Fallibilist
@Fallibilist@feddit.uk
Refusing to reduce complex reality into slogans and clichés since 19XX
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
that have an AI generated thumbnail and when I’ve viewed some of them there’s been no apparent AI use in the video.
That’s what I’m trying to say here as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
How is it that every time a comments starts with “So you’re saying…” it’s the followed up with something I did not say.
- Comment on If your city has terrible tap water, how do you fight for better tap water? 1 day ago:
My country has the best tap water in the world so luckily I don’t need to even think about that. It’s far cleaner than even bottled water.
- Comment on Fandom won’t allow adblockers 1 day ago:
That’s a statement, not an argument.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
As a heavy YouTube user this simply is not my experience. Not that it never happens, but it’s not the default to the point that you can just assume that. In most cases your assumption is wrong.
Gaming YouTube is probably the clearest example. Everyone has an AI thumbnail and nobody has AI content in the video itself. Same applies to renovation, car mechanic, woodworking, machining, van life etc. Virtually everyone has 100% organic content but with an AI thumbnail.
AI content only starts appearing when you move to videos that used to heavily rely on stock video content or for example videos about history where real footage is not available. I assume it’s also the case often with short-form media but I wouldn’t know as I don’t consume any.
- Comment on Fandom won’t allow adblockers 1 day ago:
Someone is still paying for hosting that content. That works for text, pictures and gifs but once you move to videos it starts getting expensive. I too put content on YouTube without any intention to make money from it but I still understand that it costs YouTube money.
I’m all for passion projects but it still needs to be sustainable one way or another.
- Comment on Fandom won’t allow adblockers 1 day ago:
As someone who has used AdBlocker for as long as I can remember, I can’t come up with a single reason why sites should allow it. Exact same thing with the YouTube controversy. Of course I don’t like that they’re trying to prevent me from blocking the ads but I sure don’t blame them for it. Using an adblocker doesn’t necessitate for me to come up with justifications for convincing myself that what I’m doing is actually moral because it’s not. I’m perfectly capable of holding both of these two thoughts in my mind at the same time.
My test for whether behaviour is good or not is to consider what the world would be like if everyone did what I do and whether we’d all be better off for it. There one thing is for absolute certain: YouTube would not exist as a free platform. It would either not exist at all or it would be a subscription-based only.
You can have an ad-free service or you can have a free one but you can’t have both and demanding that is ridiculous. Even now, the sole reason you’re able to use Lemmy for free is because someone else is willing to take the financial hit by paying for the instance upkeep. We all just take it for granted.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
If they’re using ai for the thumbnail… they’re probably using AI elsewhere in the video.
One does not automatically follow from the other. I simply use a screenshot from the video because I don’t care about views but for the people who do care, a good (as in makes people click) thumbnail is extremely important - perhaps eventhe most important. Making a thumbnail like that by hand is not easy, but with the assist from AI it is and most people don’t care. This militant anti-AI activism is by a small and vocal minority group of people. There’s no point in spending hours in Photoshop when AI does it better in 15 minutes and now you have 10 options to choose from.
I don’t like it nor do I usually watch those videos but I surely don’t blame them for doing it. It’s a ruthless game played on YouTube’s terms and this is what it takes if you wish to even get a chance as a small creator.
- Comment on Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude 4 days ago:
You’re not trying to remove a moral status but deny it in the first place. That’s different but the end result of it still seems the same.
The psychological drive behind the urge to call something with a deragatory term is the same in both cases.
- Comment on Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude 4 days ago:
That is how slurs tend to be used: as a tool to dehumanize something we wish to grant no moral value to.
- Comment on Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude 4 days ago:
My hot take is that anyone intentionally being mean to an AI is not a psychologically stable person and similar behaviour can most likely be observed in other parts of their life as well.
