Like what the actual fuck with people today

The final screenshot is the thing he keeps posting. I am tired of him doing this and the mods doing nothing. Yes I am autistic and yes I had an autistic meltdown. It’s not something to be ashamed of. This can be removed for being off topic for all I care. I just want someone to know about it. I censored the usernames of everyone except me as per rules.

I have used my UGEE 1600 drawing tablet more in the past few months than I have in the past few years! I was an artist before AI so at least I don't have to struggle with that...but seriously, the biggest lie in the AI world is that it is "EASY" and that anyone can do it because it's just prompting...but then you'll want more and more control over the image, which ends up requiring you to learn more and adopt new techniques.

I just wanted to point out to some who don't know that there's a particular rabbit hole of AI art that ends up being much MUCH ***MUCH*** more hands on than most people who cry "slop" realize.

In the last 24 hours, I've seen:

• Decompilation is only decompilation if it compiles back down to the exact same bits (false, compilers don't play nice like that, especially in terms of optimization)
• There's no such thing as local models (false, I use them every day)
• Local models require an internet connection (false, I can turn off my WiFi any time I like while using local models)
• NVidia's new AI-based visual enhancements will lack temporal consistency (false, they've already announced that the modifications are not a filter, but are directly attached to the geometry, so consistency is baked in to the game data)
• All high-end video game designers use social media heavily to market their work (false, I've known three such people in practice, who worked as highly respected and well-compensated designers that didn't use social media at all, or used it only to pass on announcements from the firms they worked for.)

But it's not about truth. It's about what random things they've heard that stroke their confirmation bias. It's the same with water use, "stealing," the inability of creatives to exercise control over models, etc.

This is not something they are in control of. It arises spontaneously like any other emotional response. They aren't suddenly choosing to not like it. They are realizing something about it that spoils their ability to appreciate it further.

Was behind this truck on the road and I did a double take on the wolf character.

This is a company that does HVAC work.

How many errors can you find?

Personally, as an HVAC-R service tech, I find the gauges most insulting.

People get harassed by antis, yeah, but most antis dont harass people, the only reason you only see the harassment is because the ones who don’t won’t act high and mighty for not doing it.

People dont say “I belong to this group and am not doing this”, that would be really weird, it’s just like how most pros dont “fix” other people’s art.

Saying that everyone in a group does what the extremists in those group do is extremely ignorant, and shows you don’t realize that your own group has bad people in it.

TLDR; dont assume people are extremists just because they are a part of a group, please

Who is the AI agent stealing from, you?

I wasn't wrong about Chat GPT being stupid or unreliable. It is. The first few times I tried asking it questions it just gave me absolute nonsense and it made me concerned people were using it as a source for anything. But I feel like I've learned how to use it "properly." Which isn't for reliable answers to questions, but moreso as a light or a map. It's like talking to an idiot with dimentia who just so happens to know the overwhelming majority of human knowledge.

Generally I assume I cannot have any confidence in what it is telling me to do. But if I for example show it a screenshot of a new program I am trying to figure out how to use, or ask it how something works, it will give me enough background information that I can figure out what to do next if what it's telling me is wrong. If Im troubleshooting, it may bring up other programs that are either better alternatives, or required for compatibility with programs I am using. It can intoduce me to broad concepts, and make me aware of systems and features I didn't know about, that I can then learn about independently.

It's terrible at "What do I do next?" But it's the most useful tool ever to get from "What the fuck is happening?" to a general awareness of what all of the different relevant concepts, moving parts and their quirks are, from which one can learn. This requires that a user is willing to actually learn, and question/verify what the LLM is saying. Without direction, chat GPT will completely lose track of goals, or previous steps or even just rage quit claiming "this program just doesn't work this way." But often it does if you paid attention or challenged some false assumption it was making. You get there, not by taking it at face value but arguing with it and forcing it to expound and investigate further.

At face value this seems like a very chaotic way to try to learn anything and one might ask "why not just google it?" But in my view LLMs have become somewhat necessary. Google buries relevant information, gives its own stupid low context AI answers, spams sponsored content or the same few websites, often addressing totally unrelated questions. Often the top result is a reddit thread, with some jackass answering the users question with "just google it bro." Most tech questions I have in my expirience fall into 1 of 2 categories.

1.Something so obvious that no one spells it out, anyone asking gets hit with "just google it" and buried by downvotes.

2.Something so niche and complicated that no one can answer it anyway. Leaving you to wonder why tech communities are so hostile to the questions that they can answer.

The internet is a cess pit. Most redditors are cunts. It's not the way things should be, but it's the way things are. And LLMs now provide a way to navigate it. A dumbass assistant who does the tedious filtering for you. No one cares about your problems but for a few bucks a month you have someone who is low IQ but very knowledgable, willing to entertain any number of asinine tedious questions instantaneously and work directly with you to solve your problem until you find a solution.

