It’s about the same in terms of what it does (which means it hallucinates just as strongly and can’t be trusted). It just takes less to do it. MUCH less.

I can’t. I share the same opinion.

If I see evidence of AI in any space on a page (aside, obviously, from one that is analyzing AI) I assume that the page has nothing worth reading.

I doubt I will miss anything of value by this assumption.

So I’m with you. Putting AI “art” on an article is just a sign of dishonesty and taints the writing as well.

Grand Theft Autocorrect has no feelings to hurt. Has no nervous system to signal pain. Spicy Madlibs is less self-aware than an ant.

Respect. The whole huqin family is fiendishly difficult to play.

I want to get a DIY kit to make a kalimba tuned to one of the Chinese pentatonic scales.

Wash an executive’s what now?

Kalimbas are the greatest little instrument for just plinking around and having fun musical explorations! You can sit down and learn hard … or you can just play around and see what cool little riffs you can come up with in an almost trance-like state.

Warning! You got a cheap kalimba. That’s how I started. #5 was … ah … significantly more expensive…

I’m not even a pro musician (though it was a career option I’d considered after high school). I dabble.

And I’ll be utterly and thoroughly railed by a rusty railroad spike before I let some soulless sociopath tells me that I don’t enjoy making music!

It’s worse than that.

Money means they can sue the shit out of you with losing lawsuit after losing lawsuit. For them that’s pocket change that fell between the cushions of the couch. For you it’s bankruptcy from legal bills.

I would love to see him try to launch a lawsuit against me. It would be highly comical.

“As a black woman …”

You also seem nice.

It just lacks machines that think. Which we do too, but the things they’re trying to push as thinking are already causing extreme damage to our culture …

… time for the Butlerian Jihad before things get so bad you need an existential war to fix them.

I highlighted the parts you missed. You might want to clean your screen so you can see all the words before responding.

You seem nice.

Huh. I’d never have guessed that.

I thought art was making cthonic horror for hands.

How is someone who was caught fooling the police who … caught them?

I’ve never been worried about AI. AI isn’t a problem because it doesn’t exist. (Hint: you can’t make an artificial version of something you can’t even define in ways that are broadly accepted.)

What I’ve always been worried about is the people pushing “AI”. They’re the source of all the trouble.

Now compare Lemmy, a phone, or the Internet to “a machine in the likeness of a human mind”.

Dune is full of machines. It just lacks machines that think. Which we do too, but the things they’re trying to push as thinking are already causing extreme damage to our culture, so … time for the Butlerian Jihad before things get so bad you need an existential war to fix them.

Google’s evil was more in the background; you had to be paying attention to find it until they decided that they were powerful enough to be openly evil.