"Ooh look at us we paid real people to make this beautiful thing! Just like we always did but now you have to pay twice as much thanks to ai. And we're doing this after we fired all the people that used to do this because we thought ai would do their job and not look cheap."

My wife is suddenly getting more art commissions. Theres a lot of people that just want something that looks good and commercial companies just...dont look good. Or just use the AI filter.

This isn't "brands" suddenly gaining a conscience and recognizing the harms of GenAI slop.

It’s that kind of skill that some artists say has become a greater asset than ever. In the age of widespread and accessible AI, artists say they’ve noticed more brands leaning into handcrafted art as a selling point.

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“In previous years, I felt like I was just some hired content creator. No one really cared to tag me or make a [collaborative post],” Golovlova said. “And I think now for brands, it becomes valuable to bring the artists together with the brand to show that they are working with real people.”

They're supporting real artists (again), because "line go down." People generally don't want slop, and parading it around is akin to shouting, "We cut somebody's livelihood to sell you more crap!" Not a good look.

This is the same song and dance as rainbow capitalism, and for every artist that's suddenly appreciated by Big Corpo again, there's likely ten more who are still struggling thanks in part to the very GenAI these big companies still support (just not publicly).

Don't be tricked by brands tokenizing artists. Find an artist you like and support them directly.

"You're all going in a Titan submarine, a Titan submarine, a Titan submarine"

Fingers crossed, but I'll believe it when I see it.

We'll find out..

I thought when the ROI got skewed the market would pause so I don't know what it'll take, maybe the local data center fights can stop it

once the investors turn off the money supply.

Which will undoubtedly happen... provided enough users stop using AI?

We're going to be able to build virtual super computers on the cheap once the investors turn off the money supply.

I can hang on to my phone and computers for a while longer

What we need is an AI cooling off period, say 50000 years, during that time all AI companies are required to scale back their operations to that they had back in 2022. Any hardware and datacenter bought after that will be sold to the general public at charity auctions.

Then perhaps we can stop throwing compute at the problem and actually innovate to make the crap more efficient and optimized while we maintain the ability of the common man to learn computing and keep the skills alive.

I am so fucking done with AI, but I understand that we need to keep researching it, what I don't understand is the accepted attitude that everything needs to pivot to AI.

At work we have started working with a new AI company promising to make everyone able to make any application for anything without knowing how to code.

And, sure it does look cool, and it isn't based in the US (though that is probably just a matter of time), but we are making us dependent on them for everything.

I have a few questions that I wiuld love to ask, but I don't know if I'll get the chance...

1. Where is the actual data stored? Is it stored in the AI company's infrastructure? How do we export it? What happens if the AI company is bought by another company in another country, will our data move to the new country's jurisdiction?
2. What does it cost to keep an app running? Once the app is no longer developed, what does it cost to keep running?
3. What is our strategy to move away from the AI company when they suddenly raise costs both for AI tokens, and for just running the app?
4. What is our strategy to maintain in-house knowledge of the actual processes? Without that knowledge, how do we evaluate the apps that are generated by the AI company?

I suspect the answer will be something like:

1. Don't worry about it.
2. Don't worry about it.
3. Don't worry about it.
4. Don't worry about it.

This is the joke. They are not even using the hardware and by the time they do, it will be obselete.

“Demand” which constituted megascaler companies buying chips to out in warehouses so that other people can’t buy the chips.

The Avalanches took sixteen years to release their second album, in large part due to needing to get clearance for all of the samples that they used.

To the point where, I believe, they completely redid a chunk of the album because there were samples they could not get clearance for. They had to contact Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono to get permission to use a sample from a children's choir singing "Come Together".

Actual artists creating amazing art, belayed for 16 years to avoid copyright infringement.

Just a random thought I just had. Probably not related at all.

Edit: should link to the album after all that I guess. It's incredible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildflower_%28The_Avalanches_album%29

id try it.

The moment I start hearing slop I am going to Apple Music

Feels like Apple are the only company not shoehorning Generative AI in to everything

oh wow, hopefully they'll drown in lawsuits over this. absolutely vile new low.

Burn it with fire.

I think I just hit a Bad Ideas Bingo on my home-made card!

First time I saw it all I could think was, if you're not evil you wouldn't need to announce it.

Remember when google's mantra was "dont be evil"? Pepridge farm Remembers.

It always is rules for thee, not for me.

Reminder to vote with your wallet

Looks out at all the monopoly and stock market fuckery going on

this. you don't need an absolute cap just an actual progressive tax that rises all the way to the top. Its a crime when the top tax tier was set barely into the six figures. then you got stupid doctors going republican because they pay to much taxes. you pay to much tax because there are no tiers above you. I thought you had to be smart to go to med school.

I think this is 50% due to suppression and 50% due to film goers thinking “wow, a 3+ hour movie about Musk sounds fucking miserable.” I know I did

The bone we get thrown is always a woman or POC. Martha Stewart, every dirty cop...