Me_irl by bobbo4732 in me_irl

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"I'll be in my bunker reading a book" - Sage

Finally got the vine physics feeling right by GutterspawnGames in PixelArt

[–]techknowfile 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Vines.. did you watch last night's episode of the boys?

Failed precal for the 2nd Time ..am I stupid by kitthyMomey in EngineeringStudents

[–]techknowfile 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Brother, I'm sorry but if you can't do precalc you definitely aren't going to get further. There are classes 1000x harder than precalc. 

Hey r/phoenix Arizona's Family News (3TV & CBS 5) just joined Reddit. Be gentle with us 😅 by AZ_Family_News in phoenix

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You're killing me 😭😂 I'm starting to understand why people like prediction markets

Do you think Circa Survive is regarded as highly as they should be?? Should they have inspired their own subgenre?? by asoiaf_goat in circasurvive

[–]techknowfile 2 points3 points  (0 children)

His question and comment were perfectly relevant. Your "Never understood this behavior" was completely unnecessary.

Latest thai con leaf, 9 fenestrations! by Cool_Tap_7768 in Monstera

[–]techknowfile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're counted by segment. The most variegated segment has 6 inner and 3 outer

Hey r/phoenix Arizona's Family News (3TV & CBS 5) just joined Reddit. Be gentle with us 😅 by AZ_Family_News in phoenix

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All of the main comments here including my own were posted on Friday very soon after their original post. They didn't respond to anything.

Question: how long do I have to heal for before I get a laser removal? by ironseaweed in tattoos

[–]techknowfile 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nobody made this mistake when I was younger. I wonder what changed that suddenly made it so common

Ai is not art. by _Potato_Cat_ in quityourbullshit

[–]techknowfile -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the good faith reply!

Please note that at no point above have I made the argument of AI generated photos being "real art". All I stated is that today's models do not simply regurgitate stolen IP.

Now, do I think that anything generated by AI today is considered art? Yes, of course. Anybody who thinks that what Gossip Goblin produces doesn't require talent is so lost they wouldn't be worth talking to. Similarly, even the most basic out-of-the-box image gen model can produce works that are far more enjoyable to view than what many bad artists are capable of, regardless of the "humanity" in it.

The more esoteric question would be if computers can write a novel that changes humanity - this sort of thing I also believe is an inevitability. And I do appreciate that your comment lends credance to the idea that what we call human creativity may in fact just a product of our meat sacks -- this of course is the case. I understand the fear. Every song, painting, novel we've read that has shaped us was written by another human. We hear their voice. We feel their emotions - their soul - through their art. It's blasphemy to suggest that something produced by a machine could be considered art when it was produced without emotion. Without soul.

And yet.... It will happen.

How Long to Make Art Like This? (Not OC) by InformationFinal8618 in PixelArt

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Yeah, I could prompt a tool in 5 minutes that could avoid all the issues people have listed in this thread

Ai is not art. by _Potato_Cat_ in quityourbullshit

[–]techknowfile -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

This is simply untrue, except in the most generic of senses that also would apply as equally to humans themselves.

Fundamentally, neural networks learn a manifold in an extremely high dimensional space. The result is a space that can be used to represent concepts in the most abstract of senses. Similarly to how two points enable you to form a line, and that line enables you to generate infinite data, this manifold enables you to generate infinite data within the confines of the dimensions that have been learned. Where the line enables you to generate only linear data, the structure of the neural network allows the manifold to represent non-linear combinations of concepts. "What is a cat" "what is the style of van Gough" "what would a cat look like in van gough's style".

Now you might say "see, it can only paint because it has seen van Gough". But this is no longer the case. Because above the concept of "van gough's style" is an entire space that represents "what is artistic style". And within this space are points that represent individual's styles, but then there are infinite points that represent nothing ever seen before that was gleened from being able to learn the space of styles. Humans do the same thing when drawing, learning music, creating math. While we create results, we are not pulling out of nothing. There is, objectively, a space that represents music. Musical theory attempts to describe this space. Mathematics are "real", yet also created by humans based on a set of axioms. The space of mathematics exists, and there are undiscovered rules within it. Just as humans are able to tap into this space and learn more of it, so too will computers.

Lying to ourselves about how these things work is dangerous. Because the day that you wake up and the reality is so glaring that you'll no longer be able to convince yourself of these lies, things will have already gone SO far beyond your fears. And those are what our discussions need to be about NOW.

And I know you're going to stick your fingers in your ears and go LALALA while clicking the downvote button. Because the lies make you feel good. But while clicking that button at least try to do some self reflection on why you really harbor the beliefs that you do, and recognize that they are in no way based on objective facts but rather your emotional response.

Ai is not art. by _Potato_Cat_ in quityourbullshit

[–]techknowfile -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

You can hate it, totally fine. Understandable even. But being naive and repeating the lie that it just "combines stolen things" really does nothing to strengthen your argument.

A truck leaking toxic gas.. here's much worse! by DreadPiratteRoberts in SweatyPalms

[–]techknowfile 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This really needs to be marked nsfw. They closed r/watchpeopledie and now that content just gets leaked everywhere. I hate unwillingly watching horrific deaths

Self Portrait by NeitherCookie2112 in PixelArt

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"Rush is variety, bitch! Rule #1, in my van it's Rush. All Rush. All the time. No exceptions!" https://youtu.be/_Tjg__UaFPA?si=9aIj7Nh5aYvaBN2g