Because I can't imagine anyone writing that of their own volition.

AI looks like slop because it's just grabbing a bunch of shit and stuffing it all together without any actual creative work.

The prompts have nothing to do with that. You can have the best prompts in the world and the technology is still going to produce slop because it's just slapping together something based on a large data set. There isn't going to be any individual creativity because there isn't any individual creativity it's just a mess of other people's work jumbled together by a computer algorithm.

The result is the most watered down garbage because it's a little bit of everybody from everything mixed together by a computer. It's not just about human creativity it's about individual human creativity. When people talk about the artist's vision that actually matters.

AI is just copying somebody else's work. Worse it's copying the work of a whole shitload of other people together. That's always going to make crap because there's no real effort in it.

All this is a moot point. The real purpose of AI is to replace employees. Everything else is just a goofy tech demo in order to get some data for the long-term goal of eliminating White collar work. Some blue collar work too since this AI technology is being applied to robotics.

And our species is very much not ready for a world where at least a quarter of the population has no purpose and no reason to exist.

DEI is woke which is sjw which is PC which is just desegregation under a different name.

Like Gavin Newsom said and he woke is just anti-black.

If that makes you uncomfortable, good. Now get out there and enjoy some good trouble.

Most of the second guessing of the pilot seems to assume the pilot could press pause and work out the alternatives on a chalkboard for an hour or two and then resume real-time with a solution in hand.

The fact is, it all happened in a handful of seconds. I doubt the pilot even had time to fully assess the problem before hitting the ground.

But the courts are paying more attention now because it's ai and it's bad press.

But I would bet money if you did a exhaustive analysis of court filings you would find plenty of made up citations that nobody ever looked into.

Then again lawyers are famous for their honesty and decency so maybe I shouldn't make assumptions.

The problem is in the solution. Rationally, those Herdsmen need to hash out an agreementfor the fair use of that land to keep it just below it's carrying capacity.

But what really happens that some 'nobleman' declares the entire commons to belong to him and sends a goon squad to wipe out any herdsman who disagrees. He then 'allows' the herdsmen to use the land in exchange for a painfully large share of their productivity. For some reason he expects gratitude for that arrangement.

Alas, we've moved beyond even that. Now the 'nobleman', seeing that the herdsmen are making do with a smaller commons over the hill but unable to grab control of it sends his goons to salt the earth overnight so the herdsmen will have to 'rent' land from him.

But even that isn't enough for some. They want more 'rent' than any herdsman can pay while still making a living. So they leave the field fallow while trying to grab even more land. For some reason they think they can squeeze blood from a turnip.

If you find that unbelievable as an analogy, explain why there are entire blocks in NYC that haven't seen any space rented in over 10 years, yet the asking price hasn't budged even as the neighborhood has been given over to rats and junkies.

Don't reply to trolls. He wants you to reply because your comment gets modded up and that keeps his comment visible. Without your plus three comment keeping his comment visible the idea is he's putting out disappear because his low-modded comment doesn't show up on most people's screens. The mod system hides his comment as the low effort troll post it is.

Wait a little bit and let the mods do their job. Now sometimes the mods failed to do their job and sometimes sock puppets mod things up anyway. If that happens that's when you want to step in.

And remember, DEI is woke which is sjw which is PC which is desegregation.

Bankers in America at least don't really do that. What you're thinking of are large investors. People with net worth over 500 million.

Bankers just loan money. These days they don't give a shit who they loan it to as long as the loan is big and they can justify the loan to shareholders and the government. Which of course is remarkably easy because we don't regulate things properly anymore.

The banks don't care about the quality of the loans because they have set themselves up so that if they go down they take the entire world economy down with them basically meaning we are all in a hostage situation.

The same is true for those ultra wealthy investors by the way.

Thanks though are an institution rather than individuals. That's an important distinction because Banks are, or at least should be, heavily heavily heavily regulated to force them to be run safely and intelligently. The problem is we've gotten so obsessed with free market bullshit that we don't regulate things that we need to be regulating anymore.

Getting back to AI bullshit though that's going to be investors and big shareholders demanding limitless returns and line go up.

