Isn’t Yudkowsky the guy behind the whole evil that is the modern Silly-Con Valley mentality? Like the whole TESCREAL gang? Isn’t Yudkowsky the godfather of it all?
If so, fuck that guy and anybody affiliated with him. And when I say “fuck him” I don’t mean that you want to physically touch him. Use a spiked, rusty dildo.
Apparently all these “AI mice” do is have a special button you click and have your AI chatbot of choice (or whichever one is pre-programmed if you go with a major brand of mouse) open in a window. If you have their software installed.
It’s so incredibly stupid as a concept.
This could be a game changer if they stick with it and train, train, train.
It could be, yes. Or it could be yet another AIbro grift that sucks up a lot of money for no meaningful results, but, hey, at least they’re burning the planet down!
I know which seems more likely to me.
Have you considered reading the article? I mean it’s RIGHT THERE.
Right. I’m not here for AI slop boosting. Absolutely correct.
This is why the group is called, literally “Fuck AI”.
Maybe you need to find or start a “Can I Please Orally Service AI?” group.
Never. That’s why I’m talking to you here with an avatar that has no legs and roams around like a free-repeating vapour here in this Metaverse.
Escalation to engineering is different from engineers answering the phones at the front line.
In order to refill its ranks, the company has started forcing software engineers and marketers over from their highly specialized roles into call centers, according to Business Insider.
How to keep your talented, educated staff: force them into drudge jobs they hate because you fucked up.
Anybody who hands a customer to an engineer is committing war crimes on both sides. Anybody who wastes a good marketing professional on a call centre is going to lose all their marketing staff.
Oh wow! A whole new generation of “glassholes” coming up!
OK. Replace “you” with “your friend from Canada who totally really exists and isn’t made up for rhetorical purposes”.
That won’t last long as it gets dumped on the heap of stuff people don’t want to look at.
“Pros”. Yes.
There are many tells for AI art.
My favourites are:
Look for a long thing that is briefly interrupted by something covering it. A good one is, say, the button line of a shirt that has a crossing shoulder belt or the like. Another is a long branch that goes behind another object like a person. Yet another is a walking stick that goes behind a cloak or sword or something. Almost invariably the line does not match on each side of the interrupting object. Often it doesn’t even continue at all. So with the buttons, you’ll see the line of buttons, the belt … and then just fabric. Or the buttons have jumped to the left by half a torso. Or some other such artifact.
Talking of buttons, look for buttons that don’t do anything. Like a line of buttons on what looks like a sweatshirt or the like: i.e. no gap that needs buttoning. Or buttons that look like they’re buttoning the shirt into the jacket. Or buttons that parallel the main, legit button line temporarily for no reason. (And no, I don’t mean double-breasted jackets!) Or buttons that change styles for no reason. Slopmongers have a very hard time making buttons consistent.
Text. 'Nuff said. Even the newer models still fuck this up, usually either by having gibberish that only resembles writing if you flash over it quickly with your eyes, or by having text with terrible spelling, weird artifacts that has the text growing into or out of other things, or text that sounds like it was robotically generated.
Appendages. It’s amazing to me that after all this time and money was spent, you still can’t get consistent numbers of fingers, thumbs, toes, or even primary limbs. We all know the finger thing, but how may times have you noticed the phantom extra hand or two?
Eyes. Eyes are usually well drawn, actually, but they tend to look everywhere and anywhere but where it might make sense.
All of these flaws (and many, many more) are a result of the slopmaker not having any kind of model of what it’s making. Lines stop or shift for no reason because it doesn’t know that the line on one side of an obstacle is the same as the line on the other. Eyes don’t look at sensible things because it has no idea what the picture is of and thus no idea where eyes would naturally be directed. In general look for things that require a coherent mental model to do right and you’ll spot the AI in no time flat.
My boss tried to introduce AI workflow into the office. Within six months people quietly dropped it and he quietly didn’t notice it because it was actively making things slower and worse.
What if you just get better at doing your art instead of using a skills-reducing crutch?
What if you also made it clear that a large part of your art is AI-created instead of passing it off as human-made?
What if you stopped making disingenuous arguments in favour of slop?
The ill-concieved printing press argument is a standard pro-AI trope.
P.S. Characterizing my post as pro-AI is so utterly fucking stupid it speaks volumes as to the real source of your nation’s tattered democracy. Just sayin’.
You had an enormously destructive civil war in the 19th century, but yes, go ahead and blame television and the Internet on your democracy being in tatters.
News flash, homey: your democracy was in tatters from the very outset. It has never not been in tatters.
You might want to look at the history of leftist movements where people actually did things instead of talking about them sometime….
Well played! This is going to take cunning to counter in our little non sequitur games.
Uh…
Oh, I know!
I’ve got new socks on!
Huh. So this is how civilization dies.