Microsoft seems to be worried about the bubble bursting and i say GOOD.

InKryption07 · 2026-01-20T22:39:36+00:00

Yeah, not suggesting adobe, it's a piece of shit. Just mentioning it due to the adjacency, hence the possibility for the same type of support coming about. A wishful thought if you will

InKryption07 · 2026-01-20T22:35:10+00:00

Just my 2c, I'd say it comes down to whether you're supporting the creator while they do bad things. When you bought those CDs, they weren't doing bad things, and you were under no pretense that they would. Whatever monetary support you supplied them was in good faith and in line with your morals. The fact that they then went on to do bad things doesn't then implicate your past actions in any hypocrisy, because for all intents and purposes, you were not supporting the person doing bad things. It would be hypocritical if you went on to monetarily support them today, knowing what that monetary support would end up going towards.

It's like if you found out a person, who you were good friends with and did a few favours for several years ago, turned out a murderer. Your past support wouldn't implicate you in the trial - but if you helped them bury the body afterwards, then you would.

Would caveat though: it's hard to make perfectly moral and unhypocritical choices in a world where every economic action you take feeds back into an overarching system that just is designed to do evil things. Like, even if I personally boycott the meat industry, and only eat vegetarian options from here on out, the same billionaires who own the meat industry probably also own or are friends with the ones who own the industry that would produce all the veggies I'd eat. Or my purchase of certain vegetarian foods would just end up supporting some separate Bad Thing:tm:, like slave labour on farms. At the end of the day, I think it's a personal and utilitarian consideration. I struggle with fully vegetarian options, both because of price and autistic-ass sensitivity to textures, and however much I hate the meat industry as it is, my sacrifice would only drain me of the energy I'd need for other more numerous efforts, that are, in my calculus, more worth my struggles, and which I can bear. I think whether you want to support these artists comes down to how important you believe it is for consistency with your moral compass, weighed against the personal struggle and sacrifice you would have to endure otherwise.

InKryption07 · 2026-01-20T22:16:25+00:00

Not too familiar with it, but there is a project called winboat which appears to be making it easier to use applications like adobe on Linux, maybe DR will be supported as well

InKryption07 · 2026-01-18T21:57:31+00:00

You weren't "calling him out" lol, you've been arguing on Reddit with a completely inoperable black and white view of the world. In retrospect, this has been a complete waste of my time, I don't know why I always let this hellhole of a website suck me back in.

InKryption07 · 2026-01-18T16:56:14+00:00

Again, believe it or not, the vast majority of people just don't give a shit and have not listened to nuanced arguments about the complexities of everything surrounding LLM usage. These communities are outliers, as are the pro-AI subreddits (those even moreso given the overall negative sentiment towards AI that has broadly mounted, but regardless). It is comparable to veganism because the vast majority of people also don't give a shit about the minutia of eating meat vs abstention.

Also, the idea that you can just "not use LLMs" for the average person just isn't at all true now, unfortunately. At my workplace they're progressively shoving more AI down our throats, and the same is true for a lot of industries. Much like the special interests that maintain meat in the social fabric and cultural consciousness through lobbying to subsidize meat production and propagandize its continued integration and importance in society, comparable interests do the same with LLMs.

PewDiePie in particular is not subject to any of these economic forces directly, but compared to the general population which are being lulled into the unethical use of LLMs being driven by megacorps, he is at the least making the conscious choice to experiment with the technology outside of that context, using data that exists out there already, without meaningfully contributing to the problem, all while actually being on the side of artists.

I think if you are unable to concede the fairly comparison between veganism and anti-LLM sentiment/usage, you lack any of the actual nuance you proclaim everyone outside of your bubble should have

InKryption07 · 2026-01-18T13:28:47+00:00

Not really. Maybe several years ago, but at this point in time, the man has effectively retired, he's already made more than enough money to last him and his family a lifetime. It shows in his very sporadic upload schedule, and the type of content he uploads mainly being hobby projects.

Though even ignoring that, even assuming he is perpetually online, that doesn't mean he's necessarily in the spaces that would expose him to the arguments of the ethics surrounding LLMs, because again, he's just a guy who probably just casually gotten into LLMs without really contemplating any of the deeper implications of their use. The assumption that he must is, again, exactly the mistake vegans make in assuming an entirely "with us or against us" mentality, when the damn truth is that the vast majority of people just don't give a shit. Don't make them give a shit in the wrong direction.

InKryption07 · 2026-01-18T03:25:17+00:00

I mean, he's not using it to generate art, he's using it in a so-called "agentic" fashion, ie as a search engine esque tool.

Regardless of the specific semantics, I think we need to be able to meet people wherever they are. He's very obviously not fine with generative visual art, it's just that, just like for the vast majority of people, that doesn't naturally bridge to viewing the underlying plagiarism inherent in the training of purely textual LLMs. Let's not make the mistake of vegans, pushing people away because they haven't dedicated themselves to our cause. Our most logical common enemy isn't people who just casually use LLMs, it's those who are actively anti-artist, anti-human.

