Probably there is a lower ceiling in text generation to things that are considered “progress” by everyone. People can verbalize exactly what is wrong with pictures and video, but for text, if it is coherent and gets the point across what is progress beyond passing the Turing test?

Well, maybe sooner than 2030… https://spacenews.com/musk-calls-for-deorbiting-iss-as-soon-as-possible/

Most people aren’t murders

I do that with my email. Email has a search function - if I don’t know a key word in the email or approximately when it came in, how would I know that I found it if I ever found it in some other way?

Let’s change our universally recognized trademarkible name and change it to a non-trademarkible blowdriver setting! Wait, no one recognizes our name anymore? Undo!

Shouldn’t block people. You can make good money by arguing

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Hushpuppy underground!

There was a fad of running things through google translate and back several times until you get something funny.

Has that fad returned with a ChatGPT expand -> contract loops?

That is exactly why I said it

If you open up your camera app and spin around and take a picture, 99% of the picture will be garbage.

If you boot up a AI art program and type in a random prompt, 99% of that will be garbage.

Photographer have specialize lenses and choices of FOV that affects how the pictures look. Ai artists have specialized weight and loras that affect how the picture will look.

Photographer don’t just take pictures at random. They set and frame the scenes - doing prep work and framing. AI artist can use base pictures instead of random noise to bias the outcome (image to image).

With live subjects, photographer can either give no guidance, or direct the subjects (think “look at the camera and say cheese”, only more nuanced). With AI art, there is a whole subfield of prompt engineering l which is akin to this.

After a photographer take pictures, they do minor touch ups and photoshoping to clean up parts that didn’t come out right. So too with AI artists.

And with both, you can get 100s if not 1000s of pictures of a subject. The photographer and the AI artist true test is being able to pick from those thousands the one or two good shots.

Yes there is a bunch of legal and copyright problems with AI art. When the camera was first invented, people argued that you couldn’t take pictures of crowds without getting everyone’s concent, nor could you take picture of other people’s property with out breaking the law. That the legal realities around photography weren’t settled didn’t mean those taking picture back then weren’t artists, and it doesn’t mean that people doing AI art today aren’t artists. AI generators are like camera in that you get out better results depending on how much work you put it.

“I am a photographer!”

“So you just push a button and steal people’s privacy? Not real art!”

Everything can be automated, just with lower quality, speed, and a high up front and ongoing cost.

But for a large segment of jobs, no one cares about quality. Speed can be increased by increasing the number of parallel automatons, thus cost. If you really want to get rid of all work, raise the minimum wage to $100/hour for one year. Don’t tell anyone that it will only be a year. By the end of the year, almost every job will be automated.

Trump is deporting them back to Melissa Majoria

Why is Musk’s bullet shield ranked above Trump?

Musk is currently reviewing it for DEI terms. Also Trump just fired the Sony board and declared himself president of Sony.

May I introduce you to Terry Pratchett’s Boots theory?

Just don’t buy meat directly - especially if you are hungry for bat and live in China.

If the Source is Open to copying, and I won’t get sued for doing it, well, then…

You can listen to things while driving, but it is either NPR, talk radio, or church sermons.

Gen Z: Can’t read analog clocks. “What speed am I going? There are no numbers!”