adam_y

adam_y , 3 days ago

Get yourself into photography. You don't need anything expensive, if you have a phone camera, that will do.

Document the strange and interesting things in your environment. The people, the architecture.

It gets you out of the house a mission per day. It gives you a goal.

adam_y , 2 days ago

Genuinely, if it helps you feel better, you are always welcome to share your photos with me and tell me about them.

adam_y , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Love how this has gone from "researcher at x university" to "tip from a friend of mine" in less than 48 hours.

adam_y , 8 days ago

Can we swap out the word "hallucinations" for the word "bullshit"?

I think all AI/LLM stuf should be prefaced as "someone down the pub said..."

So, "someone down the pub said you can eat rocks" or, "someone down the pub said you should put glue on your pizza".

Hallucinations are cool, shit like this is worthless.

adam_y , 8 days ago

Absolutely. I wrote about this a while back in an essay:

Prime and Mash / Kuru

Basically likening it to a prion disease like Kuru, which humans get from eating the infected brains of other humans.

adam_y , 6 days ago

My experience with certain chemicals suggests this is true.

adam_y , 10 days ago

Right?! When they could be playing Doom on it.

adam_y , 9 days ago

How you choose to fight hell spawn is OK with me.

adam_y , 11 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Well, once again a tech company gives a service I don't care for an overhaul I don't want and tries to charge a fee I won't pay.

I suspect when this doesn't do the numbers they want they'll try adding a user fee to oxygen as a retaliation.

adam_y , 12 days ago

If only she was ever in a situation where her voice was professionally recorded.

adam_y , 18 days ago

Web in the search, AI in the search, personal assistant in your files, things in your things that you don't want, didn't ask for and are struggling to extract.

adam_y , 18 days ago

(Idiots)... Way to roast normal people. Don't know if they will ever recover. The best bit was putting it in brackets.

You are normal people.

adam_y , 26 days ago

"There are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user's VPN runs on Linux or Android."

So there are ways.

adam_y , 28 days ago

Seconded. I keep trying others. I tried feedly for a while. I also tried readyou (which I still keep on my phone)... But nothing comes as close to inoreader for doing what I want.

Also, I've learnt how to aggregate other feeds into a single feed to pass them into it to get around the 150 limit. Not ideal, but I'm cheap.

adam_y , 1 month ago

West bank.

adam_y , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I say that, but I, in no way, want that to happen.

But yeah, Boston Dynamic have long said that they don't want their robots weaponised, but here we are seeing it happen.

adam_y , 1 month ago

It is a great step forward, but the barrier to entry is relatively high. You can sign up to substack for free and they take a cut of your profits (that most writers don't draw enough attention to earn.

Meanwhile ghost charges $9 a month, billed annually.

That's a significant barrier to anyone that can't afford to see if their writing will be popular and as long as that remains it will struggle to gain traction in the same way.

And yeah, I know you could host your own too, but again a price point and a technical barrier.

I like ghost, the interface and the ecology, but the truth is that it isn't going to attract the sort of vibrant, young community it needs if you have to stump up $108 just to see.

I think one of the great things about 2000s/early 2010s internet was the proliferation of free to use platforms like livejournal, blogger and WordPress. Sure there was a lot or jank, but I found some of my favourite writers back when they were scratching their name into the internet.

adam_y , 1 month ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e16992b3-670f-4f09-b2e1-839cd81fd6d6.jpeg

adam_y , 2 months ago

AI art is, by very definition, average.

It's the best fit line. It's the most common. The mean or the median.

The best art is exceptional.

adam_y , 2 months ago

Going to be honest with you, your art is fine.

Just fine.

Not great though. Not exceptional. Not really new or exciting.

Just what anyone with a weak prompt and an llm can do.

It's ok.

I'm glad you are enjoying making it.

adam_y , 2 months ago

The problem is that most artists make money from commercial clients and most clients don't want "good".

The want "good enough" and "cheap".

And that's why it is taking artists jobs.

adam_y , 2 months ago

I take it you spend time going to galleries or the theatre? That you engage with art at the source...

