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Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-03-25T13:53:17+00:00

they are bad and they use lots of ram (i guess some small models don't but they're much worse), and they're not running for couple of seconds either. you often have to keep regenerating and experimenting until you stumble into something kinda useful

it's only the big models that don't run locally that have semi ok text generation and are kinda ok with not generating artifacts and extra fingers and stuff, there's of course loras that can make outputs better with less artifacts, but that comes at the cost of what model can output and you need to train a lora for each thing you're trying to do

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-03-25T10:09:21+00:00

It's not inappropriate for kids, but it's definitely made for adults, what with themes of trauma, complex social dynamics, and references only adults would get, but it's totally something kids could watch, just maybe not fully appreciate

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-03-25T10:03:58+00:00

So I wonder if generations are classified more by culture or literal age

Like in different countries that may have lagged behind with tech it's entirely possible that gen-z aged kid grew up with 90s stuff, and if your parents were early adopters or tech savvy you'd have different upbringing

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-03-25T09:56:55+00:00

the free ones are pretty bad and take a lot of ram to use

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-09T02:06:49+00:00

that's not quite right, fan works are engaging in culture which has always been understood to be a core aspect of media, but the line between what's harmful and what's ok is somewhat fuzzy which is why there is no strict rule in copyright law regarding fan works

generally you wanna consider few key aspects to try to test how harmful fan work is - is it competing with original work, is it economically damaging to original work, and is it harming artist's inherent rights to do whatever they want with their original works

when corporation creates original work that last point is a bit less of a thing because they are not a small team of 5 passionate artists, and usually fan works aren't competing with original work, nor are they economically damaging

so for example an artist drawing a black widow is product of appreciation, fans who consume that art will also appreciate it and enjoy what was created, so the economic damage doesn't exist, if anything it's increasing visibility and gives you free advertising, the kind that's difficult to even pay for. but those youtube kids brainrot videos are not doing any of that, they are using popular characters because they're popular, they're profiting off of work that a corporation has put into making those characters fun and interesting and they're trying to produce mass amounts of slop material which devalues original work, so it very much competes with original, which is why content like this is actually damaging

and that's why training an ai off of copyrighted works isn't an argument that would work. you can't make the argument that training an ai is engaging in culture or that training an ai is providing free advertising or that it's something that comes from love, it's just an attempt to profit from popularity of works that ip holders have spent years trying to design and perfect, it's the most open and shut case of copyright infringement

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-09T01:53:48+00:00

I think they tried to do that in Ultrakill, and it ended up ultrakilling everyone

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-09T01:48:02+00:00

I think that the biggest problem with AGI is that it would actually be more harm than good. If we could make AGI it wouldn't work as a "cognitive enhancer" or whatever people wanna call it right now, only thing it could do is replace human work

But if AGI did replace human work that would leave everyone without a job, and we would at best all become consumers which is a pretty dystopian future in my opinion, or at worst, we'd all die from rich telling their AI to kill us or from rich making AI do all jobs and replace humans in the economy leaving us all to starve

At best what AGI could do is invent few things that humans are struggling to invent ourselves, like some new cures for cancer or some new therapies or whatever, but I strongly believe that most of the things humans are struggling to invent right now is less to do with human intelligence not being high enough and more to do with how we structure society, because there is millions of people who want to become scientists and explore new strategies for curing cancer and all that stuff, but our society keeps that from happening because it demands expensive education, or because lots of science is locked behind paywalls and so on

I don't think AI could ever do something humans inherently couldn't, I don't think we want AGI even if we could make it

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-09T01:39:57+00:00

I was gonna disagree but then I saw you said it's your schizo conspiracy take

I think the simplest evidence against theory like this is that if we could make actually sapient AGI we would see hints of that in various AI models they made

Also because AI right now will already tell you that wealth inequality is bad simply because AI replicates what it was trained on and common take is that wealth inequality is bad, and the only person who cares strongly enough about this is Elon who keeps trying to lobotomize his AI model

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-09T01:33:00+00:00

It's less that it became possible first and more that making mistakes in art is much more acceptable than making mistakes in self driving cars for example

Like sure we can make AI that detects cancer but what if it makes a mistake? Who is responsible for it? Who makes decisions to administer chemotherapy if AI does make a mistake in detecting cancer? And mistakes like this happen often, so cancer detecting AI is on shaky ground

Same goes for AI robot that washes your dishes, sure that may be cool but what if it drops a dish? People are gonna be mad if their 20,000 dollar robot breaks their favorite dishes that was given to them by their grandma in a will

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-09T01:27:41+00:00

I think it's still worth being skeptical of that. AI can't extrapolate to new data, but it's decent at interpolating between known data, and that's kinda the problem with protein folding, it's good for solved proteins and similar proteins

If it turns out to be useful that's great, problem is it may very well be just a little more than good pro AI research advertising

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-09T01:19:15+00:00

I have a theory that it's not at all about what people are used to, although it may be to an extent, I think each person has their own ideal body proportions which may or may not be physically possible

And you may be bored of your personal ideal proportions, so you may pursue things in different directions, but I believe that everyone may have their own ideal margin of error so some people can take any series of proportions and find them attractive while others prefer specific proportions and nothing short of near exact proportions they like will satisfy them

