also, part of what makes something a bullshit job is that it provides no value to society, but doesn’t human expression enrich people’s lives?

The average artist isnt going to have AIs trained on their stuff. Its only cream of the crop stuff (greg rutkowski, who is rich, or van gogh or something) or styling from big companies that gets trained on. These people all benefit from passive income, they can get fucked

It feels bourgeois to me anyways to be so deeply concerned about the purity of art as many on here do. One of the biggest early Soviet artists, Alexandr Labas, was pressured out of art and into architecture and began designing theaters. Dmitry Nalbandyan was conscripted and later made to make propaganda. In fact, all Soviet art was for the purpose of propaganda and perpetuating socialist ideals, whereas modern art is of course, by definition, slop and consumerism.

To me, art and these other fields that are being so cruelly attacked by AI, are just bullshit jobs in the first place. Everyone is all worked up about this, but think about how this sort of discussion looks to someone who does hard labor? Do we not all agree that the first world is filled with labor aristocrats? Then why are we so vehemently defending them? Let alone the artists that continue to accrue money passively that these AIs were trained on.

Using AI to help in your workflow isn’t a bad thing - but using AI slop in a very meticulously-crafted art project (like Project Zomboid) has a very real effect. It cheapens the experience and the tone. It devalues the artistic intention behind the rest of the game. Worst of all for a game as good as Project Zomboid, it can scare away new potential players who have very legitimate concerns about the ethics of AI in art and games, and makes the game look like a cheap slop cash-grab to others.

this is hilarious to me. project zomboid, truly an artistic experience

Me using photoshop/gimp/krita is removing the local paint man’s ability to sell paint and we should oppose photoshop/gimp/krita because it exploits the people who work on it with low wages and… you know its just all ridiculous, AI shit isnt going to replace artists except in the most evil shit you can imagine like fucking billboard ads or in the most mundane shit like someone generating quick art for a throwaway dnd character. This same hand-wringing was done about digital manipulation software, I’m old enough to remember that outrage too and its the same shit.

Theres all these stories of companies trying to get rid of artists and just telling some random person to generate art for them and it always blows up in their faces, and I frankly see almost no chance of it getting better.

This isn’t really a good way to spot it. Theres a lot of tools that artists use that can end up with digital paintings doing weird artifacting like this, one I can think of are custom brushes or people that collage to make their art. Also, theres a whole new brand of artist that uses AI in a workflow to make their images faster. They might sketch something out and then have ai fill in the most time consuming parts (such as a head of hair) and it will all look very believably not AI. It basically is just collaging but way faster.

less bootlicker trans community here than on reddit

I did the previous synthwavy banner one day and also my avatar. I dont actually know if I have the full sized version of my avatar anymore I’ve swapped systems a lot lately but its marceline from adventure time with a soviet flag.

I have a bunch of other doodles and art I do in my free time, largely for various board game projects that me and friends do, but I can’t divulge those because it’d give away my super secret identity 🥷

bergamot is ok but leaves a lot to be desired

yeah you could. though i dont see any evidence that the large open source llm programs like jan.ai or ollama are doing anything wrong with their program or files. chucking it in a sandbox would solve the problem for good though

yeah good luck with enforcing that, weirdo

you can check the process to see if its communicating at all. none of the big ones do. its possible someone could be fucking with the file though, before the safetensors format this was a big issue, and still sort of is afterwards. only DL from reputable sources

why a fucking chatbot? translate a page better for me you fucking losers, all the translation options suck for privacy outside of specifically trained local AIs. this is the BEST use case for a small local LLM yet mozilla with all its brains and resources couldnt rub two neurons together for this.

or they could do character prediction on your typing to make typing faster. just some legit examples, why waste resources to build a chat ai into my browser when i can just open a website???

the other decent options are matrix and simplex chat, and mayyyybe session. matrix seems to have the most users and kick to it right now. out of those options. but yeah youre not gonna get the average tech illiterate person to get on a more complicated alternative to discord, essentially

Only reason I’d recommend signal to anyone is that its one of the few encrypted apps that doesnt have awful onboarding. A boomer can figure it out.

the boob jiggle physics are genuinely ridiculous on this mod, i just watched the preview. gamers are brain broken

Fingers crossed that RFK will transmit a worm to him or something by giving him raw milk and he just sits tweeting for the next 4 years

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Has he restated this recently? It seems the original comment was back in May, hopefully he just forgot.

Good point, I originally made this as an image because someone requested that. Here’s the text

Important Online Safety PSA for American transgender people following the US election.

Stop using insecure methods of communication.
Stop using media without a discrete privacy policy.
Stop posting identifying information about yourself.

As we enter into a new government with a hypothetical Republican trifecta, we will likely see the trans community attacked by the state, and sites and services such as Reddit, Facebook, Discord, and TikTok are known to have a great deal of unencrypted information about their users, and have been known to cooperate with law enforcement.

Instead of Discord, try Matrix. Here is a large trans chat on Matrix:

https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:chapo.chat

Instead of Reddit, try Lemmy. Here are some transgender groups on Lemmy:

hexbear.net/c/traa (shortlink, redirect link on page)
lemmy.ml/c/transgender
lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/transgender

Instead of Facebook or Instagram, try Pixelfed:

pixelfed.org

Instead of Twitter, try Mastodon. Here are some trans positive places on Mastodon:

lgbtqia.space
toots.matapocos.dog

Many resources for more secure alternative apps can be found on privacyguides.org

We can continue this conversation in DMs if you wish but your ‘concerns’ are not welcome here and contribute to an atmosphere of hostility towards trans communities on the fediverse.