Countdown until inaccurate AI images start appearing in American school textbooks because some shits in Texas wanted to save a few bucks on stock art
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41363156
Everything old is new again
Mhmm... Good relations with the Saudis, I have
Why did you do 9/11, I am asking? hehehe
Mmmm... a 40, I drank. With hatred for the Amerikkkan empire, I was filled. Bad decisions that year, I made
[The Artist] said he included Yoda in the photo of King Faisal - who was then serving as his father Ibn Saud's foreign envoy - because they were both "wise, strong and always calm".
Bro had to pull out some his bullshit to survive the black GMC like some 10th century Arab poet
Still more accurate than US textbooks
In the future—not the distant future, but ten years, five—people will remember the internet as a brief dumb enthusiasm, like phrenology or the dirigible. They might still use computer networks to send an email or manage their bank accounts, but those networks will not be where culture or politics happens. The idea of spending all day online will seem as ridiculous as sitting down in front of a nice fire to read the phone book. Soon, people will find it incredible that for several decades all our art was obsessed with digital computers: all those novels and films and exhibitions about tin cans that make beeping noises, handy if you need to multiply two big numbers together, but so lifeless, so sexless, so grey synthetic glassy bugeyed spreadsheet plastic drab. And all your smug chortling over the people who failed to predict our internetty present—if anyone remembers it, it’ll be with exactly the same laugh.
https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-internet-is-already-over?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Capitalism decided to run the "million monkeys banging on a million typewriters you eventually get Shakespeare" experiment except with AI and now we are flooding the internet with dogshit instead of a million pages of gibberish and the occasional haiku dedicated to bananas.
Best take I've heard so far on AI is to compare to Jurassic Park and the old "you were to focused on whether or not you could and not whether or not you should" quote. Scientists in real life don't do that, they don't just think of the craziest shit they could dream up and then do it and just see what happens. But apparently fucking computer engineers do.
This is because a lot of software engineers aren't actually engineers. I know it's a controversial opinion to state online, but it's true. Think about how many IT students or professionals complain about taking an ethics class. That would not be tolerated in other engineering fields. Software in general is still in the wild west phase, and it doesn't help that almost every attempt to regulate the field has been a blatantly obvious corporate power grab or an attempt to create a monopoly, which will obviously not go down well.
wdym software engineers aren't actually engineers, do you have any idea how hard it is to use a JavaScript library to make a button do something slightly different than it already does?
We did at mine, but 90% of the job is jamming arbitrary bits of code together to get something that sorta works maybe
We're about a year away from people just abandoning the Internet as useless. Usenet Redux
Just think of how much worse things have gotten in the last few months, and project it out on an exponential curve
IMO AI should just get banned. It doesn't do anything well.
all the marketing pricks who called it AI should be shot. "AI" doesn't exist yet, these generative models are not intelligent.
The technology is out there already and has already infected the entire cyberspace. The only option left is to throw away the internet and create Internet 2.
I like the pictures of little dogs in plate armor it makes me
Yeah this is a massive problem for us 3D artists. Finding references has become a big problem...
But keep pumping out takes that AI is necessary to express yourself or that we're stupid luddites for hating this stuff!
I normally avoid struggle sessions on this topic since practically no one involved seems to A) use AI in any way or B) feels the squeeze of these things but I'm going to start getting a bit more involved now that this is affecting more people, and I'm sorry but if I see more takes like "AI is helping me deal with my aphantasia and ur a bigot for dismissing it" (a real fucking take ive seen on here btw), I will reply guy you to death.
Yeah but that old picture of the uncle is totally a glow up.
Based
I remember back when I used 4chan, there was a guy on the art board who liked drawing birds. He was asking if anyone knew how to get into contact with academic/scientific publishers because he wanted to provide drawings for bird researchers. I still think about him sometimes
need to start getting a better collection of encyclopedias
real. Books are so back
Wait until pictures and text in books will be AI-generated too to save on costs.
Get library-pilled
Man. We didn’t even get the cool cyberpunk, we got the half-assed Walmart version
At least with the former my financial demise would be entertaining 🙄
Are you not entertained‽
You got the same cyberpunk, you're just outside of the price range to be a main character.
That last one horrifes me. The restoration looks nothing like the guy. They've just erased the dude's image from history like a particularly disliked Pharaoh.
Got some big ol' honkers though.
Nah that's canon
This is extremely cool actually, introducing a bunch of noise and inaccuracies into the AI models that might compound over time.
Best twist in the AI progression I've seen in years.
The problem is that AI image models aren't dynamic like that. The AI groups already successfully pulled off the heist of the internet and went home with their image data sets with billions of images. The infinitely expanding google images AI slop isn't getting fed back into the model the same way Chat GPT is auto-lobotimizing itself by looking up autogenerated articles on the web.
In fact, at the moment newer AI image models are being refined not by being fed more images but by going back and adding more refined captions to their existing hoard, since the more descriptive the captions the more capable the resulting model tends to be. But hey, they're generating most of the captions with Chat GPT and at least that's fucking them over a bit I guess
Been saying it for a while, Digital Kessler Syndrome is upon us
Don't cry, don't raise your eye, it's only AI Wasteland
This is a declaration of war against soggas and all of their allies
oh damn "-ai" actually seems to work on google, thank fuck
Would be weird if someone were to smash the computers used by AI companies
OK that last one is a win for humanity tho
On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
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