But Trogdor is cool.

A “haha, I got an obscure funny meme” tattoo is a terrible idea, but you do you.

They can be fun for a bit. I tend to get overwhelmed with all the crap I loot. I have the same problem with games like The Elder Scrolls series. I’m alway afraid I’ll accidentally sell something important or useful, but I usually end up with a lot of junk. Lol

This barely qualifies as news. Anyone with half a functioning brain knows that site is infested with Russian bots.

Well, I can always do what tech startups do and just make shit up! No pun intended.

Yeah, that really sucks about the jobs. But that kind of work is soul sucking. Maybe some people like it, but I didn’t.

I kind of feel like puking.

Idk, I’ve blazed many times but never felt the need to constantly lie. That’s a him problem, not a cannabis problem. However, I do think you make a good point about Transformers. He has the mind of a child stuck in the 80s. The future is Transformers, RoboCop, Bladerunner, Total Recall, etc., to him, anyway.

I’m sorry, but it’s over. Just like photography killed miniature portrait painting. Or Photoshop killing off lab editing and airbrush touchup. Corporate art illustration is done and over with. For now, technical illustration is viable but I don’t know for how long. It sucks but this is the new reality.

I wouldn’t have a problem with all this scraping, if these companies had to release their models trained on this data as open source.

I’m sure it will be used a lot in the corporate space, and porn. As someone who did b2b illustration, good riddance. I wouldn’t wish that kind of shit “art” on anyone.

Experiencing humiliation requires a certain amount of self-awareness.

Tree fiddy.

He said 1000 robots by next year. I can say I’ll train myself to poop gold and be a billionaire by next year. Isn’t it awesome how we can just make shit up and claim it to be real? The difference is, no one is buying stock in my gold poop scheme, which is about as legitimate as his 1000 autonomous robots claim.

There are already a bunch of Firefox forks so I’m not sure what you mean.

Exactly, and if you are a trained artist, you can mop the floor with someone who only use prompts. I’ve been using the diffusion plugin for Krita and it is so powerful. You have the ability to paint, use layers and filters and near real-time AI fills. It’s awesome and fun.

The internet was ruined before AI.

Knee-jerk stupidity. Not all AI development revolves around “tech bros”.

Mozilla, I’m so disappointed but I shouldn’t be surprised. I guess I’ll be looking for a fork.

All the Tesla robots have advanced AI, i.e. will actually be controlled virtually by people in India.

Targeting an open source project. So brave, what a statement. /s

This has 0 effect on all the big AI companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, etc. All this does is make it harder for FOSS projects and leaves the corporations to dominate.

I look at art without paying anyone, I guess I’m stealing.

And how’s that academic discourse working out on a service that caters to fascists and actively hates academia?

The same way they are now? Copyright is barely a protection for independent artists, and largely serves the interests of big “IP” holders like Disney.

Ok, but that is beside the point. Copyright only serves the interests of large IP holders, like Disney.

Well, if you don’t copyright everything, then it’s not stealing. We need more open culture, not closed off “IP”.

Anti-AI is a brain-dead idea anyway. Artists should be more open with their art, not less. Yes, even with AI.

AI is certainly a bubble but Nvidia has been working on this stuff long before the hype. I don’t think you can easily dismiss them. Personally I don’t think the future of AI is giant data centres, it will be running in desktops GPUs and dedicated AI chips. It already is.

Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas

Spotify is worse than piracy. It’s a robber baron.

Poster slams poop off his butthole, sparks controversy!

And everyone was so angry, they kept giving Adobe’s monopoly obscene amounts of money via overpriced subscriptions.

And absolutely no one was shocked.

You seem to have this optimistic view that humanity is invincible against any threat but itself

I didn’t say that. You’re making assumptions. However, I don’t take AGI as a serious risk, not directly anyway. AGI is a big question mark at this time and hardly comparable to a giant comet or pandemic, of which we have experience or solid scientific evidence. Could it be a threat? Yeah. Do I personally think so? No. Our reaction to and exploitation of will likely do far more harm than any direct action by an AGI.

Agreed, partially. However, the “techbros” in charge, for the most part, aren’t the researchers. There are futurologists who are real scientists and researchers. Dismissing them smacks of the anti-science knuckleheads ignoring warnings about the dangers of not wearing masks and getting vaccines during the pandemic. Not everyone interested in the future is a techbro.

True. But we are still talking about what is essentially an alien mind. Even if it can do a good impression of a human intelligence, doesn’t mean it is a human mind. It won’t have billions of years of evolution and thousands of years of civilization and development.

Idk about societal collapse, but think about the amount of damage the World Wide Web and social media has and continues to do. Look at the mess cars have made of cities around the world over the course of a century. Just because it doesn’t happen overnight, doesn’t mean serious problems can’t occur. I think we have 10 years before the labour market is totally upended, with or without real AGI. Even narrow AI is capable of fucking things up on a scale no one wants to admit.

I think you’re right on the money when it comes to the real dangers, especially your first bullet point. I don’t necessarily agree with your napkin maths. If the virtual neurons are used in a more efficient way, that could make up for a lot versus human neuron count.

Considering most of them are aging boomers and gen-x, I don’t see that going too well. What are they going to do? Toss their Molotov cocktails and throw their backs out? Hobble down the street in their walkers and mobility scooters? Ridiculous.

It could be only hype. But I don’t entirely agree. Personally, I believe we are only a few years away from AGI. Will it come from OpenAI and LLMs? Maybe, but it will likely come from something completely different. Like it or not, we are within spitting distance of a true Artificial Intelligence, and it will shake the foundations of the world.

I believe much of our paranoia concerning ai stems from our fear that something will come along and treat us like we treat all the other life on this planet. Which is bitterly ironic considering our propensity for slaughtering each other on a massive scale. The only danger to humanity is humans. If humanity is doomed, it will be our own stupid fault, not AI.