Because if you said something as fucking stupid as "and what art is exciting these days" whilst only consuming media through a screen, that'd make you look and sound really daft.

adam_y , 2 months ago

I'm not afraid of AI and I'm certainly not a luddite my friend. I used to lecture about technology in art on several university courses.

I've used algorithms to generate work that has been shown on an international stage, and used computers to run massive participatory art shows.

I currently work in publishing, and I can't express how much AI has already impacted the landscape through generative text. It doesn't compete with traditional authors, it just smothers them through sheer volume. It clogs up submission processes and it fills open calls... And nearly every one using generative methods thinks they should be called an "author" just because they put a few words into a prompt.

There really is a reason I hold this point if view and it is based on experience and education as well as being part of an industry that this is already having an impact on.

If you want me to take you seriously, I'm going to need some real discussion around the firm that goes beyond name calling and vague statements.

adam_y , 2 months ago

I don't look down on any of that art. I've read transformation novels written in the last couple of years. I've heard the most amazing original and articulate music. I've played games that have pushed storytelling and visceral experience.

I consider it art too. It's the product of human endeavour, often driving to make something wonderful through effort and skill. It's often an attempt with communicating at an audience.

To denounce it all as "derivative" misunderstands creativity.

That's like saying that language is derivative because someone has already said all of the words... It's not the words that matter but the context in which they are used. This is true of all art. The context of work provides the newness that stops it being derivative.

Sorry, I've got to ask though, can you give me an example of "bougie shit"?

adam_y , 2 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d3316251-f021-4433-9c05-7fb3db243dc6.jpeg

I call this, "Derivative is not bad, it’s simply a matter of fact. Our creations and ideas are based off that which inspires us. Things don’t need to be unique or revolutionary to be enjoyable and that’s the most important quality, that we enjoy what we consume."

I'm enjoying our collaboration.

adam_y , 2 months ago

Bet you are into NFTs too, huh?

adam_y , 2 months ago

By that logic the queen has gut shame.

adam_y , 2 months ago

It's a lovely idea. Fundamentally sound. Feels very Quaker in outlook. That's not a criticism.

I'm not sure it is hardened against bad actors though. I'm sure you've thought of this. Ultimately it needs centralised adjudication. Who is to say if someone did or did not break an agreement, or whether that breakage was deliberate or accidental and whether being shut out for breaking said agreement has implications of a social and financial nature?

Mob rule, designation of "outsiders" and sin eaters feature in almost every social construct at some stage in development. I'm not sure you can avoid that through good intentions.

Perhaps that sort of thing needs to develop naturally, or organically.

adam_y , 2 months ago

Yeah, I meant in the way in which you posited agreement, contract and conflict resolution rather than the deity stuff. I should have made that more clear.

Any, sounds like a fun project. Good luck with it.

adam_y , 2 months ago

Sounds to me like they don't want to ban it, they want it sold to American business at a massively discounted rate. Standard mafia shit.

adam_y , 2 months ago

That's a fair point, it is a game as much as it is a racket.

adam_y , 2 months ago

Season 4 of Fringe.

adam_y , 2 months ago

6 feef.

adam_y , 2 months ago

I feef you.

adam_y , 3 months ago

Older version in case of compatibility issues. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ee366348-9d0c-4982-80f2-983722181eff.webp

adam_y , 3 months ago

What a strange and wonderful beast Vice was.

The very idea of calling a middle class millenial hipster a journalist and sending them off to a war torn country so they could do drugs with a cartel and report back on the underground scene there is pure 2010s.

And when it happened across real journalism, it took it in its stride. This was the competition to main stream media. It was aware and smart.

It was also shockingly platform literate. The video content was just as vital as the written stuff.

The fact it didn't endure is pretty sad. It's fairly indicative of where we are going.

I saw this article the same day that I saw Google announce the removal of the news tab from its search results.

Not good times.

adam_y , 3 months ago

It could just be me, but the quality of Google news absolutely tanked a couple of years ago.

Trying to manage news sources became increasingly difficult as clickbait infested results and suggestions.

It felt like they had lost their ability to separate "new content" from "news".

adam_y , 4 months ago

Chap looks like he's been to sports direct.

adam_y , 4 months ago

knocked over my sports direct mug of tea