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Sam Altman’s Studio Ghibli memes are another distraction from OpenAI’s money troubles (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've already heard of this - mainly thanks to the nuclear backlash it (and basically anything related to AI) is getting. Pulling out a particular highlight, here's Ashley Lynch tearing the whole thing a new one:

Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are. Great, you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning. I can't tell you how excited I am that we're literally burning the Earth up for this garbage.

Every genAI techbro needs to be sent to the Hague to stand trial for crimes against humanity with how they've traded our future for this absolute bullshit. Straight up capital punishment for every one of these fucking losers responsible for cursing us with this garbage. I have zero chill on this issue anymore. They represent the end of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Value, for some, is purely an emotional state.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@BlueMonday1984 @dgerard as someone who lacks the skills to draw I've found it very helpful in some situations to create images way beyond my ability to create. So it does have uses, but I also know it is limited. So great for making pretty stuff but useless for accurate stuff. It's just another tool that it takes skill to use at the right times. Sadly it's being pushed as the answer to many things it is not.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Going from

as someone who lacks the skills to draw I’ve found it very helpful in some situations to create images way beyond my ability to create

It’s just another tool that it takes skill to use at the right times

in a span of less than a paragraph. C'mon, it's not a tool that takes skill. It's a substitute for skill. Knowing when and how it's appropriate to use AI for art is as much a skill as knowing when to wear a hole-ridden perma-stained Coldplay T-shirt. You could contrive an answer other than "never" but nobody will be impressed either by you doing so or actually wearing the shirt.