I don’t think people who really like to draw, or code repetitive tasks etc. are using AI for that. Well, maybe at work where they don’t have an option.
people who don’t care to do those things are using ai for them, leaving the people who do care, and usually spent a large part of their life learning how to do those things well, with nothing to do.
incidentally, learning how to do something properly makes it easier to see how bad ai is at that thing.
You aren’t using the dockworker’s services either. Work changes in time. There are still people who sew by hand too, but you can also buy affordable clothes if you are poor.
i do though. i order packages and the dockworkers take them off of the ship and load them onto local transport. i take a ferry and the dockworkers make sure the ship is securely tied off before i dinembark.
In the time before containerization a lot of people used to be dock workers. Today virtually noone is a dockworker anymore. That’s what I was referring to.
That’s a large part of how the world became as connected as it is today.
How many are actually going to do repetitive, menial coding work so that some people who enjoy that for whatever reason would have “something to do”?
Sounds like a big ask. Besides, if you enjoy coding that, I don’t think anyone is preventing you from doing that. Unless it is work, as said. Then you have to do whatever they tell you to. In that case there’s no decision to use or not to use it either way.
i was more thinking about art or writing, but if you’re doing repetitive menial coding work then there have been tools to replace that for like 50 years.
Is it really that intensive with coding? For image/video generation I’ve heard it’s pretty bad but coding seems like a less intensive task. But so is gaming tbh, that heats up my apartment plenty
It is not people who likes to draw who are the customers, the customers are the people who need someone to draw for them. I mean this is literally happening on a massive scale right now, with artists being out of work because all those smaller jobs as illustrators which was their bread and butter gets done (badly) by AI instead.
But if you like to draw (or eat ice cream) you are free to do that still though. The situation in the comic is about someone who likes to do that thing, rather than someone wanting to get paid for doing it to others
As someone who likes to eat ice cream, I can’t afford to eat ice cream anymore.
Art supplies aren’t free, and sure, I could just buy the cheapest pen and paper, but then that’s just drinking lukewarm sweetened milk.
It sounds like people are alright with whatever the AI is producing as an alternative. Others financing your hobby seems like an exception to how it usually works
I don’t think people who really like to draw, or code repetitive tasks etc. are using AI for that. Well, maybe at work where they don’t have an option.
people who don’t care to do those things are using ai for them, leaving the people who do care, and usually spent a large part of their life learning how to do those things well, with nothing to do.
incidentally, learning how to do something properly makes it easier to see how bad ai is at that thing.
You aren’t using the dockworker’s services either. Work changes in time. There are still people who sew by hand too, but you can also buy affordable clothes if you are poor.
i do though. i order packages and the dockworkers take them off of the ship and load them onto local transport. i take a ferry and the dockworkers make sure the ship is securely tied off before i dinembark.
In the time before containerization a lot of people used to be dock workers. Today virtually noone is a dockworker anymore. That’s what I was referring to.
That’s a large part of how the world became as connected as it is today.
yeah but automating jobs with a high risk of injury and guaranteed fatigue damage is one thing. nobody was ever a dockworker as a hobby.
Remember, if you copy and paste from stack, you’re a bad developer.
Too many developers think they code better than they do.
The code from stack is (or was) written by a person who has some interest in solving the problem in a good way.
You should not be blindly copying things from stack.
I actually can’t remember the last time I’ve even done this.
huh?
How many are actually going to do repetitive, menial coding work so that some people who enjoy that for whatever reason would have “something to do”?
Sounds like a big ask. Besides, if you enjoy coding that, I don’t think anyone is preventing you from doing that. Unless it is work, as said. Then you have to do whatever they tell you to. In that case there’s no decision to use or not to use it either way.
You’ve clearly never written software in your life but for some reason you let marketers tell you how it works.
i was more thinking about art or writing, but if you’re doing repetitive menial coding work then there have been tools to replace that for like 50 years.
Yeah this is just another tool for that
that sets fire to a tree for every sentence, yes.
I don’t think those using it care tbh
nope, that’s pretty obvious. it’s easier to visualise with local models that make the apartment heat up a few degrees.
Is it really that intensive with coding? For image/video generation I’ve heard it’s pretty bad but coding seems like a less intensive task. But so is gaming tbh, that heats up my apartment plenty
A broken tool that cost way too much even when they were giving it away.
I mean a lot of people are using it. I guess they think it’s worth it
It is not people who likes to draw who are the customers, the customers are the people who need someone to draw for them. I mean this is literally happening on a massive scale right now, with artists being out of work because all those smaller jobs as illustrators which was their bread and butter gets done (badly) by AI instead.
But if you like to draw (or eat ice cream) you are free to do that still though. The situation in the comic is about someone who likes to do that thing, rather than someone wanting to get paid for doing it to others
As someone who likes to eat ice cream, I can’t afford to eat ice cream anymore. Art supplies aren’t free, and sure, I could just buy the cheapest pen and paper, but then that’s just drinking lukewarm sweetened milk.
Was the hobby cheaper before or wdym?
I think they meant, that the work that ai is doing now, was what financed the hobby before…
It sounds like people are alright with whatever the AI is producing as an alternative. Others financing your hobby seems like an exception to how it usually works
The only true use I found for AI while programming is boilerplate, aka code that is really simple with only one way to do it.
I don’t really have an equivalent for 2d art, but in 3D art that would be basic shapes like spheres, cubes, pyramids
So actually, the analogy would be a robot that unwrap the ice-cream’s packaging for you.
Apparently some people like writing that boilerplate