[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 25 points 10 hours ago

But he's totally not a Nazi because he is black.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

It's also worth mentioning Gates has made our public education system worse by introducing us to the voucher system. Billionaires are part of why we don't spend our tax dollars on things like universal healthcare or free college.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We don't don't need princes or kings doing PR. If we taxed billionaires out of existence we could fund that and so much more. This guy doesn't get to make up for whatever he was doing on Epstein's plane, at least not without coming clean first.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

Here's a question: why don't you take their advice seriously instead of being so sensitive to their manners?

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 4 days ago

Back when search engines worked.... Pepper Ridge Farms remembers

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago

That makes it a commodity, not art.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

their argument is so broad it ends up also applying ti things like photography.

That's what you said, so I take it as: if I give a definition that includes Photography, it will be regarded as too broad. But I went ahead and gave you part of a definition anyways.

What I said is that Art is not a commodity. I will grant you that "wanting things" and "getting things" is a form of human expression, but it is not art, that is exchanging commodities. If you can express a Generative AI scenario where someone draws upon their "values" instead of their desires then you might have an example of art. So in your library scenario, what "values" are behind their desires for "digital art"? Or is this person just wanting a certain aesthetic?

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

The important thing is that we use our standards to not engage with what is being said but to pursue purity in our information sources. We should start by disconnecting from the fediverse because you obviously can't trust half of what is being said here.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Hold up, you think the definition of art is too broad if it includes Photography but not broad enough if it doesn't include Generative AI? Based on that I don't think it is possible to give you a reason you would accept.

This conversation of "art" reminds me of the difference between "value" and "values": https://davidgraeber.org/articles/value-the-antropological-theories-of-value/

If someone want high quality digital art, teaching them crochet doesn’t help them.

This is a statement of "value" not "values". That someone wants "digital art" but there is no connection being made to their "values", they are simply getting what they want.

Art is not a commodity, AI is.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

Is this why modern caltrops ended up on my YouTube FYP?

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago

I remember family separations was a big deal during his first term. And then there was that US citizen teen who was imprisoned by ICE in Texas....

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago

LLMs are not like the birth of the internet. LLMs are more like what came after when marketing took over the roadmap. We had AI before LLMs, and it delivered high quality search results. Now we have search powered by LLMs and the quality is dramatically lower.

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