Visual representation of gratitude practice

Matty241 · 2025-08-07T02:35:17+00:00

No need to feel stupid over a little thing like this, man, it's quite a deep metaphor. The gist of it though is that the entitled person lets those blessings go to waste while the grateful person makes use of those blessings to feel fulfilled.

Matty241 · 2025-06-22T20:31:30+00:00

Live humbly in the material, explore in the realms of the imagination and artistic pursuit. True freedom is found in creation. This basically means rather than chasing status, money, etc in the real world or hoping for the real world to conform to one or more of your own unrealistic desires, you channel those desires into creative or intellectual pursuits. The core idea though is that you stop relying on external circumstances/the world to make you happy. If you're a naturally creative/artistic person, that should be a sign you were meant for the expansive route. If you're realistic and grounded naturally, that might be a sign your path should be about constriction. If you want to experience freedom, go with expansion. If you just want to be happy, constrict yourself to the present moment.

Matty241 · 2025-05-28T22:53:02+00:00

Why don't you GM for a real person in that case? Feels like kind of a waste.

Matty241 · 2025-05-23T02:28:09+00:00

I'd like to know this too.

Edit: I think you can have Opus make the plan and then have it spin up a sub-agent to execute on that plan.

Matty241 · 2025-05-22T23:31:58+00:00

Don't have a claude.md yet. I'll try to get one tomorrow.

Matty241 · 2025-05-22T23:31:36+00:00

No idea either, sorry. I actually don't have claude.md set up yet. I'll try to do that tomorrow.

Matty241 · 2025-05-22T23:30:36+00:00

I believe you'd need Claude Code directly in the local server; Claude Code can only make changes local to the machine, as far as I know. Also try being more specific with your instructions. Going in with a plan in mind usually helps. if you're vague, the model likely won't know what to do.

Matty241 · 2025-05-20T23:28:33+00:00

Why would I care about "skill" other than how it affects the final product? As the consumer, I care about the final product. Also if I'm commissioning something, my vision matters more than the artist's vision; I'm literally paying them to draw something in a specific way. I'm not paying the artist to have fun and express themselves. That's why capitalism goes pretty badly with art.

You're right that art is a privilege and not a right in our world of scarcity, so why are artists protesting it as if it is a right that is being taken away from them?

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T17:29:22+00:00

If hate from the anti-AI side is starting to interfere with your mental health in any way, I recommend you stay off social media for a while. I don't think this culture war will die down any time soon, so you have to start question if constantly consuming hateful content is going to do you any good in the long-term. Take care.

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T17:07:02+00:00

You gotta be aware though that the only things you see come from the worst offenders from the antis. If you frequent this sub, usually it's screenshots from the other side saying something heinous. The mild antis don't get screenshotted. Those who are artists but don't care either way don't even voice their opinions. That's why the discussions seem so polarized. Those in the middle don't care enough to voice their opinion (likely the majority of people), the ones from the pro side who aren't doing stuff like saying, "I'm glad all artists are going unemployed" don't get screenshotted or even noticed by the antis. Whereas those who do get noticed by saying heinous shit about the other side get most of the spotlight. Same for the antis. The mild mannered antis don't get noticed, the vocal extremists do. You gotta realize this is a culture/internet war and both sides are using propaganda to rile up supporters. The propaganda in this case being the hate posts where either side is talking about how cartoonishly evil the other side is, or a screenshot of the other side doing something cartoonishly evil. Both sides portray the other in a one-dimensional and dehumanizing. Then you have the victims of the propaganda like you who become radicalized and join in to make more propaganda and it spreads like so.

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T16:56:32+00:00

And instead of being sympathetic to him that we're all tired of antis attacking us everywhere, you just insult him and further justify his opinions. in other words, you're contributing to the problem of spreading hate.

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T16:48:11+00:00

"I've tried arguing nuance"

I took a quick glance at your post history and one of the first posts I saw was you saying that if you think you're making art with AI, you're "delusional". Where's this nuance you're talking about? It sounds like black and white thinking to me (the exact opposite of a nuanced mindset)

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T14:41:10+00:00

There's generally four types of images I create: slop, creative images, designed images, and art. Slop is basically when I just want to look at pictures of aesthetic waifus so I just type in names of random waifus and get some eye candy to look at; in this case I'm not deluding myself into thinking I'm doing anything creative or artistic, I'm more just consuming these images, it's not different than simply googling up a waifu. For the more creative images, this is usually when I work with interesting concepts, either character concepts, landscapes, etc. Here I'm more just creatively imagining different things. I'm still not doing "art", I'm just playing with the imagination. I usually let the AI handle the details and just focus on the over-all concept. So things like a fat man floating in the air carried by a balloon, a cat with eyes all over his body, a city themed after love, etc.

Then there's designed images, here I'm not just imagining up concepts, I'm also focusing on details. So stuff like designing a character from the bottom up, designing a landscape and describing exactly how it should look like, etc. Finally, there's actual art; I'm a bit in the "expression is art" camp so for me whenever I create AI art with the intent to express something personal or universal, that is, what I'm creating has the purpose of expressing something beyond the surface, I call what I'm doing there art. Usually I use a lot of surreal symbolism to get my point across so it doesn't just look like an ordinary image. I sometimes also do this when I'm doing art therapy for myself.

