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> Why use an LLM to do something that would take exactly the same amount of time and a lot less energy to just do in something like MS paint? Can you prove tha

> Why use an LLM to do something that would take exactly the same amount of time and a lot less energy to just do in something like MS paint? Can you prove that it'll take same amount of time for someone with > My photoshop skills are near zero to replicate the same level of quality as the generated image? From the looks of it, LLM managed to generate pixel perfect (or at least similar) font and probably took a fraction of a minute for the author to generate.

PostOnce 1y ago
1] delete the text 2] select any handwriting font 3] replace the text no one will know the font was changed, no skills required. AI is going to utterly cripple people intellectually and motivationally. If you can't even do the above ten second process, you may want to make more of an effort before you find yourself utterly fucked and starving.
- forgotpwd16 1y ago
  >no one will know the font was changed You're underestimating the effect typography has. >you may want to make more of an effort You seriously saying someone should put effort in editing a comic they didn't even cared on editing until they saw someone's comment? And somehow you equate the not putting effort to editing such comic to being fucked and starving? AI hate sometimes makes people really lose their mind. Doing pointless random shit like this is a legit AI good application. Something that needs no creativity nor intellect to do. Just time. (And, most certainly, more than 10s.)
  - PostOnce 1y ago
    Two parent comments suggested that a deep level of skill is required to: 1] drag a box around the text and press Delete 2] type some new text in there in a similar handwriting font The implication is that we're all too stupid and everything is too hard to do even tasks so simple that they take double-digit seconds to accomplish for people with rudimentary computer skill. We can do things. Saving 5 seconds is going to hurt worse than it helps in the long run... like asking GPT what 2+2 is because you can't figure it out.
    - wiseowise 1y ago
      > Saving 5 seconds is going to hurt worse than it helps in the long run... like asking GPT what 2+2 is because you can't figure it out. Looks line it has already started. See a therapist, please, you have an obsession.
      - PostOnce 1y ago
        It's better to consider the consequences of possible futures than not to; considering the future makes us human.
        maddmann 1y ago
        “ AI is going to utterly cripple people intellectually and motivationally. If you can't even do the above ten second process, you may want to make more of an effort before you find yourself utterly fucked and starving.” This does not sound like intellectual curiosity. Closer to polarized discourse that imho is making us less human.
        PostOnce 1y ago
        When someone is not willing to even attempt to do a 30 second task, assumes they can't, asserts they can't, and people chime in to say AI is the only way they can achieve it, it seems worthwhile to point out the consequences. Should we not be trying to do things? Is it not in fact harmful to give up early on even such trivial tasks? What happens when we actually need to do hard things?
      - cindyllm 1y ago
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- ddingus 1y ago
  Actually, a fair number of us will see the font change. People are more aware of typography than you may realize. ...maybe you do! In which case, this makes real sense: "[almost] nobody will care." I wouldn't, but I sure would note the font change.
  - PostOnce 1y ago
    If you had them side by side, or vividly remember the typography of xkcd specifically, maybe. But most people I think would not notice a comic's handwriting font had changed, as long as it were plausibly handwriting. Perhaps we could test it? HN will probably lock the replies due to age before I have time to... I'll see.

PostOnce 1y ago

1] delete the text 2] select any handwriting font 3] replace the text no one will know the font was changed, no skills required. AI is going to utterly cripple people intellectually and motivationally. If you can't even do the above ten second process, you may want to make more of an effort before you find yourself utterly fucked and starving.

forgotpwd16 1y ago
>no one will know the font was changed You're underestimating the effect typography has. >you may want to make more of an effort You seriously saying someone should put effort in editing a comic they didn't even cared on editing until they saw someone's comment? And somehow you equate the not putting effort to editing such comic to being fucked and starving? AI hate sometimes makes people really lose their mind. Doing pointless random shit like this is a legit AI good application. Something that needs no creativity nor intellect to do. Just time. (And, most certainly, more than 10s.)
- PostOnce 1y ago
  Two parent comments suggested that a deep level of skill is required to: 1] drag a box around the text and press Delete 2] type some new text in there in a similar handwriting font The implication is that we're all too stupid and everything is too hard to do even tasks so simple that they take double-digit seconds to accomplish for people with rudimentary computer skill. We can do things. Saving 5 seconds is going to hurt worse than it helps in the long run... like asking GPT what 2+2 is because you can't figure it out.
  - wiseowise 1y ago
    > Saving 5 seconds is going to hurt worse than it helps in the long run... like asking GPT what 2+2 is because you can't figure it out. Looks line it has already started. See a therapist, please, you have an obsession.
    - PostOnce 1y ago
      It's better to consider the consequences of possible futures than not to; considering the future makes us human.
      - maddmann 1y ago
        “ AI is going to utterly cripple people intellectually and motivationally. If you can't even do the above ten second process, you may want to make more of an effort before you find yourself utterly fucked and starving.” This does not sound like intellectual curiosity. Closer to polarized discourse that imho is making us less human.
        PostOnce 1y ago
        When someone is not willing to even attempt to do a 30 second task, assumes they can't, asserts they can't, and people chime in to say AI is the only way they can achieve it, it seems worthwhile to point out the consequences. Should we not be trying to do things? Is it not in fact harmful to give up early on even such trivial tasks? What happens when we actually need to do hard things?
    - cindyllm 1y ago
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ddingus 1y ago
Actually, a fair number of us will see the font change. People are more aware of typography than you may realize. ...maybe you do! In which case, this makes real sense: "[almost] nobody will care." I wouldn't, but I sure would note the font change.
- PostOnce 1y ago
  If you had them side by side, or vividly remember the typography of xkcd specifically, maybe. But most people I think would not notice a comic's handwriting font had changed, as long as it were plausibly handwriting. Perhaps we could test it? HN will probably lock the replies due to age before I have time to... I'll see.