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- Comment on German thermostat company Tado locks previously free app behind fake paywall, claiming it's "marketing tests" 7 hours ago:
Contact your data protection officer, they collected data that did not need to be collected.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 2 days ago:
Both are in there, and neither of those are wrong. Generative AI does have serious limitations when it comes to detail control, and it’s also used a lot by people (not necessarily executives) who don’t respect or understand art – even to create things that they then consider art.
The thing is that we’ve had the same discussion back when photography became a thing. Ultimately what it did was free the art of painting from the shackles of having to do portraits.
One additional thing is that I recommend extremely against trying to try and develop art skills by generating AI. Buy pencil and paper, buy a graphics tablet, open Krita or Blender, go through a couple of tutorials for a few days you’ll have learned more about what you need to know to judge AI output than what hitting generate could teach you in a year. How do I know that the eyes in that AI painting have an off-kilter perspective? Because, for the life of me, I can’t draw them straight either, but put enough hours into drawing to look at both the big picture and minute detail. One of the reasons I switched to sculpting.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
A paternalistic, technocratic, party not shying away from authoritarian measures getting re-elected and re-elected does not a dictatorship make. Bavaria does the same but replace technocratic with wiley and corrupt.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 4 days ago:
ok change 18 to 20, same argument
Not really, one is “I don’t want to go to prison”, the other is “these are too young for me”. Anyway:
don’t tell me there aren’t any single 40yo women interested in him lol
How many of those 40yolds are jealous, and what what kind of social narrative could they be pushing to make him stop dating that young. Also, how many of them would themselves have dated him with a 30 year age gap.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 4 days ago:
Maybe, instead of not asking those questions, he answers them in a way that you do not agree with? Maybe even based on factors that you overlook?
I’m not quite as old as Leo but that frontal cortex thing is a very hard cutoff. You seem to be very focussed on the “18” thing, that’s not how human development and attraction works. According to the chart he has not dated an 18yold since he was 26.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 4 days ago:
So you’re not blaming the women, you’re not saying that they don’t know what they’re getting into, either, everyone knows what Leo is up to, so you’re calling Leo creepy for – not questioning decisions the women make?
There’s also a weird characterisation of agency, here. You’re only characterising Leo as an active participant, not the women, you’re saying what Leo does is use things that he has, passively (fame, wealth), to actively “get” women. I’d be much more convinced if you said he’s a good flirt. Are women such passive creatures that when they see someone rich and famous, they just cannot help themselves but spread their legs? I find it hard to reconcile such a narrative with feminism, it’s absolutely regressive.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 4 days ago:
The frontal cortex matures from roughly 14 to the early 20s, characteristic of that age is to be both impulsive and confused, while the cortex is already fully functional you’re still figuring out what to actually use it for.
That is: In the early 20s you become fully adult. Not in the legal sense (that’s usually 18), but biologically. You’re a grown-up. To argue that they can’t make their own decisions is highly infantilising.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 4 days ago:
Liquorice (there’s also an actual root, not just the confectionery) is tummy-friendly, actually recognised as a herbal remedy over here for (mild) gastritis because antiinflammatory and antispasmodic (alongside helping with coughs and having some antibacterial properties) but too much will fuck with your blood pressure. There’s some medicinal teas over here which pretty much only contain it to taste better (otherwise makes no sense in combination with e.g. valerian). The stuff is actually sweet and pleasant, not a neutral but woody sweetness, not to be confused with North European liquorice confectionery where the predominant flavour is Salammoniac. Which are also very good… hey I grew up with the stuff, don’t look at me like that.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 days ago:
It’s incredibly intentional in an entirely distinct but fundamentally related way, since you lack control over so many aspects of it- the things you can choose become all the more significant, personal and meaningful. I remember people comparing generative art and photography and it’s really… Aggravating, honestly.
And that’s not precisely the same for AI… why? Why are the limited choices in photography significant, personal, and meaningful, but not the limited choices people make when generating pictures?
A lot of generative art has very similar lighting and positioning because it’s drawing on stock photographs which have a very standardized format.
Yes. Because the majority of stuff that’s generated by people without much intentionality, by amateurs, or both – but so are most pictures, they just don’t ever even get analysed in the context of being art or not because their purpose is to be external memory, not art. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t control lightning, or that someone who does have a sufficiently deep understanding both of the medium of pictures in general, as well as the tool that is AI, would not, at some point, look at what’s on the screen and ask themselves “Do I want different lightning”. Maybe you do, Maybe you don’t. Like, there’s a reason there’s standard lightning setups, not every work has to be intentional about that particular aspect.
And maybe you want different lighting but the model you use doesn’t provide that kind of flexibility – when you say “still life” it insists on three-point lighting because it thinks one implies the other just as “mug” implies “handle”. You can then go ahead and teach it about different lighting setups, “this is an example of backlight, this of frontlight, this is three-point”, and, with some skill and effort, voila, now “still life with backlighting” works. There absolutely is intent in that. Speaking of models that can do that, here’s usage instructions for one that does.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 days ago:
In principle all samplers are deterministic because they use PRNGs, any and all actual non-determinism you see is due to GPUs, underlying acceleration libraries playing fast+loose with numerical accuracy.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 days ago:
Why not “AI readymades”?
