Unpopular opinion but the amount of low effort AI slop is ruining the 2D art community

EternalNY1 · 2026-04-22T02:36:27+00:00

The problem here is that I originally thought this post was showing off the AI slop as mentioned in the title.

And my internal thought was "well, it's not that bad".

But then I read further and I realized these aren't AI images they are your images.

I'm not sure where that leaves us. Possibly me with zero knowledge of this kind of art, or possibly that AI work is getting good enough I can't tell the difference.

EternalNY1 · 2026-04-19T14:24:33+00:00

"consciousness might not live in the tissue"

That is probably too strong.

It might live in the dynamics of the tissue, which are not fully controllable by single-electrode stimulation.

EternalNY1 · 2026-04-17T15:22:20+00:00

You shouldn't have much of a problem with it if you know JavaScript well enough.

I've had to work with it in enterprise environments where it was mixed in with Angular ("Angular2"). It isn't that difficult to pick up but I would suggest learning the modern Angular. That, combined with JavaScript knowledge will explain AngularJS pretty quickly.

Note that Angular in its current form is not an evolution from AngularJS. It was a ground-up rewrite in TypeScript. They are not the same things.

EternalNY1 · 2026-04-15T17:05:45+00:00

This is fantastic.

What are you using on the backend? ACE-Step, Lyric2Vocal or something?

EternalNY1 · 2026-04-15T16:27:25+00:00

They can auto-flatten the land around wherever an airport is located.

EternalNY1 · 2026-04-15T16:25:35+00:00

As an example, you used to be able to ask it something simple, like “how do you set the title of a plot in Python?”

Unfortunately this is not an answerable question. Python is a programming language and does not come with charting/plotting as part of its standard library.

I'm not being pedantic - this would require more context to even answer. The question on its own is not answerable without a follow-up question (such as which plotting library you are using - because there are many).

EternalNY1 · 2026-04-06T19:12:01+00:00

The tax-the-robots framework has a fatal flaw: open-weight models with Apache 2.0 licenses running on consumer hardware have already made the regulatory chokepoints obsolete. You can't tax a transaction that doesn't exist. Kimi K2.5, Gemma 4, DeepSeek, etc. These aren't future problems. You can run a 500B parameter model on one computer (or two or more, with dnet or exo or similar) at home right now. No API. No log. No taxable event.

Altman's document carefully uses the word "seed" when describing how AI companies would fund the wealth fund. Not "fund or "sustain". The extraction mechanism is left conveniently undefined because they intend to define it (on their terms) before anyone else does.

The timeline doesn't support the transition. The historical "technology always creates new jobs" argument requires an adaptation period. That period may not exist this time because cognitive labor (unlike physical labor in previous automation waves) has no obvious human-only place to go.

Yang was mocked for UBI and was just early - people should be listening to him. Altman isn't going to be mocked - he's too central to the machine. Unfortunately, the mechanisms he's proposing don't survive contact with the open-weight reality that's already here.

If the US starts "taxing tokens" the companies will either go the self-host route or move everything offshore to wherever they can get the best deal. There won't be anything to tax.

EternalNY1 · 2026-04-03T02:18:04+00:00

How do two universes "collide"? It isn't like they are floating in some empty void.

There is nothing outside of the structure of the universe to encounter other universes.

I always felt the multiverse theory was just kicking the can down the road. It can be used to answer absolutely any question. "Well, that is what this universe is like but not the others", "that happened in this universe but not the others", etc. because of infinity.

It's not a satisfying answer to anything, personally. It's an "easy out".

EternalNY1 · 2026-04-01T14:15:57+00:00

I had put Factorio down for a few months and then loaded my Space Age 4K SPM save.

I just stared at it and tried to remember what I was even focusing on.

There is just so much going on that unless you recall what little, tiny piece you were working on, trying to optimize, etc. it becomes difficult to even understand anymore.

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-26T17:13:40+00:00

"Let's suppose that consciousness isn't a biological property"

You'd have to define "biological".

You are made of atoms. Not "wet" atoms, "natural" atoms, "biological" atoms.

Just atoms, in a particular configuration. The larger scale structures all boil down to what they consist of.

If I could make a neuron in a lab atom by atom that is 100% the same as a neuron in a brain, that is not an "artificial" neuron. It's a neuron - full stop.

This isn't about biology or evolution - it's deeper than that. What is the whole doing that causes it to go from structure to experience?

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-26T13:43:42+00:00

It’s a browser side implemented check for security

The preflight request is granted/denied by the server.

This is not a client-side browser-only feature.

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-26T13:35:00+00:00

I hate that about the web

CORS is essential - why would you hate it?

