BennyTheExplorer

joined 5 days ago

At least for VR stuff, I find Linux to work pretty well with ALVR Streamer, which is basically an open source version of Virtual Desktop.

For anticheat, there are if course no real good solutions yet, for that, we just need better market share to pressure game developers.

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, that would kind of be my plan: To ask in one post for submissions, filter out the valid ones and then let the community vote on only the valid ones. I hope, that the mods will accept the results though, for that to work, we need big support from the community, so that I have a convincing argument

 

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Click here to participate in the community vote

You have probably seen my previous post about the fact, that the banner of this community is currently AI genereated. My suggestion in that post was, that it would be pretty cool to replace that banner with a human drawn or photographed one to highlight and celebrate artist and the human spirit of this community. I honestly didn't expect it to blow up in the way it did, but it seems to be an issue, not only I, but many other people seemed to care about. So I think everyone would agree, that it would be a good idea to let the community on here decide what happens with our banner.

My idea would be, that we first have a general vote, if you as a whole community are interested in a banner change. Then, if enough people care about this vote and vote for yes, we can host a general art competition across the whole of Lemmy where artists, who care about this community can propose new banners, which they created themselves. The point in this challange would be to celebrate the creativity of specifically the human Lemmy community, so AI suggestions would be disallowed there. Then, all of you could vote on the banner and we could suggest the banner with the most votes to the mods of this community.

The vote is hosted on Mastodon, because it is not possible to do that on Lemmy. I have no followers on my Mastodon and I am posting the survey as a silent post, so other people probably won't interfere much here.

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How would you know that?

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Well, of course everyone that disagrees with these people is a bot, lol

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nope, you can't train a good diffusion model from scratch with just a few thousand images, that is just delusion (I am open for examples though). Adobe Firefly is a black box, so we can't verify their claims, obviously they wouldn't admit, if they broke copyright to train their models. We do however have strong evidence, that google, openai and stability AI used tons of images, which they had no licence to use. Also, I still doubt that all of the people, who sold on Adobe Stock either knew, what their photos are gonna be used for or explicitly wanted that or just had to accept it to be able to sell their work.

Great counterargument to my first argument by the way 👏

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Well, but you are not of an opposing ideology, your sub is called "ask Lemmy", not "ask AI obsessed people", so your definition doesn't even make sense. I honestly don't understand why you people insist on painting me in such a negative light, just because I am new. That is called bullying by the way. I didn't even intend this thread to blow up in such a way, I guess a lot of people seem to care.

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You know that the painter behind a stary night is long dead and this work is public domain, right?

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (20 children)

It's not about anyone getting paid, it's about affording basic respect and empathy to people and their work. Using AI sends a certain message of 'I don't care about your consent or opinion towards me using your art", and I don't think, that this is a good thing for anyone.

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Well, obviusly I care. I joined Lenny today, yes. I joined this sub and was immediately a bit disgusted by the banner. So I made a post about it. Why do you care if I care then?

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Well, you didn't even make it or anyone, an AI made it. Kindness towards artists and not kindness towards people using their art without consent.

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (14 children)

Yes it does, for the reasons I mentioned

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (18 children)

Uhm, yeah... That was the whole point, I was making.

 

In my opinion, AI just feels like the logical next step for capitalist exploitation and destruction of culture. Generative AI is (in most cases) just a fancy way for cooperations to steal art on a scale, that hasn't been possible before. And then they use AI to fill the internet with slop and misinformation and actual artists are getting fired from their jobs, because the company replaces them with an AI, that was trained on their original art. Because of these reasons and some others, it just feels wrong to me, to be using AI in such a manner, when this community should be about inclusion and kindness. Wouldn't it be much cooler, if we commissioned an actual artist for the banner or find a nice existing artwork (where the licence fits, of course)? I would love to hear your thoughts!

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