Okay, but if theyre the one writing the prompt, changing parameters and pressing the button to generate it how are they not the one creating it?

Again, the same can be said about hiring a person on fiverr with revisions. You write out what you want, adjust parameters with revisions, and click the “send message” button, but someone else is actually making the art. Just because, in this instance, the “other person” is a computer, doesn’t change the fact that the requester isn’t making art.

As for the camera analogy, sure, it is similar, but again I think it’s missing an important part that makes the photographer the artist. For one, the photographer HAS to have the thing they are taking a picture of directly in front of them. The have to pick an angle and framing for the shot. The picture taken consists of their perspective in that moment, without outside influence. When someone writes a prompt for image generation, they don’t really have a direct effect on the output. Sure, you can say that you want a blue flower with six petals, but the chances that you get that out aren’t guarenteed. You can say you want it in the style of Van Gogh, or to have the look of a specific camera, or to have specific elements blurred, etc, but ultimately what’s returned isn’t up to you. Every time I’ve ever generated AI art, it is never exactly what I went into it wanting. Sure, it gets close, but there will be details off. I’ve had to accept compromise with the AI. AI art will always only work without exact expectations. People interacting with the AI will only have the option of “close enough.” That means fundamentally the prompter isn’t in control of the actual artwork, and thus isn’t actually the one creating art.

Oh, I’m not saying AI art isn’t art. It is. I’m just saying that the person writing the prompt didn’t create it, or do anything remotely skilled or artistic to get the result.

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These are great, do you take these pictures once a day, or do you do a bunch at a time?

Care to explain? I think your analogy gives the credit of art creation to someone who didn’t create art, and thus is flawed.

That wasn’t my experience in school, but there’s a good chance you were just in an introductory class or similar. However, that doesn’t change anything about my argument. If you need the log of something, you knew that you needed to look up the log in a table to solve the problem. ChatGPT removes the need to even understand that you can use a log to solve a problem, and instead spits out an answer. Yes, people can use ChatGPT to accelerate learning, as one would a calculator, and in those instances I think it’s somewhat valuable if you completely ignore the fact that it will lie to your face and claim to be telling you the truth. However, anecdotally I know quite a few folks that are using it as a replacement for learning/thinking, which is the danger people are talking about.

Even that is a bad analogy, it’s like commissioning a painter to paint something for you, and then claiming you know how to paint. You told an entity that knows how to do stuff what you wanted, and it gave it to you. Sure, you can ask for tweaks here and there, but in terms of artistic knowledge, you didn’t need any and didn’t provide any, and you didn’t really directly create anything. Taking a decent photo requires more knowledge than generating something on ChatGPT. Not to mention actually being in front of the thing you want a photo of.

LLMs are less replacing the need for log tables, and more replacing the need to understand why you need a log table. Less replacing a calculator and more replacing the fundamental understanding of math. Sure, you could argue that it doesn’t matter if people know math, and in the end you might be right. But given that ChatGPT can and will spit out random numbers instead of a real answer, I’d rather have someone who actually understands math be designing buildings, people who actually understand anatomy and medicine being surgeons. Sure, a computer science guy cheating with ChatGPT through school and his entire career probably won’t be setting anyone back other than himself and the companies that hire him, but they aren’t the only ones using the “shortcut” that is ChatGPT

Not a Pewdiepie stan by any means, but how can you tell he doesn’t regret it? He apologized, and hasn’t (publicly) said the word in 8 years. (Had to look up the timeline, it’s been an insanely long 8 years)

And it very much does not excuse him saying it, but Sweden (and other European countries) don’t stigmatize the word nearly as much as we do in the US. Yes, it’s still an awful slur there, but not to the extent it is here. The number of stray N words I’ve heard when travelling in Sweden and Norway is crazy, compared to having never heard it publically (by a white person) in my entire life in the US. I live in a progressive state, but still. People like to think of Europe as less racist than America, but anecdotally, they are significantly more racist.

That’s the joke

I have a collection of 240TB of (mostly) pirated material. I’m uploading 10s of TB a month, downloading ~3TB per month. All going through a VPN, and have never received a notice. Granted, I have unlimited 5 gigabit service at a residential address, so I’m guessing my ISP is catering to people like me with that offering.

Do you interact with people outside of audiophile circles? I’m not in any, and I haven’t heard anyone in person complain about a missing headphone jack in many years, not after a few years of airpods being available. Hell, I don’t know anyone who uses wired headphones anymore. I have heard people mention that my phone is too heavy, and I’m using a pixel 9 pro. Before this phone I was using a pixel 5, and I had people telling me my phone was too small/plastic-y. I don’t think you have an understanding of “normal people” They aren’t tech enthusiasts, they aren’t audiophiles, and they are genuinely shocked when I tell them about how egregiously most tech companies are violating their privacy, but are quick to say that they don’t care/don’t want to give up creature comforts to prevent it.

I’m a software engineer, and am pretty privvy to self-hosting in docker, and hosting a matrix server + element has easily been the hardest service I’ve ever deployed. Most of my experience is in personal cloud/media streaming, so maybe I’m just doing the easy ones, but the matrix docker deployment is really unrefined compared to other services

Five books are 2.50

Yeah, Nat 1 is miraculous failure, Nat 20 is miraculous success in all games I’ve played

I was gonna let you be stupid without saying anything, but you doubled down twice so now I will prove that you are wrong.

The first definition of decrypt in the American Heritage Dictionary is “To Decipher” I’ll admit, not super helpful, so let’s look at the definition of decipher. “To read or interpret (ambiguous, obscure, or illegible matter)”

So for someone to “decrypt” an overexposed picture, they would be, by dictionary definition, trying to interpret what the ambiguous picture was actually showing, since the lighting was making it unclear.

You are in the wrong when saying they used the wrong word, you just don’t have as good a command over the English language as you thought

For anyone that needs to hear this, the way to prevent this is to have Linux and Windows on separate drives.

I own the bottom one, it is even more ridiculous in person

Fellow Thunder user?

It’s not perfect, but I use grayjay. They have an android app and a desktop client, and are usually pretty quick to make updates that will sidestep Google’s anti-adblocking measures (within 1-2 days.) Again, not perfect, but I don’t mind a slightly worse experience to avoid having to see an ad. Plus it has sponsor block support built right in

I don’t doubt it, but how do you know? Can you share a contradictory source?