I kind of love that Kanye had that breakdown where he released the Heil Hitler track and went to twitter posting all caps shit saying he was a nazi, and the internet’s collective reaction seems to have just kind of rolled their eyes and move on. Just pure apathy. It’s not shocking or contreversial, more “Yeah, we all figured that out ages ago. Fuck off.”

If it helps it make any more sense, from other posts of this comic on lemmy, the original posts seem to be on pixiv, which is on paper a site for hosting art, but in reality seems to exist primarily to host a lot of hentai. Mostly hentai.

I’ve also noticed a small trend lately where adult artists fish for comissions by making strangely horny webcomics.

This is shockingly “public” considering there’s legal proceedings now.

In most public places in the US it is technically illegal to be publicly intoxicated. It’s incredibly rare that anyone would do anything about it unless you’re being a public nuisance or something though.

Bunch of disparate thoughts about this. Apologies.

You can’t just purity test an entire profession. Or at least it isn’t reasonable to do so.

You have to dig, but there are artists and authors out there who have positive opinions about AI. I’m sure the folks more active on !techtakes@awful.systems could get a list together of their favorite sneer targets.

All the anti-ai tools are coming from programmers. anubis, iocaine, nepenthes, nightshade, and more.

I’d suggest that it’s worth remembering that a large portion of any online discourse is going to be made up of teenagers, college students, and people new to whatever it is they’re discussing. But almost all of them will talk with an implied authority on whatever subject it is anyway. Many subs on reddit have done demorgraphics polls (or polls that included a question about age) and the results makes the sillier places like relationship advice make a hell of a lot more sense.

I have almost a decade of work experience in IT, more if you count some intro to programming teaching gigs I did. AI coding assistance tools are positioned perfectly to be like crack for early learners, but don’t actually add too much value for more experienced folks (especially not anything can’t be done faster with existing non-ai tools, like an IDE’s code snippets features for repeated boilerplate code, which is the most frequent excuse I see online).

That said, I have literally never met any dev in real life that thinks favorably of AI coding assistance.

What I see more and more is corporate management types being afraid that all the hype for AI coming out of Gartner etc means that if they don’t force their employees to use it they will get left behind as their competitors magically produce more somehow. At that point as an employee your choices are to work to meet whatever shit metric they’ve constructed or give up making a paycheck.

It’s very easy to tell other people they need to be more principled when it’s not your food/shelter/insurance/livelyhood on the line.

And it’s also worth noting that what the current wave of popular AI (LLMs) does best is generate text. So of course you’re going to see text posts online trying to shift the window. That’s the company using their horrific tool as designed. There was evidence of AI bots hyping AI in the programming subs on reddit that got overshadowed by them shutting off third party API access.

AI is only as inevitable for as long as the megacorps can keep funneling money into the pit. The world leader in AI conpanies, OpenAI, is doing so great with money that they are trying to threaten their business partner Microsoft out of roughly $40B. This could all blow up fairly soon. I hope it does.

There absolutely are devs out there who are getting ground down, where there principles are becoming eroded over time.

But like with many things in life, the rabble at the bottom aren’t the ones effecting real long term change, media coverage, corporate adoption, etc. Don’t turn this into some crab pot situation.

Go after the tech reporters continually giving AI the benefit of the doubt. Go after industry steering publications like Gartner. Go after politicians giving AI projects sweetheart deals that allow them to coast by without having to compete fairly based off their actual costs (OpenAI loses money on every request it serves). That allow AI datacenters to continuously violate local laws. That allow the datacenters to pollute their local water table. Go after the management enacting requirements that their subordinates demonstrate how AI is improving their work efficiency on pain of firing. You get the picture.

And sure, call out individuals. But please don’t label us all as a group on this.

EDIT: old man intensifies. And another thing! (to support my point that the corps need to be the target in these discussions):

Companies like Microsoft are resorting to forcing AI features into their products and defaulting those AI features to ON in order to get the user numbers they need to keep justifying the absurd expenditure on AI, and to be able to keep pushing the false narrative into the media of everyone using AI.

These effectively fabricated increases in user numbers from these features being default on means that the impact of individual programmers and devs deciding to use or not use AI are not going to move the needle significantly enough to make a difference.

I’m proud to say that currently my workplace has all this shit disabled on an enterprise level, and firewall blocks preventing using any of it. Unfortunately that will only last as long as it takes for the suits to come up with a sufficiently paranoid acceptable use policy. We’re doing what we can to keep stoking the idea that putting any info into these things is effectively selling it to potential competitors, but that can only go so far against Gartner and the like whispering in the C-suite’s ear.

