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by dofm 24d ago
Right but there is no meaningful specification failure mode in creative CAD, is there? I mean, yes, image to CAD for a little miniature, I can buy that it is OK. Fun, even, especially when your use is sort of transitory. But this article is
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by dofm 24d ago
Not if the model has not been implemented from reasonable principles.
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by dofm 24d ago
> Astra is one-shotting good 3D models from photographs for me. Right, but, so what? There is very little utility here. Parts that need to be useful need to be designed to spec.
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by dofm 24d ago
None of the "findings" here really needed an AI experiment to do it: - "CadQuery fails loudly and early... OpenSCAD fails silently and late" This should be obvious, from the documentation, from the way geometry constru
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by dofm 24d ago
This is interesting because again I think the camera phone comparison is a category error. Camera phones are with you when inspiration strikes — when something reaches you as a person in your actual life — and there is an extraordinary batt
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by dofm 24d ago
It's difficult territory because at some level asking people to meet a certain standard to have a stall at a craft fair is, essentially, "gatekeeping". But art sales are really the only gatekeeping there is in art, and it has
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by dofm 24d ago
In the craft fair case the issue is the tragedy of the commons. If people come to think that all craft fairs are choked up with AI slop and Temu (literally) 3D printed flexi-dragons then it does enormous damage to the notion of art fairs as
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by dofm 24d ago
This line comparing to photography is a trope, and IMO a category error. > There are so many literally {color} rectangles hanging in contemporary art museums. Yes but you understand I wasn’t talking about the colour, right, but the absen
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by dofm 24d ago
I didn’t claim any authority. I just argued that I am informed and not projecting; I talk to actual working artists. (My own work is amateur and probably shit; this is not about my creative ego) You guys do like to read things that are no
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by dofm 25d ago
Two crypto billionaires have just given one of the most cynically manipulative political parties in British history the largest donations received by any political party in British history. The US president has crypto investments and shitco
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by dofm 25d ago
And you thought you could criticise me on bias? :-) This is little more than tropes fresh from the blender. (If you read many of my other posts, you will perhaps see that I am a bit more pragmatically engaged with AI than you suggest.)
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by dofm 25d ago
> Musicians have claimed to take inspiration from things like water dripping from a leaky faucet and machine sounds I don't think you really understand how this very concept undermines your argument. If I saw an artist making crea
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by dofm 25d ago
I am a 3D printing maker type nerd (I make my own tools for other creative tasks, rather than as their own outcomes) and I saw an incredible youtube video about 3D printed (flexi-dragon etc.) slop at US craft fairs. https://www.y
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by dofm 25d ago
This is an unfortunately salient point. :-/
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by dofm 25d ago
> I think Dario is genuinely afraid of the inevitability of AI turning into internet slime mold He's so afraid of it he's not really in operating day-to-day control of the company he's the public face of, that is actually
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by dofm 25d ago
> You're projecting, No, I'm actually not. I'm an active creative portrait photographer and I take part in photographic communities with people much, much better than me, I am surrounded by dozens of gigging and working
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by dofm 25d ago
> I think industry is quite clear that AI is helpful to their bottom line. No, I think the industry is hopeful that AI is helpful to their bottom line. I don't really think there is very strong evidence that the ROI is good. The p
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by dofm 25d ago
OpenAI wants people to be so afraid of their products they have no choice but to buy them, and that strategy seems to be having some success in the C suites of the world. At some point I think we have to accept that turning a blind eye to t
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by dofm 25d ago
This. This is more or less precisely how I feel. Other creative fields have already begun to get a handle on how AI is a soul-deadening thief of joy in their fields. I have hope for illustrators and painters and photographers and musicians
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by dofm 25d ago
Putting aside the autocomplete thing, the fundamental concept still holds, doesn’t it: LLMs are amoral and they have no sense of perspective. The thing that keeps me awake is: We have already seen an AI writing a blog post to criticise a gi
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by dofm 25d ago
It's like owners coming to resemble their dogs.
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by dofm 25d ago
> I guess OpenRouter is a bit like Amazon, in that they're just routing stuff around for you This helps forecast one possible future for OpenRouter: they begin to offer in-house provision, and people begin to migrate their uses off
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by dofm 25d ago
> I don't claim to know for sure that no bread made with Chorleywood-type processes is good. I am fairly sure, though, that no bread I've had that I have good reason to suspect was made that way has ever been much good. I want
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by dofm 25d ago
French supermarket baguettes are very often Chorleywood.
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by dofm 25d ago
Right, but that is because it essentially was a necessity. Its fortification also aided in the developmental health of generations of children. Snark about it all you like; it was valuable. People in fact don't eat dull white sliced
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by dofm 25d ago
Benchmathsed.
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by dofm 25d ago
Logo is a real surprise if you revisit it as a grown professional. Remarkably elegant language.
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by dofm 25d ago
I believe it is legally available as a PDF — as far as I remember via the ACM? Very important book.
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by dofm 26d ago
This is rude and plainly horseshit. We still have the web at all basically because of Wordpress. I have been critical and I dunno, maybe I spoke fully out of turn, though it was from real concern. But reading this makes me regret saying any
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by dofm 26d ago
Matt, for clarity, if you see this, since this is a thread I kicked off perhaps by being imprecise and certainly by being somewhat critical: I am full of admiration for what you have achieved, I believe you should feel proud of it, and I

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