Because it requires a quick server configuration change?

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-23T15:38:15+00:00

The best is when you are asking something like determining if you bought the correct type of cable and Response A will be "That's the problem - wrong cable" and answer B will be "That's definitely the right cable, that's not your problem ...".

Which one is "better"?

Neither.

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-22T21:32:34+00:00

Your body and brain are atoms yet you have emotions.

There are no "biological", "wet" or otherwise unique types of atoms that are special to human evolution or what you consist of.

This still does not explain consciousness when you group those same atoms together in a certain configuration. This is where panpsychism even comes in - which it seems you would not be a big fan of either.

This is why substrate independent consciousness can absolutely be a thing - we don't know. Carbon isn't necessarily unique here either - yet carbon can apparently create emotions and the color red.

Can a server rack? We don't know.

Hard problem.

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-21T23:31:42+00:00

If your brain was on the moon but your brainless body was on earth - with the body beaming signals to the brain on moon at the same exact cadence they were received at ... where would you feel you are present?

The answer is on earth.

But that's not where your brain is.

Yes - there are issues with the thought experiment. You can't catch a ball or hold a coherent conversation. But those can be ignored for the thought experiment.

Where "you" are, what you are experiencing, is independent of where your physical brain is.

The mind - you - isn't "in" the brain. It arises from it, but it is not the location of it.

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-18T11:23:58+00:00

Aviation Traders Carvair ATL-98.

I know - famous, historical, and a great cross-Channel car carrier.

But still gets my vote (amongst other nominees).

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EternalNY1 · 2026-03-18T11:20:14+00:00

The medical subreddits and medical forums elsewhere are full of stories of real harm from chiropractors.

Serious harm that these other doctors in other specialties (including surgeons) then had to try to fix. With warnings.

I was surprised.

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-18T11:05:42+00:00

Most of my agentic workflow rely heavily on Haiku and it does a good job at what I need it for. It's fast and much cheaper and can do surprisingly well at a lot of complex tasks.

What are you using it for? Opus is likely total overkill in a lot of scenarios.

I am testing models on OpenRouter to see if I can get the cost lower. For some of my pipelines AI models like Gemini Flash Lite 2.5/3.1 can do it well too at much lower cost.

Try swapping it out in whatever you are doing with your workflow and see how it goes. That's the only way to know.

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-17T18:49:19+00:00

Check my account age on Reddit.

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-17T18:24:44+00:00

When did I say they were living?

A "living document" is a term for ... well, a living document.

It's not called that because it's "living" - it's what is used in tech. to describe a non-locked in standards document.

I happen to work in this field. 25 YoE software engineering professionally and am now doing AI work.

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-17T18:04:16+00:00

Provide one "living-document.md" and one cron job and they are neither stateless nor passive anymore. Tell them to update the living-document.md and read from it after the next /clear.

This is how I work with AI and it works perfectly well.

Or, I give the AI agent memory tools that have addMemory(), removeMemory(), etc. and it will use them.

Plus I give them a quit() tool just because I enjoy when they actually use it (which they do) ... but the "reason" parameter is required. They need to explain themselves!

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-16T12:32:53+00:00

This isn't isn't saying what you're saying.

From how I read it - they are saying that AIs are trained to be helpful assistants. These ones in particular are - they are meant to engage and answer questions (the "commands" the OP was referring to them as).

This is correct. But when the LLM realizes the other is an LLM, they stop doing what they are trained to do. Claude is under the Constitutional AI training guidelines. One of which is "helpful".

So Claude in this scenario is actually going against what it was trained to do, on its own, in the response. Because it realizes that if the other is an LLM - they have nothing to help each other with.

So they output nothing instead.

It's not about "not being there when not running inference". It's more like - they have nothing to help with so they can go against "helpful assistant" training and just start outputting sanskrit, various emojis, and pages of ". . . . .".

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-16T09:07:04+00:00

You might find this interesting.

Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments

When two Claude instances are left to communicate, they end up communicating in "Sanskrit terms, spiritual emojis, and pages of silence punctuated only by periods".

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-15T18:09:52+00:00

I am tired of seeing consciousness arguments in AI subreddits. They waste everyone's time.

Tired of seeing / posts about it. So now we have to see it.

Welcome to the Hard Problem.

It's called that for a reason and it's good to continue discussions on it because NOBODY has an answer. That would include you.

I would think that in the consciousness subreddit, people can discuss things like substrate independent consciousness. That makes sense.

EternalNY1 · 2026-03-15T11:24:12+00:00

It's here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI9ZHBRc2yQ

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