So you don’t want to go against the jerk, okay.

Thanks?

Agreed. The point being that people aren’t really upset about whether it’s art or not. They’re mad about money.

And that’s not exactly dumb either, making bread is important. It’d just be nice if it was admitted to.

AI being appropriated for neural nets which might even do things unrelated to what we think of as intelligence is annoying, I’ll give you that.

What art is is kind of a huge can of worms, though. In any case, it’s pretty clear they can satisfy potential clients a lot better than human digital artists, and that’s where at least part of the butthurt comes from.

It was, but doesn’t that seem shortsighted now? When there’s a change it’s usually bad for someone, but no change since the 1700’s would definitely be bad, even if there’s a steady two pence or whatever to be made weaving.

Sitting in 2025, we can identify a whole lot that was wrong with the world and conditions of labourers (including literal slaves) then. It seems kind of odd to blame technology for them, at least directly. But, that’s where the luddites turned their anger, and Lemmy seems to slide into doing the same thing - although there’s a lot of overlap with valid skepticism about things people claim AI do, that it actually can’t.

If we did what they wanted, I couldn’t afford the clothes I’m wearing. Or probably a lot of other things - shit tons has improved since the late 1700’s.

Sure, there’s less weaver jobs now, and there will be less digital artist jobs in the future. Arguably, the past few centuries have shown that if there’s other things that we can do instead, it’s still for the best. (If there’s not, a whole new conversation opens up)

Yes, it’s not a good argument totally unsupported. You can live in a society and still criticise it, if there’s no reasonable choice to do otherwise.

The thing is, I really like not having to weave my own clothes, or do whatever trade was made obsolete by all the technologies since. I’m guessing OP does too, and there’s no good reason to place a cutoff on that at 2020.

If OP thought things would genuinely be better if we went back to medieval tech, this would be a different, and actually much more interesting conversation. As it is, they just didn’t know the history.

No. The luddites were against the move away from manual weaving, and literally did break into factories to smash looms.

This person on the internet in hemp rags they grew themselves.

Because Lemmy is full smash-the-looms luddite about AI art.

No, we’re really all grug cavemen.

Edit: Maybe the programmer gets a copper spear, but we don’t get to be hyperintellegent and still write code this shit.

Okay, but can you reprogram it to run Doom, before a Creeper blows it up?

And then the lowest rung of all has to deal directly with meatspace in it’s smelly, sticky, 360 8K glory.

It bugs me that so many people far richer then me aren’t competent or confident enough to roll their eyes at that.

Yup.

Unfortunately, is still runs slower than Piefed on Python (IIRC) because the database code is godawful. Hopefully there will be a fix eventually.

Are smaller companies not falling into the FOMO mentality as much?

It’s interesting. On the other major PH community, a good laugh was had at everyone’s own expense. On this one, people are butthurt.

It’s the first one, the ㅤU+3164 Hangul filler, to save everyone else a comment source+browser console+copy-paste+hex editor/search.

New technologies, when introduced, are typically given names that overstate their capabilities, usually by equating them with existing familiar systems or technological artefacts

It’s worse than that, really. When they named quantum computers, it was an analogy of a theoretical piece of lab equipment with an existing piece of lab equipment. Computers have since become a bit of a thing, and now people expect quantum computers to help with their gaming.

Anyway, interesting to see just how far these quantum computing groups have gone for an impressive-sounding press release.

Also, lol:

We use the UK form “factorise” here in place of the US variants “factorize” or “factor” in order to avoid the 40% tariff on the US term.

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