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As a software dev who writes tools for artists this an awful time to be alive. I’m 100% against AI in art and software dev. I think we should treat everyone with dignity and grace rather than try to use tech to dehumanise and push everyone out of the workforce. I refuse to be part of the problem.

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

do you have any idea how over-indexed the animation industry is on Dee Bradley Baker. whole thing would collapse if he suddenly couldn’t make weird little noises on demand anymore

"I have no desire to grasp your craven outlook!" Oooh Theodora Fire Emblem has given us a great line to throw at insufferable "debate me" bros

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

A New Color (1/5🧵)

Fix code review bottlenecks by doing like private torrent trackers and only allowing people to get their PR reviewed if they reviewed enough PRs beforehand to keep their ratio high enough.

There is no good use of generative AI because the technology was built on theft of creative labor. If that position surprises you from an artist whose life's work was scraped and used without permission to train trillion dollar technology, educate yourself. www.michaelwhelan.com/faq/#digital...

it's crazy to me people still insist ai for research is reliable when we now have an Hbomberguy video's worth of evidence that its unreliability is tanking Hank Green's career

I see a lot of very smart people saying stuff like “we have to acknowledge AI is getting better and it’s not going away” to which I always ask who’s paying for it? Because there’s two eventual scenarios.

finally got a link to share with people who try and say "oh you DON'T LIKE AI??? what about ALPHAFOLD!!!!" as if it has anything to do with any of this AI capex

So proud of Codeberg for taking a stand.

From the perspective of a cynical AI investor, the question isn't, "Can AI do your job?" The question is, "Can an AI salesman convince your boss that an AI can do your job?" 23/

Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.

Had a thought of God having to attend an annual dinner where he's lightly roasted by global religious leaders before He does a tight 10 minutes of funny comebacks.

Riddler being a laid off game developer is maybe the most prescient thing in the entire series

After numerous revisions, here's my contribution to the discussion. makemeacto.cc/how-exactly-...

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

One guy talking to himself

There's a moment in Spirited Away I talk about almost every talk I give. Chihiro puts on her shoes & runs to the next scene. There is no technical, budget, or business reason this should be so lovingly specific. It ONLY costs money and ""wastes"" time to see her tug on the heel and tap her toes

"Don't make your own engine" is a lie propagated by Big Engine. You should absolutely make your own engine, just tailor it to your own game. Your game doesn't need 52 thousand combinations of shaders. You don't need state of the art lighting. Just put the pixels in the bag bro and call it a game.

in the end the logical conclusion of capitalism would entirely eliminate the profit-sapping wages that workers need, making them into either slaves or replacing them with automation, merge all companies into one so nobody has a choice but to pay them to survive, returning to the time of feudalism...

because he was extremely successful in fulfilling his short term purpose! he eliminated costs by destroying everything in progress, brought in revenue by writing it all off as tax credits, and devalued the company so much that it got bought by a bigger company leading to huge payouts! capitalism!

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Shipshapes for a cancelled animated project. A recurring theme.

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

John Berkey's classic 1986 cover to the 'National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe,' by Roy A. Gallant.

This pretty much sums it up: 1/2

I also don't mind the "bubble." When I watch ESPN I don't feel cheated because they don't give time to people who don't like sports to talk about why I'm dumb for liking sports.

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Goat was really fun

The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

ballmaxxing is tanuki appropriation

Actually, Baby Yoda was the doctor’s name.

As my old Irish granddad told me when he found out I was getting bullied, a bully will cherish his memories of hurting you, unless you hurt him back. Then his own hurt is all he'll remember. It's not the nicest way to live, but it's served me well.

"A lot of the time, it’s not even grown-ups making up the stories. It’s done by AI. AI is a fancy robot that writes like a college freshman on Adderall who is using filler to hide the fact that he hasn’t done the assigned reading."