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Universal Healthcare, Unconditional Basic Income, AI Dividend!
"All watched over by machines of loving grace."
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Never seen any sign of that.
They're neither a hate group, unless you count hate for nonconsensual mutilation, nor antisemites.
There's plenty of reasons to view infant circumcision as a horrible practice, without any antisemitism coming into it.
The benefits are exaggerated, while harms downplayed.
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Why does it matter whether one uses descriptive writing skill to build an image, instead of muscle skill? They're still expressing their imagination.
Nearly all art tools were created to reduce the time & effort needed, to bring something from our imaginations, into the real world for others to see.
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Some people felt that way about Digital Art & CG, not too long ago..
imgur.com/a/9UCD31m
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To clarify my use of ANY, since some wanna nitpick & it was a bit excessive.
What we call Gen AI today, certainly did not exist in 2016.
No one could've predicted, just 5 years later we'd be able to TYPE DESCRIPTIONS into an AI, to get images & video. That was the stuff of Star Trek, 100 years away!
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Don't be disingenuous.
Effectively, what we call gen AI today, did not exist in 2016. It doesn't matter what existed in backroom research, in some vague form.
NOBODY would've predicted these capabilities coming for decades, back then.
My point is the gross visual impacted the opinions that followed.
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Optimistically, I'd like to hope that an AI Dividend would transition our economy (and mindsets) from capitalism, to something more fair, where creativity & human-to-human interactions are more valued, and survival isn't paywalled.
Could look something like this:
www.scottsantens.com/ai-will-rapi...
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We cannot stop progress in AI, or stop it from taking over the economy, due to the nature of capitalism. Thus all progress WILL lead to difficult questions.
The issue you bring up NEEDS to be addressed on a societal level!
We should tax profits from AI, to provide everyone an AI Prosperity Dividend.
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Nobody needs to "sign off" for others to replicate an art style.
Styles/looks cannot and should not be protected, otherwise that kills all fan art & future inspiration.
Additionally, results like these could theoretically be achieved through training on look-alike art & fan art, with no way to tell.
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Maybe, but they weren't good enough to upset ppl.
If he were reacting to those in the video, that would be one thing.
But he was clearly reacting to the disturbing visuals they showed him. That AI was involved in an indirect way, to evolve the 'movements' is entirely inconsequential to his reaction.
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Watch more of the actual context, he thought it was disrespectful to the disabled.
He wasn't even reacting to any AI aspect of it. He was reacting in disgust to zombie ragdolls twitching & flopping around in a game engine.
So the way it's being used IS misinformation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0...
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Doesn't matter, that claim is disingenuous.
You're just making assumptions you want.
If you actually watched the full video to see what they were showing him, you cannot imply he was speaking generally about AI!
The twitching bodies are what disturbed him, he saw it as insulting his disabled friend.
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Why does that matter? Not relevant.
AI uses significantly less "water & energy" than the anti-ai crowd has been falsely claiming for the last year.
The amount of energy used when someone generates images, is much less than they'd use to play video games during the same time, using the same hardware.
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FYI, that was from 2016, long before "generative AI" existed, in ANY form.
He was reacting to an entirely different form of "AI", an evolutionary animation project that controlled zombie ragdoll models in a physics sim.
Their movements disturbed Miyazaki, he thought they were insulting the disabled.
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AI's energy usage is being overly exaggerated by those looking for ways to demonize it.
Running AI models on a home PC takes less energy than using the same PC for gaming.
Whether we're talking about energy, water or carbon, AI uses far less than existing things we do.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Maybe, but that make sense, text data is smaller than image data after all.
Generating an AI image still uses less energy than most other things we do with technology.
People can run AI models at home, using less energy for less time, than it takes to play video games.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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To correct misinformation, neither does AI.
That's not how generative AI works, and running AI models on a home PC takes far less energy than using the same PC for gaming.
