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I can't remember the exact quote, or where I read it (I think it might have been Mickey7 by Ashton Edward) but it went something like this

"virtually all technological innovation throughout all time has been first and foremost used for one thing. Easier and better access to Porn. The printing press, the TV, the internet, VR, and occular implants. What we couldn't figure out how to watch porn with, we used to kill each other instead"

Frankly, anyone who first heard about AI image generation and didn't immediately think "oh, people are gonna use that for porn" is incredibly naive lol

The trouble is, if the have the content on YouTube, people will just watch that - even if RT asks them not to. People will always take the most comfortable path to a goal, if they only host on their site, then anyone who wants to watch their stuff has to go on their apps or their website.

Basically they're betting that they have a loyal enough fan base to follow them off YouTube, but recognizing that they won't do it if they don't have to. Whether or not their viewership stays is another question, but honestly it's not that out there. I feel like people have already forgotten that this is how the internet worked for most of its history. Some Gen Z folks are just gonna have to learn how to use more than one app to consume all their content

Do they have the military might to stop them?

Genuinely asking, I have no idea what the military power of those countries are

Blame Hollywood - every movie programmer is just a natural savant (probably on the spectrum) who operates a computer in more or less the exact same way a wizard operates a wand

Yeah honestly it seems like a targeted media blitz more than anything. If you read the actual article, most of his vetos are done for very good reasons - but they're all being posted with reductive headlines

You'd think, but according to OP they were basically the same, slightly worse actually, which is interesting

Yeah and I'm sure there are some artists out there making really novel work using AI as a tool, but a lot of amateur artists made the bulk of their money doing things that AI can just do for basically nothing now.

If I want a character commission for my DnD character, I can get something really fucking excellent in an afternoon of playing around with Stable Diffusion, and that's without any real expertise in AI tools or "prompt engineering". Same with portraits of family, pets, friends, etc - and of course the smutty stuff that has always been the real money maker for low level amateur artists

Those types of artists are already really suffering as a result of the tools available now, and it's only going to get worse as these tools get easier and cheaper to use

I wonder how this will play out for works that are only partially done by AI

For instance, I know some authors are using chatGPT to help brainstorm plot and dialog, so at what % of AI use is a book "human made" vs "AI made"? If I use chatGPT to write half my dialog, is it still my work? What if I heavily edit the dialog I given, while still keeping it mostly intact?

Its definetely going to be interesting to watch how this all unfolds, but yeah I'd definitely be at least nervous if I made my living making art right now

One thing I'd be interested in is getting a self assessment from each person regarding how good they believe themselves to have been at picking out the fakes.

I already see online comments constantly claiming that they can "totally tell" when an image is AI or a comment was chatGPT, but I suspect that confirmation bias plays a big part than most people suspect in how much they trust a source (the classic "if I agree with it, it's true, if I don't, then it's a bot/shill/idiot")

Idk if I'd agree that cherry picking images has any negative impact on the validity of the results - when people are creating an AI generated image, particularly if they intend to deceive, they'll keep generating images until they get one that's convincing

At least when I use SD, I generally generate 3-5 images for each prompt, often regenerating several times with small tweaks to the prompt until I get something I'm satisfied with.

Whether or not humans can recognize the worst efforts of these AI image generators is more or less irrelevant, because only the laziest deceivers will be using the really obviously wonky images, rather than cherry picking

The house wasn't productive before McCarthy getting the boot, so I don't see why you view this as a step back. McCarthy was a terrible speaker for most Americans, even most Republicans. He let himself be completely held hostage by the most radical wing of his party, constantly broke public promises, refused to work across the aisle (until he was getting voted out when he expected the left to bail him out, immediately after reneging on several promises, both regarding the govt shutdown and the impeachment).

The only thing he managed at all in his final days was to narrowly avoid a govt shutdown due to squabbling among his own people, and even there he only barely delayed it.

The hope is that his successor will learn from his mistake and get the votes he/she needs from moderate democrats rather than bowing down to every demand from the most unhinged members of his party

Tl;Dr he was objectively terrible at his job, even for moderate republicans and the odds are low that we'll be worse off with whatever replacement is chosen for him

Depends on your personal priorities, I'm certainly not trying to tell you what to care about, I was just elaborating on why people might care more about tik toks spying than Metas. Personally, you won't find either on my phone

What exactly is wrong with porn ads like those shown in the image? I'd have no issue if pornhub put up a billboard in my town that just said "Got Porn?", as long as the billboard itself isn't featuring explicit images, what's the harm?

Both types are bad and should be avoided, but I think there is a difference between a private US company invading your privacy, and literal CCP sponsored Spyware, particularly when you're a member of a nation that CCP is actively targeting for espionage and surveillance (not that the US isn't doing likewise, to still the crys of whataboutism)

If anything, that just reenforces his point though

Yeah I completely agree, cigarettes are a symptom, but when the actual cute is a long hard road, treating symptoms is a totally reasonable course.

Also, cigarettes don't provide an escape from reality, they only provide an escape for nicotine cravings. Literally the only reason to smoke is because you have to (or you're dumb and curious), it doesn't get you high or anything like that

How are they ruining his life? They literally just sent a cease and decist telling him he can't use their trademarks

Citizens united is also a symptom though, frankly I think we're at the point where we either need a whole slew of constitutional ammendments, or a whole new one altogether, but I don't see how either of those options is happening any time soon

Regarding the societal collapse point, I really doubt that gold would be much in that scenario unless you can escape somewhere where things are relatively "normal", in a genuine survival situation, bread is worth more than gold

had an impression it was extremely expensive but also very wealthy.

The trouble with these kinds of statements is that there are always going to be "bottom of the ladder" workers who are still poor in these cities, and being poor in am expensive city is a shit load worse than being poor anywhere else

Even then, salaries are high, but the CoL more or less cancels it out. Even the wealthy SWEs I know who live in SF are barely able to swing 2 bedroom apartments that they share with an SO. That's why you hear about new grads making $200k/year right out of college working for Meta or Google, it's true, but you'd be better off in a lot of ways working for a small company in Sacramento for $100k