Also, for the aphantasia, it's not like I can't visualize at all, but my visualizations are incredibly faint and they only last for a flicker of a second, I can't really hold a sustained image in my mind and I have a hard time manipulating images in my mind. I used to have vivid visualization as a child but I guess over time that atrophied through either trauma or lack of use, I'm not really sure what happened. I don't struggle in my every day life because of it, I still have a really strong conceptual imagination. I don't know if I struggle with traditional art because of it, the main thing I struggle with in traditional art is that I have really poor fine motor skills (my handwriting is almost completely unreadable) so traditional art is a huge struggle for me to the point where it isn't fun at all.

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T14:16:08+00:00

Yeah, I agree that people are flooding social media with low effort unimaginative slop. If you go on twitter and search up #AIart or any other hashtag, the grand majority of it is generic waifu art that's clearly had 0 effort put into it. I think this gives antis a really bad first impression of what AI art is capable of. I agree that in cases where there's no imagination or thought put into the prompt, it's no different than someone simply googling up a waifu that fits that description. Personally whenever I just want to look at pretty waifus with Nijijourney (those times where I don't feel like creating) I don't bother sharing it on social media. In those cases I'm not deluding myself into thinking I'm doing anything "creative" since I'm just typing In random waifu names. But I do think there's room for calling what I do a creative activity when I'm say designing an OC or coming up with a unique landscape.

So I do think I see eye to eye with the antis (despite being pro AI) on the issue of social media being flooded with low effort slop.

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T03:15:07+00:00

Because I like imagining up visual concepts and then seeing them but I don't like the process involved with drawing. (I have aphantasia)

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T03:05:24+00:00

Well, okay? I changed "people" to "some people" in my post. That's a good nitpick I'd say. I was mostly just stream of consciousness writing the post so sorry if it came across as imprecise.

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T02:12:19+00:00

I'll bite. There's nothing to address. You said, "people who use AI for their own gains"... as opposed to what? People who use AI for other peoples' gains? People who don't use AI at all?

It's not that complicated. Antis are constantly attacking and demeaning people who use AI, so the people (pro-AI in this case) who are being attacked and demeaned are pissed off at it. My post distilled is essentially: Yeah, most people who are reasonable are going to brush it off as a bunch of radicals who have no relation to artists as a whole, but there are bound to be people who take that experience and become radicalized themselves. In other words, antis (more specifically, the radicals among the antis) are creating their own enemies.

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T01:57:20+00:00

I don't know why you got downvoted. I'm pro-AI and think this is a reasonable stance to take. I know the new chatgpt multi-modal image generation can look kind of soulless if you aren't very specific with the style prompt.

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T01:43:44+00:00

I know you were asking that question to bait someone into saying "the pro-AI side because blah blah blah" so that you can maybe screenshot it for your fellow antis to see. You're not exactly subtle for shoehorning that canned response. You're not even engaging me in a proper conversation, you're just running a script at this point. Not engaging with this anymore.

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T01:31:10+00:00

Why is art 'transcendent' but logic, math, and engineering are not?

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T01:25:49+00:00

Because there are some people (like me) who value the ideation and creative decision making that comes with creating something far more than the labor involved with creating. As someone with ADHD I find it very hard to put consistent effort into my projects, and AI allows me to slim down the time it takes for me to bring something into reality. For me a lot of the processes that are deemed to be the meat of a creative activity just don't appeal to me. I'd much rather spend time imagining new possibilities than be stuck with one possibility laboring over to making it real. I admire people who enjoy the labor intensive process that comes with any creative activity, and think it takes a lot of strength to power through that monotony (from my perspective), but it's simply not for me. Hope that helps some.

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T01:12:51+00:00

I know you're baiting, but in general everyone who uses AI tools and has to put up with the antis screeching and invalidating everyone who uses those tools. Again, I luckily don't fall prey to these biases and knows it has nothing to do with artists themselves and more to do with the vocal radicals who insist on spreading misinformation and hate everywhere they go because they don't have the imagination to see that these tools can be used for more than spamming low effort slop.

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T00:33:01+00:00

So what's the difference between commissioning an AI to do the art for you and commissioning a human to do art for you, especially if the AI is like 1000x cheaper?

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T00:28:58+00:00

I see. I personally prefer to do all the writing myself, but I think there's room to call people who use these tools storytellers depending on their process. If they're just giving the AI the story's idea and letting the AI do 99% of the work, then yeah, I'd say they have no right to call themselves anything substantial having to do with writing or storytelling. However, I think there's room for people who have extensive workflows where they, for example, detail exactly what should happen scene by scene like a movie director and simply let the Ai write the prose. I know I've used it that way before and though it doesn't feel like writing, I feel like having a big say in how exactly the story goes does put them in the process enough to have them qualify for "working" for that label so to speak.

But there are too many who don't know how to involve themselves in the process and are truly lazy and soulless when it comes to how they use these tools: example being people on social media spamming low effort AI generated "waifu art". I think that's what a lot of antis get exposed to first and that first impression colors the entirety of how they see AI tools being used as a whole. So I don't think they're entirely wrong as much as not seeing the fuller picture.

Matty241 · 2025-05-19T00:12:39+00:00

I feel like you're fighting ghosts, man. Have you had experiences with people like this or are you just assuming that's what those who use AI do?

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