FarceOfWill
@FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 days ago:
Oh dear no I’m repying to agree. It is all good.
It’s a lazy Sunday and while I have a dozen better things to do trying to make clear posts about ai in a place where people will agree intelligently is a nice waste of time.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 days ago:
The soul thing is very poor ground to argue on yes which is why I immediately spent the time to make a different one :)
At very best it’s an intuitive understanding of “procedural oatmeal” where the brain spots patterns in the output so quickly it becomes tired of the art and loses interest.
But I think that’s being generous and I think of lot of the time it’s a purely to stake a position based on identity and a challenge to that identity.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 5 days ago:
The wider issue is you have to generate that energy, and you have to be able to capture more of carbon than that generation released.
As I understand it doesn’t at all. This is why it’s seen as analagous to a perpetual motion machine, it’s an endless chain of power plants capturing each others carbon to no end.
You could use solar if course, but then why generate anything with fossil fuels just to capture the carbon with solar? Just use solar.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 days ago:
It’s not any of those reasons, it’s because it can only exist by being trained on human authored art and in many cases you can extract a decentish copy of the original if you can specify enough tags that piece was labelled with.
The ai model is a lossy database of art and using them to launder copyright violations should be illegal, is immorally stealing from the creator, and chills future artists by taking away the revenue they need while learning. This leads to ai model art having not enough future work to train on and the stagnation of the human experience as making beautiful things is not profitable enough, or doesn’t give the profit to those with power.
- Comment on Microplastics in tea bags 1 month ago:
Not clicking but if this is the one from a while ago its specifically about plastic glteabags. And, like, obviously.
If you stir with a plastic spoon you’ll have even more
- Comment on The Extreme Disconnect between Game Journalists, Developers, and their Audience 1 month ago:
Thanks for writing this up, sounds even worse than I’d have guessed from the title.
- Comment on Nom nom 1 month ago:
Thanks I finally understood this thread, kept thinking people were viewing the crocodile/duck/whatever from above
- Comment on Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped 1 month ago:
Our stalwart guardians of the land right there, we make them work so hard for their tax free inheritance
- Comment on Study finds young people more likely to spend Christmas alone 1 month ago:
Alone with a mobile and 4 separate communications apps with dozens of chats
- Comment on NatWest to hike chief's pay as bank returns to full private ownership 2 months ago:
Something like a 20% loss, before inflation. Figures will come out next year when it’s actually complete. Not sure if the government took money out in that time by dividend but it would be a bit weird to so I assume not.
But then, the cost of not doing it would have been much much worse.
- Comment on Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be 2 months ago:
There was definitely a problem at first on mastodon with people buying a server instance for the black community, and then not actually blocking all the standard bad servers.
Basically giving them a server full of targets to harass.
I guess you could say setting up an instance and maintaining a blue sky block list is sort of similar, you’re taking it on yourself to see all the horrible stuff, even seeking it out, to protect others.
The blue sky approach lets people use multiple Blocklists though and masto just has the one of the server you’re on and your personal one. Lots of room for improvement.
- Comment on Mitochondria 2 months ago:
Got it. I’ll look out for Targaryen Vs Mitochondria in the next season to learn more
- Comment on Mitochondria 2 months ago:
What the hell is a “powerhouse” anyway?
- Comment on Germ Blaster 2 months ago:
To be fair they probably didn’t rub each individual finger over their disgusting body parts while in the toilet.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says games should be shorter because development costs are ‘not sustainable’ [VGC] 2 months ago:
The playing time isn’t sustainable either
- Comment on European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X 2 months ago:
I did just hear libsoftiktok joined and got banned pdq too.
Great news honestly, I thought they were dumping all this on custom Blocklist but if they’re also moderating themselves it really makes me consider making an account.
- Comment on European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X 2 months ago:
But isn’t the aim for their blocking to be so good they can serve Nazis and antifa on the same platform without them conflicting?
Is that really much better than twitter the nazi bar?
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 2 months ago:
No I agree, it’s mostly useful to fertilize the plants elsewhere in the garden.
But it seems everyone here is thinking of lawns and I realise late my concept of a garden is utterly alien to what most people actually do. No lawns for me!
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 2 months ago:
I don’t have my books handy, but while they take a lot back this varies by species and the fallen leaves can have a lot of N and P in some cases.
Though I’ve always seen them shredded and used for making compost anyway rather than leaving them on the ground. Too easy to get rot that way. And you really want to spread them around the rest of the garden if you’ve planted trees that do drop N in the leaves
- Comment on rollin' deep 2 months ago:
Ankles and knees are a complete con. I want my money back evolution.
- Comment on Tough news for protesting farmers: Labour doesn’t actually need their votes 2 months ago:
Pissing off farmers is more likely to gainn support in rural communities than lose it.
- Comment on How a post on Reddit accidentally kickstarted the revival of Angus Steakhouse 2 months ago:
The customers they have are getting absolutely rinsed
- Comment on On Mushrooms 2 months ago:
The fungus grows
- Comment on malicious backdoor found in widely used game mod by Low Level [YouTube] 3 months ago:
There were rumours about one for rimworld but I’m not sure if it was real or on steam.
- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 4 months ago:
I agree but I can see why someone might not want to invite the people they feel ruined their home back to have another go.
- Comment on Godot fork- Redot emerges after recent events within the Godot project. 4 months ago:
I’m torn, because this is useless, but also I’d quite like them up high on a platform for everyone to point and laugh at.
- Comment on Fears for patient safety as GPs use ChatGPT to diagnose and treat illness 5 months ago:
You can build excellent expert systems that will definitely help a do tor remember all the illnesses, know what questions to ask to narrow things down or double check it’s not something weird, and provide options for treatment.
These exist and are good
Chargpt isn’t an expert system and doctors using it like one need a serious warning from the BMC and would eventually need to be struck off, same as using ouija boards or bones to diagnose illnesses.
- Comment on How to Monetize a Blog 5 months ago:
it’s up to us commenters to back you up.
Totally worth reading, just great internet creativity - Comment on Manchester rioter's mum who went on £1,200 Ibiza trip must pay compensation amounting to cost of her holiday 5 months ago:
It’s just a total coincidence the costs are the same then? Weird story
- Comment on That's a big burger 5 months ago:
What is that? A car for ants?