ebu

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[–] ebu@awful.systems 17 points 4 months ago (5 children)

as someone who only draws as a hobbyist, but who has taken commissions before, i think it would be very annoying to have a prospective client go "okay so here's what i want you to draw" and then send over ai-generated stuff. if only because i know said client is setting their expectations for the hyper-processed, over-tuned look of the machine instead of what i actually draw

[–] ebu@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

happy to see the draft get fleshed out. good writeup

[–] ebu@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

with how much of a revolving door of covert white supremacists lemmy is, i can imagine it's hard to boot them out faster than they come in. just federation things

[–] ebu@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago

what if we simply took the output of the easily manipulated word salad generator and parsed it into instructions for the computers that are in charge of all our communication to follow

[–] ebu@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well over a year ago it was actually useful. [...] And it just doesn't come up with interesting stuff any more.

i have to admit i'm deeply curious what outputs you considering interesting enough for twenty bucks a month

[–] ebu@awful.systems 18 points 5 months ago (4 children)

i couldn't resist

Reddit post titled "The Anti-Al crowd is so toxic and ridiculous that it's actually pushed me FURTHER into Al art"

at least when this rhetoric popped up around crypto and GameStop stocks, there was a get-rich-quick scheme attached to it. these fuckers are doing it for free

[–] ebu@awful.systems 36 points 5 months ago

And yet, my opponents in discussion

good gods you're going to be the most insufferable kind of person, aren't you

You aren't going to convince me of anything

this was a bit of a given

bet you also think the climate cost of cryptocurrency is also a failing of the energy sector to deliver clean power to the innocent sweet little industrial-scale mining tycoons, don't you

[–] ebu@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you do an excellent job of writing. several times reading this i had to mentally delete paragraphs of explanations for some of the rationalist thoughts and ideology because you have described it perfectly in just a sentence or two.

shared this with some of my in-tech-but-skeptical friends. you deserve a bigger audience

[–] ebu@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

thinking "typewriter monkeys", but maybe that's too literal

[–] ebu@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

...gods i miss n-gate

[–] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

wow, that side-by-side is so obviously bad i'm surprised it even got posted. usually AI bros try to hide the worst of the tech, or at the very least, say shit like "this is only the beginning!!"

also, was not expecting to click that link and see FUNKe. good nostalgia

[–] ebu@awful.systems 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

simply ask the word generator machine to generate better words, smh

this is actually the most laughable/annoying thing to me. it betrays such a comprehensive lack of understanding of what LLMs do and what "prompting" even is. you're not giving instructions to an agent, you are feeding a list of words to prefix to the output of a word predictor

in my personal experiments with offline models, using something like "below is a transcript of a chat log with XYZ" as a prompt instead of "You are XYZ" immediately gives much better results. not good results, but better

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