Not Open Source…

It is considerably more open and build on open source technologies and they do want to become decentralized “once the open protocols mature (?)” but still, can someone educate the kids on software freedom please.

Its very hard to explain people what good use look like with so many horrible examples around.

Thanks for sticking with for the conversation.

Easy.

Don’t use a public ai model you download from the internet or use other copyrighteded work to train your own model.

You dont really need or even want that much data to get a focused result. The technology is open source and gaming hardware can handle it.

Just because 99.99% of what you see is people doing something dumb and unoriginal using tools that are designed by evil corporations does not mean the concept of what there doing is wrong and that there are not any people who do it right.

The problem right now is, try to find artists who do it right within a climate where everyone will discredit your work out off slop bias.

Consider that most people who do art do not have a public artist identity and just do it for their own private passion (best art) those that use ai definitely have no incentive to share their projects with the world.

Which is a shame making sure that the only works you will see is slop engagement bait

The same concepts that also overlap with designing ai genres art. which is my pointW

Framing is set manually, different generation zones and is quite literally composition.

Adding skeletons with control net to fix a pose, again composition.

Choosing one of 100 different generated sky backgrounds is easier if you know color theory and recognize realism or lack therefor.

Pretty much all mediums of art have these indeed. So does comfyui. Ergo creatively designing ai generated images is art.

I feel like your being incredibly specific about how it applies to one art form.

Ai generation is not drawing. Just like drawing is not woodcarving.

Id like so see pencil or brush skills transfer to photography. Which is a good example because i have taken photos with intentional effect to make them look paintings.

Someone who works abstract without light play does not need to know light theory to be an artist.

If you want to do make the same art on a different medium sure knowledge is transfered but that really depends on what you are trying to do which is different for every creative individual.

In my experience there is knowledge overlap between making photoshop collages and building advanced ai generation flows.

These tools also complement eachother. Generate a specific something, photoshop it into the final product.

Speaking as someone who dabbles with all kinds of art.

What are you talking about? I can’t even begin to make the art i make digitally on paper and i am using a drawing tablet. I heavily use blended layers and may zoom in to the pixel level to meticulously get something perfect.

My used to be art teacher (pencil drawing, digital drawing and tattoos) started lesson 1 with affirming that digital painting is not drawing and you can not use a drawing tablet to draw. They affirmed its its own thing and much closer to painting.

You could raise one point for eye hand coordination holding a pen like item to draw lines there are transferable skills there but for all my digital work, my paper drawings suck, and i don’t even want to think about that guy i know that was actually good on paper, but disliked using a drawing tablet so much he used a mouse to “scratch” drawings on pc instead.

If we are considering experience broader creative techniques there is also the very common (and very fun) art of making collages.

People used to do this with magazines and you needed to be good with scissors. Doing it online eliminated that skill yet public internet images and photoshop actually turned that hobby in an actual career. (I know many magazines where every cover is a photoshopped collage of pictures)

I like to to point this one because in my Own dabbling with ai generated (diy comfyui -not an llm prompt) the creative energy i put in feels much close to making collages, and a little bit like coding. You start with something basic and then you gradually change and mold stuff into intention.

My actual critique of ai generation is actually something much more basic… its just not as fun, its carving a rock that can change shape and sometimes it just sucks.

There is no single sign something is ai.

There are a hundred smaller signs that include both em-dashes, flattery and redundancy.

Someone please give a serious answer please.

My selfhosting gimmick is “no reliance on things outside my control”

I am not disagreeing but i do want to point out that

biodegradable in 50 days

Does not seem entirely useless when i consider single use plastics. Imagine if festivals had cellulose cups?

Big brother called, you weren’t supposed to leak this hack.

If only they did work into the future then they could have stopped you from spilling the beans.

Yeah, i even made a script just to log into its container (proxmox lxc) and pull the latest image when i see videos cant load.

It’s almost always google actively changing things, sometimes directly targeting invidious.

What did also helped was give its container 2 cpu cores rather than just 1. The internally errors and timeouts causes by google changes cause a big strain on it so it often crashed in combination with needing an update (leaving me unable to backup my up to date subscription list)

Hypernormalisation keeps coming to mind.

Autism+Add which is adhd minus the external hyperactivity.

There is alot of overlap between these and others also so i usually prefer the term neurodivergent.

Mind i ask what are you trying to archive? At what point would you see yourself as a programmer? When its in your job description? X amount of projects worked on on GitHub?

As an auti-dd I really really like coding and i had a developer job once to discover i absolutely loathed it. I hated having rules and infrastructure that directed me how to code, i hated being told what i could work on. I could not stand having a schedule telling me when to code and from what desk to do it.

The only thing that makes me want to code is to creatively express myself. I no longer accept compromise beyond creative limitations i myself put in place. (Really autistic-pedantic shit sometimes)

My current job description is an IT position that could not be further removed from coding in its description. It also doesn’t challenge me. I don’t want it too because now i often have spare free to “improve the functioning of the workplace” which i do by writing scripts and tools that fix common annoyances in our legacy software and save my coworkers plenty of time.

Or in house developer team (who have no time and are to distant from other day-to-day work have expressed confusion why someone like me wants to stay in my role rather then join them but i know i wont be able to continue my side projects and am just going to get assigned to expensive-big-ego-pet-project instead.

I also have plenty of code related projects at home, i lost motivation for those when i was a “real programmer”

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What irony?

Lone-wolf attacks are a status quo and politically easy to manage/misdirect.

Organised change in the benefit of all people? What are you, a dirty communist? /s

The real irony is that you can tell what ideas are actually good and progressive by looking at the ones Trump&co does not like. It’s almost like there is no such thing as bad press.

For own personal growth or the general benefit of my local society absolutely.

Don’t even need a salary as long as the means to live happy are otherwise provided.

For the profit of a corporation? No, yuck!

I only glanced the article but a question we need to answer first is what exactly is violence?

It seems straightforward but in multiple countries now i have read politicians making claims about violent mobs while in effect it was destruction of property.

Aggression isn’t violence so i am curious how many people say one thing while meaning the other.

There is no way i can imagine such box that makes sense.

People that use single use straws more likely require bulk and large numbers of single use items should never be economically expensive to produce.

In large enough numbers a thin plastic wrap could work though i prefer a kleenex sized box.

I am just assuming but would this not very dependent on the like of work?

Its probably fine for most things but lets say forensic lab or virus research?