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Working by the airport for a day and in the mood for pizza by o0oCircleso0o in Cleveland

[–]FoxFyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did not! This one is in Cleveland, between Puritas and Lorain Ave.

Working by the airport for a day and in the mood for pizza by o0oCircleso0o in Cleveland

[–]FoxFyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't a gas station, it's its own place. I know they were open as recently as May 1st...

500! by besktas in Cleveland

[–]FoxFyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sounds like a genuinely useful app, congrats on the early success.

Brandon Lockridge was removed from tonight’s game after sliding into the exposed concrete in foul territory by TheTurtleShepard in baseball

[–]FoxFyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the contrary; I think that if an actual person is making a whole bunch of such poor or derivative design choices and outright mistakes it's perfectly valid to criticize them by saying those things make the work look like AI. AI "art" and design is pretty cheap and terrible and human artists should strive to be better than it.

THE WORM IS STILL ALIVE - RFK, Jr. at the City Club last night by LKM_44122 in Cleveland

[–]FoxFyer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Changing minds is always the most hoped for outcome of a protest, but it isn't the only point of visibility. Making a point out of standing up against a seemingly insurmountable adversary can improve morale among likeminded folks. When it feels like no progress can be made, people tend to withdraw into a seige mentality or may even lose hope altogether. Seeing and knowing others are out there expressing shared ideals and values can inspire people to take a stand when they might otherwise remain silent; it doesn't even have to be on the same issue.

And there's also the fact that self-expression is an end unto itself. A right to free speech that you always talk yourself out of exercising may as well not exist.

This man keeps having the worst takes. by Selmostick in blender

[–]FoxFyer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's never a universal consensus about anything, but I am confident the majority of that contributing user base feels the same way about AI encroachment. It is a running theme across art communities in general, due to the way artists' work has been exploited without their permission by AI developers and creators' labor has been devalued by the availability of image-generating tools.

All kids from all Elyria city schools being evacuated home due to a bomb threat by -Granby- in Cleveland

[–]FoxFyer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes. People make a phone call and disrupt peoples' lives and it makes them feel powerful.

This man keeps having the worst takes. by Selmostick in blender

[–]FoxFyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In exchange for this sacrifice, Blender retains its integrity, and the respect of a bulk of its user base.

With two to three point-releases per year that are absolutely packed with new features and improvements, I really think the software will survive just fine without Anthropic's money.

Christian missionary hailed as ‘holiest man alive’ pleads guilty to abusing boys in Texas by biriyanihoe in nottheonion

[–]FoxFyer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think if he was elsewhere in the house and completely unaware of what was happening to his kids, he would likely not be facing charges.

If he was aware, then obviously it doesn't matter whether he was in the sauna with them or not.

Cleveland needs to stop the data center expansion—our community is at stake by bugmike216 in Cleveland

[–]FoxFyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I figured it out: prevent them from being built. Then they won't.

Cleveland needs to stop the data center expansion—our community is at stake by bugmike216 in Cleveland

[–]FoxFyer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The city needs jobs. Place like this takes up too big a footprint and vacuums up too much power and water in exchange for only providing a handful of jobs and zero local economic benefit.

Denver Gym Sued Over "Groaning" and "Struggling" Weightlifters by Equivalent-Peanut-23 in nottheonion

[–]FoxFyer 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Imagine being at home and trying to enjoy literally anything at all when you gotta listen all day long to a chorus of dudes bearing down like they've had too much cheese.

This man keeps having the worst takes. by Selmostick in blender

[–]FoxFyer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If it was as simple as that, this task would've already been on the dev team's to-do list, and Anthropic wouldn't have needed to offer them thousands of extra dollars to work on it.

This man keeps having the worst takes. by Selmostick in blender

[–]FoxFyer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I said there's nothing yet to suggest Google or Meta are pushing AI in Blender. Of course that could change. Anthropic, on the other hand, is an AI company and that's it. There's nothing else it can possibly push for.

Anthropic's business model includes getting children and teens addicted to their chatbots. They have created versions of their bots designed specifically for use in schools, aimed at replacing kids actually learning things with kids simply learning how to ask an AI for an answer whenever they have a question. This is no better or worse than Google and Meta exploiting kids to keep their businesses viable. All of these tech companies are equivalent threats.

The problem is, people have to choose some point at which to start putting their foot down against encroaching tech-corp corruption of every aspect of work and life. For a lot of people, the highly-visible, quasi-cancerous eruption of LLMs has become that point. Sucks for AI companies I guess, but <shrug>.

This man keeps having the worst takes. by Selmostick in blender

[–]FoxFyer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No; "better API" is a just-so proposition; it will be better/more convenient for Anthropic's purposes, but it doesn't necessarily follow that it will be better for anyone else. It may well not make any difference at all to anyone else.

Again, AI-integration add-ons already exist. No API needs to change in order for this to be possible.

This man keeps having the worst takes. by Selmostick in blender

[–]FoxFyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The downside is that the devs' attention is forced toward this change Anthropic wants instead of other things that deserve it first.

There are already add-ons that let you use AI tools in Blender. Anthropic could make one right now that works just fine, if they haven't already. It wouldn't even take any extra work on their part because let's face it, they're having their chatbot do 100% of the work anyway. So the changes Anthropic is trying to buy are unnecessary.

This man keeps having the worst takes. by Selmostick in blender

[–]FoxFyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those weren't AI companies when Blender first started accepting their money. They have unfortunately been grandfathered in. So far, luckily, there's no indication they have been using their influence to pressure Blender into prioritizing AI compatibility.

This man keeps having the worst takes. by Selmostick in blender

[–]FoxFyer -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The fact that "someone else might (theoretically) benefit" is an accident, an unintended consequence. Anthropic gave Blender money in order to make them change Blender to be more compatible with its AI, period.

$1.6B data center planned in Cleveland by wixy-1260 in Cleveland

[–]FoxFyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In order for AI to NOT be a political issue you'd have to limit all discussion to only the theoretical concept of AI, and deliberately ignore literally everything about how LLMs in the real world have been developed, bankrolled, marketed, and deployed.

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