TheRealBob

@TheRealBob@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much did photography "stole" painter jobs ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  AI isn’t stealing jobs any more than cheap clip art has. The only people who would resort to AI for illustration stopped hiring actual artists ages ago, they buy from shutterstock and the like instead.

  The reason artists are pissed id because they used our art to train the AI without our permission. And no, its not the same thing as an artist learning from others, first because of the scale, and second because a student who is learning from other artists isn’t looking to copy an existing style, they’re learning and developing their own. AI just regurgitates what it already knows and attempts to imitate the style of an actual person. It was developed specifically to do that.

  If a human being copies the style of another artist rather than develop their own, they’ll be called out too. No one has ever been okay with that, ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does all of this alien stuff take place mostly in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  UFOlogy is huge in Brazil. They have a lot of famous “incidents”, google Varginha alien and you’ll see what I mean.

  I’m not a believer at all, I just happen to know about it cause I lived there for a while and one of my coworkers was a UFO nut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't more poor people join mutual aid groups instead of using charities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re missing is the fact that it would be a huge risk and we have mouths to feed and bills to pay. Who’s to say the other people in the mutual aid group will stick around? Without a job I have no health insurance, what happens if I get cancer? Who pays for that? How do I know that I’ll be able to pay rent every month? With whose money? What happens if my dog needs surgery, who pays for that? Where do I get money for groceries?

  Also as one of the working poor I have never relied on charity for anything because I live in a shit hole that doesn’t really even offer anything. Only churches do charity work here and my gay ass is not welcome there.

  That’s not even taking into account the fact that you’d have to get people to agree to help each other. Do you think all the racist white assholes in my town will join up with black and Mexican families? lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is Misskey supposed to be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Misskey has been around since 2014, it’s not meant to be an alternative to anything. It wasn’t even part of the fediverse at first, iirc.

  Anyway the best (imo) English fork is Calckey, and it’s basically Mastodon on steroids. I honestly don’t know why people choose mastodon over it, it does everything Mastodon does + more.