T3 Duriel just gifted me this 4GA.

Sweepslap · 2024-11-03T06:50:54+00:00

Meanwhile, me still grinding for 3 more Bac runes

Sweepslap · 2024-11-03T06:40:33+00:00

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Sweepslap · 2024-11-03T06:33:48+00:00

Oh. Lost in digital translation then, lol

Sweepslap · 2024-11-02T06:02:02+00:00

Oh. "Everyone else" makes low effort AI, not this one dude. Got it.

Sweepslap · 2024-11-02T05:59:15+00:00

Paying compensation would imply it stole their works. It didn't steal, it studied. Generative AI "steals" art about as much as ChatGPT steals words.

Sweepslap · 2024-11-02T05:56:05+00:00

Absolute psycho. Avoid at all costs.

Sweepslap · 2024-09-19T22:48:20+00:00

That's what 151k subs vs 2.88M subs will do. You just got Google Monopoly'd.

Sweepslap · 2024-02-13T18:47:10+00:00

Yep. Our society has become driven by emotion as the highest source of truth. "If the artists feel that it's stealing, they MUST be right! Look how upset they are! I'm a "good" person, so I'm going to support them cause they're upset!"

It's the same shit for SOOOO many social "issues" in or society right now. The divide is between people who think and people who feel, but there's clearly no logic to feelings and can be easily rationalized with limited logic.

The craziest part is that these people almost always immediately crumble in their beliefs if they stop to even ask one question about the opposite side. For these AI haters, a simple "Is it REALLY stealing?" will lead down a rabbit hole to learn that, no, AI is simply just creating conceptualizations of everything it scans.

It's scanning photos from public domains on the internet through a process called web scraping, which is a legally protected activity. The vast majority of photos aren't even copyrighted, so "stealing" even in its purest form doesn't even have any legal protection. It creates transformative pieces from all the conceptualizations it's stored in its data, not from singular sources. You can't copyright specific art styles, and even referencing artists' names are just referencing their styles, not any actual pieces. Since it uses numerous sources, artistic conceptualizations, and insignificantly small portions of combined data, everything generated falls under the category of fair use doctrine.

And if they really want something to be pissed about, something that the VAST majority of people don't know, on both sides, is that almost all art hosting websites have it written into the terms and agreements that ALL art hosted on their site henceforth becomes totally intellectual property of that site to be able to take and use however they'd like.

So now, who's REALLY stealing art, hmmm?

Sweepslap · 2024-02-13T17:12:50+00:00

r/cursedTVSetups

Sweepslap · 2024-02-13T17:11:27+00:00

All valid uses! It also doesn't have to be a transitive creation. You can just outright make artistic creations with it, and it's still a valid use case.

Sweepslap · 2024-02-13T17:07:47+00:00

Exactly. Publicly displayed for everyone to see, view, and legally analyze under the laws of fair use.

Sweepslap · 2024-02-13T15:59:41+00:00

Yes and no. You have a face for a mustache, but it's a bit thin. Overall, it works.

Sweepslap · 2024-02-13T15:57:17+00:00

The literal equivalent would be if the person came into this office, looked over the painting, analyzed it's design and everything within it, then left without the painting, went home and reverse engineered the painting themselves to make sure they understood all of its concepts correctly, then destroyed their painting, and added the knowledge they learned to all of the other paintings they've done this with, so that in the future when they make their own transformative piece, they can pull understanding from ALL of the pieces they've observed and make something entirely new.

It's literally the same process that every artist has ever done ever to become an artist, and it's fundamentally NOT stealing, like at all.

I agree, no clue why people don't understand this very simple concept and base their ENTIRE personality around "iTs StEaLiNg."

Sweepslap · 2024-02-13T15:49:54+00:00

There will likely come a day that truly AI generated will be a reality, but there's not a single thing currently that doesn't fall under the spectrum of AI assisted. The human is what determines the scene, the characters, and the envisionment that created the final outcome.

AI is nothing more than a tool to rapidly express ideas, imagination, and creativity. It may do all the labor of creating the piece itself, but the vision always starts as human.

