AI-generated art (if you wanna call it that) is like Google Glass and the Metaverse. It’s not that most people don’t want it in their lives, they actually actively despise it. It’s a product that generates feelings of loathing rather than delight; dismay rather than joy.
That's what's so funny about bitcoin?
The only reason they're so excited is because they managed to get one. But they won't cash it in for fear of crashing it's value.
Anyone with bitcoin NOW is a "hodler", and will never sell, despite the potential of being a multi-millionaire.
They haven't realised that most of the images seem to be basically the same thing and there's no depth or point of view or expression to it. This is what happens when you give uncreative people the simulacrum of creativity.
They are probably just uncreative people themselves. The only folk I know who are even remotely enthused about AI in any capacity are the most vibeless losers I’ve ever encountered.
This really isn’t true. You can argue that it leans towards form rather than content and granted, content is key, but it is uncanny at color theory, composition, rendering, and creating an infinite variety of compelling styles. You have to look below the surface. What you see is what people “like.”
It's a clever simulation of the aesthetic use of those things. Colour theory and values in particular are pretty notable because it clearly discovered that people like warm and cold patches and high contrast areas in the centre of an image/near eyes.
However it usually converges on a mediocre rut.
The remarkable thing about AI art (or anything AI really) is how even the boosters don't particularly WANT the end product. They want to be able to make things without work, or to save money by firing artists, but nobody is clamoring for AI output.
Someone at work suggested AI to get emails out to clients faster.
I suggested an email that read: “Some companies are using AI to write emails like this. I wrote this email myself because I’m here to support your business and I think you’d prefer a real person on your side.”
You know, Gillian has been arguing for weeks that any service that promises to connect you with humans instead of AI will obliterate any competitors who go the other way.
A version of that has worked with me for many years. I'm more likely to go with a company that lets me speak to a human than one that designs their phone system to be an automated labyrinth of misdirection and frustration.
I really thought, in the big build up to the announcement, it was gonna be a jetpack. I could never forgive the Segway for so bitterly disappointing me.
Very true, but also the reality was guys with more money than sense riding up the middle of a sidewalk like they'd bought the sidewalk, or flocks of tourists scattering sidewalk pedestrians like toddlers running through pigeons or sometimes blocking street traffic.
If Segway had gone with a small launch as a labor-saver for warehouse workers or something, probably would've been great. But it wasn't just billed as universe-changing, it was billed as universe-changing and then put to the most assholish applications possible.
Absolutely.
Its greatest application is for aiding warehouse picker with a secondary application of mall cop transport.
Too bulky for American sidewalks.
Replacing walking so then what, we go to the gym to do it on treadmills instead? Or just get heart disease?
Also there was the Soylent craze that was gonna replace eating
Replace accounting, love it. But they wanna do art, writing, walking, eating... STOP TRYING TO REPLACE THE GOOD BITS YOU IDIOTS
I always remember this one guy whose view of the Segway was sortof akin to the way many of us today view the Kidcrusher 3000 pickup trucks. They invited him to a demo to prove him wrong, so he got on one and started 'driving' full-tilt into the folding chairs, sending them tumbling across the room
Heard a streamer friend call a story ChatGPT wrote about some wrestlers she likes a "fanfic".
Nobody wrote that for nobody, it's not a fanfic. A fanfic is made by fans.
I despise genAI because it has no soul. No intention. Just mashing up existing works.
No, it's fucking not. It's soulless, boring, and I have much more fun DRAWING the picture. And I am both bad at drawing and don't really enjoy it.
I put in a prompt one time to prove a point and fucking HATED it.
I have 0 idea how this is gatekeeping.
Art literally only requires a pencil and a piece of paper to learn. If you can't afford that, a stick and some dirt will suffice.
The cost of learning art is literally only time and a couple bucks. You got a computer? Microsoft Paint comes free with Windows.
Like wrestling a pig, but at least when you wrestle with a pig, the pig enjoys it. AI is incapable of enjoying, and for me is incapable of being enjoyed.
Have you ever seen Putin give Trump a reach around onstage at the RNC? I have, and it was funny as fuck. I'm not aware of any artist that's stolen from. I totally sympathize with artists whose work is used to train models that can plagiarize their work and they should be compensated though.
No, and I sure as fuck don't. The day the Orange fugitive fuckwit is dead will be a day that I dance on my neighbor's "Trump 2024" flag. (Not really, I would rather not be shot.)
