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Author, creator, and funny guy I guess. Author of the Megazoic and Teslanauts book series and host of the Paleo Bites podcast. My opinions are mine alone. He/Him
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I've shown you repeatedly with verifiable sources that this is not how it works, and in fact you can prove this yourself by actually using it, but you refuse to believe it, so there's nothing more to say. You're literally shifting the variables to meet your premeditated conclusion.
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Oh no, the tech is gonna replace the artist, this is a new fear that has never happened before that won't inevitably lead to a shift in what an artist can do! Oh, wait...
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Regardless, this is clearly a super emotional issue with you, as you're resorting to insults while I'm just trying to educate you, but I guess emotion trumps logic in your world.
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No art is created in a vacuum. Even the earliest art was cave paintings of animals. Were the cavemen stealing from the animals? Lol.
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It's not stolen, though, same as watching a movie and getting inspired by it isn't. You're creating an issue by applying the definition of "theft" inconsistently with reality.
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Again, when you read a book and get ideas from it, is that also stealing? Because that's all the AI is doing.
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Disney and Universal aren't suing AI as a whole. They're suing them for allowing people to use AI of their owned characters. They do the same with any type of art tool.
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And if AI is used specifically for that purpose too, then it is also stealing, yes. But it almost never is, and yet you hate all instances of it.
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How is it stolen? Is it gone from the original creator? Is any part of the original creation easily discernible in any part of what uses it for study?
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So you're saying you have to teach the AI specifically to copy it verbatim? Oh wow, what an indictment against AI. Next you'll tell me tracing means all drawing is stealing too, haha
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I look forward to seeing the massive swell of counter protests tomorrow against Trump's pitiful tiny self-deluded schlock.
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I gotta say it: Disney Star Wars is the best Star Wars.
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Makes sense you go straight to ad hominem, lol. That tends to happen when you have no argument.
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So your whole argument against an actual verifiable source is "nuh-uh!" That sounds about right, lol.
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From one progressive to another:
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You clearly didn't read the graph I posted, because it addresses this exact claim of yours. Either that or you don't believe it, which at that point is on you, lol
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All the stuff you said that inspires you to make art? It applies to all of us, including those who use AI tools in their art-making. And yet you dismiss it merely because of the methods, which is more anti-art than anything AI could do.
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It doesn't "steal." It learns. Here's a helpful graph demonstrating how it works. Also, you can test the energy usage yourself by running Stable Diffusion locally. It's not much. So both reasons you hate AI so much are inaccurate.
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Also, you can run Stable Diffusion locally yourself to see how much power it actually uses, and it's no more than the average video game. In truth, it would take roughly 100,000 ChatGPT prompts to equate the water usage of making a single hamburger patty.
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I recommend you actually learn how AI works before disparaging it so harshly. It doesn't steal, it learns:
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And also you can measure the "environmental impact" yourself by running Stable Diffusion locally on your computer and checking the energy usage. It's not a lot.
In fact, it would take 100,000 ChatGPT prompts to equate the water usage of making a single hamburger patty.
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Stolen, how? It doesn't steal, it learns. Educate yourself:
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I find it more embarrassing to be so resistant to technological progress as if it's gonna be any different to when people were resisting the printing press or the camera.
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Hey, when you read a book or watch a movie and get inspired by it, is that plagiarism too? Or just when an AI does it?
Also, it doesn't "burn the planet." You can run Stable Diffusion locally on your own computer and measure the energy usage yourself. Spoiler alert: it's not much.
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If you block everyone using AI, you're gonna be blocking the majority of the Internet soon enough, lol
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It's easy to be mad at people you've completely imagined.
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Technology never stops, no matter how much some want it to.
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Here's some good vibes from my cockatiel Lyra!
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If you dislike remakes on principle, that's fine, we all have our preferences. But that's a YOU problem. Don't blame the remakes or the studios for it!
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I dunno, I love all of them. The first is obviously the best, but that was such a perfect blend of the wonder of new CGI with the wonder of the characters seeing the dinosaurs that literally can't be replicated. The sequels though do their own thing, because they kinda have to.
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People suck at nuance.
It's a lot easier to imagine the good guy is purely righteous and the bad guy is purely evil, and everything is simple and black and white.
Nothing is ever like that if you dig into it a bit.
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Honestly, fine by me.
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I mean, my wife and I can get preeetty kinky, but I wager you're too young to understand what that means, lol
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If you say so, lol
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Oooh, so serious... so grumpy... you need joy!
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You sound mad. You deserve some joy. I had ChatGPT make a lizard with a rainbow jetpack for you. Hope you like it. ❤️
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Clearly some, considering you responded, lol
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Sounds like you need some whimsy in your life. I asked ChatGPT to make a cat with a jetpack for you. Thinking of you. ❤️
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They said the same thing about all these other inventions, by the way.
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Can't argue with that, lol
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You clearly do, lol
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You sound like this.