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Yingwu

@ Yingwu @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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A courtyard of bamboo and late-night snow

a lone lantern a book on the table

if I hadn't encountered the teaching of no effort

how else could I have gained this life of leisure

Wei Yingwu 韋應物

  • Spanish PM calls to end social media anonymity, force digital ID

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  • If you offend the royal family you can get punished. There was a case some year back about a rapper that sought asylum in the Netherlands or Belgium I think, as he risked imprisonment in Spain due to his song lyrics criticizing the royal family. It's crazy to me that one could seek asylum fron an EU country in a different EU country

  • Will generative AI images' popularity create a bigger demand for human-made art?

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  • I'd say we've reached the point of AI art becoming mundane as of this moment. Most people don't really care anymore about AI art, and many actively avoid it. It doesn't have that same "Wow!"-factor it had the first couple of months when it was becoming "good".

  • Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts

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  • I try to not get swept up in "correlation equals causation" and conspiracies, but many of these timings seem really really sus

  • YSK: All Down Dog Apps are free if you're a student or teacher

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  • I like the concept of the app, but unfortunately I find many transitions a bit awkward and the sequences feel very machine-made. I still prefer YouTube for yoga flows.

  • TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet

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  • At the same time, China is a more united place than Europe which consists of various countries with their own economy and culture. And to be fair, some countries have had their fair share of tech giants, like Spotify, Klarna or Ericsson from Sweden for example.

  • TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet

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  • Very interesting, thanks for sharing

  • TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban

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  • What I find mad is that people are seriously depressed about this on /r/Tiktok. Yeah sure, I understand small creators now having a tough time having their business disappearing, but people are literally saying that TikTok was their only source of information and that they don't know what to do now??

  • Wasn't the future of tech much more interesting in the 90s? LGR comments on '93 CES

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  • Also in love with 90s tech aesthetics

  • Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote

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  • Yes, as any resource it shouldn't be discarded completely, but there are always much better resources out there which for me makes Duolingo a time waster. Even if I would start anew with another language. It's an app made by a company who doesn't care about learning or languages, they just want to make people to stay for as long as possible on the app and pay for stuff like to restore their streak. Especially now since they've started using AI to generate content

  • Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote

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  • Yeah good luck with this on Duolingo lol. I'm years down the line and also having studied full-time over there, still far from "fluency".

  • Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries?

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  • Fully agree, but I'm afraid market forces will just allow the most common AI slop to exist. And I'm sure people will still consume it, and like it. Unfortunately.

  • Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries?

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  • This is truly my exact worry.

  • Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries?

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  • Wonderful answer.

  • Allianz boss calls on Germany to withdraw sick pay on first day off

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  • and when people do take that day off, they're more inclined to be "sick" some extra days in order to make it worth one's while, when someone has wasted that day without pay already.

  • Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries?

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  • I did read Superintelligence ages ago, might take this on. Thanks

  • Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries?

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  • This is not something taken out of thin air. While of course it's an hyperbole, as we're on the internet, it's still an opinion that I've come across more than a handful times on e.g., reddit.

    I see and understand your point of creatives using AI to alter/improve/whatever their own work. I have no problem with that. The thing I'm scared about, which I arguably could've phrased better in my initial post, is that we'll reach a future where human-made work isn't valued at all. That what we get when we go into bookstores, or stream music, or go to the cinema, is work that's 99% made by an AI and only "tweaked" by humans. You say "Without a creative and inventive person behind the wheel, you get generic AI material we all know.", but at the same time I'm seeing people literally saying: before 2030 we will have the first AI movie blockbuster made completely by an AI (even though maybe someone has put in a small prompt).

    As I said in another reply, these are the things I'm worried about, especially when I see the act of creative creation being based on everything that have made us and shaped us in the past. Our experiences, memories and the paths we've taken. I feel like what makes something art, is the humanness poured into it. Complete AI works will promptly devalue the art of human creation and replace it with something else that I have no doubt people will buy into (as market forces and capitalism are just another side to this that'll make this possible), but of which will degrade our society to begin looking like something from Brave New World. That consumption is the only thing that'll matter. Now, on whether this is an intrinsic danger of AI or whether it's a consequence of capitalism, I'd lean towards capitalism being at fault. But seeing as how our world is structured, I doubt the negatives will outweigh the positives once the technology develops and CEOs sees more possibility of "endless growth" using AI in this way.

  • Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries?

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  • Is it really a win for people to consume soulless AI poetry or prose? Even if the objective qualities (of which are hard to define anyway) makes it "better", in the eyes of the masses than a human author like Baudelaire or Mary Oliver? One could say it's up to the consumer, if they'd rather buy an AI work, then that "decides it", but market forces are really bad at deciding what's worth consuming or not.

    These are the things I'm worried about, especially when I see the act of creative creation being based on everything that have made us and shaped us in the past. Our experiences, memories and the paths we've taken. I feel like what makes something art, is the humanness poured into it.

  • Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries?

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  • Everything about this just feels really depressing. I'm guessing many people in the world are similar about only caring about consumption. As long as they deem it "good", they don't care how/when/where and by whom it was produced by.

  • Forget Chrome—Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks

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  • I didn't see anything about the implications of this on the EU and GDPR?