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 days ago:
A LLM prompt can’t convey that level of intentionality, because if it did, you would just be writing it directly.
Photography, as opposed to painting, can’t either. Part of the art of photography is dealing with the fact that you cannot control certain things. And yes a complete noob can get absolutely lucky and generate something absolutely stunning and meaningful by accident.
Personally I vibe much more with definitions of art that revolve around author intentionality on the one side, and impact on the human mind on the other and AIs, so far, don’t have intentionality neither can they appreciate human psychology or perception so there’s really no such thing as “AI art” it’s “Humans employing AI as a tool, just as they employ brushes and cameras”, and the question of whether a piece created with help of AI is art or craft or slop or any combination of those is up to the human factor, no different than if you used some other tool.
- Comment on Not the same 6 days ago:
It does somewhat resemble offset printing artifacts those commonly occur in manga, but this is supposed to be cross-hatched otherwise the fringes wouldn’t be lines.
- Comment on Not the same 6 days ago:
The top right one is definitely not drawn by a human, it’s right out hexagons. Noone cross-hatches like that because you can’t cross-hatch like that there’s no lines going straight through.
The rest could be artistic choice, compression artifacts, or other stuff though. Well, some minor stuff, the topmost book on the left pile on the desk on the right is sus, and there’s way too many sponges at the base of the chalkboard. But none of them are dead tells like the hexagons.
- Comment on Crisps. 1 week ago:
I will not be taking lexicographical flak from the colony of our colony appropriating the name “Saxon” for itself. You can have “Anglo”, the Angles left wholesale.
- Comment on Crisps. 1 week ago:
Chipsfrish Peperoni definitely have more heat, they’re saying they’re using 10000 Scoville powder (though not how much of it). Generally speaking if order something to be hot in Germany you’re getting Turkish hot, which is about “able to eat pure Sriracha without breathing fire” kind of tolerance level.
But, granted, Pringles is American, I should have guessed.
- Comment on Crisps. 1 week ago:
If I read this article right, and I think their picture shows their Pringles stacked same-side up as mine, mine have the flavouring on the other side.
Which side is up in the can was never a question for me, they simply fit my mouth, and presumably mouths in general, better if the long concave side cups the tongue. It could be that they’re simply seasoned on the wrong side over here it’s not like they import them from the US, they’re produced in Poland.
In any case the store brand has seasoning placement down, but as this is Germany you’re limited to paprika and sour cream and onion. Which I will be sticking with in the future.
- Submitted 1 week ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games 1 week ago:
Cloud saves are for playing on more than one box as well as backup. Achievements, from the developer’s POV, give some insight into player behaviour, you can also drop hints there (I would never have tried to pet the manta in Satisfactory otherwise), make suggestions for tasks people can set themselves, etc. Whether you, as a player, cares honestly nobody but you gives a fuck.
I can tell you, for example, just from the achievement statistics, that a metric fuckton, an absolute majority, of Cities:Skylines players play modded. They do track city building milestones and very very few people are reaching anything even close to mid-game with achievements still enabled.
- Comment on "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence 4 weeks ago:
These public funds should be subject to conditionality, and not be spent on “AI hyperscalers” or “lighting-fast growing unicorns” that eventually reproduce exploitative business models and further consolidate the economic and political power of large tech corporations. Instead, they must be reserved for open digital infrastructure, software, hardware and standards, similar to what the NLnet Foundation and the Sovereign Tech Agency are already doing on a smaller scale.
Boring. Good. Boring is good and Europe does boring well.
- Comment on 'The Brutalist' criticised for its use of AI 4 weeks ago:
I’m a busy man with a busy schedule so I’m going to quote myself as you demonstrably can’t be bothered to read:
You can value craft for its own sake and that’s fine and proper but please don’t confuse it with art or I shall be referencing urinals on pedestals.
- Comment on 'The Brutalist' criticised for its use of AI 4 weeks ago:
Because it is an ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist. It’s what readymades are all about. Granted, there’s also craft involved, e.g. Duchamp is said to have browsed through quite a couple of bicycle wheels to find one that was appropriately banal for his intentions, but that, as far as we know, wasn’t the case with Fountain (said urinal on a pedestal). He just had a point to make about the nature of art and bought the next best urinal, put it on a pedestal, and signed it with a random pseudonym to not have people fawn over his signature.
That was art. Since then, tons of self-professed conceptual artists have produced nothing of value, producing slop, repeating the same point ad nauseam, worse, thinking that the point was to be crass and vulgar. Banksy pointed that out quite brilliantly when he used the medium of art auctions to paint a picture of rich nitwits jerking off to being given the finger.
Prefer your pristine statues of roman soldiers, do you?
Check your bite reflexes. That’s not to say that the Romans didn’t know a thing or fifty about sculpture but I know exactly what you’re trying to imply.
AI can’t communicate.
And neither can a porcelain factory.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Still 14 unless the over 21yold exploits an underdeveloped sense of sexual self-determination. Only prosecuted on demand, cases are very rare, and usually brought on by parents and then thrown out by the court after talking to the younger party.
