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  • This is what they seem to never understand:

    They fixed the price of bread for years. Before getting caught, if people had asked them, "are you fixing the price of bread?", they would have said No, and probably have acted insulted that they were even asked.

    So now, if we ask them if they're fixing any other prices, they'll say No, and act insulted.

    After last time, why should we believe anything they say at any point?

  • But then when the bogs get flooded for harvest, the wolf spiders have nowhere to go that's not water, so the people who are harvesting cranberries are like tall islands of refuge, so they swarm to the humans for safety, so the humans are covered in friendly happy relieved wolf spiders <3

  • It lacks cohesion the longer it goes on, not so much "hallucinating" as it is losing the thread, losing the plot. Internal consistency goes out the window, previously-made declarations are ignored, and established canon gets trounced upon.

    But that's cuz it's not AI, it's just LLM all the way down.

  • While your points about the patronage system and its weaknesses are valid, you're writing off several centuries worth of legitimate human endeavor because the systems that enabled it were dodgy. Guess what though? That's literally all of history, dodgy AF, featuring an intrepid cast of characters more awful the deeper you look. That doesn't make the art or music worth writing off though.

    But honestly:

    What is interesting though is the fact that AI art, and the LAION-5B dataset used to train the models is a true and earnest reflection of sorts of what images today really are

    "Earnest" is definitely not the word you're looking for. Derivative, maybe, because you said it yourself, they're reflections; and as such, they're going to reflect what images of today are; like you said. That makes them derivative, and I feel a vast artificiality that makes my heart sink when I look at the vast majority of them.

    Choosing machine-created art over historical art is choosing a passing fad over centuries of culture. It's your right; but to write off history with a wave of the hand means you're missing out on truly expanding your horizons.

  • I remember in the 80's when this Ad was everywhere, on billboards and bus benches and magazines and newspapers. Pretty sure it won some awards.

    The TV commercial version was the same woman smiling, just a slow zoom in towards her smiling face, but there was this quiet static in the background with eerie footsteps coming closer for about 15 seconds before the audio dropped to total silence for a few seconds, then a narrator (James Earl Jones-style) said the motto, and the woman said the bit about the free fries, followed by another 5 seconds of silence while she kept smiling; but the smile was cracking, fading, her face muscles unable or unwilling to hold the pose until they suddenly dropped into a look of terror right as the commercial ended.

    The 80's were weird, bro