Yeah. Though I liked Ra more than There Is No Antimemetics Division. Especially the way he did a certain thing involving right versus left aligned text early on that if you were paying attention should strongly trigger a "wait, how did that happen?" response in a way that hints at very important things.
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Given the Lemmy view on AI, I wonder how many folks are now uninstalling the game and demanding a refund because it's suddenly transformed into "AI slop"? Or demanding it be delisted from Steam since they didn't disclose their use of AI on Steam?
To quote UNSONG Chapter 17: No Earthly Parents I Confess (https://unsongbook.com/chapter-18-no-earthly-parents-i-confess/ and yes it's chapter 17 despite the URL, and I'm sure there's something significant about that but I am unsure exactly what offhand, but everything in UNSONG is significant):
"Picture a maiden lost in the hills.
“Maiden” can mean either “young woman” or “virgin”. Its Greek and Hebrew equivalents have the same ambiguity, which is why some people think the person we call the Virgin Mary was actually supposed to be the Young Woman Mary – which might change the significance of her subsequent pregnancy a bit. People grew up faster, back in the days when they spoke of “maidens”. Mary was probably only fourteen when she gave birth.
I am a kabbalist. Words matter. Nowadays we have replaced “maiden” with “teenage girl”. A maiden and a teenager are the same thing, but their names drag different tracks through lexical space, stir up different waters. Synonymity aside, some young women are maidens and others are teenagers. The girl in our story was definitely a maiden, even though it was the 1970s and being a maiden was somewhat out of fashion."
Chicken breast in a slow cooker full of salsa works well too. Or get one of those birria bombs (it's like a bath bomb but spices), a pork loin and some Mexican beer (Corona or Modelo is fine, something in that general style), all in the slow cooker, come back half a day later.
Cranberry salad was a bowl of strawberry jello with cranberries and pecans with a layer of cool whip on top.
The variation of that I've had involved strawberry jello, whole berry cranberry sauce and canned pineapple tidbits with the pineapple juice from the can replacing the water in the jello. No nuts or fake whipped cream, though.
while not supporting the energy/water leech that is ai images?
Not as much of one as you think, these days. If you have something resembling a gaming PC from within the last 5 years or so you can probably run AI image generation locally, with how large a model and how complicated a workflow depending on your specs. Less stressful for the hardware than running a current AAA game even, depending on the model (possibly demanding more GPU RAM though).
This moral panic about Abominable Intelligence’s supposedly soulless touch is pointless.
...especially because over time you'll see an increasing number of artists incorporate AI tools into their workflows.
But like everything else, new tech always scares a significant subset of people, especially tech that can automate things that previously required more human effort or might cost some folks jobs/income - especially if they thought their work was immune to that sort of thing.
I remember an internet joke site decades ago doing one that was sports cars or ED drugs. Don't recall the name of the site though. Quick search didn't turn it up.
Depends on model tuning. Basically, you can tune a model to hallucinate less, or to write more human-like, but not really both at the same time, at least not for a model you could expect most users to run locally. For this sort of application (summarizing text), you'd tune heavily against hallucination, because ideally your bullet points are going to mostly be made up of direct paraphrase of article text, with a very limited need for fluid writing or anything even vaguely creative.
Doesn't do that for me. I have to hold left click on a link for over a second to trigger it.
And yeah, pretty decent. It can produce a basically summary of a fair amount of text pretty quickly and generally accurately. It's not an expert wordsmith, it won't give a deep and thoughtful analysis of the poem you pointed it at or anything, but that's not the use case. The use case is "give me the key bullet points of this article so I can decide if I should give it more attention.", and it does that job pretty well.
Do people making that argument also find ad blockers even ten percent as horrible as this? They both ultimately have the same effect, which is your web browser not maximizing someone else's profits by denying them a revenue opportunity.
I'd be curious if the link summarizer in Firefox runs a model locally or calls some remote API. Most current machines ought to be able to run an appropriate LLM model for that task.
So it's entirely optional, you only encounter it by interacting with the browser in an atypical way, and the thing it does is a thing that AI is actually pretty decent at (summarizing text)? Sounds like they couldn't stop themselves from joining the dick hammering bandwagon, but decided not to hit it too hard.
except this can still represent revenue for (some) artists...whilst being able to practice (to a degree) and being paid for it.
...which is just another way of saying that that work should be protected from automation. That's what arguing that tools that automate doing a thing will make people doing that thing less valuable as a paid labor is doing, it's arguing for protection from automation.
Also, do you have a source regarding that or is it from what you experience online?
Experience and a bit of hyperbole. Ask anyone who takes art commissions how often they get asked to do lewd to outright pornographic images though and you'll be surprised by the answer. But commissioned art/graphics for very specific carefully described things is all AI image generation is ever really going to replace, if only because that's the core of what it does - take a prompt and a big block of white noise and sort of digitally chisel away the bits that don't look like prompt until the result looks enough like prompt. The other obvious productive use case would be for rapid prototyping of visual design.
But then I'm old enough to remember people complaining that photoshop was destroying art. I'd be shocked if we couldn't find record of people back when it was new claiming photography was going to destroy art likewise.
Fuck the creative process, the journey it takes you on, and the necessary introspection and connection to the world that needs to occur for it. Fuck the joy you can find in effort, failure, and in finally having an epiphany. Fuck being able to hone your skills without depending on a corporate tool that can be taken away from you at a minute’s notice. All of it be damned, you can now (allegedly) get to the same end result quicker without the effort (or pleasure, or self-discovery, or personal growth). We all know that the end result is what counts, and nothing else.
Is anyone claiming you can't do that? The use case for most AI slop is soulless corporate graphic design that's about as worker bee as it gets and the rest is mostly people using it in place of hiring an actual artist for their weirdly specific niche pornography. And the guy wanting you to draw him something involving dolphins with a foot fetish isn't deeply concerned what your personal journey regarding the nature of creatures without feet who are obsessed with them sexually looks like.
At it's heart, the non-environmentalist AI hate is mostly people who thought their jobs were impossible to automate trying to protect those jobs from being automated.
Unironically this. I've only really tried it once, used it mostly because I didn't know what libraries were out there for one specific thing I needed or how to use them and it gave me a list of such libraries and code where that bit was absolutely spot on that I could integrate into the rest easily.
It's code was a better example of the APIs in action and the differences in how those APIs behave than I would have expected.
I definitely wouldn't run it on the "can run terminal commands without direct user authorization" though, at least not outside a VM created just for that purpose.
If we're talking about Scott Alexander's writings, I feel like Sort By Controversial reflects reality far too well. Fucking prescient.