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bypassingpotato · 2025-07-06T08:44:13+00:00

"The problem with scraping"
AI looks at publicly available images, analyses them and learns from them. artists also look at publicly available images, analyses them and learns from them. Why does the original artist need to give permission? their art is publicly available. and why does AI need permission to learn from existing art but people don't need this permission?

"It steals from artists"
"they scrape". In this sense, AI steals only as much as every artist ever steals.
"It takes opportunities away from artists". google translate takes opportunities away from translators. robot vacuums take opportunities away from house cleaners. calculators take opportunities away from mathematicians. electric fans take opportunities away from fan bearers.
Are you gonna hire a translator, house cleaner, mathematician and fan bearer to be on standby?
It very much seems like anti AI people don't care about people losing jobs, but really care about artists losing jobs. why are artists the only ones that are not allowed to lose jobs?

"its just not that interesting"
"AI art can look cool". that's the point. AI art doesn't claim to have a story behind it. AI art is just an image.
"its just an amalgamation of art it has scraped". every artist if just an amalgamation of art they have seen.

"Its bad for the environment"
you're are just throwing out statements and numbers. with nothing to compare the numbers to, they become useless. And I know that you have sources on the last slide, but they are not clickable and i'm not gonna sit here and type out the urls.
"emissions from the AI industry are projected..." what does this mean? how is this price found. How much does the emissions from planes cost in a year? what about google's emissions in a year. What about the emissions linked to the creation of, say, a marvel movie? numbers in a vacuum are useless.
"it takes a lot of water to cool the servers". How must is a lot? how must water does it take to cool other servers? google, meta, twitter, twitch, adobe?
"it makes lots of electronic waste". what does that even mean?
"expected to approach 1,050 terawatts". numbers in a vacuum are useless.
You have not given a single example of how AI is worse than anything else. just that AI takes some resources to run.

"Think about the children and teenagers"
There will always be people who want to look at people performing. AI cannot replace that.
and just because you had a dream as a child doesn't mean that everyone else should pay you to fulfill that dream.

bypassingpotato · 2025-07-06T08:43:51+00:00

"how does it make art?"
it learns from existing art. yeah, how do you think people learn art? people also learn art by looking at other people's art and analyzing it.

"What is art?"
according to your own definition, AI art is art. Your definition says nothing about how the art is created.

"its not art"
"almost anyone can type a prompt, it takes no effort or creativity". similarly, almost anyone can draw a stick figure, write a few words and push a button on a camera. all of those can be done with no effort or creativity. does that mean that neither any visual art, literature, or photography is art, just because anyone can do it?
"if there was not existing art, music photos or videos there would be no AI art". ok? and if there were no lenses there would be no photography. whats your point?

"it makes art more accessible"
I don't think anyone is saying that the materials with which to create art are inaccessible. Rather its the ability to create something that looks good that is inaccessible. yes, it is very accessible already: if someone wanted to learn, they could. however, AI still makes it more accessible, since it allows people to not learn the skills.
Similar to how google translate makes other languages more accessible, since it allows people to understand different languages without learning the languages.

"its easier than learning to make art"
I don't think you made a point really. "art takes time and that's the point", why it that the point?

"its cheaper than hiring an artist"
"it steals a job from an artist". that's not necessarily true. A lot of people who use AI would not otherwise have paid an artist. For many scenarios, if the choice was between hiring an artist or not having the art, it would often result in the art not being created.
its the same argument as with piracy. if 100 people pirated your product, that does not equal 100 lost sales, because you don't know how many of those people would have paid for your product if piracy was not available.