17 is still young enough to fall under sugar daddying protections, “in exchange for money or money-valued things”, those apply until 18. That would presuppose a transactional relationship, though.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Ensure that states carrying out the death penalty have a “sufficient supply” of lethal injection drugs.
Some context: The EU has been sanctioning the US over this for decades now, first we stopped selling drugs they use to murder people to prisons, then we completely stopped exports, it has gotten so far as to stop exports of precursor chemicals. And it’s not like our pharma companies would mind they’re actively on the ball regarding this, they don’t want to be associated with it either.
If you want to be barbarians at least have the decency to not paralyse people while they die in abject agony but use a guillotine. Heck, firing squad or hanging are more humane than that injection stuff: Literally torturing people to death while making sure they can’t flail and scream.
- Comment on 'The Brutalist' criticised for its use of AI 4 weeks ago:
Apparently, the line between art and garbage is how it’s made.
Yeah no that’s the difference between craft and craft. Confusion about that is ripe both within the pro- and anti-AI crowd, on the one hand you have people who get dazzled by the results of their “big boobiez plz” prompting, not able to judge the resulting image even if they tried to, on the other side you have people taking on “big boobiez plz” commissions not realising that their derivative style, by-the-numbers composition, everything, is slop. Hand-made slop is still slop.
You can value craft for its own sake and that’s fine and proper but please don’t confuse it with art or I shall be referencing urinals on pedestals.
- Comment on Mexico’s deadly Coca-Cola addiction 4 weeks ago:
Not interested enough in the topic to actually watch the video but from the first seconds and description: Sucrose is made up of 50% fructose and 50% glucose. You can split it apart, producing inverted sugar, with nothing but water and heat, you can help that along a lot by adding acid, of which there’s a decent amount in coke. Any bottle of coke, even if made with 100% straight sucrose, will contain detectable levels of separate fructose and glucose before it hits the shelves.
The issue with HFCS btw is the “high fructose” part, fructose goes straight to the liver and gets turned into fatty tissue: At equal sweetness, HFCS is metabolically more dangerous, especially if you never dig into your fat reserves, than sucrose. inverted sugar is equally as good or bad as sucrose. It’d get split apart in your stomach with acid, in your mouth with enzymes, you name it.
- Comment on idea for a controller that sounds good on paper and I wanna share 1 month ago:
The 2600 used a MOS 6507, which is a cut-down 6502, which had ~3500 logic transistors (not counting the ones necessary because NMOS), running at a max of 3MHz. Add very primitive graphics and 8k RAM.
Can’t be arsed to slog through suitable processors but ARM cores back then could kill that thing dead. 2002 is six years after the Palm Pilot while Moore’s law was still in full effect. The 2600 is from 1977, two decades more ancient.
There should even be more than enough cycles left over to generate the video signal in software.
- Submitted 1 month ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 8 comments
- Comment on Generative A.I. a Parasitic Cancer 1 month ago:
Just for the sake of argument, let me turn this around half-ways: Just as guns don’t kill people, people do, so AI does not produce slop, people do. Generative AI has its uses, where it becomes problematic is when people who can’t even judge a medium use it to produce something in that medium. It’s perfectly possible to get good stuff out of Stable Diffusion, but you have to know a thing or five about visual media or it’ll dazzle you. Applies the same for all genAI I’ve ever looked at.
Likewise, humans are perfectly capable of producing horrendous slop without aid of these tools – just look at the romance novel isle or what Hollywood was up to last year. What’s different nowadays is that it has become very easy to generate that slop, there has been an explosion of slop. If I were to imagine a silver lining it would be that people are probably going to get bored of it and non-slop, AI or non-AI, will see an increase in prestige and value. Just as the invention of photography saved painters from doing portraits.
Bonus:
Summarise the fable of the robot and the antipsychotic
“The Fable of the Robot and the Antipsychotic” is a story that explores themes of mental health, technology, and the human condition. In this fable, a robot represents modern technology and its capabilities, while the antipsychotic symbolizes medication and support for mental health issues.
The robot, designed to optimize efficiency and productivity, struggles to understand the complexities of emotions and human experiences. It encounters an individual who is grappling with mental health challenges and is hesitant to seek help. The robot, despite its advanced programming, cannot provide the emotional support the individual needs.
Through the interaction, the fable highlights the importance of empathy, understanding, and the role of medication in managing mental health. The robot eventually learns that while it can assist in many areas, the human experience requires compassion and connection, which technology alone cannot provide.
In the end, the story conveys that while robots and technology can enhance our lives, they should complement, rather than replace, the human touch in addressing emotional and mental well-being.
- Comment on Does Lemm.ee Have a TOS? 1 month ago:
AFAIU (IANAL, much less an Estonian one) what’s usually considered ToS aren’t really necessary because you’re not entering a contract with lemm.ee that would bind anyone to anything – e.g. you’re not paying usage fees so there doesn’t need to be a stated policy on sitebans because if you went to court over a ban the court would ask “which services did you buy that they did not provide?”, then throw the case out.
That said this is the EU so there’s a privacy policy linked in the footer. It’s a GDPR requirement.