Pffft

Just go barefoot everywhere

Shoes. Indoors, in your own house, on your furniture?!

I believe that it exists as a concept. That’s what you’re asking, right?

That was exactly my first thought too

Depends on the brand. If it was secretly manufactured by any particular nation’s secret military service, then Maybe.

While your points about the patronage system and its weaknesses are valid, you’re writing off several centuries worth of legitimate human endeavor because the systems that enabled it were dodgy. Guess what though? That’s literally all of history, dodgy AF, featuring an intrepid cast of characters more awful the deeper you look. That doesn’t make the art or music worth writing off though.

But honestly:

What is interesting though is the fact that AI art, and the LAION-5B dataset used to train the models is a true and earnest reflection of sorts of what images today really are

“Earnest” is definitely not the word you’re looking for. Derivative, maybe, because you said it yourself, they’re reflections; and as such, they’re going to reflect what images of today are; like you said. That makes them derivative, and I feel a vast artificiality that makes my heart sink when I look at the vast majority of them.

Choosing machine-created art over historical art is choosing a passing fad over centuries of culture. It’s your right; but to write off history with a wave of the hand means you’re missing out on truly expanding your horizons.

Expanding ones horizons absolutely does and should include art history, which is a part of human history.

Love the name and shame. Everyone needs to know about this guy

Anyone who buys into Will.I.Am’s hype is automatically the wrong person to run anything more than a lemonade stand

Also, gave a platform to “John of God”. She’s sketchy AF

Microplastics

Tough to take that bet now that death threats seem to be part of the playbook

The idea of “robot dreams” is no longer the exclusive domain of fiction.

No, LLMs are not AGI. They don’t dream, and hallucinations don’t count.

Thanks! I was intending for it to be more of a shitpost, but I guess I’m not very good at those, it turns out

Lol whoops, I meant to give a wrong answer, my bad

1. Pick some friends that you like
2. Download “I Am Never Going To Give You Up” by Rick Roll
3. Put the song on the disk in very low quality .mp3
4. Give the disks away as “fun, retro” drink coasters
5. Watch as they use the coasters, unaware that you Rick Rollered them

Mmm, the neon green lines really sell the putrification.

I’ll place your Lemmy Cesium award in a safe place, where it will not be exposed to water

On the top, a bright, clear sunny day, a few picturesque clouds in the sky.

At the bottom, a river, once clean, where corporate logos such as Google and Microsoft sit, partially submerged, stains spreading into the waters around them.

In the middle, a bridge: well constructed across and overtop the river, across which various Fediverse logos are crossing

I dunno, I’m not a graphic designer

This reads like it was written by AI

I’m here. :)