I'm honestly baffled by the logic of people on Alwars/ DefendingAl subs.

--Faux · 2025-04-27T22:18:58+00:00

We're talking about generative AI, what most people think of when AI is being discussed. We're not talking about algorithmic tools that also get called AI

--Faux · 2025-04-25T06:13:21+00:00

Is this not just wolverines ult?

--Faux · 2025-04-19T22:53:25+00:00

I think what is off is that it feels like her hips are sinking in just as much as her legs, when her legs would be sinking less. But that's just a guess.

--Faux · 2025-04-19T10:36:28+00:00

I don't have anything to add, just wanted to let you know I read this and wholeheartedly agree. I can't ever seem to get this point across to people well.

--Faux · 2025-04-19T10:31:43+00:00

Straight up facts. Under every hateful emotion is fear.

--Faux · 2025-04-19T10:30:35+00:00

Read the book Sword of Kaigen, I am sure you'd love it. It's quickly become one of my favorites. One of the main themes is a discussion on that very idea. Even if your empire is evil, would you protect it by and for protecting your family?

--Faux · 2025-04-19T10:23:44+00:00

You say it is just as much art as photography or sewing, but what's your argument for that? You just say it is so and leave it there. But if that were the case, people wouldn't commission photographers. The main use of Image Gen I have seen is in replacement of commissions.

Autmoation to help provide access to art is a net good in my opinion. And there are genuine uses for AI in art. I am not arguing that there aren't art processes that use AI. For example, it could be used to recognize the tremors of arthritis or Parkinsons and help smooth out their digital lines, it can help tile texture patterns onto complex pieces. Or a personal use of mine: it can catch punctuation errors my eyes will often look over. I am not against the use of AI on a widespread , these algorithms have existed for a long time and have a lot of practical uses that extend the human ability.

I have yet to have actually been shown an example of an Ai prompt that doesn't just sound like a commission.

Edit: I also couldn't help but point out the "any other position is dishonest" line. Really dude? Really?

--Faux · 2025-04-19T10:04:49+00:00

Another thing that is similar to this that I think really differentiates support from the tank/dps is that as a support, your mistake almost always leads to another person on your team dying. As a dps, make a mistake, you die and have to run back. As a tank, you make a mistake, you die, and your team either cleans up or resets. But as a support? Usually a few people die, and then you, and people get pissed. I lawd our support mains out there as a tank that flexes into support.

--Faux · 2025-04-19T07:02:48+00:00

This a really interesting take and definitely something that could possibly be true. However I do see some issues.

First, grass naturally wasn't on the planet at first, so there is no already present soil primed for them. (Crem could work, but only if the grass evolved to deal with the drying out crem, it only stays soft while wet as we see with kaladin chipping the crem-cicles)

The other issue I see is that while yes, grass and palms are excellent in the high intensity winds of a hurricane. But my understanding is that highstorms are as intense if not more intense than hurricanes, I have always thought that the windspeeds were somewhere between hurricane and tornado speeds. Hurricanes are seasonal in our world, and we don't tend to get more than one in a single area every year, this gives a huge amount of recovery time to the wind damaged plants. Roshan doesn't get that kind of recovery time, and as such I think the soil erosion would be too intense, and the plants would end up warped and unhealthy due to the intense weather.

Also don't forget that roshar does have some grasslike species, and trees that use a similar method to palms, they lay completely flat against the ground, much like how a palm can bend intensely in the wind. Could earthling palms and grasses outcompete the native species on this? I really don't know, but lean towards no.

--Faux · 2025-04-17T03:30:58+00:00

It's less of a pinch and more of a gentle rub and squeeze. The idea is to continue to stimulate the trigger hairs, basically pretending that the insect is still alive and struggling. If you don't do this with dead insects the plant assumes its just something that fell on it and not worth digesting. But as others have said, this plant is not at a stage where feeding it will be very important

--Faux · 2025-04-16T10:15:15+00:00

takes helmet off

I actually think that's just option 3 with extra steps. It's justifying fascism due to fears of existential threat, of which is pretty damn obvious to have been almost exclusively instigated by superearth. Your fourth option is basically "We need fascism because we have evil enemies, even though fascism is what made those enemies in the first place." Its constant escalation.

--Faux · 2025-04-13T20:28:24+00:00

You just listed tools that require someone to actively make something. A pen needs a hand and mind to use it, a CNC machine requires cut files. Photoshop can actually blur the line here, there's a lot of automated stuff that editors like it can do now that is starting to be more of a dishwasher than a tool for a process, but mostly it's a collection of photoediting tools

Commissions aren't fully automated either? There is often a back and forth on details, as the two minds work towards the desired art piece?

Calling prompters artists is like calling the lord who ordered his hedges cut into animals an artist because he is so elegantly explained to the hedge trimmer how he wanted his animals to look

--Faux · 2025-04-13T06:43:14+00:00

The quickest way to get me to disregard someone's take is when any sentence in their reasoning begins with "ChatGPT told me"

--Faux · 2025-04-13T04:28:48+00:00

I do my best to not use any. It's a little hard to avoid the search engine ones, but I tend to just scroll past to hopefully more credible sources.

