Of Aldi people to provide cloud services, I would not have guessed Lidl

I knew someone at school who was into bus spotting because “train spotting was boring”

It won’t even work as child protection, because horny teenagers gonna find a proxy or a vpn, or gonna find dodgy porn sites that don’t check your age

Can’t happen soon enough. However this is actually about control so any collateral damage is irrelevant

Yes

Yeah the same thing happened with the dot com bubble.They didn’t try to replace junior developers with ai, they just gave them pool tables in lieu of having any plan at all! When I graduated there were very few jobs in programming at all, and those that were were flooded by people with a lot more experience than a new graduate.We’ll get through it this time too

I graduated in 2002, just as the dot com bubble burst. Similar scary headlines abounded then. I’m not employed in it, but I don’t recall the tech sector disappearing and us all going to live in caves. Maybe I missed it?

It’s using energy, we need more renewables. That’s not a problem with AI. Direct your opprobrium where it belongs

No we don’t

And photography before that, and pre-mixed paints before that (the media dragged J. M. W Turner of all people for it!). I imagine many of the same arguments were used against pencils and brushes when they were first invented too!

That’s because you are as wilfully ignorant as trump cultist and refuse to understand how this new tool works. You’ve been told it’s bad by luddite youtube influencers and that’s good enough for you.

Yeah that’s a damn fine example of a really stupid take. Thank you.

Lets start with the amount of effort it takes not being related to artistic value, otherwise your pictures would be worth more than Picasso’s doodles, wh9ich is clearly bullshit. Plus the fact that’s ableist as fuck - I recently suffered nerve damage and so can’t actually control a pencil properly, and trying get painful, soi are you really saying disabled people can’t and shouldn’t create art?

Now theft - it; not theft. No artist is denied their work, no copies are made, and it can’t reproduce their work. It can mimic a style but most of the people who complain about that are the most derivative anime-style furry porn artists (no offence to furry porn, but what they create is no high art!)

Oh, and I agree that the best ai, like most software, is run locally and is open source. Disliking megacorps is not a criticism of ai

So yeah, thanks again for illustrating my point

Uh… all art is influenced by what came before. All of it, except maybe the very first cave paintings. And claiming that ai can’t make anything new is as as clear an indicator that you don’t know what you’re talking about as is calling it “slop”

People are kinda dumb, but the level of wilful ignorance displayed by the anti-ai crowd is equalled only by trump cultists

Yeah, spot on. Also The Rite Of Spring is one of my favourite pieces of music ever

AI art (and AI in general). The amount of misinformed and outright wrong bullshit that gets levelled at me when I defend AI or point out something false is ludicrous. Almost every single argument against it was levelled at photography a century ago, much of that was levelled at pre-mixed paints before that, and what’s left is either flat out wrong, or levelled at the wrong place

Vibe coding has a niche, which is people who can read, understand, and debug code, but can’t remember the syntax or can’t be arsed to write everything manually. It’s good for blocking in right now, basically, and that’s an entirely valid use of the technology

One of the worst people asked one of the worst people for advice about some of the worst people. Great

Oh I totally understand that trump would do that, I just think you’re reaching because you have started from the position that “AI is bad mmmkay”

Random stretch is random