• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    How much you bet on that this very same person is now part of the “dark enlightement” after the progressives almost unanimusly rejected generative AI slop?

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        27 days ago

        The impact per work of AI vs, say, a set of pighair brushes is massively higher.

        Which is the fairest way of comparing them, per artwork.

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          27 days ago

          There’s probably a bigger impact when you consider how paint and brushes are manufactured and the fact that it’s most likely shipped here from other countries.

          It’s also laughable how little actual energy one picture takes to generate.

          It’s a non starter when you actual compare it to something physical. It’s like saying sending a normal letter is better for the environment then an email.

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            27 days ago

            The issue is the infrastructure and scale. Hundreds of thousands of these images are created every day.

            I don’t know your workflow but it usually takes quite a few iterations before someone gets the image they want. It’s the literal definition of inefficiency because its rebuilding the diffusion every time, be that from cached memory or a new vector path.

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          27 days ago

          Both of those things have a really small impact, to the point that it doesn’t matter. Generating one picture using AI takes like 30 seconds of your GPU running at full power. Besides, I don’t think that’s a fair comparison in the first place. Pighair brushes are not the main animal product people consume and generating something using AI models isn’t what’s using the majority of the energy but training the models is. The metric that’s actually important is what both industries as a whole are contributing to climate change, otherwise we can just keep picking examples that prove the other one wrong.

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            27 days ago

            Lololololololololol. No. Unless you have a massively expensive GPU, no. The image is not being generated by your device. It’s being generated by a mile wide server bank that churns through petrochemicals like a city all on its own. That’s the part of AI people are talking about when they reference it being bad for the environment. And if you do own a massively expensive GPU and generate AI images offline, you are not part of the conversation because your activities are an ounce in an ocean.

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    27 days ago

    This feels just like the twitter men roleplaying as women saying that they love misogyny.

    They’re using “woke” language to promote anti-woke subjects.

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    24 days ago

    I’m kinda done trying to have some sort of anti-stance with this. AI reminds me too much of smartphones, where anybody who didn’t have one was an asshole, ignorant stupid old person blah. I held out on a smartphone for something like ten years, just because they were pricey, I had my dumbphone and PC, I didn’t need one. Eventually you just couldn’t do adult business effectively without one and there I stood with an iPhone 4 when 3G was getting ready to disappear.

    Everyone does nothing but piss and moan about their phones, now, all the “normal” people have been sucked into the vortex that created the “neckbeard”, and we live in a dystopia where everyone can’t seem to leave the house without their government tracking device. It didn’t matter at all back when they were hot and new, every kid had to have one and now we’re fucked.

    It’s the same with AI. People jumped on that shit scary fast, I think GenZ was desperate to have something that felt like “their” technology. Once I heard the scientists acting like people were stupid for being anti-AI, then I knew it was over. The upper-middle-class has spoken, all you can do now is decide to get treated like crap. Capital wants AI, and what baby wants, baby gets. They have learned to whip you with your own children to make you obey.

    My favorite use for Copilot is using it to translate normal declarative sentences into that awful passive-aggressive language they use in offices because they just can’t have the terrifying confrontation of, “I put all that information in the last email, please read it again.” It’s really good at that because it’s been trained on everything you’ve probably ever sent though Outlook.

    That shit’s an arbitrary class barrier, so it’s good that you can use Copilot to translate sentences into White Woman to learn office talk the way I can use SpanishDict to translate my English into Spanish and back. There wasn’t really a way to do that before, and now you can study it and learn it so you can deal with the fucked up social requirements that go into a job that pays above the median wage.

    Otherwise I have no profitable use for it. I desperately need to learn one.

    So yeah, start using the shit out of it or get kicked out the airlock. Sucks for the artists but capital wants change and you’ve already lost. Yeah, I don’t really want to get good at anything, either, if this thing’s just gonna suck it up, take my skills and make me go work at McDonald’s anyway after decades of dedication. Love how technology empowers like 2/10ths of the people and throws most of us under the bus, again and again.

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    27 days ago

    I hope we all realize that this is clearly satire or some weird way to make “woke” people seem stupid, right? 😭

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      26 days ago

      It truly does get hard to tell after a certain point, though. People get mentally fatigued when “it’s just a joke bro” has been said the millionth time. And when crazy awful oligarchs with too much money are backing that joke. I’m tired.

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    27 days ago

    “Anarchist” lololol

    Yeah, using the corporate product that stole all individuals’ work to regurgitate abortions from billionaire oligarch’s algorithms is totally “anarchist.”

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        27 days ago

        There are rules. But rich people don’t have to follow them. It’s domination. Not anarchy/anarchism.

        Edit: Okay now I see the /S. Not deleting though lol.

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      27 days ago

      Exactly. I remember in Conquest of Bread when Kropotkin talked about freeing up more time by automating creative and intelligent pursuits so we can focus more on menial labor.

      Obviously /s

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      27 days ago

      bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe… i’M sUcH aN aNaRcHiSt HyUcK hYuCk HyUcK!!!

      It’s like these mentally lazy ignorant people look all around themselves, see how the horizon is basically at the same distance all around them, therefore conclude that they must be the center of the universe, then sprinkle in a few fashionable internet soundbites and catchphrases to “make themselves sound interesting” and “with it”.

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      27 days ago

      Uhhh I will get downvoted but I have to say, anarchy capitalism is still anarchism. And obviously disrespecting property rights is a very anarchist thing to do, so.

      And many AI models you can run completely on your own hardware, no billionaire oligarchies have a say in what you do.

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        26 days ago

        Most anarcho-capitalists, especially the Curtis Yarvin types, just want fascism, but with Inc. at the end, and call their dictator “Chief Executive Officer”.

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        26 days ago

        anarchocapitalism is still anarchism

        Sounds more like people who want to have luxuries and comforts and money but don’t want to have anyone telling them what they can and can’t do.

        Sounds about right for the current fascist techbro community.

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    27 days ago

    I notice they used an actual photograph for their post… isn’t photography “traditional” artwork? Why not generate a person with weirdly smooth features, 6 and a half fingers on one hand, a pencil that looks vaguely like a bunch of dry spaghetti, and a sports team jersey with a garbled illegible logo? It’s so much faster, more accessible and less misogynistic.

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    27 days ago

    inclusive

    accessible

    make some stuff with disabled people and people of color featured and see what happens

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    25 days ago

    AI could make this less pixelated…but so could whatever humans and/or bots took the screenshot and shared it everywhere.