Get_Off_My_WLAN

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[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago

The stars of the PRC's flag

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In a post on social media on Friday, Lt Gen Ben Hodges of the army compared Tuesday’s gathering to a 1935 “surprise assembly in Berlin” where German generals were “required to swear a personal oath to the Führer”, Adolf Hitler, in the lead-up to the Holocaust and the second world war.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was talking to someone about his time in the Singapore Air Force, and when he mentioned that although the army has new rifles, the air force (or his unit at least) uses old M16s. I was like, "Oh wow, which ones? A4s? Or probably A2s, right?"

"The ones with the triangular grips."

My god.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

Everything he touches turns to 💩

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The animation is so crazy, it even bankrupted Madhouse at the time.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago

I met a Russian student studying abroad who was very intent on staying out of Russia as much as possible because he's aware of how messed up things are. Had very a good sense of humor. His jokes about Putin and the Russian government would be enough to get people there thrown in jail.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're not even doing the making money part. Generative AI / LLMs are still highly unprofitable, and will cease to exist the moment venture capital funding stops. We're burning the planet for nothing.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago

I like those 1900s French drawings. They're pretty steampunk.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember hearing a while ago a little bit about Servo. It seems to have been started by Mozilla, but is now managed by the Linux Foundation Europe.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 19 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I know. But unfortunately, the president is also the commander in chief of the executive branch, so he has the power to approve their operations.

From what I understand, the military will suggest potential courses of action, but not all of them are good, which is where the president is supposed to use his wise judgment, if only he had it.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 12 points 4 weeks ago

I don't think he's right. Personally, his comments rub me the wrong way. They remind me of the annoying, confidently incorrect comments I've see on Reddit so many times.

Granted, I'm also fairly biased because I used to be in the army, and don't appreciate the kind of assumptions/generalizations people make about people in the US military. I bash the military all the time personally in my private life, but it's different when I see people who clearly don't know shit do it.

I respect you for admitting there are things you might not know though.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 3 points 4 weeks ago

Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988) for sure! One of my personal top anime of all time.

And it's not just space battles. It has tons of (fictional) history, strategy, and political philosophy.

 

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I wanted to post the reply I was writing to a comment on a now-deleted thread in @technology@lemmy.world (because it was only a screenshot of a post) regarding the Studio Ghibli style AI "art."

How is that different than a human artist using their eyes to look at some Ghibli art, taking inspiration from the style, and making a unique drawing or painting with the same style? Artists take inspiration from and copy the style of other artists all the time. If I had the ability to copy the style of Leonardo da Vinci and if I made a painting of my daughter posing like the Mona Lisa on a street in New York, would I be counterfeiting the Mona Lisa? Same style, same pose, different character different backdrop, inspired by the original but not a copy of the original.

I won't talk too much on the copyright aspect, but I want to comment about why I believe it's different from an artist using "inspiration."

I stumbled upon this artist's video a while ago, where she included what I found to be a beautiful anecdote about some of the things that influence us, as human beings, when we produce art.

It's not the same as with an AI, that processes hundreds of thousands of images (usually without the image owner's knowledge or consent) and spits something out without feeling or thought. It's a machine's recreation that lacks depth.

Aside from "studies" where we try to copy the art exactly, usually used for learning techniques, we will rarely get a perfect recreation of likeness or style. Humans aren't machines, and expressions of our personality, our life, and our hours or years of practice will show up in our artwork.

When an artist uploads their work, it's meant for other people, fellow human beings, to see, to empathize with, and to hopefully take inspiration from. We're happy when other people get inspired by our work and want to try something similar. Artists don't feel that same joy with AI "art." Nor were we expecting our work to be used as training data for generative AI.

It's been a while since I've made art, and I haven't uploaded anything in years, but this is why I strongly empathize with artists' concerns lately about AI training off of our artwork.

tl;dr I don't think it's the same as artists "taking inspiration" from other work because it lacks the depth of human expression.

Sorry for the wall of text. Thank you for listening to my TED Talk.

 

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