Had to look up Lychee Light Club, and despite the stort synopsis, it looks like an interesting read, in a very morbidly curious kinda manner.

So, probably not intentional on your part, but thanks for sharing a dark story I’m now morbidly curious about checking out.

I can’t find the post off hand, but I saw the document pages with this suicide pledge software license on it abd thought it was a joke! Knowing it’s not is disgusting!

I thought it was some sick, edgy joke about the state of tech companies. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that modern tech companies and even nonprofits are trying to build the torment nexus from within their own walls, but here I am.

As much as I dislike both options, I know it’s not a guarantee with a priest that my hypothetical kid in this scenario would be harmed when compared to what generative AI does to the mind. So I think I’ll take my chances with a priest any day.

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At least with a priest, if they do anything harmful, there is a person who can be held responsible, whether that be justice by my own 2 paws or by a crumbling justice system.

Depends. If they continue to use it on a regular basis, I give them a couple months before their ability starts to decline and theb apply yahoo to them. Otherwise if it’s more of a one off thing, I still personally do not trust the code but wouldn’t call them a yahoo yet.

If we are talking autocomplete for IDEs, not generative AI. Also, a lot of the predictive code lines thing are just based off of what’s most likely to come next, as ( most likely ) trained off of others work. Whereas I’d argue that is different enough from an LLM since it’s basically the IDE version of the autocomplete on your smart phones keyboard app ( if you keep it on ). For LLMs, I would argue that they generate generic code that majority of the time needs cleaned up in order to even function since it will often, especially from back before I ditched it, look at your request saying you are using a specific language version and disregard because it thinks it can just use any code from that language and it’ll work. Don’t even get me started on how generative AI companies purposefully make their “software” write code in a way that is extremely bloated snd could easily be cut down to a couple lines just so they can say how their AI ( emphasis on artificial ) can write more code faster.

If we’re talking filters on art programs like Krita, also historically not completely generative AI. Majority of them ( at least on Krita ) rely on transforming your art by whatever the code says it should do as compared to generating a new image/texture. No prompt nor a need to mass steal art online in order for these filters to work. As for even something like an autofill colourize mask thing, that relies more on some form of gap detection, which isn’t considered generative AI, AFAIK. Just an advanced bucket fill tool.

If we’re talking things like ESRGAN, sure, and I absolutely have problems with that as well, but they’re ever so slightly lesser versions of the problems I have with LLMs and such.

I am well aware that some forms of it have existed for long before LLMs, but they were much more tame and weren’t being used to destroy the internet and planet to the degree it’s being used now.

I’d say not only labelled, but at the very least if we ain’t ostracizing generative ai being used in any part of the process, we should at least have the dignity to have it quarantined. I for one don’t feel like buying and installing malware because a yahoo who cannot actually read their own code decides to upload to Steam, let alone literally any other platform.

So, Ken, got any jiggalicious PH neutral seven spice aubergine conditioner to go with your foul snake oil opinions?

What, you want them to give even the illusion of control in this day and age? Do you know how expensive that is?! Think of the poor company! /s

I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans

Is the selfishness in the room with us?

In all serious, choosing humans over AI of any type is seemingly always the correct answer.

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I hate the RIAA as much as the next guy, but I hate genAI slightly more. Would rather temporarily support the devil I know than the new devil on the block if it means furthering my agenda. Simple as. I tend to be more progressive on basically any other issues, especially since the past few years where I have grown as a person, but genAI has brought out some of the worst in me.

1. By genAI I mean generative AI, like mistral and stable diffusion.
2. So yeah, I would include them the same way I would include things like craiyon or perplexity.
3. As a creative, the fact that almost every genAI model in existance relies on training on copyrighted works¹ is more than enough for me to hate it. There’s a reason why even the RIAA is in a lawsuit against suno, that seemingly hasn’t been settled yet. Despite them being the devil, I would still support them before supporting genAI.
4. I do not care what anyone else thinks about it. I have made it a life goal of mine to see to it that a future where genAI ( and the creatures who willingly use it ) are minimized as much as possible in society at just about any cost.
5. Do I sound deranged for all this? Yes. Do I care? No.

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I am also not hearing any of the genAI companies calling out things like how grok was allowed the feature set of undressing literally anyone without consent. Most I heard was backlash from everyone else. Similar thing to that one “person” on r•ddit trying to recruit people to try and strip away the effectiveness of tools such as Glaze and Nightshade off images illegally scrapped ( or at least should have been more than illegal ) from a site made for real artists ( those who do not use genAI for their work at any point ). Haven’t seen any backlash from any of those creatures or any of the companies responsible for creating those creatures.

Consent in the realm of genAI is as real as in the realm of rapists and I will defend that view until I die.

Well, I conflate Nazism witg fascism and same goes with genAI. It’s already a link in mg head, ao I’m trying to stay as far away from things using genAI coding as well. Keeps me from having to remove the label of “person” from myself.

Remind me to stay away from that Nazi bar.

Defenders of genAI might as well hoist their vintage early 1940s German flags while they’re ahead! Though I suppose an Italian or Japanese flag from the same time period would also work as well.

Just another case of genAI psychosis not too dissimilar to the one gøøgle employee who maybe a year or two back thought their genAI was alive. I’m infinitely more worried we will destroy ourselves due to climate change caused by the AI data centers long before genAI even has the ability to think on its own.

Remember that it’s always morally acceptable to break in and destroy AI data centers. The only ones harmed are not people.

I always knew that man would become senile one day. It’s either that, he’s been morally compromised by a/n ai company, or both. Especially since we all know he wasn’t a mentally deficient person.

If they’re using bluetooth and wifi, we better find and remove those components too. Ain’t no way they won’t have the OS forcibly connect to the nearest open network or start bluetooth to deliver what they want when you ain’t using it, regardless of whether or not you have connected to internet or not.

Just from videos alone, if you have friends who can play it with you for hours, that Big Walk is atmospheric enough I would play it if my friends were more interested in it. Hell, I’d play it singleplayer, but it looks to be built around multiplayer.

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Just saw the part where it says your go-to atmospheric games. Well, in that case, mine used to be Borderlands 1 ( the original and not the crummy remake/remaster(?) with the abhorrent microtransaction lootbox and minimap replacing the compass ).

I used to play that game and could easily get lost for hours just questing and grinding. I just don’t play it as much now.

Similar thing could be said for Audiosurf 2, so long as I’m on a device that has a lot of my music on it.

Or is it all posturing to get praised?

That’s exactly what I was thinking. Wouldn’t be surprised to see a not to far off future where they obtain the rights to put all the old comics on a paid service while also making any new comics digital exclusive, thus disproving their alleged care for physical media.