Yes, and the people doing mental gymnastics to defend it are unprincipled losers and/or cucks to the billionaires.

The models used to generate code were built by stealing from us. Fuck whatever stupid opinions you might have on copyright; you were exploited. Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, etc are making money, corrupting our democracy, and destroying our way of life because they stole our work. They wouldn't be able to do that without the massive theft of labor they've committed, or if our government actually enforced the laws that they broke, and are currently still breaking.

Why should these scumbags (or anyone) be able to steal and profit from our labor? Are we going to accept our assigned roles as mere cattle for the megacriminals? Will you be happy when your daughter is conscripted as a "breeder" for Elon Musk? Or when your son dies fighting in a war for resources so we can build more data centers?

Or how about when the subsidized tokens run out, you can't afford to use the models you've become unable to function without, and are forced to go work in an Amazon warehouse or copper mine or some shit because you eagerly and enthusiastically contributed to the monopolization of your own labor, and were too stupid to realize it before it was too late?

I feel like this could have been avoided if Torvalds had allowed himself to use C++, instead of suffering the ritualistic pains and frustrations of C for an entire career.

Anyone would lose their love of the craft after that. AI isn't how you find it again, and it makes me sad to see. Not sad in a depressed/AI doomerism way, but sad in a "the people I looked up to are old and washed up now" way.

When I was in highschool, for the first few months of my freshman year I had a couple of classes that took place inside those old "mobile home" style class rooms (idk what they're called lol). They were old, kinda smelly, the AC unit was loud, and I loved it.

But then they finished construction of a new multi-storied building and relocated all those classes. Every classroom was an identical, minimalist cement rectangle with perfectly white walls and high tech whiteboards. I hated it, and actually felt like it made it harder to focus. Nobody agreed with me when I said the old classrooms were better :(

Your tone, word choice, generally poor sentence structure, and grammar are characteristic of an older gentleman who has been drawn in by Facebook's algorithmic feed. Only god knows what wild conspiracy theories, snake oil, and AI generated hoes you've been exposed to, but the fact you've stumbled upon the fediverse is befuddling. Maybe you found a MAGA group that encourages its members to brigade leftie spaces, like if you were on 4Chan in the 2010s? (Ask yourself what you were actually doing in 2010 instead of these childish internet games)

I could be wrong about your age, of course. I'm not pretending to be psychic of anything. Older people struggle with grammar and scams online due to many factors, but stupid young people do too. If you are the latter, then I sympathize. Your circumstances are more likely the result of a society that failed it's youth than your own mental retardation.

You're gonna have to explain this one. I have no idea what this referring to.

I can already see the HN comments

If YoU CaN'T iNnOvAtE, rEgUlAtE!1!1

You can find the correct disc image on Minerva archive (its the successor to Myrient)

Get off of facebook, grandpa

How are they so unable to differentiate a shitty edit from AI?

It's just that most people don't know what you mean when you say something is "AI generated". With context clues, they tie back to terms they're already familiar with, and are associated with fake computer generated imagery ("that's Photoshopped").

I think most people have never even seen Adobe Photoshop, the actual software. Like, literally never laid their eyes on the gray window, the layers and tool panels, etc, yet they've still thrown the term "photoshopped" around.

I'm not sure what you're getting at. By definition, an "expert" is someone with a lot of "experience". Your hypothetical kid has "no experience". Since we know that 1+1=2, I think we can deduce that the answer to your question is no.

Thanks, I didn't know Lemmy had full markdown support. I assumed it was like reddit, which (last time I used it) didn't allow image embeds in comments.

AI is here. Deal. With It. Your authoritarian chains have been shattered, knowledge Nazi. No longer will creation be a luxury for the mentally wealthy. It has now been fully democratized so that even republican voters will be able to code soon.