• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    How dare you cheat and submit human-generated content to an honest AI competition? Entrants spent literally minutes crafting and refining prompts.

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      They can’t. I argue once to check if its just a casual ‘thing u heard’ or a committed thing, then block the slop cultists. I swear nft’s werent this annoying.

      • awful_neutral@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        NFTs definitely were this annoying, but I also think its the same people doing it now with AI, so maybe its just the people who are annoying

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          Nft’s were extremely annoying, but the commitment wasnt this hard.

          They were stupid and wasteful but not otherwise too horrible; they were just more and dumber collectible ‘ownership’ fetishism. Ignorable.

          This shit destroys peoples minds entirely. People are dying over this shit. It murdered truth. It’s destroyed the world economy and set back climate adaptation by at least a decade while devastating a generation’s labor practices. And because it’s so horrible, the cultists are more fanatical, like how those people who sacrificed their kids to rfkjr cannot be rational or sane ever the fuck again.

          • Marcela (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            Wow there is a lot packed into this comment, which I mostly agree with.

            • Dumb collectible “ownership” fetishism
            • Delusion epidemic due to AI addiction
            • Decades-long Climate adaptation setback
            • Devastating labor practices
            • Cult doomsday syndrome reinforcing false beliefs
            • Vaccine skepticism popularity and health outcomes

            I am still baffled by how you managed to stuff the entirety of endstage capitalism dystopia into two short sentences. No wonder the word “fatigue” is featured in the username!

            But I came here to point out that the last part is possible occurence of cognitive dissonance. When they have fucked up so badly, by commiting to such big evils, and especially sacrificing their kids health, yeah, there is no way back… Cognitive dissonance makes it impossible to admit the harm, so they are bound to reinforce the beliefs or face tremendous levels of guilt.

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                Well, many people are not aware of the link between their ChatGPT projects and the rise in their electricity bill, nor the foreshadowed electricity drought. Contrary to what corpos had people believe about their “individual responsibility via recycling” their individual contribution to these outcomes is now actively suppressed by the billionaire-owned media. Curious.

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    10 days ago

    this is like a 2 year old meme at this point. Please don’t strip out the date when you take a screenshot of social media.

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    Of course a hand drawn image by someone who can draw well is better - the artist practiced for years and took hours to draw this. On the other hand whoever took second place used a few minutes and had no training to produce something that was probably quite nice, too.

    It’s this ‘everybody can produce art in seconds’ that is both good and bad. On the one hand I like how I can get a image of whatever I want for pennies, on the other hand I can understand how artist fear devaluation of their art.

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      Unpopular opinion here, but I feel like AI “art” will make my art the handmade furniture of art. AI art will forever be seen as cheap and my stuff, even if crappy, will be appreciated because a real person made it.

      Lots of revenue streams to be lost along the way though. Mostly corporate and marketing ones, I reckon.

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    Why do artists think this is a flex?

    Congratulations, you did an art. Cartoons were created exclusively by humans until recently. There’s millennia of optimization for what’s easy for humans to draw, and what’s easy for humans to understand. If you are an illustrator by training or trade, of course you can out-cartoon the robot.

    Now draw a cat that’s photorealistic.

    You can, of course. Hyperrealist art exists. It’s hilariously difficult. But this tech allows any idiot to render any thing in any style, including high verisimilitude. When people use the word “accessible” (and they aren’t simply douchebags shuffling cards) they mean getting results like they spent ten thousand hours in Photoshop, in about a minute.

    Key word, like. It always fumbles little details. But those details can be a smudge of grey when you ask for a blank white square, or they can be asymmetry in the thousands of gilded flowers on a fluted column, when you asked for a palatial dining hall. Both images take a minute.

    I can code better than this tech. But most people can’t. They could, if trained, but they’re not trained, so they presently cannot. I cannot write or play music better than this tech. Others can, because they’re sentient adults with abundant practice. But now anyone can get halfway there, without any practice.

    Winning a drawing contest against people who cannot draw is not impressive. And I wonder how many artists silently tried it and lost anyway, because some geek pulled a sprawling Renaissance mural out of thin air. It’s a cute cat. But if it’s going up against some Wimmelbild that’s packed to the gills with silly details and looks like a skull from across the room - good luck.

    You could draw that skull thing better. But you couldn’t do it in an afternoon.

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    I managed to coax some remarkable (to me) artwork from some of the free generators. Got bored real quick though.