erin (she/her) @ erin @lemmy.blahaj.zone

TTRPG enthusiast and lifelong DM. Very gay 🏳️‍🌈.

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Yikes. A world without artists would be a dark, dark place. What an incredibly terrible take, unless you're implying that the only art that counts as labor is when it's for a corporation, in which case, even worse take, yikes again.

It's Lemmy, and it took maybe 5 minutes of scrolling for this to be on my front page. Your comment irked me and I want to increase engagement on the site, sue me.

They never said they're in the left lane, and in fact specifically specified against it. Sounds like you're both defensive and an aggressive driver.

Unfortunately not an option for most stores where I live.

I missed the original comment and this discussion now makes no sense. Why would you edit the content of your comment when you don't care about the points or the outrage?

It isn't 90 degrees because the image is misleading. 60+40+y=180. y=80

I don't know how much you can trust the narrative when the media is all state controlled and anti-party speech is at best minimized, at worst censored. Total state control of the narrative is not conducive to free and fair elections, not to mention a police state. Before you whatabout, I'm well aware that the US is a police state and is controlled by two parties of neo-libs. I'm no supporter of the US, but I'm also no supporter of any autocratic regime. Calling the PRC a fair democracy is at best willfully ignoring the extreme state control over information, at worst denying a tyrannic despot twisting socialism into an autocratic, capitalist dictatorship while silencing opposition.

Self checkout isn't supposed to be for more than 10 or 15 items in most stores... obviously it would be less convenient in those cases.

Isn't this satire?

Yes

Way to entirely miss the point. Are you suggesting that the simplest form of an artform isn't part of it? Apply that to literally every other artform. By your logic, jamming on basic chords on a ukulele in my living room isn't music, and a kids stick figure drawing of their family isn't art. You're so concerned about being "correct" that you missed being right. Go back and actually read my comment for its meaning, not the pedantry. If this is how you engage with media, I understand why you would compare AI art and photography.

Photography has far more depth, complexity, and creativity as an artform and comparing it to AI both misunderstands the process and does it a huge disservice. Even before lining up the shot, the photographer must choose the right focus length, exposure, and a number of other technical settings, then must choose a subject, perhaps modify the composition, and have the right timing.

Photography can be as simple as pointing a phone camera for a well timed moment or snapping a once in a lifetime shot with an expensive lens. AI art takes orders of magnitude less creativity or training to do well, because it's stealing the work of people that have already learned the composition techniques and have done the legwork, which is just being shoddily regurgitated by the plagiarism machine.

There is a difference between studying techniques, ideology, history, and mediums to be able to use a style created by another artist in your own creative works, and putting all the creative end products into the ideas blender and churning out a product with no creativity and no intentionality to the application of the process. What's the end game? At what point does human creativity become redundant and AI starts eating its own slop? Do human artists need to keep creating depictions of meaning or value or whatever else they find important to endlessly feed into the machine so it can duplicate them, missing any of the metaphor, subtext, and soul present in the original? At what point is it obvious that workers are having their labor stolen by the tech bro Soylent Green idea machine to enrich them at the expense of whoever's life work they seemed to be slop worthy of regurgitation.

AI can be an excellent shortcut or a great tool, and help us make our work easier and products better, but it is not a creator of original creative works, and cannot be validated at the same level as human artists. I, for one, would like to see a future where artists don't just exist to feed into their machine betters.

I own two cats, and they both have bells. They haven't killed any wildlife since then. Cats are not native animals in Europe, they are very much invasive and devastated local populations of birds and small mammals.

Trolling, intentionally obtuse, or just dumb? Because as we all know, cats never kill anything but pests. Native animals would never become endangered because of domesticated cats. At least put a bell on them or something so they don't kill the wildlife.

Regardless, she's acclaimed and talented. Her performance was excellent. Her previous performances have been excellent. If all the hypothetical naysayers have to go on is career length, it seems like a very weak motive for selective hatred.

I feel like characterizing Halle Bailey as "just some chick" is disingenuous at best.

On the contrary, since growing my nails out my nails have been way more clean. There is an awkward period between no nails and long nails where stuff gets caught underneath, but once you grow them out (only two weeks or so), they're perfectly clean because there's just more space underneath and nowhere for gunk to get caught as the angle is wider.

(Classic guitar players have long nails)