Gender fluid

If they are ethically made by union labor, there is nothing anti marxist about selling a shirts. 😁

Sounds like weakness to me comrade.

It’s also only preventative, seems like this is more reversal.

Until you’re ready for your old man era, presumably.

PUT ON THE WIG DEGENERATE

It sucks because dating apps are a pretty trash experience all around, and definitely have some fundamental demographic issues, but god damn do the incels go wild whenever the conversation comes up.

Sorry, I thought all that was going to be just two paragraphs.

I know the feeling lol

Yeah I largely agree, the fact that it is replacing humans is rough and really speaks to such a depressing view of art in our society. Even before AI, the commercialization of art was hugely detrimental, and really sucks the soul out of much of what it touches. The fact that AI attacks the starting footholds for artists to find any money at all in the industry is particularly upsetting.

All that being saying, I guess I would still push back a little bit on the idea that it can’t be art when generated in it’s entirety. I would argue that while yes it does have less intentionality, even at the most base level of a prompt and picking your favorite generation, is enough to qualify it as art. I may be a bit of an absolutist in this regard, but I justify it by pointing to things like splatter or fluid acrylic painting. Where the exact lines of intentionality is hard to draw. All of that to say I don’t think there is much value in drawing a strict line that excludes AI work from art just because the discrepancy between choice of the artist and the choices on show is so vast.

water the tree of liberty? 🥰

you can put the exact same prompt into the stable diffusion and not get the same image each time

My understanding is that if you have the exact same model, prompt, and everything else, if you use the same seed, you will get the exact same image output. That and that they called it a counter point, I took it to mean they were talking about the skill in the layers of different tools folks will use to get what they are hoping for. Because, a little to your further point, there are folks that get very into it and have like 30 different fine tuned loras or whatever to finesse every finer point of the image.

Images would not exist without the photographer choosing to make them.

At the risk of getting a little philosophically wanky about it, I guess I would argue the same for AI images. Like what exists is a nebulous connections of weights and nodes trained off stolen art that only connect in certain ways because of a given seed and prompt. Does a hypothetical random image of a muppets version of Kermit the frog as Darth Vader ‘exist’ without the high, half baked, prompt from someone using a free trial of midjourney?

Even without those elements though, those images would not exist without the effort, intention, and presence of the photographer.

I completely agree, and I think my point more was that with photography, you don’t “make” the landscape or architecture you’re capturing, but you make the image in the end.

Contrast that with AI art. The only intention you have is your prompt and choice of model. I would argue the fact that ai prompters need to “get close to” what they want their piece to say, rather than making the piece say what they want it to say, shows how starved for meaning the products are.

I will say, I respect photography more, and so much of what AI generates is soulless slop. I think that ultimately my push back is on the folks that argue that it can’t be art. And just as there is intentionality in choosing what photos you don’t take for photography, there is non-zero intentionality in generating 30 loose candidates, 50 fine tuned candidates, and 3 final images with stable diffusion.

Sorry if this comment is scattered, I’ve restarted my reply like three times trying to sort out what I even think lol.

I don’t think their point was just that it’s impossible to reproduce, more that there is skill, knowledge and choice put into getting close to the intended idea when working with AI output.

With that I think your point breaks down when you compare it with something like photography. Often you aren’t ‘making’ the images that you capture, but there is skill and artistry in the choices that capture the moment or picture you want. Obviously there is more control in photography, and I would disagree with anyone that uses AI and claims the same level of artistry of photography. But ultimately I think the lines around art are so blurry in general, it seems incorrect to me to do decidedly exclude AI generated images.

I see, I assumed trans_surgeries wasn’t a nsfw sub, so I was weary of why it would be in the list with the rest.

subs like r/boobs are unmodded?

⬆ Jokes on you, I am liberal accelerationist

Oh so they’re wrong. Okay

The US has very little reason to target Palestinians, and most of the violence from Palestinian groups have targeted Israelis.

The US has interest in having a foothold in the region. The foothold they’ve chosen is a settler colonial project that has reasons to exterminate the native population as settler projects often do.

The US is far more concerned about other groups in the region, like ISIS, the Taliban, and the Houthis.

These are pretty small concerns, the actual concerns in the region are the nation states that oppose US hegemony.

The main reason the US seems to care is because they successfully carried out an attack on our ally.

US aid to Israel did not start with October 7th.

The US has repeatedly told Israel to scale back their operations in Gaza and allow humanitarian aid in, yet they completely ignore it. There’s absolutely no way Israel is anywhere close to a “vassal state,” they do pretty much whatever they want.

Actions speak louder than words, and all of our actions seem to suggest they can do no wrong. So maybe consider that just because we say otherwise doesn’t actual mean we want their actions to scale back.

That doesn’t make the US responsible for Israeli actions though.

The US is arming, funding, and blocking accountability from the UN. How many times do we have to reload the gun before the shooting is our fault too?

Sorry I don’t really use it, what was it’s vision, and how did it stray?

Fair, I think hyperbolic headlines are just the reality of click-driven journalism :\

I feel like in it’s current form it’s more likely to lose lifetime fans than catch them. I would be genuinely surprised if nothing happened to make the experience on rednote worse, and from what I’ve heard it would be also a valid target of the existing law, so just as easy to shut down.

Also doesn’t loops currently just have a fire hose feed of all videos uploaded in chronological order? Seems like it’s lacking core features that would make it stick for folks.

My phone failed whenever I tried to buy something (just testing to see what it would do), and I haven’t seen anything that stood out as an obvious ad.