Yes. If you hate AI for those reason I think you’re an idiot. In fact if you hate ai art for any reason other than it’s content (and to be fair a lot of it is shite, but then a lot of stuff created by humans without computers is shite as well) you are wrong.

Do you think computers are making pictures for computers to look at with no human interaction?

no, musk is a twit

Yes. Ai art is great. It’s a new medium and pretty much every argument against it was made against photography a century ago, and most of them against pre-mixed paints before that. Stop believing the haters who don;t know what it actually is.

Kakistocracy: “a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.”

See also kleptocracy: rule by thieves. I not infrequently refer to our government as a kleptocratic kakistocracy

“I would say ‘don;t do anything I wouldn’t do’, but that doesn’t rule out much”

I use “have fun” completely unironically all the time. One time my partner’s (Pakistani) carer thought I spoke Arabic because Afwan is apparently an Arabic salutation meaning approximately the same as “cheerio”, “goodbye”, or “you’re welcome” in English. He also turns up around half one every day for added amusement

No, someone just dropped a pile of vowels on a page while carrying them to be cleaned or something, and the monks decided to stick with it

Übermorgen is the name of my heavy metal band

So you can’t pull an image out as it went in? Because it’s not stored there? Yeah that’s what I FUCKING SAID! Stop spreading bullshit. Just stop it.

The insult is justified because you are spouting bollocks. Again. You CANNOT pull any of the training images out of a latent diffusion model, it is simply impossible because they are NOT THERE and if someone says they did they are either lying or spent a fuck of a lot of time and energy on making it look like they did. Either way they are trying to con you. Also the training thing - it’s no different to art inspiring human artists except the neural network in the computer is a lot simpler. It’s a new medium being used by humans, by artists, to create art. That’s all it is.

I don’t have the time or energy to explain any more of this to you. Again. Learn how something works before you comment again. Or just shut the fuck up for good. That works too.

No it doesn’t. It’s not theft by any reasonable definition of the word. No images are stored, no artwork is used directly to create other artwork. It’;s just not, that’s not how latent diffusion works. That’s one of most commonly repeated pieces of bullshit which has been refuted so often you would have thought it’d have got through a few of your thick skulls by now.

They are mostly known for having smashed machines and been terrified of technology. That’s where the parallel here lies, and what the term has come to mean. Whether they had good reasons back then is irrelevant, the anti-ai bunch don’t have now.

Apparently arguing in favour of AI art is pretty controversial, but then the anti-AI luddites are about as intractable as trump cultists, and their arguments about as valid, so fuck 'em!

Lear Welsh or French. They’re both Prescriptive languages where that is (officially) true. English, however, is a descriptive language which means the dictionary is there to record how language is used not to define how it should be used

That’d be an editor thing rather than a language thing, I would have thought. It’s probably configurable in some

How do you… Oh sorry

But yeah that sounds unpleasant

You can set those things to be visible in many editors. Its ugly tho

Devil’s lettuce is my favoruite

I feel like elves would get into tea, dwarves would get into coffee