Is that about raping kids? I can’t see it.

I’m going to need a roadmap to find the joke here.

“It’s my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sommbitch or another.”

No one needs to remember me except my kids. Maybe my grandkids.

Jokes on them. Medical care? What am I rich?

Good thing this could never be abused. Holy shit, could you imagine???

Alright I’ve rethought about my earlier response. It’s true, but also irrelevant. So let me try that again without taking your comment personally.

The question is will regular people be able to tell. I think over time, even if they can’t put their finger on exactly why they don’t like something, people will demonstrate a preference for human-created art.

That’s not the end of the story — AI generated is faster and cheaper and economics will play a role — but that was my point.

I mean it’s probably their kids doing that.

It’s easier to visualize than 325 kilo-gallons.

Ugh! Just tell your neighbors to shut up or at least keep it down.

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Look, I can estimate disease risk decades into the future. The question is one of accuracy.

The Internet is for their convenience, not yours.

Wait a second… you’re into something here. What if a fridge could lock and unlock sections by Face ID? It could make sure my kids aren’t drinking my beer! Or eating my lunch for tomorrow. Or half a birthday cake. What if I could require my kids to grab an apple with a soda?

That would be kinda neat if I had money I couldn’t think of a better use for.

Not sure who you’re used to dealing with, but I use AI all the time — damn near every day — and have done for 6 years. I’ve written a discord AI dungeon master. I’ve written hundreds perhaps over a thousand short stories often starting from a scenario I’ve written and watched them all play out time and again. I know LLMs inside and out. I’ve jailbroken them to see how far they can be pushed in terms of violence, evil, and intimacy.

I’m no professional author to be sure, but because I lack the knack for storytelling, not because I don’t understand the craft. So I understand the tools pretty well, and I can tell when they are poorly employed.

And I’m irritated because I 100% can tell, and I wish you were right.

Yeah the problem is pretty much everything AI does requires collaboration with an actual human expert. But we’ve got people who think it can be a therapist without an actual therapist, artist without collaborating with an artist, coder, author, marketing strategist, lawyer, doctor…

This isn’t me belittling AI, I think it can do some really incredible things, but the way I see it, everything it does requires actual cognitive ability and domain knowledge.

First, I rarely am fully self-confident about factual matters. I’ve been around the block a few times but I can’t possibly have experienced everything from every perspective or maybe there’s an unspoken assumption that another person has that differs from mine. I see that in a lot of code discussions. You have to do this or that is always bad, but they just work in a different industry and what has been true every single time for them has never been true for me.

Second, I never block anyone just because they disagree. I block them because they are being an asshole about it or maybe because I’m emotionally compromised and need to prevent myself from engaging with them. On Bluesky I’ve created a timeout block list I throw people in when it’s me and not them, and I clear it out every so often.

Anyway, sometimes it’s just not fruitful or pleasant to talk with some people even if they are good people. I wish Lemmy had something I could use as a timeout like named block lists or block reasons. I don’t know who is a spammer, who is an asshole, or who was just on the other side of an issue or post I needed some distance from.

I’ve blocked a couple of people who just wanted to harp on one thing ask day every day and even though I agreed with them or at least didn’t hate them I needed to block them for my blood pressure. I’m not letting any of you fuckers give me a heart attack in the name of civil discourse.

But also, it is doing everyone a favor. I am an AI enthusiast / realist, which means a lot of people who just hate everything AI probably have me blocked. And that’s a good thing for us because we aren’t constantly bickering about it, but also good for the community because no one really likes to watch people constantly argue, no matter how considerately.

I don’t believe they are blocked from replying on Lemmy. That’s the opposite of what I’ve heard, but I haven’t really experimented.

I remain hopeful that interest will drop in AI generated products because the quality just isn’t there. You can tell the voices aren’t right, the pictures are soulless, the prose is stilled and often self-contradictory. I think people will respond negatively to that.

But how long it will take for that to be clear to CEOs and CFOs, I don’t know, and lives are being destroyed in the meanwhile. I think AI is a good tool, but I don’t know how to keep it as a tool but prevent amateurs from thinking the output is professional level when any professional will tell you it isn’t.

I’ve generated a lot of text — mostly code and fiction. I’ve seen AI write some really good phrases I’d never have thought of. But I’ve never seen it generate so much as half a page before it writes something that requires editing. If you don’t write like 90% of a thing, its voice takes over and everything sounds terrible and flat even if you keep it from making factual errors.

And even the great bits require context or it won’t have any impact. AI is god awful at artistry. Sometimes I’ll ask it to analyze something I’ve written and it always wants to rewrite the bits that have style or panache and replace them with the most generic crap. I’m a terrible visual artist but I’m going to assume it does the same thing with image generation.

You don’t really have to remove any context except understanding how stupid Trump is. If you just read that without knowing Trump it would be a confession

I originally explained it was gone so he was going to pull funding because it wasn’t needed but the bit got too long so I snipped all that. It’s painful to think in his voice for too long.

“No one has ever been as hard as I am when it comes to exploitation, particularly, they say, the sexual exploitation of children. No one has ever been as hard. So we wiped it out. It’s gone and it won’t be … there has never been anyone more dedicated to sexual exploitation is what they say.”