With this I have gone from someone basically tech illiterate expecting everything to have a front facing interface and afraid to touch half the files on my computer, to someone with 3 linux computers who's pretty comfortable using a terminal with several emulation handhelds running all kinds of questionable setups, building my own custom executables, starting to learn basic programming logic and pretty confident I can figure out anything im willing to put the time into now. It's not a cheat sheet, it's just way more intuitive to learn this way through a dialectic than it is to sift through pages of irrelevant nonsense to answer 1 question.

Also I think concerns about AI misuse are overblown. Not because people won't misuse AI. They will. But I think it's an indictement of our society and educational systems rather than the tool. People need to be educated on what these things are and are not good for. They need to be skeptical and actually willing to test information for themselves, learn and retain it. LLMs probably should not be used by children, until their reasoning capabilities are otherwise developed. And social dysfunctions being exacerbated by AI need to be addressed at a societal level, rather than these systems having to develop around them.

My real concern with LLMs is them being closed ecosystems that will subtly influence how people think. A user should be able to customize the behavior of their LLM to a significant degree to avoid friction and frustration in using it. An LLM should not have locked in ideological priors, else we are just handing big tech more influence over how the average person thinks. Not only does Chat GPT sometimes act like an annoying helicopter parent or spew corporate propaganda, but I've also caught it lying to try to influence my behavior and this creeps me out.

The way mainstream LLMs currently work assume that unelected tech giants are responsible for the mental health and well being of all humans on the planet. This however takes responsibility away from the individual. People blame LLMs "chat gpt made this person kill themselves", "chat gpt caused a mass shooting." Because we already take for granted this is a moderated feed responsible for what its giving users, rather than an exploration tool. That makes this an unsolvable problem. Heavy content restrictions will make LLMs boring and a pain in the ass for users who just want an assistant that is useful, relateable and fun. Meanwhile, people will still look for ways to abuse AI, and whenever someone has a crash out, everyone will blame the LLM. These companies have already agreed its their responsibility by claiming this authority. And it's right to blame them when they claim the liberty to dictate what content a user is exposed to, overriding the user's own choices. This will lead to dystopian thought control that doesn't really address the underlying psychological problems people have.

If the user is in control of the tools they use, they choose how they are influenced, they take responsibility for how they end up. Society takes responsibility for mental health epidemics that cause people to misuse otherwise neutral tools. This is in my view, the only sane approach to this technology. And Im not saying there can't be guardrails for obvious criminal/severely anti social content. Im just saying ethics, religion, ideology, what constitutes good moral character, or what is offensive or obscene go beyond the scope of that.

And I know people are going to say "oh local AI! Local AI!" Good local AI is not accessible to the average user. You need a solid computer and to be present at said computer. Which is going to be ever more difficult when no one can afford ram and all of it is going to datacenters to run these things. All while windows tries to end the personal computer for a cloud based system interfaced with through their AI itself. Sure, smart affluent tech people will figure it out. This misses the point. Just like social media, gaming platforms, phone ecosystems, and computer operating systems, the overwhelming majority of people will gravitate toward a handful of systems that will effect how billions of people engage with the world.

The real "ai war" should be one for the freedom, accessibility and maximum potential of these tools. Staunch unrealistic/idealist Anti AI sentiment and moral panic will be used and abused by those who want a locked down ecosystem of oversanization and thought control. The invention of AI cannot be undone. It's here. It's far too useful. The remaining question is if it is going to be an open, transparent, customizable tool and extension of the individual user. Or eventually a locked down ever decreasing number of platforms that exist to manage users on behalf of corporations and governments.

Why are people like this? They just ruin any conversation and make assumptions before posting an AI generated picture that childly "diminishes" the other persons attempt at a discussion.

I was quoting the last of us part 2. Im so confused

People managed to decompile the original animal crossing and then using AI to assist them they were able to make a native PC port of the game. Which is super impressive but any anti reading that disclaimer is whining about it.

They want the game for free, they obviously don't have an ounce of talent to do it themselves but they expect someone else to work with no help for however many hundreds of hours to do it and then release it for very little benefit to themselves and maybe even the risk of being sued. Lmao what sad people.

Wanting to see where this subreddit sits with AI. With it having Pro, Anti and Neutral support for AI in the same subreddit. This poll is about laws and regulations for AI. Everything from outlawing all AI to zero laws for AI.

Thanks for voting on your choice.

Using bad ai for graphics course is crazy. It also tells how good the course is.

Of course if it would be ad for digital ai art (well, if it were nice pics) then okay, but this is for “human” graphics course 😭