That's funny I thought they only did that in there Arcady games like NHL hits.

And you can play it on mame. It didn't get released because they couldn't figure out a way to make baseball profitable in the arcade.

The problem was baseball doesn't break up into easily monetizable chunks like football and especially basketball. So it's hard to get the pacing right where you're getting a user is done before ordering every few minutes. I think older arcade baseball games could be profitable because they were much simpler, usually just boiling down the home run fests. But by the 90s people expected to play a full game.

It's also possible that those older games weren't profitable but operators didn't really notice as much. I won't say that I didn't see the ball games on the floor back in the daydidn't didn't go to arcades very often. Still it was usually football in the '80s and basketball in the 90s

All good points. All my machines are Linux and on low-end machines (not the Linux servers, which are beefy, but the Linux clients are all almost 10 year old I3's) and everything is super fast. But we are also talking about hundreds of users, not thousands. And almost all are local, not remote. And logins are mostly staggered across several timeframes. So my references and guesses are based on what I know.

I still think if it takes just a few minutes (which is way longer than I would expect), it is no big deal. But if it is a lot longer, they do have an issue that needs to be fixed. Yet I find it ironic the people whining are the stay-at-home's who don't have to spend perhaps 30 to 90 minutes a day *UNPAID* driving to work, and paying for gas and maintenance and sometimes parking and then walking to and from the building and office.

You may think of A.I. as slop.
You may even think of A.I. as cheating.

But most of the people in this world know nothing of the layers behind the training.
Not to mention all those people who discovers this new technology and just enters silly words and gets silly results, and think they are incredible artists with zero effort.

Nope, that's not how it works, at all.

I'm an artist, I've been doing art since the 80s, I'm an animator too, and an electronics enthusiast on top of it all, create my music, models, animations - everything from scratch, it has taken me years to master, and yet I'm a jack of all trades, master of none.

The thing is, A.i. here, is a stochastic sampler, it collects connections rather than images or creative stories, it can do noone of those things, it would take a database the size of a small planet to do so, so no - it won't create art or creativity for you, but it can do some basic stuff like make up connections to the words you use.

It's also terribly time consuming, you will have to experiment endlessly with ComfyUI models, words, sentences, LoRA's, concepts, compositions and whatnot in order to get anything closely consistent, you can - but it takes a TON of time to do so - and no, it does not copy your art directly, doesn't even use snippets of it, what it does is like if you knew shapes and colors, and you had 100 colored pens in your hands, and you dotted randomly onto a latent space, call it a piece of paper if you wish, and your memories consist of mere concepts and shapes, until the shape takes place out of your clouded stochastic images to match the words in your head.

That's the simplest way I can explain how it works so a regular person understand the technology behind it, so no - it does not copy your or my art in any way or shape.

However, you can, if you're absolutely AWESOME at creativity and prompting, if you excel at story writing, layout and composition and can describe it incredibly well, you can create art - and it's yours, not A.i.

The "Slop" you see, is a result of bad art, and total lack of creativity, it's the "wow" phase of people playing with the technology.

Democrats are fighting for people to have health care and food. Republicans are fighting to starve children, rape children and steal our money. There is absolutely no comparison. You're comparing the Republicans who are Nazi fascists to the Democrats who are moderately competent administrators who occasionally line their own pockets a little.

This isn't 1994. Republican party went full Nazi and never looked back. There are nothing but pedophiles and Nazis now.

You guys are worshiping this boat but the voyage was a failure, the sail powered cargo vessel failed to cross the Atlantic on sail power.

We STARTED with sail powered cargo ships and there is a reason we moved on from sail power. An electric powered boat that makes of omnidirectional wind, solar, and uses and inner and outer shell to capture wave power as rotational energy in flywheels... now that will work, during the day, during the night, in fair weather, and in bad weather and can be built with resiliency in mind.

Heh. Just needs the proper accessory holder so you can slam the handset in a telemarketers ear.

Not how it works. Until you cross into their building, not on property, it's just you commuting to work on your own dime.

Trip and break your hip in the parking lot before work? Not work related. I definitely think it *should* be, but it isn't.