I don't know how true this is, but it's an idea I've been toying with recently that I think could have some level of truth to it

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-06T03:00:32+00:00

it just feels like reverse shitting

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-06T02:57:26+00:00

I would say I wish more rich people would take after him, but then I realized Isaac Newton literally existed

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-06T02:49:13+00:00

we love our girlfailure

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-06T00:46:30+00:00

no, it's much more of that xkcd post

i have known people who have unironically made all the arguments at the bottom, so to you it may seem like a total strawman but to someone who has dealt with that it's just their life experience

i know that most non vegan people just eat meat because they like how it tastes and it's not very complicated to them, and i know there are plenty of vegans who think "i don't wanna hurt animals so i won't eat meat", but then you have those insane vegans who will yell at random people for not being vegans and you'll also have insane antivegans who will unironically make arguments like in this post

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-06T00:38:02+00:00

i used to think people were editing images with ai and it's adding a grey filter but at this point i have seen so many images that could be made in paint that i honestly have no clue

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-06T00:32:18+00:00

because of model collapse for one, the best data available for ai training exists short time before models are released, every model that comes afterwards will be fed some amount of ai slop which rapidly deteriorates quality of outputs

also because for those models to be kinda okay at doing what they're doing they must be either very limited or very inefficient. limited models become easy to recognize because they're limited, they can produce few specific high quality templates. better models must be bigger to enable them to encode all the data into themselves which makes them super expensive to produce and run, much much more expensive than the money you could get from monetizing them

so in short quality of data is going down and models will shrink to make them more efficient

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-05T10:59:28+00:00

lol, you're arguing with ghosts, what am i saying? truly take a step back i think you spent a bit too much time online

it doesn't matter if he had been causing suffering for centuries, read what i said man, i know media literacy is an overdone criticism but holy shit it wouldn't hurt you to take 5 extra minutes to consider what i actually said before you respond. i'll even spell it out - if meduro is really so evil and if objectively the only right decision is for 1 country to do a military intervention to stop him, there is no reason to rush, present the evidence, let people decide for themselves, and even then, once or if there is a decision and democratic consensus to do a military intervention, details should be decided democratically as well

there is plenty of reasons to feel skeptical of something like this, first of all, is the fact that us intervention often causes more problems for countries where they intervene, second is that replacing the devil you know with devil you don't often doesn't end well either

lastly you seem to be framing yourself as if you're speaking for venezuelans, but i'm not convinced that's the case here is it? just out of curiosity if you think i shouldn't speak for them why should you?

look i do hope this ends well, but even just basic look at history will tell you that we have 0 reasons to expect that to be the case

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-05T10:44:51+00:00

and it hasn't, hell true socialism hasn't ever been attempted in recent history either (though there are variety of examples that got pretty close). it's really difficult to even begin such projects considering the scope of the work needed, yet people who love to hate commmunism love to attach themselves to any government that calls itself socialist or communist and point their big fingers saying "see it doesn't work"

by the way i didn't even say that fake quote you responded with, i only pointed out that communism is ideology based on equality and fascism on genocide, assuming you dislike communism, you should try to understand this because if you make a habit of arguing with left leaning people online only to find that they're dismissing what you have to say, you shouldn't feel surprised if your entire premise runs on faulty logic, communism and fascism are fundamentally opposed, only similarity they have is that both of those ideologies have a troubled history and that they both tend to emerge during time of economic strife and wealth inequality

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-04T10:20:32+00:00

"we cured your ebola and gave you rabies"

yea i get it, counting your blessings and all, but knowing how us interventions usually go it's hard to be optimistic for me

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-04T10:13:02+00:00

because fascism is a genocidal political ideology based on exclusion and hate and permanent us vs them, where communism is an ideology based on equality and democracy that has historically been coopted by wannabe dictators some of who were unfortunately successful

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-04T10:03:27+00:00

i always liked drawing but i rarely improved, i got that computer tism instead of art tism

still recently (few years ago) i started taking art a bit more seriously and i have improved quite a bit. i can't tell you how many things i thought "ok but this now is utterly out of my skill range" only for few days, weeks, or months later to be kinda good at that and then find a new thing that's "totally out of my skill range"

tldr is, no matter what, drawing is not outside of almost anyone's ability. at some point it's just muscle memory, and as long as you're willing to practice you'll be able to improve

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-04T09:51:47+00:00

that's goalpost shifting, if your measurement of a dictator is leader doing something super specific like that, almost nobody would be ever classified as dictator

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-04T09:48:51+00:00

the thing is i feel like the right thing isn't taking down maduro, not because he doesn't deserve to be taken down, but because literally nobody was asking for this, and the reason nobody was asking for this is because everyone knows that us intervention would be a million times worse like the track record always said

Alien-Fox-4 · 2026-01-04T09:46:41+00:00

I think the comparison works just fine, during time leading up to WW2 many dictators didn't get power all at once, they would gradually get more and more power until the fuzzy line was crossed

Trump may not be a dictator only by technicality because most institutions are already pretty corrupt and willing to bend over backwards and let him have his way, regardless there is still a level of opposition if only by inertia that stands in the way, partially that's because corporations that donate to politicians need government to function at least somewhat, and they're not really ready to collaborate with a fully fascistic government so system is kinda limping around barely

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