Sure but it gets back to “Nobody wants to see anyone’s shit art”. No one wants to see anyone’s shit photos either. If it didn’t take like 5 minutes for a photo I bet most early photos would have been of tits, too. It doesn’t mean the tech can’t have a purpose and couldn’t be used in a flourishing, artistic way. It just means we need to do what we’ve always done and tell people with bad art to fuck off. :)

Yeah fair enough, I don’t disagree with you. I think for AI artists of the future it’ll be more about them asserting their subjectivity through the lens of each model (if that’s possible). Sort of in the same way that each camera has a character to it that is palpable across multiple people.

For example, take Adolf Hitler. He was a terrible artist. He had no understanding of proportion. His paintings don’t make logical sense. And you know what? That suits the man. Hitler was an idiot who couldn’t make logical sense of the world. His paintings reflect his terrible mind. There is that much value in them as an endeavour of self-expression. I can look at a painting by Hitler and say “that’s a Hitler”.

But I do disagree with this, though. Hitler may have been a terrible artist but he might be an equivalent artist in skill level to any number of other humans who might or might not have a “logical sense of the world”, “no understanding of proportion” etc. I don’t think Hitler’s art is good enough to even be able to tell anything about him other than that he doesn’t have an original voice yet.

I don’t think most (any?) AI artists have an original voice yet. Can they make one, even though the instrument makes most of (much of?) the music? I’m not bearish on the idea that humans can use this tool to make something useful I guess.

Any idiot with a pencil is an artist. The pencil only does what you tell it. You don’t have to work to make it yours.

I don’t like that we’ve settled here in defense of “human art” because that’s simply not true. No one, in the course of human history, has ever sat behind some kid doodling stupid pictures and clapped for them unless it was their mom. It’s a trope that real human artists are generally ignored through their lifetimes. Let’s stop pretending we’re all patrons of the arts and love everything that comes out of a person with a paint brush.

That said, you’re totally right, there’s 99% of people who don’t do shit with AI art, and don’t know what to do with it. There’s still an infinite capacity for a thing that makes whatever you can imagine to actually make something useful, I do truly believe that. If you haven’t seen “great AI art” it’s probably because there hasn’t been a great AI artist yet. Likening it back to photography, which was mostly a carnival trick and a thing for bored rich people, it took a long time before anyone ever identified a photographer who they thought actually showed them something that showed their subjectivity. We’re in the “old people staring at a camera looking bored” phase of this.

I guess photography is just going “Camera, capture the perspective of the world for me”. There’s no human element in it at all, no choice, no subjectivity, just “Ask computer for thing, hit print, call it ‘my art’”. That’s a totally accurate depiction of what’s going on. Yup.

Literally been carrying that all my life, too. It definitely doesn’t seem like most people took that message away from the game.

Yeah this would still hit 100% of ads that have happened before now. And all linear tv ads on streams. Seriously willing to build it if anyone wants to work on it with me. Pm me

I really wanted to make a system that would recognize if it’s seen the same 30-second clip before (since ads are always repeats) by a shared signature that would just play something else or silence for the length of the ad on the client side, especially for live sports streams.

Yeah I don’t wanna exaggerate but it was nearly the worst environment I could think of to just leave bread in. If you had a party or a brunch or something and didn’t want the bread sitting out, sure, but for having in there for a week and a half unmonitored, we’ve been taken for absolute fools. :)

Had one, hated it, forget the bread was in there* and it doesn’t have some sort of magical bread preservation properties, it’s just a spot taking up counter space to hold a plastic bag.

* (I recognize this is my specific problem but it’s on the list of why it doesn’t work for me)

This is a great point, not sure what kind of bias it is, but you’d literally see thousands of people agreeing (the upvotes) and then 10 people circling around in a knife fight. Did we need science to tell us Reddit is full of trolls? Trolls existed on Reddit before LLMs became popular.

Good thing AI can’t fail.

I like how you copied someone else’s actual original work to make your own (imo lesser, but to each his own) version of it but called the original creator’s work “slop”.

Yes and no, because I think a thing fiction can’t do is repeat itself, so they must find interesting new angles in which they could reflect possible futures. The very much most likely future of whatever the thing is becoming an ad-laden, buggy, infinite-money ponzi scheme until it’s abandoned 3-72 months after its release and thrown into a landfill isn’t that interesting to see episode after episode.

I’ve been using open webui (search for it with those terms) to run local models in a docker container served from Llama for the last few months and I love it.

Sometimes I serve apps with Flask, he wanted to get into some python as well

Yeah, OK. I just watched a complete novice ask ChatGPT how to go through installing node, pip, and creating a react app (of course ChatGPT being of 2021 suggested CRA). After 2 minutes, his confidence was soaring. And then he tried to run the react app and ran into an issue that required 2 days of troubleshooting for him to resolve. (When he asked me about it I told him he could have just deleted the file and moved on.)

So, yah, just let the CEO type in the code into the magic box, what could go wrong.

My 9th gen intel is still not the bottleneck of my 120hz 4K/AI rig, not by a longshot.

I do have a 64gb m1 MacBook Pro and man that thing screams at doing LLM AI. I use it to serve models locally throughout my house, while it otherwise still works as a fantastic computer (usually using about half the ram for llm usage). I still prefer a 4080 for image generation though.

I see. I have some old computers kicking around, I actually just deployed a windows media server, but that could easily be a Linux server and probably should be. That system I could easily boot only Linux so that appeals.

The issue with my main PC is that it has multiple terabytes of windows -related stuff. I get how I could read the old drives but there are terabytes of games that I’d have to reinstall to do that on that computer (compatibility issues aside) it sounds like

I could do that, but how does Linux see/interact with my Windows stuff? Am I double-installing games to run-as-Windows with something like Proton? (like a Linux install and a Windows install on the old drive?)