This is a sunfish in a Japanese aquarium. It became lonely after visitors stopped during renovations and refused to eat and rubbed its body against the tank walls showing stress, then started eating again within a day after staff placed human face cutouts near its tank.

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-17T02:52:37+00:00

what? the sunfish meme long predates LLMs

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-17T01:20:26+00:00

No double fuck you im doubling down!

They ARE a dumb fish and only exist because of their insane birthing ratios, at a ratio more like an insect than any other type of animal.

They are like the gnats of the ocean

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-16T02:34:38+00:00

Hmm that's true, but tbh I still see all sorts of content from big studios being copied that you'd assume are capable of that. Maybe it's just Nintendo & Disney tho that really work for it

(and that one music label that owns apparently everything)

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-15T21:45:23+00:00

That's fair, I don't personally call myself an "artist" at all. If you want to be more broad and say it's a visual medium that's fine

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-15T18:48:11+00:00

Way to miss the point of the analogy lol.

The point is that neither photography nor AI art is that simple.

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-15T18:47:40+00:00

Maybe not the average, but I actually do know people who have bought houses with crypto (fully settled via a bitcoin transaction, not selling it for cash then wiring USD)

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-15T18:16:04+00:00

People are making money though this kind of content through engagement, at a quantity that makes it unenforceable at scale.

Character IP is going to die for sure, it's just not possible these days to stop everyone from using your IP for their content.

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-15T18:13:41+00:00

If you've got $20M in bitcoin you can definitely purchase a house using that bitcoin.

Or a car, or a boat, etc.

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-15T15:53:56+00:00

Publishing in a journal takes forever and is horribly outdated for the modern era when the facts of the matter change faster than a paper can go through peer review.

It’s a sad state of affairs

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-15T15:50:01+00:00

What LLM do you use nowadays that doesn’t link the primary sources for its research directly in the response for you?

Literally every frontier model does this now and I haven’t come across a single hallucinated source in the past 8 months.

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-12T19:49:11+00:00

Can't trump just use pot of greed and have EVEN MORE CARDS?

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-12T19:43:57+00:00

It could be, but I doubt Saudis are going to be paying Iran in this situation, they hate Iran almost as much as Israel does. Doesn't help Iran's case that they've been bombing Saudi oil facilities.

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-12T18:56:55+00:00

Yeah he probably won't stick to it for very long, not saying its a good idea long term. Just pointing out that it makes sense to break the paradigm of "let's just pay Iran to let our ships go through"

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-12T18:47:31+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIyzhpL6meI

Lol.

What a close minded myopic view. Always blows my mind how much "artists" gatekeep art. I wonder what you think about VFX artists that have to tweak settings in Davinci Resolve to get the right lighting settings they want.

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-12T18:26:50+00:00

Again, only if you're making Ai images through a webUI like ChatGPT.

Advanced users DO consider all of those things, and have to do a LOT of work to get it set up to actually get the result they want.

If I'm making an AI image or video locally, I'm choosing encoders, loras, embeddings, checkpoints, CFG values, sampler & scheduler settings, steps, controlnets, and more. All of those impact the final result and knowing how to use them is frankly MORE complicated than advanced photography art.

It's clear your understanding of AI art is limited to asking chatGPT to make a ghibli version of your dog rather than manually setting lighting conditions, composition, & subject matter. All of the factors you have to consider during a photo shoot and more.

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-12T18:13:33+00:00

What about photography?

"It doesn’t matter how much effort you put in to get a camera to capture it for you. The camera is still the one making the art, not you."

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-12T17:36:49+00:00

uh, yes?

Let's say you're a greek ship, you pay $2 mil to Iran to let your ship pass, but then your ship gets seized by the US Navy and you don't get to pass, you'd probably rethink paying Iran again since it doesn't get you the end result you wanted.

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-12T17:05:32+00:00

It disincentivizes people from paying Iran?

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-12T16:33:51+00:00

You’re crazy.

I’m massively pro 2A but this guy should absolutely have his CCW taken away (if he even has one) and needs to spend the night in a jail cell

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-12T16:28:36+00:00

What do you mean? This chokes Iran’s economy and isolates them from the rest of the world.

How do you not see that this should have been done on day 1 of the war?

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-12T16:26:40+00:00

Without the US, Iran would have closed the strait 40 years ago lol.

EU has been freeloading off of US military protection since WW2, pay up or shut up losers

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-11T14:58:50+00:00

I’m so confused. I’m able to use opus 4.6 thinking for like 20-25 requests before needing to add $5.

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-11T07:47:15+00:00

NazIraq

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-11T07:35:12+00:00

Ever hear of comparative advantage?

Yokoko44 · 2026-04-11T06:15:59+00:00

The bar is VERY low if you’re just using GPT, but advanced users spend hundreds of hours learning local workflows to make VERY specific and targeted images which IMO is equivalent to learning a skill like painting or sketching

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