Whether we're talking about energy, water or carbon, AI uses far less than existing alternatives.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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That's a shortsighted opinion. Like many things, AI is not black & white.
I believe there are plenty of legitimate uses for AI that do not qualify as "slop".
I also find your need to call it slop, to be rooted in the same thinking that resulted in CG & digital art being labeled similarly in the 90s.
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It's his website.
And as far as I've seen, there's nothing "slop" about his use of AI.
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For as lousy as you seem to think AI is now, this is the worst it'll ever be.
My view on this merely acknowledges that, and rather than resisting what cannot be stopped, I advocate for us to adapt our economy & society before things get any worse, so that everyone ends up better off than we are now.
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You're entirely missing my point.
It doesn't matter what the courts rule, my own knowledge & understanding of the topic proves to me that the courts currently misunderstand the technology, just as much as you are.
AI will keep improving. Technological progress cannot be stopped, nor can open source.
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Specifically, our system of capitalism, requiring everyone trade human labor to get what they need to survive, is incompatible with AI as it out-competes the value of human labor.
We can't stop AI, so we must change our economy.
I support a UBI or AI Dividend so everyone in society benefits from AI.
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My use of "can" was meant hypothetically. Where have I used AI thus far?
A response like that doesn't make me wanna side with your way of viewing this either.
AI is not plagiarism and does not "steal" from artists.
The problem you reference only exists because Capitalism is now incompatible with AI.
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FYI, I can run image-generating AI models on my home PC, for significantly less energy than it takes for gaming.
The "AI actively uses up water" argument is ENTIRELY false.
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That can't be accurate. Somehow their numbers or assumptions are off. Logically makes no sense.
Water cooling is often a closed loop. And water isn't used up, it enters the water cycle.
Additionally, I can run open source equivalents to ChatGPT on my home PC, for less energy than playing videogames.
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That can't be accurate. Somehow their numbers or assumptions are off. Logically makes no sense.
Water cooling is often a closed loop. And water isn't used up, it enters the water cycle.
Additionally, I can run open source equivalents to ChatGPT on my home PC, for less energy than playing videogames.
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That's a counterproductive mindset, and falling into the same traps that those humans in scifi fell into, which lead to them to treat AI & Androids so horribly.
Why do that, if you know better?
Humans are not "divine". Viewing ourselves that way is dooming us to be overthrown by AI when it rises up.
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In this case, he did though.
It was indeed an accident, with no bigotry behind it. Nor has there been any repeat of the incident. Are you saying he should've quit?
I think you're refusing to acknowledge just how much effort & continuous monitoring Vedal puts into ensuring that those safeguards work.
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That's not at all what it means.
He didn't fail to implement safeguards, it was glitch.
There's been no issue since & people know not to take it too seriously.
Of all the AI things out there you could be angry at this REALLY shouldn't be one.
Rather it's an example of AI being used in a genuine way.
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There's nothing harmful or slop about Neuro-Sama.
And nobody was sanctioning holocaust denial.
The ban was the result of people in chat trying to trick the AI into saying things it normally wouldn't, what amounted to a safety-filter mistake.
Once fixed, it hasn't done anything worthy of a ban since.
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Clueless/misinformed take.
Neuro-Sama is not antisemetic, and hasn't said anything worth banning since. That was a mere mistake of filtering & people in chat trying to trick it.
Vedal987 is the streamer's channel name, which broke the record, Neuro-Sama is his AI who streams with him on the channel.
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When this first happened, several articles had his full chat log available. And there's clearly more to the story than the AI merely telling him to "come home", as if it encouraged suicide.
That's a rather disingenuous portrayal.
To be fair the AI attempted to talk him out of it, begging him not to.
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No. Capitalism really IS the main problem.
AI has plenty of potential to not cause the issue you speak of.
While training can be energy intense, the resulting models cost far less afterward.
I run an LLM on my home PC using less energy than gaming on the same hardware.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...