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darkphotonstudio , (edited )

This barely qualifies as news. Anyone with half a functioning brain knows that site is infested with Russian bots.

what's your current linux distro?

wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with...

darkphotonstudio ,

Bonus points for making Arch users seeth because you call Manjaro, Arch.

darkphotonstudio ,

If you like or need the latest software, use a rolling distro. I use Manjaro (boo, hiss) and really like it. But if you don't want the Arch users to beat you up and pants you, I hear Endeavour OS is pretty good.

darkphotonstudio ,

He said 1000 robots by next year. I can say I'll train myself to poop gold and be a billionaire by next year. Isn't it awesome how we can just make shit up and claim it to be real? The difference is, no one is buying stock in my gold poop scheme, which is about as legitimate as his 1000 autonomous robots claim.

darkphotonstudio ,

Tree fiddy.

darkphotonstudio ,

Experiencing humiliation requires a certain amount of self-awareness.

darkphotonstudio ,

Idk, I've blazed many times but never felt the need to constantly lie. That's a him problem, not a cannabis problem. However, I do think you make a good point about Transformers. He has the mind of a child stuck in the 80s. The future is Transformers, RoboCop, Bladerunner, Total Recall, etc., to him, anyway.

darkphotonstudio ,

Well, I can always do what tech startups do and just make shit up! No pun intended.

'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement (www.theatlantic.com)

As soon as Apple announced its plans to inject generative AI into the iPhone, it was as good as official: The technology is now all but unavoidable. Large language models will soon lurk on most of the world’s smartphones, generating images and text in messaging and email apps. AI has already colonized web search, appearing in...

darkphotonstudio ,

Knee-jerk stupidity. Not all AI development revolves around "tech bros".

darkphotonstudio ,

The internet was ruined before AI.

darkphotonstudio ,

Exactly, and if you are a trained artist, you can mop the floor with someone who only use prompts. I've been using the diffusion plugin for Krita and it is so powerful. You have the ability to paint, use layers and filters and near real-time AI fills. It's awesome and fun.

darkphotonstudio ,

I'm sure it will be used a lot in the corporate space, and porn. As someone who did b2b illustration, good riddance. I wouldn't wish that kind of shit "art" on anyone.

darkphotonstudio ,

I'm sorry, but it's over. Just like photography killed miniature portrait painting. Or Photoshop killing off lab editing and airbrush touchup. Corporate art illustration is done and over with. For now, technical illustration is viable but I don't know for how long. It sucks but this is the new reality.

darkphotonstudio ,

Yeah, that really sucks about the jobs. But that kind of work is soul sucking. Maybe some people like it, but I didn't.

darkphotonstudio ,

I wouldn't have a problem with all this scraping, if these companies had to release their models trained on this data as open source.

darkphotonstudio ,

Mozilla, I'm so disappointed but I shouldn't be surprised. I guess I'll be looking for a fork.

darkphotonstudio , (edited )

There are already a bunch of Firefox forks so I'm not sure what you mean.

darkphotonstudio ,

All the Tesla robots have advanced AI, i.e. will actually be controlled virtually by people in India.

darkphotonstudio ,

I look at art without paying anyone, I guess I'm stealing.

darkphotonstudio ,

Targeting an open source project. So brave, what a statement. /s

This has 0 effect on all the big AI companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, etc. All this does is make it harder for FOSS projects and leaves the corporations to dominate.

darkphotonstudio ,

And how's that academic discourse working out on a service that caters to fascists and actively hates academia?

darkphotonstudio ,

Their prices are insane, $999.00 for a 11.5" tablet? $799.00 for a mini-PC? Are they fucking mental? Who would buy these?

darkphotonstudio ,

That really sucks and isn't a good look for Purism.

darkphotonstudio ,

With prices like this, it's kind of performative activism though. It severely limits access and makes it like privacy is a luxury only a few can afford. That's a weird message to be sending out.

darkphotonstudio ,

I switched to DuckDuckGo for a few years, then went to Ecosia for a while, and now I'm using searx. I'm not sure how searx prioritises the results, so I'm still adjusting to it, but overall it works okay.