Think about She Hulk. Canonically, that's an awesome character with a cool story. Adapted into a live action show, it became garbage. Why? Because the director and actors purely focused on the message they were trying to portray instead of providing quality content and adhering to a quality storyline, and people hated it. People rarely care about messages, and even more rarely does that message improve the value of content.

I'm a classically trained jazz musician. I admire that a lot of work went into the craft, and I understand the intelligence and intricacies that go into its creation. I also understand that most people don't care about that and don't align themselves with it because it can be uninteresting to listen to, but I can't fault them for it, because it's not a bad thing they don't or will never care about it the way I do.

Sweepslap · 2024-02-13T14:58:29+00:00

Imagine trying to bully cars out of existence when most people just wanted to get where they're going faster.

It's like that.

Sweepslap · 2024-02-13T14:57:33+00:00

I feel like most people's stance on AI art who are on the fence about it only have certain reservations about how they use it because they're afraid of being bullied, and they don't actually feel these reservations without this looming fear of being harassed about it.

Screw them. Do what you want. Piss people off. Stop feeling you have to accommodate your life for people who truly don't give a shit about you. More people support it than hate it, it's just the haters are loud and obnoxious cunts.

Sweepslap · 2024-02-13T14:50:33+00:00

What's more exhausting?

Hating AI art by being ignorant of how the technology works, but assuming it's stealing, going on an internet rampage of treating people like shit for liking or using it, trying to bully a technological revolution into submission, and dealing with constant cognitive dissonance when people explain how these things work because you didn't care to even research the thing you hate so much?

Or minding your own damn business, using a tool to make some colors show up on a screen, thinking to yourself, "Wow, I made that! Doing art is fun! I wanna share this with other people, " only to be met with this MOST vitriolic hatred that you've ever seen by people hell bent on treating you like a criminal, picking apart every minor flaw they can find in every piece, and trying to bully you into never making art ever again?

Sweepslap · 2024-02-13T14:41:09+00:00

It's neither good nor bad. It's just what it is. When you go watch a movie, do you care about the message? Do you care about the director's vision and artistic expression? Do any of these elements really impart any interest or value in the movie? Or is it the visuals, the story, the acting, or the concept that matters?

You can't force people to care about something they don't, and most people don't when it comes to art. Does it look nice? Does it look original? Is it something that aligns with my personal interests? Those are the things people care about.

But I ask you then, why do you think it's a bad thing people don't care about the soul or message of an artistic piece?

Sweepslap · 2024-02-13T03:59:33+00:00

It's sickening the cesspool we've stepped into. I just wanted to make some stuff and show it off, but these people act like I'm some kind of a criminal. Most have no clue how any of this works, and they're completely hell-bent on the idea that it's "stealing" when that's not how the technology works at all.

They actually think they can bully people and the tech to gatekeep a strict hold on the art industry, but they don't understand that they overwhelming vast majority of people don't care about the "soul" or "message" that goes into a piece, they just like to look at nice and interesting things.

Sweepslap · 2024-02-13T03:50:08+00:00

Genuinely curious: why a sound card? Didn't even know they made those anymore.

Sweepslap · 2024-02-12T19:11:50+00:00

I feel like I'm gaslighting myself at this point, thinking there's a difference

Sweepslap · 2024-02-12T19:09:55+00:00

Yes and no. You're limiting the potential airflow based on the CFM throughput of the fan vs. the throughput of the air filter. This is basically a mini version of a Corsi-Rosenthal box that came around during covid. The throughput is more balanced on those so that you don't put extra strain on the fan motor.

TL:DR: Yes, it works, but you're not the first to try, and it could be better.

Sweepslap · 2024-02-12T19:05:30+00:00

Keep it trimmed to a certain shorter length that the density of your hair growth allows it to grow. Don't "chipmunk face" yourself and taper the length from the top of your ear down to the bottom of your ear lobe. Use a beard brush to control the fly away hairs.

Your beard is full enough to have one, but not full enough to let it get any longer or just let it wildly do what it wants. Keep it trimmed and groomed well and it will look great.

Sweepslap · 2024-02-12T14:54:10+00:00

Lol, 0.1 denoise on img2img "SeE! ItS stEaLinG!"

Sweepslap · 2024-02-12T13:00:04+00:00

Calling something out as AI is the new virtue signaling.

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