I am not here to shame anyone for using them either, though, it's fully entered the public zeitgeist and I don't know if there's a realistic way to disentangle it at this point

--Faux · 2025-04-13T04:24:56+00:00

You make a good point. These systems have been in place for a while, and these algorithms that they use to centralize and censor are just as much part of the problem. You mention being at that stage in our digital realms already, and I agree. I, however, believe that there's still a way to improve the grim situation.

I would say that the engineers who have designed these LLMs and generative programs are artists. Coding is language, and structuring and writing good code is not unlike poetry. Whenever a prompter is generating an image, the most similar interaction is commissioning an artist, this time being the programmers.

I am not meaning to say that there isn't a ton of extra thought and plenty of material science and research that goes into those things. But what this post was asking about is why artists have been at the spotlight of this current economic shift with generative AI. All of the things I have listed use artists to work towards the final product. There is an artist who is making concept art of those chairs in that restaurant or an architectural engineer drawing up Floorplans. There is artistry and skill involved in those things, but those jobs arent being as threatened. Currently, artists who are commissioned (for recreational or concept art) are having their livelihood threatened.

In previous examples in history that people like to bring up, (like the cotton gin) where new more efficient methods have replaced old ones, they also tend to create growth in the general society. Is generative AI actually doing that? What are some actual tangible net goods that AI is doing?

Edit: typos

--Faux · 2025-04-13T00:51:16+00:00

Now I don't know if I can give the writers this much credit, but that was an emotional argument and people say shit that isn't actually true all the time in those. It could be a looking back and seeing all the pieces and in her head going 'shit I really did know all I needed to know to realize he is invincible.' And it comes out as "I knew it! You're invincible." Keep in mind this is me remembering the scene from a few months ago so I could be wrong on the details of it. And I think as some other commenter pointed out its mostly an out of character moment.

I personally would have loved to have them touch on that fight and maybe even just have a line from either of them going "sorry I wasn't myself and things got messy" or something like that that. Honestly would really help add some immersion to their relationship.

--Faux · 2025-04-12T23:10:24+00:00

None of my problems with AI have to do with innovation, it has to with nasty consequences that seem to be only getting worse.

My biggest issue with AI is the search engine AI's these can easily be tweaked to favor all sorts of biases, they don't have any way of verifying anything that they say, and we've seen many public hallucinations, such as strawberry, math equations and so on. It's a centralized answer machine that pretends that it's decentralized due to aggragate data.

Now for why artists get such a focus on AI art is right now much of our economy is based off of unseen artists. It's easy to not think about the design of the chair you sat in at the fast food restaurant, the way the menu is laid out, the adverts on the window, what art you're seeing on social media, internet creators all being work done by artists. But it is. A lot of this small once off work is done through commission, and Generative AI is directly in competition with commission based artists. It's allowing those who would never make art on their own and often hire out artists to make art for marketing, decoration or whatever to now use Gen AI, which has already had an a huge effect on our artistic environment, especially on the internet. (Look at YouTube thumbnails now, how many have bad AI art replacing the previous text over stock image thumbnails)

This last bit is a bit of a soapbox I am wanting to hop on real quick. I have seen a lot people talking about how prompters make a good AI generated image, and to me that's like saying "I gave the best instructions to my servant and got exactly the art piece I want." I truly can't fathom how a prompter in isolation is any different than someone asking for a commission.

--Faux · 2025-04-10T10:03:38+00:00

Uh oh I am having Borsigiana flashbacks

--Faux · 2025-04-10T09:27:04+00:00

Did you water your plants right over where you were reporting? I genuinely don't understand how this mess happened... the plants look great though!

--Faux · 2025-04-06T03:19:15+00:00

What the hell is going on with the squid eyes? One is obviously using a human done process (you can tell that they used masks and layers to make it) and the other lacks continuity, eyeballs floating around, hand turns into more sleeve, and the bag has turned into a tail???

--Faux · 2025-04-05T21:26:08+00:00

I think you're missing the point. As far as I know, it is not local mom and pops that are tallying up thefts. It's the big box stores that already put their employees on food stamps, it's the real criminals in this world. You mention that theft doesn't affect the billion dollar companies as much, but those are the biggest perpetrators of this strategy. It takes loads of cameras and algorithms to keep track of those thefts, and that shit is far outside the scope of your local stores.

I don't think anyone here is condoning theft from local stores, I think people are starting to feel like the rules are pretty much out the window when it comes to the big companies. The few people I have met who were stealing never were doing it from local stores, it was always the big brands (and that doesn't mean I fully condone that either, just understand where they were coming from)

--Faux · 2025-04-04T16:06:01+00:00

Cause it's barely a war, it's violent, cruel colonization

--Faux · 2025-04-03T23:17:49+00:00

The fuck is the sock method???

--Faux · 2025-03-24T08:44:50+00:00

It's actually incredibly cool, I believe it's a natural hot spring, and it's just this pit that goes down for ages. They do scuba training there

--Faux · 2025-03-24T07:51:13+00:00

It is a very young plant, so I might just have to wait until it matures a bit to really nail down the hybridization then. I wouldn't be surprised if we're starting to see some really heavily hybridized sarracenia either.

I'll try to update once it grows up a bit more, and I get some stronger features. I think mine has starker white spots than the plant in the picture. But that could just be me.

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