Anyway. Everyone has a duty to say no to this shit, but all the companies are already using every dirty trick they can to boost the user numbers. If you’re running around under the impression that the absurd user numbers represent true users, and that those users must be comprised entirely of tech workers because artists never would use AI, then you’re looking at a false narrative being pushed by the people who stand to make the most money off this shit. The user numbers are not accurate to begin with.

Good old Jonathan Coulton. Guy who did the closing songs for Portal and Portal 2.

Given your recent posts?

No. Just go no contact. They’re 24 years old. They’re going to cry. Breakups usually hurt, and that’s ok. It’s ok to hurt sometimes.

He is not your responsibility to fix. He didn’t respect you or your interests to begin with. If he’s worth breaking up with it’s worth just going no contact.

So even this instance of personal responsibility is significantly offset by the actions of a few. I’m all for doing what each of us can, but that’s fucking hilarious.

My sincerest apologies, I am a clown. Previous posts edited.

Edit:

Fuck, I’m wrong, you’re right. I must have spot checked the Gemini fan club or something out of my end users. Still don’t know how all our luddite inter-office mail couriers got it.

Looks like Google has added a Gemini options page to Android settings regardless of the app install, which is where my confusion on my own device came from.

So, what this seems to be saying, and what is reflected in the settings screens I can access on devices I have at hand, is that Gemini will still have (limited) functionality hooking jnto certain apps even if you’ve disabled “Gemini App history”.

The app is being pushed through normal updates via Google Play (by your carrier or Google itself). In some cases the app can be uninstalled by the end user through the normal UI, and in other cases it installs as a system app and requires adb to be used to disable and/or uninstall it.

EDIT: FALSE, GOOGLE HAS NOT PUSHED THE APP OUT YET, JUST A SETTINGS PAGE

As always, the most secure way to use android is through a custom locked down ROM like Graphene OS.

Edit:

Fuck, I’m wrong, you’re right. I must have spot checked the Gemini fan club or something out of my end users. Still don’t know how all our luddite inter-office mail couriers got it.

Looks like Google has added a Gemini options page to Android settings regardless of the app install, which is where my confusion on my own device came from.

Edit:

Fuck, I’m wrong, you’re right. I must have spot checked the Gemini fan club or something out of my end users. Still don’t know how all our luddite inter-office mail couriers got it.

Looks like Google has added a Gemini options page to Android settings regardless of the app install, which is where my confusion on my own device came from.

I’m sure there’s a combination out there that would get what I’m looking for. I just haven’t found it yet, and a lot of the scene (especially what gets coverage by youtubers) seem to be focused on increasing difficulty by making individual zombies more threatening (night sprinters, randomizers, adding different “zany” zombie types) or adding environmental hazards (nuclear fallout, airborne virus, eternal winter).

You can adjust settings, and I do, but once you clear an area if you stay near the area the options are either “randomly spawn in zombies where you’ve cleared” (ignoring whether a zombie could actually path there or not, last I tested it) or “no more zombies”. There’s no built in way I know of to simulate a glob coming in from the edges of your safe zone if the edges are farther out than the limit of cells it simulates around you.

I could probably get something together with the horde night mod. Just haven’t had time to tinker lately.

Not really related, but it makes me sad that this isn’t easily possible in Project Zomboid. It’s the exact sort of feeling I want from it.

This is just a blatant grift. The link on how to add links just sends to a ko-fi page where you’re charging money.

And completely ignoring a whole bunch of reasons that “the million dollar webpage” worked that mean that something like this won’t.

Good luck I guess.

There will always be more content than anyone can keep up with in a single lifetime. I’ve long since lost the motivation to race along at the front edge of new shit.

I pick up new artists from shows, movies, youtube videos, and games. I also regularly let youtube music (revanced, so no ads) run past the end of my playlists and suggest new stuff. I used to use Pandora for this as well.

On super rare occasions (been over a year now) I’ll check out you groove you lose threads on 4chan and discover a few more artists.

Yeah. Anthropic regularly releases these stories and they almost always boil down to “When we prompted the AI to be mean, it generated output in line with ‘mean’ responses! Oh my god we’re all doomed!”

Because you can buy other people’s code for cheaper than developing it yourself, as long as you use it within the restrictions of the license you paid for.