fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Hey, I'm Chris and I'm hard to distinguish from a good programmer.

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• The easiest and most reliable strategy is to be ahead of all new technologies and champion them, because if you don't, you're a Luddite and you'll miss the wave. Of course, every tool is permitted and AI is happening one way or another, but this species of it derives its entire value from the creative work of uncredited and unwilling participants. To highlight the obvious exchange going on; almost everyone who contributed to the value of AI image generation is now being exploited by it. (remote)
• The most established will keep their jobs and status, and be hired by OpenAI, Adobe and Google to speak at big events about how empowered they now are by AI. PR campaigns will cynically tell us how AI helps historically disadvantaged groups. Everyone will clap, and more money will flow to these companies. However, a theft has occurred. Those now honing their craft will never have a chance to reach mastery, and will never get hired because a machine appears to do an equivalent job. "So let them use the machine", okay, now a generation is sold out to the benefit of a few corporations not because a - finer tool was invented, but because we found out how to make zombies of each other and charge money for it. (remote)
• Creators will suffer in the long run, and instead of pointing this out, many leap to the defense of these companies and their practices. Few seem to question the cost of encouraging this scheme and who really benefits from it. OpenAI's Dall-E touts "artistic styles" like hats to try on, a distinctly colonial attitude to the treasures of human creativity. If they had any respect for their sources they would credit them in proportion to their contribution, and would never declare ownership over the resulting works. As long as their business model is selling tickets to take weird photos of big data, they are no better than grave robbers. (remote)
• We make art for each other, not to enrich tech investors or to expand the repertoire of synthetic plagiarists. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Documentation for complex tooling that is mostly ad copy, quick start guides, and some man pages all of which is mainly intended to be part of the funnel to get you to sign up and hopefully pay for services.

I mean, I get it, but your docs could still be better and have some theory of operation, architectural information, and some example use cases, right?

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I agree!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/07/26/sentiment-for-the-day/

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Lyrilith@mastodon.art wrote:

Just chilling.. Listening to the strange, dark and mysterious stories of MrBallen on YouTube and doodling. Why do I draw cute cat girls when hearing creepy true crime stories? 🙃
When I drew the DTIYS of Memo I was listening to his "Missing 411" playlist. :D So if you like spooky stories taking place in national parks and forests, but not necessarily true crime, check those videos out. 👍

#MastoArt #sketchbook #sketch #doodle #markers #catgirl #kawaii #anime #chibi

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• Marker portrait drawing of a cat girl in a slight chibi anime style. She has short pink hair, light brown ears and green eyes. She is wearing a green turtle neck sweater. Her eyes have star shaped sparkle, her cheeks have stylized pink blush circles. A black triangle in the background gives the image contrast. (remote)

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

When I read stories like this one about pollution from vehicle tires, I often wonder how long before we start to require something like an FDA approval for all products we create (and their proprietary chemistries). We live in a closed system. Make enough of something, and it all comes back to haunt us if it doesn't degrade or isn't recycled efficiently. In other words, it wasn't intended to be food or medicine, but it's in you anyway.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/25/tyre-dust-the-stealth-pollutant-becoming-a-huge-threat-to-ocean-life

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