I encourage it to a point. I try to avoid it as much as I can. But it's like you're a vegetarian and sometimes there is only sausage on the menu. I like the idea of using established feedback channels to complain especially about slop. I will try to copy that.
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I would say be careful about your tactic of vandalism. Especially if it's only you doing that but also in general. I think you are looking to close a barn door as the horse traverses the horizon.
Art, like water, will find a way to survive. Some streams will sadly dry up, new unexpected ones will spring up elsewhere. Illumination painters went out of style after the printing press. A lot of painting got taken over by photography and video. Etc.
In the meantime, in my view, the best way to protest is not to give money to the offenders and to tell them why you refuse to. But I'm also afraid that if you are quite rigid in your stance you'll not be spending any money at all.
We are at the beginning of this supposed r-AI-volution. So far it costs several arms and legs and the results overall for the massive investment of limbs are rather unimpressive. I live in hope that economical restraints along with the anti-datacenter sentiment will course correct this quite a bit.
And every trend breeds counterculture. High usage of generated imagery will undoubtedly lead to a made by humans trend in a couple of years.
Why does anybody have to care about this story? The so-called-AI aspect is at best ornamental, the rest is all irrelevant to this community.
Or only allow YouTube links in the post text so we can all be spared the dumb thumbnail images. It's funny how on YouTube the silly facial expression leads to more views whereas here it makes me want to spend much less time on YouTube.
Personally, I don't think there is a solid plan. Any plan. They are throwing very expensive spaghetti at the wall, mostly undercooked, and little sticks. They are the gamblers at the roulette table betting the house on double zero.
Proven usefulness is rare. Helping people with disabilities leading a more independent life is one of those. Are those the folks with deep pockets? I think film making will include this in one way or another. Does that justify building all these data centers and the costs attached? The only area where I would say to hell with the costs is if this can help in the fields of medicine or pharmacology but I don't think they have proven usefulness there satisfactorily. So who will pay back the insane debt this pie in the sky is baked with? Answer: anybody, as far as the so-called-AI peddlers are concerned. But that wasn't the plan. That's probably already pivot plan T at this point. It's not built for normies, but it's marketed towards them, out of necessity at this point. To the detriment of overall ability to think critically and for the environment.
Don't call me Shirley.
It's like with planting trees. The best time was to plant some 50 years ago, the second best time is now. But it is too late in many ways.
This is basically an ad. Also, if you auto-filled in an area you maybe shouldn't strip the meta data that indicates that you used a model to do that.
Is this post written by a chat bot or did you just format it to look like it was? Either way, not great choices if you ask me.
Shitty flyers have always existed. A lot of humans are no better at this than the machines.
Nothing fills my heart with such joy as negative Meta headlines.
The Yahoo!tech writers went on a deep dive and watched a YouTube video.
There are a few delightful digs like this in this article.
The only thing that's golden is the tacky veneer on the White House walls in the picture.