Yes; I took it through my bedroom window

If you want to preface the command, yes, but my alias works after the fact unless blurting out “FUCKING!!” when people tell you no is just part of your quirks I guess :P

alias stopresisting="sudo"
stopresisting !!

Found the AI “artist.”

wat? where?

Also… are you seriously trying to compare a child’s drawing skills against AI?

No. You should read that sentence again.

That’s actually funny, it just went over my head

what is the point of defending generative AI against criticism

because the criticism is nearly always just “I don’t like it”; see the original comment.
You’re either deeply confused about what I said or you’re deliberately engaging in dishonest discourse by picking and choosing whatever strawman you can argue with and applying that to me as if I said that when I didn’t.

You can make photography and disregard other type of artists. Scabs see themselves as workers you see. Or at least they like to mascarade as “hello fellow workers”.

I reject the implication that I am a scab and will not engage further as I think you have insulted me and cannot reply in good faith. Good day.

I read it. Why didn’t you say that to begin with? We can’t infer what you mean when all you present is a simple, generic statement. Your follow-up is much more clarifying.

I’m happy you took a writing class but why do I have to be your exam topic?

you are not interested in art. you are interested in finished products.

I’ll be honest and say I debated even reading the rest of your comment because right off the bat you’ve just said some bullshit that anyone who even looks at my posts would know is false. I am literally a technical photographer, an artist. I use AI to the extend that it’s useful to me which is exactly not at all.

However, in the spirit of good faith, I did read it and I must say I feel like you’re shadowboxing someone who isn’t me.

But you prefer your child to write a prompt in a vending machine thus negating any humanity that your child could bring to the world of art.

I did not say this. I don’t know why you’re putting it here.

A world without capitalism, would not be obsessed with monetizing everything and the lowering deadlines to mass produce garbage. I imagine there would be time for slowness, and introspection. To make less more meaningful art. To propose alternative aesthetics. To judge art as a human act.

This is what I said and where the misunderstanding seems to begin, because:

You are telling me that a free society will choose creativity as automated corporate sponsored vending machines? Well talk about a lack introspection.

is the exact opposite of what I said. In a world where artists are not forced to participate in the social status rat race, they can pursue their arts however they want and it will mostly not include AI. AI grifters won’t exist because there’s no grift to be done, as artists are not pressured into charging money for their works nobody will care about churning out art, and low-effort generative AI will be shoved aside as easily as we shove other low-effort artistic adventures aside.

I think you’re trying to argue with me as if I’m pro-AI and have made the usual pro-AI arguments when I am not and have not. AI in all of its iterations are to me what algorithms of the bygone era are: tools. You can use a hammer to crudely slam nails into a 2x4 but you’re not an artist until you build something more than the sum of its parts, whatever tools you use. I don’t use AI. I don’t pay for any AI services. I’ve followed the development of LLMs, stable diffusion, and adjacent technology. I have experimented with it and found it to not be useful in my usual workflow and I don’t see what else I could do with it that hasn’t been done a million times over. I don’t hate the hammer because it’s not immediately useful to me, I just don’t use it and won’t be upset if someone else does. If someone else makes something beautiful with the hammer then I will appreciate it as I do art made with any other tools.

The rest of your essay is more like a generic rant aimed at nobody in particular so I won’t dissect it. The above point applies.

I accidentally deleted my comment sorry here it is again

Current models are utterly dependent on using others’ work without permission or compensation,

They are not dependent on it, no. They simply do that because it’s the cheapest way to build a huge dataset to train on.

the people behind AI companies are now advocating for the abolishing of IP law so they can exploit artists even more

I advocate for the total abolishment of copyright, IP and any adjacent laws for the exact opposite reason; artists would not need copyright and innovators would not need IP to protect themselves if we lived in a society that nurtured a healthier culture of sharing. In its most extreme form, I want to get rid of money such that nobody, artists especially, need not money to justify their continued existence. Human beings were not meant to be enslaved to a monetary structure and it has become the driving force of misery all around the world.

will not fail to succumb to the same enshittification

It’s pretty clear to me that you haven’t participated in the open source AI race because we don’t need the corporate AIs. I don’t say that like a ‘lmao ur not as smart as me’ but open source AI development, especially stable diffusion and chat LLMs, has caught up to corporate AIs in every way but training data, because unlike the corporations, they walk a thin legal line. I’ve been following it closely since GPT2. It was open source that first came up with the idea of using smaller models to do specific things instead of trying to train one huge model to do everything.

Thank you for the your incredible insight and immense contribution to the discussion.

art made by a computer just sounds like shit.

This is a common but reductive statement and I’m tired of hearing it. People have been drawing crude boobs on rocks since the first man picked up a stick but I don’t hear you complaining about childrens drawing. ‘AI’, especially the current iteration of it, is being used for all kinds of shit that would’ve taken conventional computing a million real-hours to do. There is no reason that real artists can’t or shouldn’t incorporate AI into their workflow in any capacaity if it helps them realize the idea they have. Denoising is a simple use case that you’ve used if you ever took a photo on your phone but, again, I don’t hear you bitching about that one.

The only thing you could possibly be upset about is that the barrier of entry to making passable art with no thought put into it has been lowered so much that a child can do it. That’s a problem of you looking in places that allow that to be posted, though. You could just not. I, for example, don’t care for stable diffusion spam; I don’t see a lot of it because I don’t go where that kind of art is.

I’m sorry if this comes off as rude but I’m really tired of hearing uh buh AI art bad with no expansion or introspection.

I don’t own any motor vehicles :)

I hope you’ll make it through whatever you’re going through! ❤️

Only semi-related but: The only people I’ve heard say e-bikes aren’t real bikes are people who don’t own bikes of either kind.

Day 1 failed, you didn’t post a photo

At 19 I worked IT at a local shelter and the administration was so psychotic I cried in the bus to work.

Stop making good the enemy of perfect!

Reading comprehension and organized harassment is such a problem for your community that the entire rest of the fediverse knows and jokes about it. I can appreciate that you might not see most of that because most instances defederate from yours and most users block you after the first interaction.

It’s totally normal and organic that entire groups of tankies show up at the same time to dunk on low-interaction comments in low-interaction posts, often several replies deep in a thread that nobody’s reading anymore, and it’s always the most meaningless shit where they clearly didn’t read the post and formed a cohesive rebuttal to any points but just spew the first vaguely relevant zinger they find in the text file of one-line zingers they seem to share amongst each other.

Why is it that when I say something controversial in a normal conversation, that doesn’t happen? It only happens when I say something mean or, god forbid, factual, in a conversation with an .ml user.

I didn’t say conspiracy