Liberals Beware; I will crawl on your face.

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Cake day: January 25th, 2022
  • Arachno_Stalinist@lemmygrad.mltoAsk Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml•What do you guys think of the usage of AI and the creation of AI images?
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    16 days ago

    I believe AI (whether for images or other things) is first and foremost a tool. I remember shortly after the GenZedong exodus here we even played a bit with AI image generation. (There was even a thread for generating images, but idk if it’s still around anymore or if the bot dedicated to it still works.) Although this was when AI was just getting popular. I would much rather write stuff with my own words and do my own research instead of rely on something like ChatGPT or Grok to do the same though.

    Personally, I’m not a big fan of the commodified AI slop nowadays, (although you can blame capitalism for that, and AI, with its pattern detection, only accentuates the soulless nature of capitalism) but it is clearly here to stay. Although if used well, AI can be actually entertaining. (Neuro-Sama for example)

    My main concern with AI is privacy and transparency. Services like Google have recently been pushing for AI in places that involve your personal information such as your phone, and they make the excuse that collecting your data is needed for training their AI. If AI was fully open-source and trained exclusively on voluntarily given data instead of scraping it without permission, it probably wouldn’t have the bad rep it has currently.

    Edit: Deepfakes are also potentially problematic IMO. As AI image and video generation gets better, it may become harder to discern if something is real or if it is AI generated in the near future, so I believe that an AI use disclosure should be absolutely necessary.

  • Arachno_Stalinist@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•General Discussion Thread - Juche 114, Week 33
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    1 month ago

    I have just watched Takopi’s Original Sin and it’s some really heavy stuff. It sheds light on some very real issues in today’s society such as bullying, domestic abuse, suicide, etc., and how unfair conditions can lead to such behaviors. However, the ending feels a bit… Libby, for lack of a better term? (Spoilers ahead)

    Major spoilers up ahead:

    So in the end, Takopi sacrifices himself so that the two rival characters Shizuka and Marina become friends instead of enemies. The anime presents this as a happy ending (of course, as the main conflict between them has been resolved in a positive way), but at the same time, during the time skip at the end, Marina still has the facial scar she gets from parental abuse in a time skip from a previous timeline, which implies that her household problems likely still haven’t been resolved.

    Also, it seems like a wasted opportunity to not address how the contradictions within Capitalism perpetuate these situations in the first place, whether it be Shizuka’s poverty (with her mother having to turn to prostitution to keep them afloat), Marina’s abusive parents (unable to properly seek help, causing her to turn to bullying Shizuka to vent her frustrations), Azuma’s parental neglect (always being forced to push himself as an attempt to gain his mother’s approval due to work culture), etc.