Generative AI art and music.

Donald Trump did it.

Record time speedrun from “I’m putting my foot down in favor of AI” to “at least 1/3 of patches are flat out wrong or harmful”, eh?

I stroke a had

Of course he does. He’s a billionaire pedophile and a corporate vulture, and that’s exactly who the Republican Party serves.

Correction: the AI bubble WILL burst. It’s not a matter of if but when…

There’s no way that the economy as it stands today is sustainable. Never before has so much money been invested in a unprofitable industry that has no business null

Unless we all someday learn to eat, sleep, shit and fuck AI, it cannot be the alpha and omega of the future economy.

Internet trolls and edge lords: too angry to live and let live, too cowardly to lash out in person.

Lovely

I’m something of an existentialist at heart, so I truly believe that life is what we make it. Nothing more and nothing less.

There are real problems and challenges in the world. Good and evil both exist. Some days you will be happy and at peace and other days you will be consumed by pain and sorrow.

All of these things are part of life, and the universe itself is ambivalent to us.

Figure out what your philosophy on life is and live.

Oh hell yeah! I’m in!

I only got into Galaxy Express 999 a couple of years ago, but I grew to really love it after watching most of the original 70s series as well as the 80s Rintaro films. It’s a fundamentally great story about what it means to be human in a world of technology, and I think that message is really important for modern times.

I’m glad to see that Rintaro is writing the script for this. We don’t seem to know who is directing this, but my dream director for this probably very out-of-left-field and maybe controversial, but I’d love to see Takeshi Koike take a stab at it since I know that he was a huge fan of the original film.

It’s really hard to say… I don’t think I can pick just one to be honest…

I love the romantic beauty and natural charm of Ghibli. I love the realism and details of Otomo, Satoshi Kon. I love the wild, colorful, and chaotic nature of creators like Tsurumaki, Imaishi, Koike, and Yuasa. Then you have shows like CITY, which was an incredible fusion of Arawi’s cute, simple and colorful artstyle backed by the animation prowess of Kyoto Animation. There are just too many great art styles out there to pick just one!

I will say that I mostly feel that anime peaked in the late 80s and 90s. Of course, nice looking stuff is still being made, and today colors are brighter and frames are cleaner, but there is just something textural about painted cels on top of painted backgrounds that we have lost in the transition to digital.

My prediction for the future of high-quality anime is that many creators will want to return to more physical media based pipelines, due to the perceived cheapening of digital art brought about by generative AI. Because ultimately creators want to stand out, and viewers want to be impressed.

Lupin The IIIrd (Fujiko Mine series and subsequent films)

Have you seen Redline?

If not, you really should! Takeshi Koike is a genius animator and Redline is one of my favorite anime movies. :)

While I think there’s some merit to the idea of talking about the fediverse on corporate legacy social media platforms, I think the best and most effective thing we can do is put in extra effort to engage with the fediverse itself, making posts and comments, building up new communities, and so on.

Reddit is no doubt getting worse and more closed off all the time. They treat their users like shit, or at least, like a resource to be harvested for profit.

But at the same time, Reddit users will sit around complaining about the platform until the cows come up, but when it comes time to do anything about it (like, for example, go check out the fediverse…) they don’t ever take any action. And this problem isn’t unique to Reddit either, people just love to complain about X on X, complain about Facebook on Facebook, complain about Tiktok on Tiktok, etc. It’s hard to tell how much of that is just performative internet shit vs genuine addiction to their particular algorithm of choice, but in my view it’s a real problem…

In other words, the question is “where we should be spending our energy?”

Should we be spending it on Reddit, trying to convince a bunch of people (who frankly range from ambivalent to straight-up addicted) that Reddit sucks? Or should we spend it here on the fediverse building the communities from the ground up?

The right loves censorship.

I don’t know if I’m alone in this, but I really don’t like the basic ergonomics of taking photos with my phone. To me there’s no comparison to the weight and layout of a dedicated camera.

Ok top of that, I like to fiddle with settings and focus manually, and I don’t want my images to be automatically filtered through AI or scraped by Google.

I can certainly agree that a big part of photography is being in the right place at the right time and using whatever camera you have to take the photo. And I know that the phone cameras these days are pretty good and more than enough for the casual user, but I like a dedicated camera, even a cheap and old one, if only for the experience of taking photos that way.

The problem in itself is that Lemmy means that you host a whole bunch of communities. Thats to much power concentrated in one place.

It should be that everyone hosts one community and all communities can talk to each other.

It’s a trade-off between accessibility and power. On platforms like Reddit, power is totally concentrated within the corporation that controls the service, but they allow any old dunce without any technical skills to make a subreddit, making it very accessible to the average person.

On the flip side, if every community was its own server, the power hierarchy would be much more flat, but the ability to make a community would be reserved mainly for people with sysadmin skills and money. It also would make discoverability and community more difficult to maintain.

In other words, I think the Threadiverse strikes a nice balance. It’s certainly not perfect, but there’s no right answer.

No, sadly it wont.

However, decompilation and recompilation are areas that AI could theoretically be extremely effective (due to the fact that much of it is based on educated guesswork in the first place, whether done by humans or not), and being able to turn proprietary software into plausibly “open source” software will be an effective tool for fighting back against big tech corporations (Microsoft, Google, Apple, Adobe, etc.) as well as for preserving classic, beloved software and games.

Listen, I’m as big of a generative AI hater as the next guy, if not bigger. I see myself as much as an artist and musician as a programmer, and I hate big tech for what I can only call the most egregious act of IP theft and cultural strip-mining in human history. It’s plagiarism on an industrial scale. It’s ethically wrong, economically a house of cards, and generally fucking sucks.

But at the same time, machine learning is an effective method of data-driven guessing and pattern recognition. Arguably it is the most effective method, which is why it’s much easier to use ML to make a program for things like image recognition than traditional algorithmic coding. Having recently read Chris Lewis’ blog on the decomp/recomp effort for Snowboard Kids 2 on the N64, it’s clear that LLMs are absolutely not a silver bullet of decompilation (at least, not yet), but it is almost an ideal problem space for what ML really does–guess shit based on a big pool of data.

So, my feeling is, if big tech companies are going to leverage these tools to steal from the people, then I think turnabout is fair play and I look forward to seeing the people leverage these tools for relative good. If people who sell art are going to be pushed out of the market due to slop generators, then it’s only fair for people to reverse engineer any and all of the software that matters in return.

Yes. But think about it this way: if companies are going to use AI to rip us all off, we might as well use it to rip them off too. (No shade at Nintendo who doesn’t resort to AI slop…)

Can’t afford meat and veggies will give you diarrhea. America is finally great again.

Borrowed money, creative accounting, stolen data.