i used (and use, until the shutdown) cohost as my primary social media site. i’m not surprised, but i can’t say it hasn’t been disappointing. for all the issues it has (and it did have a lot) it was pretty much the only site that felt somewhat cozy to use for me. stings quite a bit

I didn’t read the post at all

rather refreshing to have someone come out and just say it. thank you for the chuckle

and furries, for some reason

An opinion is still an opinion no matter how widely held it is.

why did you even bring up your one artist friend’s opinion if you’re just gonna be like “well actually that’s just YOUR opinion” when i disagree

yet I still refuse to call it art.

Duchamp wants a word

And then we have people who are attacking any use of ai images that are willing to call it “AI Art”…

good thing i, me, the person you’re responding to, isn’t those people. makes me wonder why you even brought it up in the first place

I believe that you believe that.

i also believe you’re deliberately trying to be as insufferable as possible, so be sure to add that to the bizarre collection of things you think i believe while you’re at it. or better yet: don’t

Would you rather have a dozen back and forth interactions?

these aren’t the only two possibilities. i’ve had some interactions where i got handed one ref sheet and a sentence description and the recipient was happy with the first sketch. i’ve had some where i got several pieces of references from different artists alongside paragraphs of descriptions, and there were still several dozen attempts. tossing in ai art just increases the volume, not the quality, of the interaction

Besides, this is something I’ve heard from other artists, so it’s very much a matter opinion.

i have interacted with hundreds of artists, and i have yet to meet an artist that does not, to at least some degree, have some kind of negative opinion on ai art, except those for whom image-generation models were their primary (or more commonly, only) tool for making art. so if there is such a group of artists that would be happy to be presented with ai art and asked to “make it like this”, i have yet to find them

Annoying, sure, but not immoral.

annoying me is immoral actually

as someone who only draws as a hobbyist, but who has taken commissions before, i think it would be very annoying to have a prospective client go “okay so here’s what i want you to draw” and then send over ai-generated stuff. if only because i know said client is setting their expectations for the hyper-processed, over-tuned look of the machine instead of what i actually draw

happy to see the draft get fleshed out. good writeup

with how much of a revolving door of covert white supremacists lemmy is, i can imagine it’s hard to boot them out faster than they come in. just federation things

what if we simply took the output of the easily manipulated word salad generator and parsed it into instructions for the computers that are in charge of all our communication to follow

Well over a year ago it was actually useful. […] And it just doesn’t come up with interesting stuff any more.

i have to admit i’m deeply curious what outputs you considering interesting enough for twenty bucks a month

i couldn’t resist

at least when this rhetoric popped up around crypto and GameStop stocks, there was a get-rich-quick scheme attached to it. these fuckers are doing it for free

And yet, my opponents in discussion

good gods you’re going to be the most insufferable kind of person, aren’t you

You aren’t going to convince me of anything

this was a bit of a given

bet you also think the climate cost of cryptocurrency is also a failing of the energy sector to deliver clean power to the innocent sweet little industrial-scale mining tycoons, don’t you

you do an excellent job of writing. several times reading this i had to mentally delete paragraphs of explanations for some of the rationalist thoughts and ideology because you have described it perfectly in just a sentence or two.

shared this with some of my in-tech-but-skeptical friends. you deserve a bigger audience

thinking “typewriter monkeys”, but maybe that’s too literal

…gods i miss n-gate

wow, that side-by-side is so obviously bad i’m surprised it even got posted. usually AI bros try to hide the worst of the tech, or at the very least, say shit like “this is only the beginning!!”

also, was not expecting to click that link and see FUNKe. good nostalgia

simply ask the word generator machine to generate better words, smh

this is actually the most laughable/annoying thing to me. it betrays such a comprehensive lack of understanding of what LLMs do and what “prompting” even is. you’re not giving instructions to an agent, you are feeding a list of words to prefix to the output of a word predictor

in my personal experiments with offline models, using something like “below is a transcript of a chat log with XYZ” as a prompt instead of “You are XYZ” immediately gives much better results. not good results, but better

it is a little entertaining to hear them do extended pontifications on what society would look like if we had pocket-size AGI, life-extension or immortality tech, total-immersion VR, actually-good brain-computer interfaces, mind uploading, etc. etc. and then turn around and pitch a fit when someone says “okay so imagine if there were a type of person that wasn’t a guy or a girl”

oh fuck he’s that asshole? the one that was so petty about a negative Polygon review for said game that he stalked the reviewer’s Twitter page until he could find a quote to mangle into a recommendation to put on the game’s Steam page? including the reviewer’s full name, against the reviewer’s repeated, explicit wishes for it to be removed?

finally, i can see Sam Altman’s face immediately upon clicking the link

… put it back