Yeah, Lemmy is a bit over-the-top anti-AI, but most of it is based in reality.

There are a bunch of problems with AI. And they outbnumer any good ones by a mile.

The main cause of that fact is the entire AI bubble.

AI wastes a fuckton of energy. Of course, this energy isn’t free: communities pay. Electricity demand goes up, and so does price. Then, most electricity isn’t green. And on top of that, the rise in demand causes more electricity peaks, which almost exclusively get “fixed” through fossil fuel-based methods.

From another angle, AI disrupts markets. And not in a good way. Companies dump millions into AI while neglecting their employees (who get laid off because AI “can replace” them), and their customers as well (since instead of doing useful stuff for consumers they pump out AI-branded bullshit no one wants or needs).

Then, big AI companies spit in the face of copyright and have the audacity to turn around and claim copyright on their models’ outputs. If inputs are free game, so are the outputs. Copyright is a very vague, misunderstood and misused term, and no argument I’ve heard claiming feeding stuff into AI is fair use was grounded in reality.

That all veing said, AI is here to stay. I’ve been thinking long and hard about similar fundamental changes to how human society functions, and I think i found one. Photography.

Way back when, you had to do things painstakibgly by hand. Drawing, copying books by hand, etc.

Then the printing press came. Revolutionary? Sure. But not as revolutionary as photography. Instead of writing by hand, you had to typeset by hand before printing. This made the process scalable, but it was still painstaking work.

But photography is a different matter. You just have to make (or buy) a camera and other required supplies (film, developing media, etc), and then you merely have to set up the camera, take the photo, develop the film, and make the photo.

Even in the early days of photography, while these processes took some time, it wasn’t painstaking. To take a photo, you set up the camera, and wait. To develop film, you dunk the film into a chemical bath, and wait. To transfer the image onto paper - a similar ordeal. Set, forget.

Photography fundamentally changed how the entirety of society works. Painters complained and lost jobs and livelihoods - like the “jobs stolen” by AI. Instead of drawing stuff, which required a lot of skill, taking a photo is much simpler (abd faster).

Yesterday, instead of having to paint stuff, you’d take a photo. Today, instead of taking a photo, you ask AI.

On the copyright front, the paralels are obvious: Taking a photo of a book is fair use. But photocopying a book isn’t. The problem with AI is that it does some transformations to the original, so it’s obfuscated inside the model. But the obfuscation can be undone, as AI often happily spits out certain inputs verbatim when asked. Take a photo of a page - okay. Photocopy the entire book? Not okay.

The situation is the same when we look at artwork instead of books. Taking a photo of an artwork in a museum is okay. Scanning an artwork (duplicating it verbatim) - isn’t. Same for movies. A frame is probably gonna be okay. The entire movie - won’t.

Going by the closest analogue, there is absolutely no justification to indiscriminately feed everything and anything into AI, for indiscriminately photocopying and vervatim copying the same material is clearly protected.

Isn’t that what ‘Woke’ always was?

A magic word with a shapeshifting definition, mostly for the nazis to throw at things and people they don’t like.

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So… File in Europe?

Although, that will surely bring in less profits.

That only increases the barrier for entry into the market, but doesn’t make it impossible to counterfeit.

The only time such a scheme would work is if the cost of counterfeiting the tags is higher than the cost of turning a counterfeit operation into a legitimate one.

And even then, it’d be better to use hologram seals on packaging or embedded into the cheese crust instead of “edible RFID”. Most crusts aren’t even edible so it seems more like a gimmick than anything else.

So: more sinister explanations acrually hold more weight here.

Not even unjust or corrupt.

It’s for cases where judicial guidelines are too hard, requiring a conviction which doesn’t make sense.

It’s for (uncontroversial) amnesty when the law is slower than the executive and not retroactive. So stuff like non-violent drug convictions.

It’s for adding another chance at parole when the parole board’s main concern is something that shouldn’t be their focus.

Am I the only one who doesn’t see how this is supposed to guard against couterfeits?

it’s stupid evil.

Since the screwhead is ~50% hollow, I wonder how the metrics on durability and longevity go.

The opposite of “cow steak”

Once it’s out of view for 5 mins, it despawns. Gotta keep the simulation running smooth & efficient.

Oh, and there are three suns?

One is the winter sun (no microwaves), the other is the summer sun. There’s a third one in between. No microwaves from the power-saving sun in winter is why winter is cold.

Eh, pedoisland is too conservative.

Make it be called Pedo Land.

Anything that requires remuxing multiple times pretty much requires lossless compression. Else it’d become like screenshots of memes because the compression adds up.

That being said, last time I was working with professional audio people, they still preferred WAW as their intermediary format.

If we’re doing a find-and-replace of “Americans” with “USians”, the result is “Brainwashed USians”.

So, unless you consider yourself brainwashed, you weren’t included.

China builds world’s first 20GW microwave

For some reason it took me at least 5 reads to notice the word weapon in the title properly.

Seeing the spinning wheel loading screen makes me cry. Not because it lasts long, but because it isn’t smooth!

Innovation is good. That being said, slapping “AI”, “Smart” or more pixels is the opposite of innovation. Innovation is something new, out of the box. 1080p > 4k > 8k is logical progression.

tl;dr rust yt-dlp frontend in a flatpak for some reason

This is why we can’t have nice things.

The community Vocal members thereof, instead of seeing genuine effort as something praiseworthy always find the worst stupid angle to belittle well-meaning people from.

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most of the crops from his sector used to be exported to Asian countries, but mentions the “logistical problem against the Houthis”

Who’d have thought war was bad for business (at least for those not in the war profiteering industry)?

The illegal killing of an immigrant

There, slightly fixed.