WaterBowlSlime

joined 3 years ago
[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 days ago

The US's only export is mass shooters.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago

In a world where antisemitism holds so much weight, islamophobia apparently doesn't matter at all.

(yeah I know that real bigotry against jews barely matters too and that the word has been coopted by zionists)

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago

It's rich hearing economic investment being described as an "offensive" when there's actual war going on right now. Including with Russia. Anyway I hope this helps Mexico become less dependent on US trade because god knows they need to.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Lingua Franca? More like Lengua Hispana am I right

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Haircut appointments? That are online? Where you have to choose your style in advance?? That's wild. I just walk in to the salon and tell the lady what I vaguely want when I'm already in the chair.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 month ago (19 children)

This post is about what could be done with them though. It's not about image generators, it's about coding agents. LLMs are really good at programming certain things and it's gotten to the point where avoiding them puts you at a needless disadvantage. It's not like artisanally typed code is any better than what the bot generates.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sapo Verde to you 🐸

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago

To pronounce a foreign name correctly basically means to know the phonetics and orthography of that language. Pretty much no one dedicates that kind of effort. English speakers regularly mispronounce Hispanic names too and Spanish has totally unambiguous spelling.

Also, only weebs get Japanese names right consistently.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

The answer to the contradiction between socialized production and individual property isn’t to reprivatize production, but to socialize property.

Yet another red sails banger. 🔥🔥🔥

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Would you approve of AI if companies bought licenses from the artists in their training data? Is this the underlying issue for you, that capitalists aren't playing by their own rules? This is a reasonable grievance but it's hardly communist.

Regarding labor, don't you want people to work less? Yes the machine takes less manpower than a human. That's potentially liberatory. Of course under bourgeois rule, this technology is used to suppress the wages of artists. But that's true for everything, which is why the problem is capitalism itself and why we shouldn't cede control of this new technology to capitalists.

Also I don't mean to put words in your mouth. I asked those questions to get you to think about how the anti-plagiarism laws you want for AI would manifest in real life. And I said that you're an advocate for expanding intellectual property because you're implying that artists should have more protections against having their work copied. When an artist's work cannot be copied without the right granted to you, then they hold the copyright, a form of IP. This is shortsighted because those who are most able to defend their IPs and who have the most IPs to defend are not solo artists, but corporations. Broaden copyright laws and you're directly giving power to Disney and the like.

P.S. chill out, damn. You're being snarky as hell when both me are memorable have been formal with you. I'm not trying to dunk on you and this isn't reddit.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It for sure seems like this topic sucks the theory out of comrades and turns them into mini Mickey mice, ready to kill to protect the sanctity of their IP. It's either that or they'll suddenly embrace idealism because pictures are only meaningful when they're metaphysically imbued with human spirit or whatever.

In real life, this doesn't bother me because I'm surrounded by libs. But it is aggravating how common reaction is on here and hexbear. I don't understand how avid pirates can be so attached to intellectual property laws.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Copyright is one of the 4 types of intellectual property. Your misguided defense of the individual author strengthens publishing companies instead, since they own the means of production to copy and have the lawyers to litigate such violations.

Also you misunderstand how the technology works. Generative AI does not function by copying the data it was trained on, but by using the trends it noticed in that data to piece together something original. Examine the code of whichever LLM and you will never find any books, pictures, or movies stored within. It's a sophisticated network of associations and dissociations.

Now you might then argue that these generalized statistics also constitute plagiarism, but consider what that entails. If mimicry is criminal, should it then be illegal for artists to imitate another's style? Should musicians be able to patent chord progressions and leitmotifs? Should genres be property?

Your stance against AI is boxed within the existing bourgeois framework of creative ownership which I hope you agree is awful. I understand the precarity that this tech creates for artists but expanding IP will empower, not weaken, the companies that exploit them.

 

I don't dream. No nightmares either. I have no problems sleeping and I'm not on drugs so it isn't a health thing - I've been like this all my life.

The only times I've managed to dream are when I nap while already well-rested, but even then I still usually don't. Like I might get 1 or 2 dreams a year in total from when I go back to sleep immediately after waking up, but never from normal sleep.

Anyone else like this?

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I fat fingered the options menu and accidentally tapped on block. How do I unblock? It only gives me the option to block even harder hahaha

 

Koalas and other endangered species are being driven to extinction right now by logging publicly owned forests. This video shows the desertification of the logging sites.

 

Spoilers: 22,500 Australian Dollars

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