Comic Strips

It's easy to do nothing wrong, it's hard to do something right. Hank Green is a treasure.

Yeah, the hate is unwarranted.

As always, there’s people who will basically take the it’s evil no matter what path. If they feel that heavily about AI, they probably shouldn’t be using anything that uses Linux. Which is basically just about everything on the web.

Hank was using it to create some games and do research for his videos. An AI is really good at creating code and for that purpose making a small game. AI can help you research things by finding and searching for things relevant to what you want, but then you need to rely on actually understanding what is being cited.

There are obvious downsides to AI and all the data centers and everything but going about and saying no matter why AI will never use is just a fool errand.

It’s worth push pushing back on data centers and what not And I am involved in several of those movements. But AI bad is just a stupid take, Especially when Hank is using it for all intents and purposes pretty responsibly compared to some people at larger companies.

100% agree. People are shitting on Hank because they have literally nothing going on. They've made a hobby out of being outraged, and as a result have nothing more meaningful to contribute.

If they took the time to look into it, they'd realize the line they're using to claim that AI writes his scripts was actually something he himself simply said. Not only did he not outsource his writing to AI, he's honest enough that when people incorrectly accused him of this he disclosed that he does at times use it to aid his research. Not that anyone blathering about it values honesty enough to care.

He seems like good people to me. And Ai seems to be addicting like social media.

Doesn't matter..... his previous decades of charity. His lifelong commitment to education... irrelevant... people want to hang him out to dry.

that's algorithm driven content platforms for you. youtube recommends to most people videos where people are raging, over the normal content of the channel. even people who don't know him get to see it, or otherwise hear about the rage. then, since many are not watching the new videos youtube will recommend them to fewer people than before. meanwhile the rest of the internet only gets to know about the rage, and decades of good work and charity does not matter at all, because that's the boring past nobody gets to know of. even the original viewer base gets reduced, because many see this fuckup but few remember what the creator is like actually. and the algorithm will surely not help to remember by showing the old videos.

but the real animals are not as shiny and colorful! It's not addictive enough!

The place where I work had a big “IT Security Week” thing. One day it was “How many security risks are on this desk?” Instead of setting up a desk and taking a picture, it was all AI.

Good pic.

I love the high effort approach I saw in Japan, where they make little models of the food and put them in display cases (of course not all restaurants but some)

I would take Word (or LibreOffice Writer) bullet point list with prices and ingredients list over "pretty" AI menu at this point

You should also check out Krita. David Revoy, artist of Pepper and Carrot, has a ton of great tutorials on using it.

I love horrendous comics, if the premise is entertaining and you keep working on it then you'll get better at it too.

Yeah, I have tried explaining this to people. We have been able to do all of these things for decades with minimal effort (and without destroying the planet while handing it over to fascist billionaires)

The issue: non-nerds have never even heard of a gimp, and the majority of people now do not use a computer. Try finding one young person who does most computing on a laptop, let alone a desktop (no one uses desktops any more. Of my ~15 friends/acquaintances I can think of, I am the only one with desktops). It's all phonephonephone (a phone loaded with spyware, to boot).

I think that's changing. Nerds are often the vanguards, but the rest of the culture catches up later.