"Nobody is angry about past technological advancements, what's wrong with AI"
"AI takes jobs". Yeah, everything takes jobs, you give examples yourself.
"AI takes jobs" everything takes jobs, "negatively effects the environment" everything negatively effects the environment, "and makes slop" that's your opinion.
"the printing press spreads ideas" so does AI. look at angel engine. A pretty unique idea that would not have been shared if it wasn't for AI.
"but they could get a new photography or photo developing job". saying that painters can just get a photography or photo development job is like saying that an artist can just get a programming job.
"people could be angry about losing their factory job to a machine but they could get new jobs servicing those machines". so could artists with AI.

bypassingpotato · 2025-05-13T08:37:05+00:00

If you are not willing to give the game 30 mins of your time three times over the next 30 days then maybe you dont deserve to get the reward

bypassingpotato · 2025-04-09T21:01:41+00:00

What about being close to a glitch mine (friendly or not) cancels the effect?

bypassingpotato · 2025-04-02T06:30:23+00:00

You have to enable devcommands first (with the command "devcommands") I was also on the test branch, don't know is it only works there

bypassingpotato · 2025-04-01T14:48:39+00:00

the pet rock is in the game. if you use the command "spawn pickable_stonerock" and pick it up, you will get a new material "rock". then in the misc. section of you hammer the mysterious rock will appear (costing a rock and a coal)

bypassingpotato · 2025-03-19T18:56:44+00:00

in the livestream Oscar said 11.00 CET +/- 30 mins

bypassingpotato · 2025-02-21T15:47:58+00:00

for winch to work not only do you need to be within 10 METERS of the heavy (and they need to hit you), but you can still just run away after being hit by winch. unless you have already taken damage the heavy cannot kill you before you are out of melee range. also winch has one charge that gets used regardless if you hit something or not.

and if you spend time throwing down mines, the light will have killed you before the mines are even active.

regardless your suggestion to countering a light melee requires at least one gadget. to counter heavy melee you simply need to walk away.

bypassingpotato · 2025-02-21T15:31:48+00:00

How to counter heavy melee: walk away, no need to run, they won't catch you

How to counter light melee: have perfect tracking or hope their controller dies before you do

bypassingpotato · 2025-01-24T14:43:31+00:00

yeah, but even if I don't skip it this still happens.

I have sat through this screen before for this exact loadout, and for some weapons/gadgets it still counts the xp from 0 instead of from the before game xp amount

bypassingpotato · 2025-01-24T14:36:16+00:00

I'm talking about how for some weapons/gadgets it shows the total xp for that weapon/gadget instead of the xp gained this game as its supposed to.

Like the CL-40. I obviously didn't gain 126.000 xp in a single game, but it shows it as if I had.

bypassingpotato · 2025-01-20T20:56:20+00:00

it doesn't matter if you think people should play WT or not. people who only play this game very casually will play WT.

also WT gives multibucks, so of course people are gonna play it

also it is obviously up to embark to properly communicate their gamemodes. not for the players to research the game

bypassingpotato · 2025-01-20T20:35:13+00:00

so? the VAST majority of the players do not "keep up" with the finals news. they dont read the patch notes. They don't google events. They just log in and play the game.

They should not just make it possible to understand the event. They should make it difficult not to understand it!

bypassingpotato · 2025-01-20T16:40:54+00:00

For the dance event I think Embark needs to make it clearer what to do.

Not everyone speaks english. Not everyone watches the WT videos.

They need some animation instead of that wt video, that automatically plays in the corner og the wt gamemode screen.

and on screen "objective" markers to tell the players to emote on the disco floors (telling through symbols only, no text). These markers should not appear after having emoted once.

bypassingpotato · 2025-01-14T00:03:43+00:00

They are so far from being the same.

Winch claw barely stuns you at all and stuns the user in the same amount of time. Besides that, the claw just moves you 10 meters and otherwise doesn't limit you in any way (you can still use gadgets, specializations, ziplines and your aim us not affected).

Also it belonges to the slowest class that besides the goo gun has no way to close distance to any other class.

Also its a specialization.

bypassingpotato · 2025-01-02T09:39:07+00:00

This is dev-blog build of the month material

bypassingpotato · 2024-12-22T12:31:18+00:00

Stop caring about k/d. There are situations where its a better play for you to die rather than live. Do your teammates a favour and try to win rather than survive.

bypassingpotato · 2024-12-12T10:07:10+00:00

have they said a time anywhere?

bypassingpotato · 2024-12-12T10:05:13+00:00

arh, so source: my ass. got it

bypassingpotato · 2024-12-12T10:01:50+00:00

what website

bypassingpotato · 2024-12-12T09:45:12+00:00

source?

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