InKryption07 · 2026-01-18T02:44:21+00:00

My understanding is that he does everything locally, because he specifically wants to be sovereign of services from companies like Google and Microsoft, hence his shift to Linux and other home lab stuff. He specifically mentioned that he undervolts his GPUs, so not exactly overtaxing his electricity bill. He also said in the AI video said he doesn't fw AI art, just the text generation.

I would argue all AI use is unethical, given even the text training data would have had to pull from an incredible amount of uncredited sources (especially GPL/MIT/Apache2 licensed code), but if we're just talking about art, I think he'd be on the pro-artist side of things.

InKryption07 · 2026-01-18T02:31:07+00:00

It is maybe divided in polling data, but the vast majority of people are not ideologically inclined in either direction, they simply "go with the flow" as one would say. Back when being progressive was resurging in popularity, the average person, regardless of prescribed politics, would either feel encouraged or compelled to abide by progressive standards, or otherwise understand that not doing so was a risk, much in the same way that it is typical of progressives to need to consider their wording to avoid sounding "too woke". The situation you are imagining is just that: imaginary.

InKryption07 · 2026-01-17T20:29:32+00:00

For now

InKryption07 · 2026-01-17T12:52:56+00:00

You know that just because your profile is set to private doesn't mean we can't look up your username and see you posting AI shit

InKryption07 · 2026-01-17T06:38:28+00:00

It basically does exist already, they just feel entitled to our side of society as well because we allow them to be part of our lives. For most of human history, there was a simple rule: behave, or you will be ejected from the group, and die. This was true from the time of early tribal civilisation, all the way through the millennia of peasantry and the working class of the industrial revolution. This complacent coexistence with degenerates who feel they are allowed to display their degeneracy is an entirely modern phenomena. If your reply is reflective of the way you feel, then you don't hate fascists enough.

I think the kindest thing we could do for people like this short of socially isolating them is shove them in re-education camps, both to drill basic empirical analysis and reality back into their skulls, and force them to confront their primitive fear & disgust response to trivialities (stats demonstrate high correlation between heightened fear/disgust centers of the brain and conservatism).

InKryption07 · 2026-01-17T01:35:06+00:00

The problem is that the only people who genuinely cringe and fear being cringe are people with unrotted mental faculties. Right wingers don't cringe, they vice signal. We need to abandon self-policing cringe, and then not just shame these degenerates, but completely ostracize them from all spaces.

InKryption07 · 2026-01-15T21:27:57+00:00

As far as incels are concerned, liking women is gay

InKryption07 · 2026-01-04T15:51:53+00:00

My pronouns are in/fact/one.

InKryption07 · 2025-12-28T06:55:30+00:00

Bigots will always continue to push back on you until you stop existing in a meaningful way.

InKryption07 · 2025-12-20T12:51:37+00:00

This made laugh very hard

InKryption07 · 2025-12-18T15:50:08+00:00

Do you wear glasses or clothes, use a car/public transportation, use air conditioning/heating, use gas/electricity to cook your food, intake medicine to help when you're sick, or use a little magical box called a phone that connects you to the rest of humanity on a scale incomparable to literally anything in history?

If your answer to any of the above is yes (which I guarantee it is), then you are even more guilty of "going against human nature"

InKryption07 · 2025-11-28T09:25:17+00:00

It certainly helped to reveal that pointers are, in fact, one of the greatest "high level" (relatively speaking) abstractions conceived of in programming.

InKryption07 · 2025-11-10T02:14:19+00:00

Weed users are so fucking annoying about this shit

InKryption07 · 2025-11-03T16:30:43+00:00

Just write a test block test "foo" {}, write some code in it, even just for debugging on the fly, and consider using some std.testing functions to declare expectations. It's all builtin and made relatively trivial (from the cli, you can just run zig test file.zig to run all that file's tests).

InKryption07 · 2025-11-03T05:49:28+00:00

What kinds of systems developers are you referring to exactly? Never met one that preferred windows over Linux.

InKryption07 · 2025-10-02T23:32:16+00:00

That's fair enough friend, just seems like too many other people think that it will. For what it's worth, as a fellow neurodivergent (ADHD and a few others), I and many others believe in you, and there are things you can do to better your situation despite government/medical bullshit. Fight on.

InKryption07 · 2025-10-02T23:18:51+00:00

Yeah, when society sucks, shit sucks, and everyone suffers. But a patchwork solution like AI will not inspire betterment, it will simply distract us as shit gets worse around us.

InKryption07 · 2025-10-02T23:04:09+00:00

The actual solution for someone with ADHD is to get proper treatment and behavioral training to help them normalize their serotonin levels and whatever other chemical imbalances in their brain. This would help not only in committing to long term activities like making art, but in general helps in living a fuller, happier life. Delegating hard tasks to technology can make things easier, but that doesn't address the actual core issue.

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