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Still remember the decoder podcast where the CEO was asked, would you remove an article that says "we should deport all brown people", and he danced around how he wouldn't get into specifics of moderation.

Just your standard 'Free speech absoluteism'

My good comrade, this is what literally every "both sides are the same" person I know believes. Are you sure that they ended up being right in a way they didn't think, or could it be that you weren't really listening and are just starting to realized what they realized years ago?

Really it's restraint to only offer it as a solution to tech problems, because install more linux is my solution to all problems.

It's also only preventative, seems like this is more reversal.

Until you're ready for your old man era, presumably.

PUT ON THE WIG DEGENERATE

It sucks because dating apps are a pretty trash experience all around, and definitely have some fundamental demographic issues, but god damn do the incels go wild whenever the conversation comes up.

No, don't you know, the election is over, politics are on time out for 2 years.

Well the pedal is currently to the metal, what would you recommend?

Damn, sucks that Harris could do literally nothing to push back on the allegations that she was complicit in the genocide.

Right after the r/chapotraphouse sub got banned, they moved to chapo.chat, but the community wasn't really that tied with the chapo trap house podcast anymore, so they moved to hexbear.net.

That's fair, even while typing it, the point felt shaky. I still think there are pieces of art that fail to have intentionality or design, but I would still call them art. I could carelessly scribble on a page to pass time in a meeting and I think that would still qualify as art, even if absent conscious meaning or design.

May point was more against the process than Pollock specifically because I think much of the high art world is shaped by folks in power over anything else. I agree that folks are too quick to dismiss his work, and I completely believe it is art. I don't think it's random, and looking at his work you can see intentionality. I think I bring it up more to show the broad spectrum of art. Similarly, I think it's completely valid to sign a urinal and call it art. Even if you have no sway over the structure of the porcelain beyond picking what toilet you think works best. A curation I would argue is equally valid when selecting what pieces of AI work best fit what one is going for.

I will concede that the process of interacting with the generation machine to produce something is a creative one, I just don’t think it’s anywhere near what a lot of proponents claim it be.

I guess I don't know what proponents claim the level of creativity is, but I also think that critics don't realize the level of depth many of the folks that use AI go to for what people assume was a few tries at a prompt. I think this gets back to the original counter point above. Trying to make something similar to what folks show off, or trying to realize a vision with AI tools is harder than many realize. And I think without having worked with them too much, it can be easy to not see the intentionality that went into AI work, in the same way it can be easy to assume Pollock is random splatters. Now I will clarify again, I don't hold it in that high of regard or say that it's comparable to Pollock or any other painters really. More my point is to show that the specifics can be lost, particularly because AI does so much spectacle.

I’ve used Suno, and my lasting impression of it is that it was fun, sometimes really funny, and overall kind of soul sucking. As a musician, there were essentially no times that I felt anything produced there was mine. It was just novelty. Some of it sounded really cool, but none of it was an expression of me or what I was really looking for.

I think that it's totally valid, and I don't really think I take any ownership with AI work, I just enjoy it for what it is. Personally I use it as a DM in various ways, so maybe it doesn't rub me as wrong because it is a smaller piece of everything else, rather than standalone art.