darkphotonstudio ,

Poster slams poop off his butthole, sparks controversy!

darkphotonstudio ,

Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas

Spotify is worse than piracy. It's a robber baron.

darkphotonstudio ,

AI is certainly a bubble but Nvidia has been working on this stuff long before the hype. I don't think you can easily dismiss them. Personally I don't think the future of AI is giant data centres, it will be running in desktops GPUs and dedicated AI chips. It already is.

darkphotonstudio ,

Anti-AI is a brain-dead idea anyway. Artists should be more open with their art, not less. Yes, even with AI.

darkphotonstudio ,

Well, if you don't copyright everything, then it's not stealing. We need more open culture, not closed off "IP".

darkphotonstudio ,

Ok, but that is beside the point. Copyright only serves the interests of large IP holders, like Disney.

darkphotonstudio ,

The same way they are now? Copyright is barely a protection for independent artists, and largely serves the interests of big "IP" holders like Disney.

darkphotonstudio ,

I am a meat popsicle.

darkphotonstudio ,

And everyone was so angry, they kept giving Adobe's monopoly obscene amounts of money via overpriced subscriptions.

NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and 'writes fiction' using AI (www.reuters.com)

Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined "Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns."...

darkphotonstudio ,

And absolutely no one was shocked.

darkphotonstudio , (edited )

I believe much of our paranoia concerning ai stems from our fear that something will come along and treat us like we treat all the other life on this planet. Which is bitterly ironic considering our propensity for slaughtering each other on a massive scale. The only danger to humanity is humans.
If humanity is doomed, it will be our own stupid fault, not AI.

darkphotonstudio ,

It could be only hype. But I don't entirely agree. Personally, I believe we are only a few years away from AGI. Will it come from OpenAI and LLMs? Maybe, but it will likely come from something completely different. Like it or not, we are within spitting distance of a true Artificial Intelligence, and it will shake the foundations of the world.

darkphotonstudio ,

Idk about societal collapse, but think about the amount of damage the World Wide Web and social media has and continues to do. Look at the mess cars have made of cities around the world over the course of a century. Just because it doesn't happen overnight, doesn't mean serious problems can't occur. I think we have 10 years before the labour market is totally upended, with or without real AGI. Even narrow AI is capable of fucking things up on a scale no one wants to admit.

darkphotonstudio ,

Agreed, partially. However, the "techbros" in charge, for the most part, aren't the researchers. There are futurologists who are real scientists and researchers. Dismissing them smacks of the anti-science knuckleheads ignoring warnings about the dangers of not wearing masks and getting vaccines during the pandemic. Not everyone interested in the future is a techbro.

darkphotonstudio ,

You seem to have this optimistic view that humanity is invincible against any threat but itself

I didn't say that. You're making assumptions. However, I don't take AGI as a serious risk, not directly anyway. AGI is a big question mark at this time and hardly comparable to a giant comet or pandemic, of which we have experience or solid scientific evidence. Could it be a threat? Yeah. Do I personally think so? No. Our reaction to and exploitation of will likely do far more harm than any direct action by an AGI.

darkphotonstudio , (edited )

Krita has mostly left GIMP in the dust, as far as UI and basic tools. The brush engine and ability to handle large files is so much better. It's vector and text tools need work, and so do the image filters and such. Even so, Krita destroys GIMP. Even the name, which isn't great, is leagues better.

darkphotonstudio ,

Chicxulub’ed

New word of the day.

darkphotonstudio ,

Blocked

darkphotonstudio ,

We went through all this shit with Microsoft and Internet Explorer. It’s time to break up Google’s monopoly.

darkphotonstudio ,

I couldn't get latency down enough to be usable. Audio on Linux is not good.

darkphotonstudio ,

Pipewire and Pipewire Jack drop-in replacement. Also with and without a rt kernel. They exhibited the exact same behaviour.

darkphotonstudio ,

Thus, pineapple belongs on pizza.

Get back on your medication.

darkphotonstudio ,

So? It's funny.

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