From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • The trend with AI seems to be that the folks with zero talent—the ones that have never poured themselves into a single cathartic creative, discovery, or research process once in their lives—are the ones pushing AI the hardest. AI art is a solution searching for a problem that has never existed. The only “problem” execs see is that they have too big of a headcount and need to reduce that ASAP so that they can pump out more soulless slop.

    The only slack I’ll give here is if you use generated images lightly as an inspiration reference point. Even then, the morality of how these AI tools came to be is questionable since they essentially plagiarized art from others. My theory is that it will also make our brains lazier similar to how map software does for navigation. Navigation makes sense though because it’s a mundane thing. Replacing your entire creative team with it though? Make sure to put some money aside for when your venture inevitably folds.










  • Oh there’s definitely no going back. This will continue to erode the art scene and continue to steal artwork from humans that spent hours making it. No government or entity can or should go into homes and take these things away, but it’s not really about that. Companies are vacuuming up artwork, books, etc and paying nobody for them, while telling us some nonsense like it’s a positive for society. No compensation for the thing they are now going to make money off of, but they’d sue you into oblivion in a second if you stole something from them. That simple fact is why this is all shit.

    I love the idea of AI and I’ve built things using ChatGPT’s API (miserable), but these capitalists have gone about it all wrong per usual. It could’ve been a public resource that people willingly contribute to, but the capitalists took it upon themselves to break the rules again, while hiding behind a shield of excuses for why they should pay nobody.


  • Shoving your beliefs in people’s faces and filling in the circle next to daddy Trump on a ballot does sound like such grueling work. Fake Christians are tough because they’re incapable of identifying when they’re on the wrong side because they just write it off as some warrior’s trial against us poor lost souls.



  • Dev with 18-20 years of experience. I was originally diagnosed in the 90s. Stopped taking meds (Atomoxetine) recently because I hated how they altered my mood.

    It’s not just you. Your colleagues probably have the same struggle but it just hasn’t been talked about yet. Any time I’ve brought up a gripe about something, I’ve always had colleagues chime in and agree. Any time I have to traverse complex code like that, I have to have like 5 panes open in VSCode and sometimes I have to take rough notes, or diagram it out.


  • The problem at its core is definitely capitalism. That said, AI itself is nothing more than a massive plagiarism machine that is extremely cost-prohibitive to run, which means the only ones that control it and have a say are the ones with the most money. There’s a space for ethical AI that isn’t trained haphazardly on copyrighted works, but what we have today in the mainstream is not that.

    As much as I personally hate building anything with AI (programmer that has had to build tools that use it), I don’t hate the concept of AI itself. I hate the fact that the people with the most money to innovate with it are churning out the most boring products so they can go to market faster, while also burning the planet down in the process.



  • pay people to go enjoy their lives.

    The problem is that this isn’t happening. Instead it’s greedy board members trying to find ways to exclude every creative artist so that they can hoard all of the wealth for themselves.

    Marx predicted that automation would allow the worker to live a more leisurely life when they were maintaining the machines, vs doing the work manually. This is a nice premise, but it turned out to be wrong. Instead, the workers get replaced entirely and third parties come in to occasionally fix and maintain those machines. Automation is not a bad thing by any stretch, but the point of creative work is to retain humanity and emotion. Using AI voices and artwork is counter to that. At that point it’s no longer artwork and is simply a husk to drive revenue and nothing else. If we replace humans with AI, where does it stop? Why not throw all the creatives out and have AI write the script, storyboard, edit, etc? Mindless entertainment on autopilot sounds miserable.