Cookie Thread Act 7: Romulus

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#14028

You would hate the sponsor of todays video, skillshare

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#14029

Yea I think the environment thing was because of company’s buying data centers

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#14030

Not because of any local thing
It definitely looks a lot like you should just do your own model but

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#14031

Ai Upick 2 that is trained on every mafia role from virtuous and the MU wiki and town of Salem and throne of lies

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#14032

Yea. But a lot of the articles on the “environmental impact of AI” assume all new datacentres are for AI, which is not at all true, and the amount of power used is also, like, not a planet-destroying scale, it’s similar to what fucking YouTube or online games or whatever use, datacentre power/water use is broadly an issue but AI specifically is not the sole thing driving it

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#14033

Yea fair

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#14034

And so many headline projections about future power use literally are based on people selling their AI-based products who are convinced AI is going to be our entire economy in 10 years!!! Number go up!!! Line go up!!! Not actually realistic, like, data

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#14035

And I think a lot of the people talking about AI art are convinced it’s all people trying to “get around having to hire an artist” by typing a Thoughtless Prompt into a the machine to get a Generic Airbrushed Image and that’s just silly. It is a machine and it can be operated with skill, there are so so many levers and buttons you can hit to have greater control over what you create, and I like sharing AI art I see that expresses skill and aesthetic preferences and looks good (in My opinion)

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#14036

i don’t have enough knowledge of the specifics of ai art to have an informed opinion on whether ai art is theft or whatever. but regardless of your opinion on the issue i think it has to be acknowledged that there cannot be a law that makes this kind of “theft” prosecutable that doesn’t make our lives more miserable

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#14037

like. any law that could possibly categorize ai art as copyright infringement would clearly have to be based on artistic style or whatever. do you think any small artist just has hundreds of thousands of dollars lying around to make cases against ai art services happen, even if such a law in the books? how do you think disney would react to this law? or any other large company that wants a stranglehold?

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#14038

Yea I mean iirc companies are very much heavily invested in using ai to cut costs. Like I’ve heard that they will fire a lot of writers (at misc companies with blogs or smth) or switch their job to “fix chat gpt” (which ironically takes more time and produces less quality but they can probably pay you less!)

But I could be misinformed and this is also just one thing

#14039

And “to cut costs” means “replace workers” ftr

#14040

Most of this isn’t related to ai art but

#14041

Well. Ai images

#14042

Yeah which I mean sucks for people but people are taking the stance “we shouldn’t incorporate technology that allows technology to cut labour costs and hire fewer people” on this one specific issue when they clearly don’t (and shouldn’t) hold this principle consistently - people are especially extreme about this One Specific Instance presumably out of the view of the art industry as Worthwhile and Spiritual which I as somebody vaguely adjacent to it STRONGLY disagree with

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#14043

What

#14044

This part

#14045

You’re going to have to be more specific about what confuses you

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#14046

Do you disagree with the art industry or art as a whole being that

#14047

i dislike ai art as in it devalues the term art

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