This is why “Westworld” would never work. Whether the robots there actually feel anything is beside the point. We’d simply view the people who go there to take pleasure in abusing these human-like machines as the sadistic psychopaths that they are.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 5 days ago:
I highly doubt that would be anywhere near enough even if the issue was only limited to the country with the highest number of ultra wealthy people which it isn’t.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 5 days ago:
Worry about population decline isn’t about wanting more people. It’s about wanting there to be enough working-age people to cover the retirement and medical payments of the ones no longer working. We know exactly how many 30-year-olds we’ll have in 20 years and it’s simply not enough. Something has to give and usually the first to go is the benefits for the people who most need them.
- Comment on Are there words in reverse order within alphabet-based languages? 6 days ago:
Saippuakauppias is the same word either way you read it. It’s finnish and means a soap salesman.
- Comment on How do I tell my co-workers I'm not attending a wedding without creating drama? 1 week ago:
You don’t owe anyone an explanation. You can just say that you’re not coming and leave it at that. You can tell them that you have your reasons and you wish not to talk about it but don’t lie. That just makes you the asshole.
- Comment on Would it be a good idea to become a online freelancer? 1 week ago:
No need to overthink reversible decisions. You’re not signing up for a platform for life. If it seems bad then you switch, or if it simply doesn’t work out then you go do something else. You’re not dooming the rest of your life here.
You won’t regret trying and failing but you will regret not even giving it a chance.
- Comment on Would it be a good idea to become a online freelancer? 1 week ago:
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
- Comment on These "warnings" that some people think mean anything 1 week ago:
Doesn’t matter if you get hit in the face by a fallen brick.
Often not getting into a situation in the first place is far better than being in the right.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
First of all, your over-simplification of why the economy is so terrible is almost certainly inaccurate but I’m not even going to get into that as neither of us has the faintest clue of how the economy even works.
Secondly, I don’t think that’s what people mean by “being stupid” with their money. It’s more about buying things because you want rather than need them which is something we all do to some degree. Only buying what you need would basically mean living in a tent by a campfire eating canned beans. When people tell that to you it’s not to win an argument but to end it. They don’t want to hear it. It’s not like they don’t know what they’re doing.
- Comment on Why does all AI graphic design have the exact same style? 2 weeks ago:
That is fucking hilarious. This place is such a cartoon of itself. Poe’s law at action.
- Comment on What's the deal with using phonetic symbols here on Lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a single user who like the attention they get for it. Block and move on.
- Comment on Should I move out? 2 weeks ago:
Assume what?
- Comment on Should I move out? 2 weeks ago:
whenever I cut somebody off majority of the time I explain why in a respectful way without arguing with them.
But you’ve done it more than twice where as most people never have to do that. It’s a major red flag.
- Comment on Should I move out? 2 weeks ago:
If every person you run in to seems to treat you terribly, then one should consider what the common denominator between all of these people are. Usually the only one is you.
- Comment on Is it okay to have more than one account on here? 2 weeks ago:
No. That’s kind of the point of the platform. Each instance has their own admins and mods.
- Comment on Is it okay to have more than one account on here? 2 weeks ago:
It depends on the instance. On feddit.uk they just want to make sure you’re a real person.
- Comment on Is it okay to have more than one account on here? 2 weeks ago:
What do you tell the admin when you give a reason to join on a new account? Do you just tell them the truth?
Nobody has ever asked about it.
- Comment on Why does all AI graphic design have the exact same style? 2 weeks ago:
It’s never going to be clever or subversive.
The AI doesn’t need to be clever for as long as the person writing the prompt is. It’s just a tool. It doesn’t do anything on its own. What you get out reflects what you put in.
- Comment on Is it okay to have more than one account on here? 2 weeks ago:
I have over 10 accounts, though I only use one at a time. When I get to 1000 - 1500 comments, I abandon it and make a new one. Had to deal with a stalker in the past and I’m never putting my entire comment history under a single username ever again.
- Comment on Why does all AI graphic design have the exact same style? 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t - you only notice the low-effort ones that default to the generic style where as the rest fly under your radar and go undetected. It’s called a toupee fallacy: “All toupees look fake, I’ve never seen one that didn’t”
