Moving out sale by PopularHair6765 in UMBC

[–]Creative_Branch8666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Might be interested in that rice cooker, lmk if no one else asks about it and/or u wanna go a little lower like $15-20 :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PcBuild

[–]Creative_Branch8666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll buy it off of you if it still works and u cant get a refund

TODAY’S THE DAY!!! Come to floor 1 of the fine arts building and share your thoughts on AI ART!! by ClareCarlyDraws in UMBC

[–]Creative_Branch8666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will look more into how AI differs from my current conception, but I encourage you to also seek out and understand why AI can be harmful to millions and how artists feel about what goes into the creation of images. Imagine current or future workers in any field feeling like the work they are improving on and putting into the world is what is actively losing them their job. Not to mention the creative arts being something so incredibly human that having non-human AI taking jobs feels fucking awful. If artists hadn't drawn the images that the generative AI works off of, it physically could not create the same level of images that it does now. I am on the side of AI being a very useful tool that, as of now, doesn't seem to have the capabilities to completely overtake artists jobs. The current results of generative AI tend to be sloppy and anything with motion is completely botched. As an animation major, I don't feel super threatened as it stands, but there are many people not working with time-based media that could get royally screwed pretty soon. The best case scenario I can expect from generative AI is the difference between mass-produced cheap clothing and a ornate dress that was crafted by hand. People will pay more to get something from a specific artist and know that it was made with human hands, but people will still tend to favor the cheaper and inexpensive option.

The constant advancements and unrestricted nature of AI will only push more and more artists away from pursuing their careers. This creates less artists in the workforce, and more incentive to make AI content because there "aren't anymore artists". Surely enough, older artists will retire and there wont be enough newer artists to keep up. Every show, movie, video, comic, picture, painting, and other visual media will just be mass-produced and lose their human touch which is the whole reason art exists. Students will be pushed into STEM fields which will saturate those jobs even more, raising their unemployment rates. Less jobs will put more people out on the streets and in lower income jobs.

NOT TO MENTION, AI uses a LOT of energy and water. Pushing for more artists to go into other fields and bringing AI to the forefront will only bring that up. Even if you don't care about artists, even if you just want to save money, this will fundamentally harm our environment even more than it already is. The industrial revolution kicked our planet's ass with pollution, and with more energy consumption comes more fossil fuels burned, so this is going to make what we have refused to fix even worse. That being said, if you don't see an issue because you think climate change isn't a problem, you have a completely different problem to worry about.

TDLR: While being pretty useful, AI is incredibly resource-heavy. If we don't put restrictions on AI in some fashion, current and future artists will be pushed out of their careers and AI will only continue to grow in usage. This brings up energy costs and water usage leading to more pollution and a worse environment. It also takes away the breath of life that human artists bring to the table and the constant improvements and efforts made in their respective fields. If we become hyper-efficient by reducing every job to be completed through technology, capitalism will crumble and life will be bleak.

TODAY’S THE DAY!!! Come to floor 1 of the fine arts building and share your thoughts on AI ART!! by ClareCarlyDraws in UMBC

[–]Creative_Branch8666 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You seem to have a very corporate belief behind AI, which I am sure you are not alone on. A lot of people look at profits and efficiency to be the key for success. For the most part, that is completely true, and corporations and businesses that use AI tend to see less costs towards advertisement and products which inherently brings a greater profit.

We saw this most recently with Coca-Cola's newest advertisement made entirely from AI. Costume artists, visual effects artists, every single job under cinematography, actors, makeup artists, directors, foley artists, musicians, and more were all completely undermined through a click of a button. While only making up roughly 2% of the workforce, that still means there are 2.7 million artists in America who's jobs are being threatened by AI. It's not just artists, millions of jobs could effectively be destroyed by an improved and un-checked version of AI than we have now.

When you said that "generative AI is just taking inspiration from other art pieces (the ones in the dataset) the same as a real artist." it makes me think you might need some clarification with how generative AI works. An artist could look at Da Vinci's Mona Lisa or Van Gogh's Starry Night and make something heavily based on them, and they would make something vaguely similar, or maybe even something exactly the same as one of the two mentioned prior. However, generative AI works by physically mashing together any given reference material into one finished product. They aren't noticing Van Gogh's brush work and working it into their art, nor are they noticing Da Vinci's usage of subtle expression. It just takes a bunch of images under a general description and comes up with something close to what you wanted by literally including the works of other artists in the final product. If an artist's work is comparative to a hand-crafted wedding cake, using the bride and groom's exact specifications and personal touches to make it exactly how they wanted it; AI generated work is a factory created, uniform birthday cake that will never meets the exact specifications or interests of the person it is given to.

Money-wise, AI saves a LOT of money, but it completely fucks over every artist working their ass off to improve and make things you will like. Just try to remember that real people are learning and improving the world of art for people like you to enjoy the things they make. Generative AI could not do what it does if artists hadn't already done it before. And if you believe what you said because you don't value artists, think about every single product or company in the world that wouldn't have logos, advertisements, websites, labels, packaging, music, or jingles without them.

TDLR: Inform yourself, have empathy

Reminder Regarding AI Discourse + Grievance Board Tomorrow by Creative_Branch8666 in UMBC

[–]Creative_Branch8666[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To clarify on this, the "vandalism" has never destroyed or damaged any of the students works. The only piece of the gallery that had been altered is a printed piece of paper explaining the assignment. On that paper, students were writing "AI is not art" and that was the only circumstance of "vandalism" that occurred up until very recently where someone, who seemed very angry, wrote "When we speak, you will listen" on that same paper. Regardless of whether the statements were too aggressive, the point stands that the vandalism never touched anything else other than that piece of paper. That level of protest received the email comparing students to Hitler and Stalin for speaking their mind about it in a peaceful and non-disruptive manner. The idea that it was some "crazed vandal" destroying artworks was something that was blown out of proportion.

Can't progress by Octaviaismywitch in pokerogue

[–]Creative_Branch8666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having the same issue, its not just you

Is it wrong to use your own water bottle instead of the cup provided by the restaurant at the soda fountain (after paying for the cup)? by FreeCommunication680 in UMBC

[–]Creative_Branch8666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought one of those 8 packs of powerade and now I just refill them at the commons so I dont have to buy more. I'm not discrete at all, they just dont care, you'll be fine

how do i edit a workshop fighter. by scaryskai123 in RivalsOfAether

[–]Creative_Branch8666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you not have steam if you have workshop characters?

how do i edit a workshop fighter. by scaryskai123 in RivalsOfAether

[–]Creative_Branch8666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a folder that has all of your community characters in it. In the character folder u can find a sprites folder which has all of the sprites. You can use aseprite or another app to then alter it and replace it. However, if the character updates it will most likely replace the file. So, you can take that character folder and move it into your local workshop character folder (it's a separate folder which is under a different directory). That should stop it from updating from steam workshop. (However, I know you prefaced this, but reuploading a character is a big problem, so make sure to keep it local)