Thorny_Insight @ Thorny_Insight @lemm.ee

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To be honest I'd feel stupid saying that alout at anyone. They're not called that in my native language - I think.

Both spoons are the same size. Different size ones wouldn't fit together like that.

It only sounds bad to the fringest of the fringe that's deceivingly loud on twitter. Good luck trying to find even one real person thinking those terms should be changed. This kind of stuff is why people vote for Trump.

Advertisements are for a large part about brand recognization. Even if you're not going to buy the product, the fact that you remember the brand means the ad has worked.

Yeah. If it fails it's the wood around the glued joint, not the joint iself.

Same with my early-2015 model MacBook Pro. My only Apple product. It just works, what can I say. I'm basically waiting for a reason to switch to the Framework laptop but we'll see. I might eventually just get another MacBook. I gifted my SO a MacBook air around the same time I bought mine and she has had zero issues with that as well.

The pyramid of Khafre in Giza. It's the one with still some of the cladding remaining on top. The second largest one of the three.

By using Lemmy we're already filtering out certain people and opinions. I personally think that the more control we have over what we see, the better. I don't think it's opposing views people want to filter out. It's the ones having those views and being dicks about it.

My 10 year old TV which I watch 10 year old TV-series via HDMI from? I don't think so.

Tomorrow there's going to be article about how my car spies on me as if that's not 15 years old too. Or something about my office job that I don't have.

I'm becoming irrelevant. Not the target audience for anything.

Unavoidably so but then again, going sideways because of a downvote is just more data on who you might want to block.

Echo chamber within echo chamber I guess.

It's not the people whose opinions I disagree with who I usually block. It's people making snide comments like this while fishing for upvotes. I'll reserve my attention to the ones who have something to say rather than ones just wanting to make noise.

If this mean we'd be able to see who has up- / downvoted a comment on our own and possibly on other people's posts then I'm all for it. This would be highly useful at filtering out the people here I want nothing to do with.

Musk really fucked everything up, did he?

Other than no longer being able to use an app to access twitter, I haven't noticed anything else changing for the worse. They even made the "media" tab into grid rather than list which was a welcome update.

It's been nothing but politics and memes (often about politics) since the first day I joined. I can only imagine how bad it is without my content filters considering how bad it is even with them.

I do photography and I've heard people analyze my work and try and find some meaning, intention or a message that I'm trying to convey with it.

The reality is that I took 150 pictures and that was the one I liked the best. There's nothing to it for me except how it looks. The fact that I managed to capture that specific photo is hardly anything but an accident. There is no meaning to it and whatever meaning one imagines seeing there is just in their mind. It's a story you're telling yourself and you'd come up with a similar story from a piece made by AI that you didn't realize was such. If it stops being art at the moment you learn it was made by AI but you accept it as art when it was made by human even if it was, in fact, an accident, then that's exactly the gatekeeping I'm talking about.

What I hear you saying is that generative AI is the artist, not the one writing the prompt.

I'm fine by that. It's not exactly how I see it but I have no argument against. It's not what this thread is about.

Perfect is probably exaggerated but what I mean is the promp that produces the exact outcome you were looking for. Generative AI can produce very high quality pictures with a simple prompt but if you're an artist with an exact vision in mind, it not so easy anymore to get AI to produce that for you.

Personally I find AI art to look like “AI-art” if that makes sense.

I know what you mean and while I generally agree I must still note that this only applies to the "bad" examples. It's conceivable that you too have seen pieces you truly liked but didn't realize were made by AI. This is something people often don't seem to consider; AI art is only bad untill it isn't.

Painters can either splash paint on the canvas or spend months working on a photorealistic masterpiece. There's absolutely a difference in skill needed for both but to claim the former is not art would also be gatekeeping.

That argument also disregards the actual difficulty of crafting the perfect prompt to get the AI to output what you want it to. Anyone can create pictures with it but it's not trivial to get it to create exactly what you want.

It's a rather safe assumption. I too like to tell myself a story about how I can always spot fakes but I know it to not be true.