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by dorkwood 3y ago
So just because it's useless now, that means it will never be useful? I guess we should give up on every new technology that's not immediately beneficial.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
> GPT-3 was even openly trained on books from a literal pirate torrent tracker What's stopping a human from reading all of the same books?
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by dorkwood 3y ago
> alleges that Carlin’s copyrighted materials and likeness were used without permission or appropriate licenses It sounds like Carlin's estate doesn't understand how AI works. If it's illegal to use Carlin's material
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I had a similar thing happen to me. My parents split when I was at two. At five, my brother was sent to live with my father. A year later, I was sent to live there, too. I can still remember lying awake at my father's house, crying out
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I don't think that's ever happened in a movie, has it?
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by dorkwood 3y ago
2024 to 2030 is six years, not eight.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
You're not making a serious attempt to engage with anything I've said so far, so I don't want to keep arguing with you.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
This appears to be basically the same argument I responded to originally, but rephrased in a different way -- that the privileged artists want to prevent anyone else from attaining their power and it's not fair. You didn't address
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by dorkwood 3y ago
Is it strange to you that cars and pedestrians are both subject to different rules? They both utilise friction and gravity to travel along the ground. I'm curious if you see a difference between them, and if you could describe what it
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by dorkwood 3y ago
> Is it art? I don't know. I don't care. I was not able, now I am able, and the people who are able complain. > Screw 'em. This is what tools are for. The strong should not tell the weak they cannot use props. Really? T
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I was arguing with an artist the other day about this. I said that Midjourney copies the work of artists the same way that all human artists "copy" each other (checkmate, in my opinion). They pointed out that Midjourney wasn'
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by dorkwood 3y ago
Did Altman actually say 2025? The Tweet claims he said "relatively soon" and then the poster seems to take that to mean 2025 for no reason?
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I'm making non-fiction books that summarise historical events. No manual editing is necessary, as it automatically goes back through and cleans up any errors. I can't share my exact prompt style since I believe I've found a r
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by dorkwood 3y ago
How do we know these books are AI generated? Because the startup "Reality Defender" said so? This feels like they're deliberately singling out trash books and calling them AI-generated to fit their bias. It doesn't seem
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by dorkwood 3y ago
We've become so coddled as a society that we now worry more about safety than progress. What would you prefer: a car that spends all its energy making sure everyone nearby is "safe", or a car that can drive on top of the wate
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I don't think it's the same this time. A mechanical knitting machine can be invented in isolation. Midjourney could not have existed without an extensive database of stolen art. Isn't that something worth fighting against, fo
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by dorkwood 3y ago
If anything, the AI image-generation movement proves just how highly society values the work of the artist, since we now have tech companies dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into training models to approximate their work.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
> Seek success because you deserve it and learn to love yourself, rather than punishing yourself for not being good enough. The idea that I "deserve" success, and to be happy, is something I've heard repeated many times bu
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by dorkwood 3y ago
Many people in the world don't have access to a pencil and paper, and may not possess the will or motivation to spend many hours studying a difficult skill.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
The developer community has done such a poor job explaining to artists why using their work without compensation is necessary. It's unrealistic to expect that a startup could purchase hundreds and millions of artists' images for t
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by dorkwood 3y ago
To be fair, I think the most useful applications of blockchain technology are still to come. For example, NFTs could let gamers wear the same hat across multiple video games, and allow the creation of a speculative market for video game hat
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I don't think the Turing test has successfully been passed, has it? I believe even Ray Kurzweil still predicts 2029, despite this year's advancements.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I know you're joking but I think this could legitimately be a ploy by Elon to keep Twitter in the news, which can be a big source of traffic. Pretty smart, really.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
> The people you - whoever you is reading this - just don't post there any longer because Elon took away their toys and they can't stand it. Not quite. I used to get work through Twitter until Elon made it so you need a subscri
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by dorkwood 3y ago
It's not exactly what you'd call "seeing". It's more like it's rendering to an off-screen buffer somewhere -- I'm able to perceive imagery and details if I actively think about them, but not in the same wa
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I was curious to see what music they included. This passage from the Wikipedia page made me smile: > The inclusion of Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" was controversial, with some claiming that rock music was "adolescent&quo
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by dorkwood 3y ago
Interesting that they make you contact support to cancel your subscription, but don't make you contact support to sign up for one. I wonder why the discrepancy.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
Thank you, I'll check it out.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
Well, that's the beauty of it. I don't need skills anymore. In the future, anyone spending time acquiring "skills" will be falling behind.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I agree with you 100%. Recently, I've been generating landscapes with Midjourney, signing my name at the bottom, and hanging them on my wall. It feels good to finally overcome the artistic challenges I faced in the past.

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