Challenge Defeatism. Resist Doomerism
Sure, but that’s not my decision to make. The ask was for other communities that are not politics focused. If people want to gather in one of those over another, that’s their choice not mine. I just listed some I’m aware of, that’s all.
Some of these communities are more active than others, so if you do find them interesting/valuable please post.
Yes and no. He’s had more serious roles like Life, Safe House, Buried, Smokin’ Aces etc. He certainly has a ‘type’ but at the moment it feels like you could just lift-and-shift his character from one film to another and noone would notice.
I’d like Ryan to return to more serious roles. He’s a decent actor but he just ends up playing the same character in everything at the moment; he’s getting predictable and typecast imo.
Townscaper vibes
That’s some slimey looking slime!
Exactly. You’re not missing anything. This is just an example of typical media headline bullshit.
Johnson’s memoir came out in the U.K. on October 10 but is expected to arrive in Brussels only later Monday. Waterstones’ only shops outside the U.K. are in Amsterdam, Brussels and several Irish towns.
The delay means that European officials will have to wait another few hours to fact-check Johnson’s claims about the Brexit negotiations and his (at times difficult) relationship with EU leaders.
So it’s delayed, not actually ‘not on sale’.
You son of a bitch…
The argument being made is: "AI is currently slop but there is a reasonable expectation that it will be pushed until it is indistinguishable from human work, and therefore devaluing of human work.
Again, if the work is ‘indistinguishable’ then I don’t see how AI art ‘devalues’ human work any more than the work done by another human. This just sounds like old fashioned competition, which has existed as long as art itself has.
I don’t like AI because it’s just another way that “corporate gonna corporate” and it never ends up working out for the mere mortals’ benefit
Corporations abusing technology to the disbenefit of people is nothing new, unfortunately, and isn’t unique to AI (see Email, computers, clocking in machines, monitoring software etc). That speaks to a need for better corporate oversight and better worker rights.
misinformation is already so prevalent and it’s going to continue to get worse (we have seen this already–trump abuses it continually).
This is a good point, but again AI is hardly the first time technology has been used to spread lies and misinformation. This highlights a fundamental problem with our media and a need to teach better critical thinking in schools etc.
They’re all valid concerns but in my opinion they suggest AI is being used as an enabler, and not that the problems in question are the sole product of it. Sadly if we stopped using anything and everything that was misused for nefarious means we’d go back to the stone age.
My job here is done! Away!
This was a really interesting article. The parallels with modern day concerns are remarkable.
AI is generally bad because it tends to steal content from human creators…
Again, this is an argument that I see a lot, that’s simply not true. AI is not stealing anything. Theft is a specific legal term. If I steal your TV, I have your TV and you don’t. If AI is trained on some content that content still exists. Whatever training takes place steals nothing.
…because corporations want another excuse to throw more workers on the street in favor of machines…
Your point is a valid one, but this not unique to AI and is the inevitable result of the onward march of technology. The very thing we’re using to communicate right now, the Internet, is responsible for billions of job losses. That’s not a valid reason to get rid of it. Instead of blaming AI for putting people out work, we should be pressuring governments to implement things like UBI to provide people with a basic living wage. That way people need not fear the impact the advance of technology will have on their ability to feed and house themselves.
There are some AI uses that are good though, such as AI voice generation to help those that can’t speak to communicate with the world and not sound like a robot.
These are great examples.
Sure, but there’s never a qualifier in these arguments. It’s just ‘hur dur AI bad’ which is lazy and disingenuous.
Given how harder it’s becoming to tell apart AI slop from something made by a human…
If AI is that good, it’s not ‘slop’, is it? I see this argument all the time. Apparently AI is both awful slop, devoid of merit and also indistinguishable from human made content and a threat to us all. Pick a side.
This is the book this is based on: https://simonstalenhag.se/es.html
This film appears to bear only superficial resemblance to the art in question. It also pisses me off that the trailer doesn’t even mention Simon in the first place.
The developer of Thorium (a Chromium based browser) has stated they intent to maintain older functionality for as long they’re able.
Most likely you’re correct, but I was basing my assumption from the following:
However, the Port Authority of NSW said no oil spills had been reported by vessels.
Time may tell I guess…
Natural undersea oil leak somewhere?
If you ever want good news these are some good places to start:
Stay positive, friend!