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31/white/future librarian (she/her) too many stories in my head
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T-rex likely didn’t have feathers, as it was very large and lived in warm climates—same for trikes. They might have had “fluff” as babies.
Of course, they also probably didn’t roar at their prey like a wrestler squaring up for a smackdown…
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Also, Arxiv is where a lot of GenAI related papers get published, a tradition started by AI researchers. Unfortunately, the peer review process can’t keep up with the speed of adoption.
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My friend started the show and now desperately wants Sanctuary Moon merch lol
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Surprised you weren’t getting hissed at.
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I think I got something like this too and nothing makes me want to skip past the ads in my podcast more.
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To be fair, it sounds like executive meddling was in full force for most of the development time. I've heard from those that played it that it feels like the most rushed game that took 10 years to make.
None of the team works at Bioware anymore so at least they out of that mess.
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Not me playing Against the Storm exactly when I got to that part in the episode.
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I’ve pretty much only seen Melanoë cosplays, but I guess its understandable because all that armor is probably trickier than a dress…
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Nemisis cosplay????
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I really haven’t been into Digimon since the original anime but I loved the Cybersleuth games.
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I imagine they go "nyoooooooom" when they fly.
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I’m sorry you’re alergic to plantains. 😔
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I just watched a video that I think said that in the books there was a law imposed by the wizard?
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Now if only I could get my Xbox Controller to work on my Macbook Pro, then I too could play Hades on the go. 😔
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As a writer who has creative aspirations that just strikes me as utter betrayal. Artists should be our partners in the creative process.
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Fair, but I think perhaps we should change our standards for writing English. Maybe if you can't write a comprehensible paper in English you shouldn't be going to school in an English-speaking University. But if you can write something that's at least understandable you should have leeway and help.
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I see people say they use it in D&D and the result is almost always something more complicated than it needs to be--and I Love to overcomplicate D&D sessions all by my own self, so I don't really see the use case, sorry.
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I do feel like it hijacks their intentions though--just from what I've heard from a friend who runs online games for non-English speakers, they'll use to create huge chunks of text that no one is going to read.
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This is gorgeous; I wish I could buy it for my trans players in the game where they play dragons…
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Isn’t this just the kid from SpyxFamily anyway?
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People always bring this up as if the AI they use in healthcare and engineering is the same as image/text gen. It’s not.
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Sorry, I don’t traffic in hypotheticals.
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It can’t do so with any degree of consistency, and it doesn’t actually allow editing.
Plus, to actually put together anything that could be even considered a movie you’d have to know how to write an actual script.
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It can make scenes. Movies are made up of scenes
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Sora can’t make movies though.
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Japanese cities are very walkable and most have excellent public transit. If I were to guess, I'd say the source of them problem has more to do with company culture and pressure to work.
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I do this with ice cream!
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Not sure if the Patreon has already told y'all, but Hades 2 does have a Mechsuit with guided missiles as a weapon. No duel wield pistols, though that could be the hidden aspect for the torches!
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Ask any artist or writer, and they'll happily tell you what inspired them--they'll also have opinions and stories about it.
LLMs cannot do that, because all they learn is what word is more likely, not what is more real. They simply reproduce the lowest common denominator.
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You say you're on "AI's side." What side? AI isn't a person, it's a tool. You can't be on its side. It's not really a single tool either, but a concept under which a variety of tools have been created, some better than others.
LLMs cannot self-reflect, so the simply reproduce bias.
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OpenAI didn't invent machine learning, and even if they did, there's no reason to let them continue burning energy and capital so they can invent reasons to use their bad fanfic machine.
Also what about your human bias? You seem awfully concerned about those cute little lab rats.
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You cannot make a good argument for how stealing artist's work and using vast amounts of water and energy to make memes somehow helps human-kind, so you keep bringing up similar technologies that don't actually benefit from the "major image generators" sucking up all the energy and capital.
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It is pointing at the way these specific programs were built--when we say they are corrupt, we do not mean they are evil in a metaphysical way. We mean they were built by corrupt people for corrupt purposes.
Image generators specifically. Not machine learning as a technology.
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Let's go back to the original quoted in this post: "There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real, human artists."
Notice the passive voice?
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Conversations are not deliberately created art. If I were to replicate someone’s exact conversation in a creative work, that would be pretty shady.
All this proves is that my brain is much better at collecting and iterating on information than the machines need to destroy animal habitats.
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“Humans don’t register they’re stealing most information?” Oh come on, I’m not stealing my own life experience, or the exact pattern of media I consume. If you’re talking science, we have citations for a reason.
I am blaming the humans who decide to steel art for the sake of shareholder value.
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People are rightly calling out the systems of people involved in pushing AI use for the worse. If they get a little colloquial with it, I don’t think it’s that big of a deal.
If I say GenAI models are bad at creative work, I’m not hurting their feelings, because they have none.
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that their machine must steal from artists to prevent robots from killing us all. These are different things.
You’ll notice that the author of this tweet was not in fact talking about preventing use in medical research. (3/3)
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—sifting through data. What they didn’t do, I assume, is ask ChatGPT to write their research down for them. (Also, they used animals to test their drugs, ironically.)
This is the problem with calling everything AI. It covers everything in from actually useful innovations to techbros (2/3)
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AI conservation? You can’t seriously argue that generative text/image models which use vast amounts of energy and water are better for the environment.
The Stanford researchers who used AI to develop new drugs built their own model and used it to do what computers are good at— (1/2)
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Okay, so why should I concede to a bad plagiarism machine why the human brain can clearly do better without burning down an acre of rainforest?
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Right? Wild that people are still arguing that AI is “cheaper.”
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Human artists learn from other art, but they do so in a way that is informed by a variety of experiences outside the artworks themselves. Humans can also choose to make art a certain way deliberately. Image models are just choosing what color the pixel is more likely to be.
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Why do you find the need to illustrate everything? One of the features of TTRPGs is you can leave things up to the imagination.
Also, if you need NPC portraits, Heroforge and Picrew are right there.
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I was about to say “banger tweet” and then I remembered that isn’t a thing here.
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There once was talk about a train line from Iowa City to the Twin Cities. Imagine that...it will never happen, but Imagine...