• 26 Posts
  • 17 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: November 9th, 2023

help-circle
  • Again, this whole idea that you need to make an argument about the tradeoffs of technology in general in order to make an argument against AI is weak and needless. Do you have a smart phone you use the calculator on sometimes, or do you write out all your long-form division? Is everyone who owns a microwave, uses tax preparation software, or switches to an electric toothbrush just a lazy dumb-dumb in your mind?

    When the barriers to access are removed, that’s great

    but it dilutes the end game product over all.

    AI art is rubbish and it gives you exactly what you ask for.

    Cool? Maybe,

    This is just talking out of both sides of your mouth trying to sound fair and balanced instead of actually making a good argument. “AI art is rubbish” – yes!!! We don’t need vacuous, hypocritical hot takes on using technology to say that.


  • Pedantry. “Think less, shut up, accept what the algorithm feeds you from this sub without question” was still the basic gist.

    🤷‍♂️ I’m drinking tea and having a nice day. Sorry you think I’m getting bent out of shape just because I’m critiquing your poorly thought-out comments. 🙂

    you’re getting bent out of shape over such an insignificant piece of shit like me, it’s pathetic.

    My guy it honestly sounds like you’re the one who needs to take a screen break more than I do. Be well.


  • We all use technology everyday to make our lives easier, but does it?

    🙄 Yes. If you disagree with something this obvious, please write me a lengthy letter explaining why and send it by horse & buggy mail carrier. I promise, I’ll read and respond just as soon as I’m able.

    Do you want people writing books and creating art that have no business writing books or creating art?

    🤮🤮🤮 Maybe we should require an intelligence test before allowing people to post their opinions on the internet too? Or have children?

    If you actually think that disallowing some people to create art because they aren’t “good enough,” then you aren’t really defending art or artists at all.



  • This is such a weird take.

    Oh poor baby, you need a wittle spell check to make sure you don’t mess up the words in your important email?

    Oh little loser, you gotta have an automatic transmission to make the car go vroom vroom?

    Oh Mr. has-a-life, you have to pull out Shazam instead of knowing 8 million songs by heart?

    All of us use technology to make our lives easier, to supplement skills we don’t want to sink perfectionist-level time into, to enjoy “good enough” results in one area or another.

    This kind of holier-than-thou hyperbolic snobbery does nothing to generate actual thoughtful reflection of where to draw the line with technology dependence and only distracts and detracts from actually good critiques of generative AI’s ethics and other negative effects. I wish this sub didn’t allow low-effort meme posts because it’s such a brain rot circle-jerk.




























  • Thank you for your efforts! I’ve been up voting regularly and will try to start posting occasionally again as well.

    The main things we need to do to grow the community are:

    • continue to get the word out to people who haven’t yet joined. Post in c/NewCommunities, post on Reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives, do a regular search for Lemmy posts / comments in other communities and invite posters to join.

    • we should encourage everyone to UPVOTE posts here whenever possible. Upvotes not only encourage existing posters and incentivize new ones, posts with good upvote momentum could help more Bostonians across Lemmy find the community through the popular Hot or Top Day sorts on Lemmy.



  • No need to beat yourself up, just make simple changes to improve. Write a one paragraph summary for yourself after each chapter, or list key points you want to remember. The next day, review it and take 10 minutes to think about how that chapter applies to your life or other things you’ve read.

    Once you’ve finished the book, rewrite & combine your notes into one or two pages and flip back through the book to find a quote or two that stands out to you. Then set a reminder on your calendar one month in the future to review your summary page.

    Note-taking, rewriting notes, and spaced repetition are all proven study techniques. It’s a little extra time, but it’s nothing compared to the time you’re spending reading, and it’ll make a big difference in how well you remember your takeaways from it.




  • Copyright protects small creators. If it weren’t for copyright and trademark laws, any new and trending song / story / media would be instantly ripped off by corporations that would exist solely to throw budget at reproducing and popularizing their own soul-less versions of peoples’ work, without any compensation for the original creators. Artists and photographers would never see a dime from the countless t-shirts, mugs, stickers, etc. other corporations would create and sell using their pictures.

    I know there are many frustrating issues with how copyright law has been abused by large corporations who have gotten it extended way past the point of its original intent, but remember not to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Copyright as as a basic legal concept is the only thing that gives many creators a chance to make a living from their work.