Even if we called them LLMs, which we should, people will keep having these negative connotations to the technology because of overmarketing. This feature is still using LLMs, and that’s not supposed to be a bad thing.
Stop blaming the technology, and blame the corpos pushing it to the moon. This is “BitTorrent is only used for piracy” bullshit all over again.
Caution: Massive spoilers for the game. This one goes deep…
It’s a six-month decomm of Claude.
Leave Reddit and don’t come back. That’s an easy way to evade a ban.
So much so that Republicans are at this stage already:
We’ll get to “that’s not my fault” sooner than you think.
Old-world journalism in general has relied far too much on outside contractors, especially for technical subjects, who shop their articles around various outlets. It has dragged their reputation down because they no longer have an identity as a collection of like-minded journalists. Instead, it’s the same collection among all of the news sources with varying levels of quality, mostly poor because they can’t make it as real non-contracted journalists. They don’t even report on the same subject all the time, just shifting around to whatever they want to talk about without understanding the subject matter at all.
Not exactly in this case, because this guy is an in-house “media editor” who has no clue what he’s talking about, but generally speaking.
And this is how we end up with the Hitler rage scene in Downfall. Everybody around him lies and paint rosy pictures of the warfront, until reality comes crashing down around them.
You wouldn’t even notice it unless it’s pointed out and you see the real world place they filmed vs what they made it look like with CGI in the film.
That’s my point. If it’s invisible, it’s done its job.
This is a deliberate oversimplification to try to excuse derivative and copied works of artists who have had their art stolen.
It’s not. You misunderstand both copyright law and how LLMs work.
Models are GBs of weights, typically in the 4GB to 24GB range. LLMs do not look at a picture and then copy that picture into the model. There’s not enough disk space to do something like that. It’s used for training, adjusting weights here and there, based on how the image links to the description. You can’t just say “recreate the Mona Lisa” and have it give you a pixel perfect copy of the original.
When you do it, it’s copyright infringement.
It’s not copyright infringement to copy a style. People do it all the time. You wouldn’t believe the amount of times I’ve seen something that I thought was some unique style, and thought that one artist did it, but it turns out it’s just another copycat artist “inspired by” the more popular artist.
Because that’s what people do to something unique, or even remotely rare: Copy it a thousands times and drive it into the ground until you’re fucking sick of it.
If looking at a picture is stealing, then I’m doing so every day when I browse a web page or Google Image Search.
Energy needs are a concern, but it was never a new problem. Our energy needs have been ramping up ever since we learned how to make electricity.
The ones who “contribute to human culture” are the 1% who are lucky enough to make a career out of making art or making music or whatever other creative talent they had. The problem is oversaturation, not AI. AI makes the problem worse, but so does the Internet and every other technological leap we’ve seen.
“Once it runs out of new content to plagiarize it will be unable to produce anything new.” Sounds like humans in a nutshell. Good artists borrow, great artists steal. Creativity itself is not sustainable at the rate we consume it. Every new thing is drilled into the ground, and beaten into a bloody pulp, until we find the next new thing. This is not a new problem.
Capitalism is the enemy of humanity. Capitalists wield AI as a weapon, and we treat it as a scapegoat. We think that we can just get rid of AI, and then the enemy is gone. But, AI isn’t going away, and the same enemy we’ve always had still exists.
Use it to your advantage. Use local models. Support open source LLMs. The biggest failure of rich capitalist assholes is sheer, absolute overconfidence and an inability to relate to the people they are trying to fleece.
I think we, as a society, need to do a better job separating out the real issue. The real issue isn’t AI. The issue is laziness. It’s the “slop” part, not the “AI” part.
This is just CGI arguments all over again. People fucking hated CGI back in the 90s and 2000s. They hated how it was a crutch for VFX, hated how people wouldn’t bother hiring an animal to put into a simple scene, but they’d spend $10K to make a CGI sheep for a few seconds. Practical effects were suddenly novel. People praised Mad Max: Fury Road for its practical effects, but completely ignored the fact that Fury Road very much had CGI effects throughout.
And that’s the secret: people stopped talking about CGI when it became invisible. If you can’t tell it’s CGI, then CGI has done its job. If you can’t tell it’s AI, then AI has done its job.
But, quite often, you can tell it’s AI, because lazy hacks pretend it’s supposed to replace things that it’s not made for. They spend five minutes trying to generate something, and call it “good enough”. The creative art/video models are getting there, but they aren’t there yet. It still requires a ton of work to get certain styles out of the uncanny valley, and inpainting isn’t perfect. Voice models are okay, and better than the old TTS ones, but they don’t know how to act out a scene well enough. 3D modeling might get somewhere, but it shouldn’t be used for primary characters.
This hype train needs to crash into a brick wall, so that we can use it in a more reserved manner. Some companies are quietly doing so, but that’s not what pushes the headlines.
I’m glad this effort finally has the support it needs, compared to six months ago when it was practically on life support.
Comment: The intent is to highlight the stupidity of the tariffs.
Your Reply: I don’t get it (as in, “I don’t get the intent… I don’t understand why tariffs are bad”)
Me: Explaining why tariffs are bad.
Your Reply: Nobody asked why tariffs are bad.
Me: <not sure if stupid, asshole, troll, or all three>
People dislike having to educate the same basic lessons over and over again, when it is very easy to search why tariffs are bad. It is not a community where people are going to spoonfeed you information that you didn’t even directly ask for.
The simple answer is because we live in a global economy and you can’t possible make everything that needs to be made in a single country. The more complex answer can be found by reading articles about it. Take this one, which was the first hit I found on a web search:
The trouble with tariffs, to be succinct, is that they raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profits, increase unemployment, worsen inequality, diminish productivity and increase global tensions. Other than that, they’re fine.
This article is basically just bemoaning that AAA develops for the lowest common denominator, which I can understand as a gripe, but it’s a very old gripe.
And an easy one to fix: Don’t fucking buy AAA games!
Comparing copyright, a bullshit concept that was designed only to protect the rich, to building with “the flesh and bones of orphans” is so extreme that it’s not even worth arguing about.