I’m just sick of all this because we gave to “AI” too much meaning.

I don’t like Generative AI tools like LLMs, image generators, voice, video etc because i see no interests in that, I think they give bad habits, and they are not understood well by their users.

Yesterday again i had to correct my mother because she told me some fun fact she had learnt by chatGPT, (that was wrong), and she refused to listen to me because “ChatGPT do plenty of researches on the net so it should know better than you”.

About the thing that “it will replace artists and destroy art industry”, I don’t believe in that, (even if i made the choice to never use it), because it will forever be a tool. It’s practical if you want a cartoony monkey image for your article (you meanie stupid journalist) but you can’t say “make me a piece of art” and then put it on a museum.

Making art myself, i hate Gen AI slop from the deep of my heart but i’m obligated to admit that. (Let’s not forget how it trains on copirighted media, use shitton of energy, and give no credits)

AI in others fields, like medecine, automatic subtitles, engineering, is fine for me. It won’t give bad habits, it is well understood by its users, and it is truly benefical, as in being more efficient to save lifes than humans, or simply being helpful to disabled people.

TL,DR AI in general is a tool. Gen AI is bad as a powerful tool for everyone’s use like it is bad to give to everyone an helicopter (even if it improves mobility). AI is nonetheless a very nice tool that can save lifes and help disabled peoples IF used and understood correctly and fairly.

All the AI drawings have a grainy piss-yellow tone, idk why but it makes the identification easier

If you need your id to access internet: not use it anymore, selfhosting go brrr

If you need your id for all content-sharing websites like social media or microblogging: return back to good ol webrings and static websites. Can’t kill the web on its core principles. No algorithms, pure passion and creativity.

Hot take: the fungi will take over all existing animal and plant life, and create a whole biosphere of fungi. Fungi crustaceans, fungi mammals, fungi plants, fungi amphibians, fungi reptiles, fungi birds.

The fungi humans would have achieved world peace, because there’s no genders to create inequalities, and with spores flying everywhere, unwanted infidelity and physical differences are so common that anger and jealousy makes no sense.

I was also desperate like you a few years ago.

Now I prepared for all that mentally and physically and i just do with it. They want to get you by isolation. Isolation gives loneliness and allow more control on you. Internet is perfect to make the world your enemy, as long as you are only spoonfed by their algorithms. After all, anger and hopelessness are the most impactful emotions.

The solution? You also already have it. Choosing what you want to see. The fediverse is that. The others who ignore warnings? They will figure it out the hard way. Or not. Anyways victims are always needed in large numbers for resistance to hide.

Talking about it, now is the time to gather your “resistance”! A common accessory, gesture, try to organize a local network of truth to preserve values of freedom and knowledge safe from corporate control and to not be isolated!

Personally, already living on a place where internet is slow and unstable, I would not be too bothered about stopping using internet at all.

Kiwix for wikipedia at home, ytmp3 downloaders or bandcamp to own your music, piracy and artist support (instead of buying without owning and giving half your money to some corporation) to own your films and games.

(But most of all, support your local library/media library/culture space! And don’t hesitate to make sometimes public essays about things of your interests, many cultural spaces accept that on some hours! I made IRL friends who love astronomy like me that way! The social media brainrotted people won’t come to theses places so it’ll be easier.)

As for the web, this is a place to share your thoughts, but not too much. A paper diary or a notebook is the best place to write and share your thoughts without letting them be used against you. Plus it allows to calm down and be yourself. A secred garden, where your free speech will always exist, hidable or destroyable in a matter of seconds from authorities. You should always have some freedom on your hands. But don’t tell about it to anyone IRL!

I agree on how annoying can be thoses doing constant whataboutism about US to glorify China, like “everything bad that happened here is propaganda made by western and shit” things (blocking is the way, it’s always the sames, eh yogthos?).

I joined .ml originally only because i read the description and it was appealing for me “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers”

Understood later in meant marxist leninists but at least I see opinions from all sides there and they doesn’t bother me that much so i stayed.

But again can we avoid another pointless instance war? We’re stronger together and the fediverse is better federated.

From what i’ve heard, with the aging population in developed countries and the birthrate getting lower due to longer life expectancy, population should soon stabilise itself around 10 billions. Seems viable.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication (a bit ironic when you consider this quote comes from Apple).

Steam is fun and all, minecraft is a great game, but goddamn, i have a 10kbps at home, and network is unstable where i live, why can’t i play my fcking game “licence” which is not even online based, because the network decided to stop??

I prefer from far a simple folder with assets and a .exe that i will put on my desktop with a shortcut.

What an application is supposed to be anyways.

You must show your id to access NSFW subreddits!

“oh no!”

changes www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com on the adress bar

“anyways”

Tho i remember when they removed compact reddit. But i think if they remove old.reddit.com, people will really start to leave, so they’ll try to get rid of it quietly.

It will become boring if you think that nothing can be done. Even if creating isn’t a profession anymore (as in doing comissions or paid media like someone else said), the simple fact of drawing to show your love to something, to give a visual representation of your thoughts, it will never dissapear. Everyone seems hopeless, by the fact that they are all trapped in the social media loop. Life seem empty and boring if your only source of entertainment come from media consumption (which is the case for a lot from the rat race unfortunately)

But we all will find a way out, and creativity will always matter. Maybe not for the next decades, but someday it will. Trust me ;)

I just think theses people(who use AI to make “art”) does not have enough courage and perfectionism to get into drawing.

“Why bother putting hours in drawing learning, if the magical AI can draw the meme I ask it instantly?”

“Why bother buying a telescope and putting hours in astronomy theory if you can see better space images for free on internet?”

“Why bother doing a marathon, if i can just take my car and go there faster?”

For everything, you need to invest enough of your time in it so start liking it. The majority of people only have a few hobbies.

They see art as a way to be popular for the nerds who are skilled enough to draw. They see astronomy as a way to be popular for the nerds who learned astrophotography. They see sport as a way to be popular for the nerds who are fit enough to run.

For them, one thing that seemed innaccessible, became accessible with AI. I know it’s sad, but theses people don’t care if something has a soul or not. They just want their eye-appealing ghibli portrait.

Here’s a good blog article that better conveys my point of view.

Dreaming awake. Idk how to call it otherwise.

I invent to myself the most ridiculous stories of things of my imagination and i play them in my head, like a sort of head game.

When i do a sufficiently long story, i often fall asleep on it and i continue it the next evening, and it can last months. Plus you get better at mental visualisation the more you do it. I remember dreams almost every night since i did that for a long time.

A shitty AI wouldn’t understand why #B00B69 is the perfect color

Damn, even if it was to be excepted with how the admin issue was evolving, it’s still sad.

But i guess the strengh of the fediverse come from the fact that such an issue can happen without impacting the entire lemmy community as a whole.

I’m just worried that the lack of moderation becomes a recurrent issue in the future of lemmy with the userbase growth and the lack of revenue.

I wish best luck for communities moderators and EE users!

Yes people have not forgotten the second thumb!

True, i did a sophism, all cards must now be reversed, i am upvoting you.

You are doing a logical fallacy of assuming wrong based only on logical fallacies. I am downvoting you.

You’re welcome.

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AI for subtitles: You’ve been a long way but now you’re cool