Microblog Memes

what an esteemed little guy :)

do it again but stare at grass for a few hours

Edit: Also i drew "your" guy pregnant

Gave it a fat ass too

evenly lit, ink smudged weird, camera somehow perfectly on top without occluding any light

may snakes bite your balls and all your milk turn sour

Dude this is a masterpiece, it’s in no way half assed.

That's actually pretty good depiction of a chunk of roast beef with a revolving rotor attached to it and flying upwards.

Time to move the goal posts again:

Some people need something to rage and virtue signal against. Those who work in private STEM sectors or took machine learning classes years before the LLM craze already understand the tool is here and are willing to learn to work with it if applicable in their job or daily life.

Those who don't understand anything about the science of machine learning and are angry at the how megacorporations got away with unconsentually scraping their copyright infringed data off the internet for the first iterations of training data still get to let off some steam by calling it 'hyped autocomplete just as bad as NFTs that will never do what a person can'.

If I were an artsy type whos first exposure to ML was having my work stolen followed by the thief bragging to my face about how copy protection laws dont matter to the powerful and now they can basically copy my honed style 1 to 1 with a computer to sell as an product, I would be unreasonably pissed too and not interested this whole 'AI'thing. Megacorps made chatGPT and stable diffusion using my work therefore AI bad. I get it.

That said, I'm not an artsy type or an idealist. I'm a practical engineer who builds systems to process the flows of information and energy with the tools available at my dispersal. Theres more to machine learning than proprietary models made with stolen information to be sold to th masses. Instead models are just the next new way to process large datasets full of complicated information. Its just that now were taking cues from natures biological information processing systems. Whether such processes prove more certain and effective to the old analog and digital ways have yet to be seen. Perhaps using these new tools will open up entirely different ways of treating information for all of society. Perhaps it will be just another niche thing for researchers to write papers about. Time will tell.

I judge art on the basis of three things:
The intent of the artist,
The context surrounding the art,
My own interpretation of the art

A stable diffusion model is not much more than a set of statistical functions executed over a large array of numbers. Therefore, the model cannot have intent.
The use of the model to generate images damages the environment, makes use of work made by artists who, by design, cannot be credited for said work, and no or very little artistic effort went into the generation. Therefore, the context is pretty loathesome.
The third point depends on the image, although I find that most images do not have much in the way of creativity or artistic direction, and come off as "bland", "samey", "wrong". The fact that there is no intent makes it hard for me to read intent. Therefore, my interpretation is usually not very favourable.

These are my thoughts. I believe your ideas about art and how we should judge it (which is what you are prescribing) to be quite stupid, but you live your life however you want, I guess.

Is it not possible that how something is made also elicits emotions and thoughts?

"I find the ethics involved in the creation of something to be irrelevant."

Hating on new tools is some dumb shit.

This has never been what the issue is. The issue isn't the tool, but how it's made and how it's used.

AI gen programs are almost to a fault created using art without permission with the express purpose of then using said programs to put the workers whose skills were stolen out of a job. Without artists, gen AI would have nothing to train on. They are basically the definition of wage theft in their current form.

You might as well be arguing that Temu brand fast fashion is just as good as any other kind of clothing.

And the other end that gets hate is the people who consider themselves to be better than artists because the prompt they put into an LLM created an image that they consider to be better than what artists make. They're jealous of people creating something and want the reward without putting in the effort so they can hold it over others.

To me, it's more that I get a glimpse of the human behind the art, even or especially if they're shitty at drawing. That's why I also like memes which are thrown together haphazardly. If it's pixel-perfect imagery, I don't see much from that at all.