Yeah these people don’t care about the harm they’re causing or just ignore it. I feel the same way I’m down for just throwing them in jail or something I don’t need physical violence enacted on them. They’re completely careless and promote the erosion of freedom and personal liberty while hiding behind culture war nonsense and (at least in US) say they are the ones preserving it. It’s the hypocrisy that infuriates me mostly.
As if mainstream platforms are bastions of constructive moderate takes? And yeah that’s one of the reasons democracy is important it’s much better than solving things through violence, but if you haven’t noticed democracy is getting gleefully eroded and some of these corporate types want it gone. I don’t believe in violence either but I’m not surprised by anyone’s comments here or anywhere else. And I’d still rather be on lemmy than a corporate platform because I think no corporation should be the invisible hand middleman for ‘the public sphere’
But Shakespeare was a living human at one point, and if an alien is making something it’s also a living organism. Or enjoying birds singing or a trail of ants grabbing food. LLMs and image/video generation is a piece of software that runs on computers that was built off of all collective human data found on the internet with no permission, and you have marketers and layman claiming it’s sentient (same people probably wouldnt grant sentience to another living organism like a bee or a fish btw) when it’s very arguable that it’s not sentient at all and you have people treating it like it is. Like…even if you like the output not caring about where it comes from is just ridiculously careless. Why not boil some rats and listen to the screams if you don’t care about the source of things as long as it’s entertaining you.
Whenever I see this opinion it makes me think the billionaires just want it for their bunkers so their great grandchildren can entertain themselves without the need of other people ever again. Imagine a world where 99% of people are dead and the rest can just make all the music and movies they want, but none of it was actually made by a human. Does it matter then? Because if not then I guess what’s the point of sustaining civilization and Sam Altman’s comments that humans take more energy to raise than a large language model start to sound like maybe humans are the wasteful thing to get rid of rather than data centers. Does it matter if it’s sentient if it appears to be? Why even bother with valuing human life if you can just have a program act like a human and ‘make’ things like music? Does it matter if you never interact with a human and your entire interaction with ‘sentient’ life is not life or sentient and just a stochastic parrot telling you convincing lies? Would you care if you only ever consumed non human content in some sort of fucked up truman show situation? Idk. If you don’t care then why even bother consuming anything human anymore at all? Just seems like a rabid devaluation of anything human. Does it matter if a llm makes you feel loved if it really loves you? Why get love from a flesh and blood human being when you can just get the feeling of love from something else even if it’s a lie?
That’s pretty cool I can only render a couple million on my 3050, and I’ve been trying to do captures of my town with a drone, gonna increase my max Gaussians and try using this.
how decentralized is bluesky really?
I keep this link around for this question and curious about others thoughts. I’m basically fine with fediverse alternatives nowadays, I never post much anyways. I’m fine with not joining bluesky and just sticking to activitypub and remain skeptical about AT proto. People much smarter than me that actually build things in this space seem to be skeptical too.
I think it’s just the start of bad thinking and being anti science and against medical practice, so if they ever admit they are wrong their house of cards collapses and they’d have to begrudgingly admit maybe they don’t actually know anything about science and their whole worldview is based on lies and they’ve been misled. And then maybe they’re wrong about gay people being bad for society and climate change is real and they’ve been being stubborn asshats making problems for everyone.