yogthos

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

AI tech should absolutely be open source. Anybody who thinks that megacrops should be gatekeepers for this sort of stuff can fuck right off.

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

Amazing that we live in year 2024, and there are still people out there who don't get the importance of keeping technology open.

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

Good news is that open source approach appears to be advancing faster than closed models https://steve-yegge.medium.com/were-gonna-need-a-bigger-moat-478a8df6a0d2

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

Artists had the exact same reaction when photography was invented. Simply taking what artists say as gospel isn't any more rational because artists also have their own biases. Meanwhile, the problem with jobs doesn't come from the technology but from the capitalist system of relations. Maybe we shouldn't be structuring society in a way where people have to do work for the sake of doing work.

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

Open source models are still advancing quickly, pretty much everything the article mentions is still valid today.

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

I love how any time new technology appears dimwits will always think that they can put toothpaste back in the tube.

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

Exactly, this is a disruptive technology that will change the way art is created going forward. There will be positive and negative aspects associated with it just like every new technology. One positive aspect I can definitely see is that it will allow a lot of people who lack technical skills for producing visual art to express themselves.

And it's also worth noting that the workflows are already getting fairly sophisticated. It's not just a matter of typing in a prompt and getting an image back. People are using stuff like control nets to pose the characters in the scene, inpaint specific details, etc. It's a different set of skills from traditional art, but it still requires expertise to produce a particular result you're looking for.

The way I look at it is that this tech will help automate a lot of tedious work involved in creating art, but it still takes a person with good taste to produce art that's interesting and engaging. In this sense it's quite similar to photography. Anybody can pick up a camera and start shooting pictures, but it takes an artists to create interesting pictures that people find meaningful. This is no different.

yogthos , vor 4 Monaten

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7270e414-8a15-476d-947e-36f3d3205825.jpeg

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

It'd be boring here if we all agreed on everything. Disagreement is how we learn from each other. :)

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

O7

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

It's shocking to me that people aren't able to connect the dots here.

yogthos , vor 4 Monaten

That game is a work of art, everyone should play it at least once.

yogthos , vor 4 Monaten

🤷

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

I guess he'll just have to skip some breakfasts and it'll be fine.

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

His framing and conclusions are absolutely bonkers.

yogthos , vor 4 Monaten

Halloween stores are like hermit crabs of department store world.

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

Then your job is to protect capital from the poors.

yogthos , vor 4 Monaten

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d411c5cd-7916-4f93-aea9-913048d92196.png

yogthos , vor 4 Monaten

US is basically idiocracy IRL at this point

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

I agree, practically in every scenario where we see dystopian things happening, the underlying problem is capitalism as opposed to technology being abused by it.

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

lol yeah

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

It's literally a documented fact.

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

A perfect example of short term thinking that plagues US politics. Democrats boosted popularity of the far right to win a primary. This directly contributed to the republicans party sliding further into MAGA territory. Now, dems are looking at a wipe out by Trump in the coming election. This continues the great tradition of liberals ushering in fascism.

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

Which one is the slightly crazy one, would that be the one that's conducting a literal genocide right now?

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

Conducting as in actively engaged in supplying Israel with weapons used to commit the genocide, running political cover for Israel at the UN by doing vetoes of ceasefire resolutions, and attacking Yemen for interdicting shipping with Israel. I imagine that Trump will continue largely the same policies, but that just shows that both parties are genocidal fascists.

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

Vote for whatever flavor of fascism that you feel fits you best. I'm not stopping you. Meanwhile, I'm not an American and I'm just watching your shithole country tear itself apart from the outside.

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

brotherly https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

If you think that voting for one fascist over the other makes you a good person then maybe take a bit time to think about your morals. Unlike you, I don't need to do mental gymnastics to justify supporting fascists.

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

This is one of those I'm 13 and this is deep takes.

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

Maybe what you should do is consider how your country got where it is today. People like you voted for Biden last election, what has that achieved? Trump is more popular than ever, and Biden is conducting a genocide, while being involved in wars around the globe. If you think voting for Biden again is going to change the trajectory of things then I got a bridge to sell you. You have a fascist state, and both parties represent the ruling class that makes decisions. That's what it means to live in a fascist state, it's not a democracy. Your voting does not matter, it's just a circus to make the feeble minded feel like they have participation. Don't take it from me though, here's what a study analyzing decades of US policy under both parties has to say:

What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

Ah yes, just like voting Biden prevented abortion rights from being stripped away, or stopped the concentration camps on the border, or stopped endless wars. Yeah, I totally see why it's so important to vote Biden.

Again, I'll try spell it out for you. I absolutely don't care whether you vote or not. If it makes you feel like you're participating politically, go ahead vote for Biden and feel like you've accomplished something. Your country is still going to be fascist and your right will still be stripped away, but you'll get to feel really smug by having voted. The fact that Americans see voting as peak political participation is absolutely hilarious.

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

Educate yourself on effective methods of building grassroots power. You can read up on how the labour movement organized in US back in the 30s which lead to the New Deal. Organize with people in your local community and help educate them. Join a principled organization that's trying to effect meaningful change.

Again, I'm not telling you not to vote. That's just a straw man you keep erecting here. What I'm actually telling you is that voting on its own doesn't accomplish much of anything.

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

dismissing information based on mediabiasfactcheck is the height of idiocy, here's another source for you https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1135878576/the-democrats-strategy-of-boosting-far-right-candidates-seems-to-have-worked

yogthos OP , vor 4 Monaten

🤡

yogthos , vor 4 Monaten

There's never been a time under capitalism where there wasn't homelessness or exploitation. The whole system is built around people who own capital exploiting the workers. In fact, having destitute people is a core component of the system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour