do you think workers got rights by asking nicely?

if factories didn’t get set on fire with the owner inside people would still be breaking their backs working 16h a day in conditions that shorten their lives by a year every month spent working, every day going deeper in dept to the company store. Oh and they asked for better conditions, they protested, they demanded, they went on strikes, but there was no way out.

violance isn’t the answer - violance is what happens when you take away someon’s hope. And this is not a new relevation:

Sun Tzu said ‘When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard’

because a desperate, hopeless foe will fight to the death

yeah instead he’d be crossing the street to buy bread or eggs. as much as religion sucks - ot was the drunk driver

i think in this case it was the drunk driver actually, unless they were also a priest

this didn’t happen because of computers, this style just got popularised faster through them - like pretty much everything else. breaking the rules to create a specific style is just a thing prople do

some people point to e.e. cummings but tbf, even without him we’d start typing like that eventually. it’s normal to want to fuck with the rules and make it a style

sounds like a scam! i bet if the water is too dirty the oyster is going to close and shut off the city’s water supply

(it was clams but i cannot tell the difference between the two so)

when non-US folks share things that are supposed to he funny and/or relatable, we usually convert our currencies to dollars as most people know how much that’s worth roughly

the only pause it gives me is when i notice nonsensical details blending into each other, the only emotion it moves in me is then disgust and foolishness as i just spent time on slop that was not an expression of something, but an intentionless imitation of one. and it sure as hell doesn’t make me self reflect as it manages to be both shallow and hollow

it’s not AI “art” itself that sparked a conversation, no singular piece stands out as something people talk about (a piece that is more than just a more seamless version of the pervious attempts, something memorable even after it stops being the best at imitation). The talk is not about AI “art” itself it’s about the idea of it. Nobody points to a single thing AI made and claims that is proof it’s not art, because it’s not individual pieces that “make us think” – it’s the concept of an intentionless thing being fed human art and then making misshapen copies of it at the whims of people who can’t be bothered to engage with art at all.

sure it does make you think, but only if you - knowingly or not - treat the entire emergence of AI slop as a kind of performance art itself, any individual piece of slop is not the topic here

i’m reading enough into your comment. i literally explained why that wouldn’t change much

never mind a canvas, if the guy cared in the slightest about the “art” AI made he’d at least print it on poster paper

this experiment shows how even the “artists” just do not care about those images, and why would they? why would any of us care?

this shows exactly the core of the issue - every piece of art made by a human, no matter how good or bad (whatever that means), is a reflection of the artist. Sometimes they pour their entire soul into a piece, sometimes just a small part of them, but it’s always a reflection of them. So the artist will care about what they’ve made because it’s their own self, in a way. And others will care about it too, because we crave to get to know others, understand them, see the world how they see it - and art allows us to glimpse just that.

AI slop elicits none of those emotions, there is no artist to care about, no reflection of the self, no worldview to glimpse, no way of caring about it, nothing – even if it was you who wrote the prompt, you just can’t bring yourself to give a shit

i just hope Skyrim Grandma gets to play it :(

wow, it seems like it’s printed on printer quality paper. really amplifies how those who use AI for “art” don’t give a flying fuck about art

i thought it was just a thicc ass orca, added an eye to show my vision

maybe it’s Wales, maybe it’s just academia. smart people are usually capable of figuring out that self expression no matter how eccentric is harmless and simply brings colour to the world

i like saying that history doesn’t repeat, it rhymes…

but bloody hell, this is literally the exact same thing we get every single generation

“those young people, completely indecent, just look at the way they dress! their hair! the music they listen to! this technology they use! what will become of them. When i was young i was perfectly obedient and listened to my elders.” you could attritbute that sentence to any era of human history and you’ll be correct, literally all the way back to the beginning of written history this rings true

Socrates complained about how the youths depend on paper and books too much. And since then little has changed but the exact thing the olds complain about

not really! the wikipedia page is a good source information about what we know about it, for the unknowns looking around online for like “how does anesthesia work exactly” leads you to experts just going “idk, but it does work so”

and the third is autism spectrum lisorder!

yeah but there’re more -isms and -phobias that are enabled on that website, feels a bit odd to single out one bigotry amongst so many

it could’ve been “like” it could’ve been for real! we actually have no idea how exactly anesthesia works, we just found a substance that knocks us out and probably makes it so we can’t feel anything, and we mastered using it, but nobody really knows the exact mechanism of how it works :)

i could tell you that without burning through a litre of water