or brave or anything either. We’d be just as much of a coward, in a way, as the “abelists”, in that something was only done once we basically had little to lose. If deciding that, it’s only because there’s already an exit anyway.
You can of course just do nothing like everyone else. Or go do more dangerous things like skydiving or giving a monkey a shower and have some fun. Certain death assured expeditiously gives freedom like no other. You have the right to be selfish with that choice just as those more likely to live longer do everyday.
But you still carry hope because you still have a good chance, that’s why it makes you angry. You still have something holding you back. People who still have hope are not the same as the hopeless, nor even the same as people who lost all hope momentarily.
And that is something those in power forget too.
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 5 weeks ago:
Leftists don’t let Nazis get into power, even if it means dealing with corporatists some more years.
You’re not a leftist. You did nothing to avoid the farthest of the right-wing from gaining possibly absolute power. You did nothing to keep things leftward, or even center right - you just allowed the fascists to take over without a struggle.
You’re not the resistance, you’re not a helper, you’re not leftist; you’re nothing.
