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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
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I’m afraid that we seen to disagree on who an artist is and what is a valid moral trade off.
Is it really the democratization of art? Or the commodification of art?
Art has, with the exception of extraordinary circumstances, always been democratic. You could at any point pick up a pencil and draw.
Ai has funneled that skill, critically through theft, into a commodified product, the ai model. Through with they can make huge profits.
The machine does the art. And, even when run on your local machine the model was almost certainly trained on expensive machines through means you could not personally replicate.
I find it alarming that people are so willing to celebrate this. It’s like throwing a party that you can buy bottled Nestle water at the grocery store which was taken by immoral means. It’s nice for you, but ultimately just further consolation of power away from individuals.
Sorry, I might have went a bit ham on you there, it was late at night. I think I might have been rude
- Theft does not depend on a legal definition.
Intellectual property theft used to be legal, but protections were eventually put in place to protect the industry of art. (I’m not a staunch defender if the laws as they are, and I belive it actually, in many cases, stifles creativity.)
I bring up the law not recognizing machine generated art only to dismiss the idea that the legal system agrees wholeheartedly with the stance that AI art is defensibly sold on the free market.
- There is no evidence to suggest AI think like a human / It hardly matters that AI can be creative.
A) To suggest a machine neutral network “thinks like a human” is like suggesting a humanoid robot “runs like a human.” It’s true in an incredibly broad sense, but carries so little meaning with it.
Yes, ai models use advanced, statistical multiplexing of parameters, which can metaphorically be compared to neurons, but only metaphorically. It’s just vaguely similar. Inspired by, perhaps.
B) It hardly matters if AI can create art. It hardly even matters if they did it in exactly the way humans do.
Because the operator doesn’t have the moral or ethical right to sell it in either case.
If the AI is just a stocastic parrot, then it is a machine of theft leveraged by the operator to steal intellectual labor.
If the AI is creative in the same way as a person, then it is a slave.
I’m not actually against AI art, but I am against selling it, and I respect artists for trying to protect their industry. It’s sad to see an entire industry of workers get replaced by machines, and doubly sad to see that those machines are made possible by the theft of their work. It’s like if the automatic loom had been assembled out of centuries of collected fabrics. Each worker non consensually, unknowingly, contributing to the near total destruction of their livelihood. There is hardly a comparison which captures the perversion of it.
Counterpoints:
Artists also draw distinctions between inspiration and ripping off.
The legality of an act has no bearing on its ethics or morality.
The law does not protect machine generated art.
Machine learning models almost universally utilize training data which was illegally scraped off the Internet (See meta’s recent book piracy incident).
Uncritically conflating machine generated art with actual human inspiration, while career artist generally lambast the idea, is not exactly a reasonable stance to state so matter if factly.
It’s also a tacit admission that the machine is doing the inspiration, not the operator. The machine which is only made possible by the massive theft of intellectual property.
The operator contributes no inspiration. They only provide their whims and fancy with which the machine creates art through mechanisms you almost assuredly don’t understand. The operator is no more an artist than a commissioner of a painting. Except their hired artist is a bastard intelligence made by theft.
And here they are, selling it for thousands.
Can confirm, “my lesbian experience with loneliness” is gold. I’d recommend it even to people who aren’t accustomed to reading comics or manga. Masterpiece autobiographical literature.
I’ve read most of these. Here are my unsolicited reviews:
“I’m in love with the villainous?” I read the first 2 books, and the flipped perspective companion series. It’s almost genius in the way it stops to directly address the reader and break down the lesbian experience directly in a meta sort of way, but ultimately it is a wish fulfillment lesbian fantasy that doesn’t take it’s fictional conciet to it’s natural endpoint, imo (the main character is a lovable psycho, and they don’t really reckon with the psycho part. I really wish they would.)
“The guy I was interested in wasn’t a guy at all” Best manga art I’ve seen in a long time. It oozes style and pretty, simple queerness. The format is not as long. It’s more like a weekly strip, sometimes, and my biggest fault with it is I wanted to see longer plot arcs play out uninterrupted. I could just flip through pages of this manga without reading and melt at all the pretty stars, interesting expressions, and stylish outfits. Maybe, if I could complain about one thing, everyone is so hot in this manga that it legit is a bit annoying.
“Yamada and Kase-san” is very, very cute. It’s wholesome, not overly dramatic, and very gay. The characters aren’t anything too new, but it manages to feel more authentic than most other slice of life Yuri manga. The art is great, too.
“Bloom into you.” I’ve tried so many times to read this one, because everyone recommends it constantly, but I think I’ve got too much dude energy or something because I don’t like it. Sorry!
Anyway, read them all, peeps.
Yes, that is the speed you’re going, then the acceleration you experience due to the change in direction as the earths surface revolves about an axis is a = v²/r. R being the radius of the earth. This gets us our small acceleration value.
You do experience this small acceleration as a very small reduction in weight. You actually weigh more at the poles than the equator. You don’t feel the velocity at all, as the whole planet is moving with you.
Maybe my math is wrong but: The Earth’s radius is about 6,371 kilometers. With this large radius and a 24-hour rotation period, the centripetal acceleration at the equator is only about 0.034 m/s². This is tiny compared to Earth’s gravitational acceleration of 9.8 m/s². So the centripetal effect is only about 0.3% of gravity’s effect.
The fight scene in question btw. So god damned satisfying to watch. What a surprise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XTwcJWyrYc&t=610
The best one to play with is chat gpt’s paid subscription, but some excellent free voice ai are Google Gemini, meta’s WhatsApp ai chat, hume.ai, and chat gpt’s free voice chat.
I have to say after watching the videos, boo to the corpo for the weird exploitative lies, but kudos to the two women for staying in character! They legit put effort into moving like the real robots around them, and all while in what were probably uncomfortable costumes. I hope they get positive social media attention!
That print does actually look pretty nice, but I hate how inconsistent the two images are. It’d drive me fing crazy to have those prints on my wall when the continuity of design is so clearly lacking.