no curfew is completely derranged. The point of a city is to be a place for humans to live, not maximise freight shipped or whatever.

The planes are gonna go right over me. I’ll need to redo every window double glazed or I wont be able to sleep. Probably 20-30k, realistically I’ll have to move cause I don’t have that money. Not to mention having windows closed on summer nights is insane.

That is genuinely interesting. The image suffers from the usual flaws in composition and style but the 3d model is corrected. Like the eyes aren’t fucked, the toes are fixed. Or at least from the angle you photographed.

Do you know how the tool works technically? Like what it’s doing mathematically? Or have a good link?

That won’t happen. The chips themselves are useful for loads of industrial applications and the infrastructure itself is nontrivial.

Relatively cheap would still be tens of thousands of dollars.

You’d prefer to be ruled by a subset of them?

Romans tried that, sucked for them. Learn from history, don’t as Marx said repeat it as farce

I think your brain is maybe a little broken by the propaganda here. Democracy != westminster shite or tyranny of the majority. It’s just broadly rule by the people. Proper democracy works via consensus with protections for marginalised voices, and can grant people revocable authority when fast decisions are needed. Like you can democratically decide to listen to a firey when your house is on fire without giving that person dictatorial powers.

I think if you really experienced democracy you would believe that. Like when would democracy not be preferable?

Unsurprising when our government claims to be a democracy but isn’t really. Like obviously people would lose faith in democracy if you think that it’s voting for liblab despite wanting someone else, watching them be unaccountable, watching them ignore popular reforms, going to work under a dictatorship, experiencing oligarchy whenever you procure the means of subsistence etc.

Australia is not a democracy in any meaningful sense. I mean ffs you can’t even fire your member if they just lie lol.

I hate chatbots because they are an affront to personhood, language, and the very concept of meaning. You hate chatbots because some of the manufacturers donate to a political party in a failing empire.

We are allies

My arthritis is playing up, if I come across as terse forgive me.

Technological development isn’t intrinsically harmful though, and that includes so-called “AI”. It’s the ways in which capitalism exploits new (and old) technologies that is harmful, because of the way capitalists use those technologies to drive down labor costs and eliminate jobs.

I don’t want to argue a strawman position (i.e. that technological development is intrinsically harmful) but I do adopt the position that certain technologies lend themselves more readily to good, and conversely bad, ends. I think this is extremely obvious and won’t bother explaining further unless asked.

In the field of so called AI I will admit that the underlying technology, the transformer model, is freaking awesome. Huge step forward, unlocked giant leaps in computer vision among many other things. The chatbots and diffusion algorithims? not so much, genuinely I struggle to think of positive social impacts. Most people give me are based on fundamental misunderstandings of how they are made and what they do, e.g. they are an appalling way to learn a topic or improve your writing (see semantic ablation if you need that last one explained https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/).

Mass manufacturing anti-information not only misleads people but also buries real information in a tide of slop. They are fundamentally designed to seem plausible, aka to deceive a user that information/communication/language/art is happening when it is not.

There are many open source models available.

This is a popular refrain and it based on a misunderstanding of what they are. They are open weight models, the source (the information used to make them) is not shipped. They are more like shareware. In theory you could tweak them, like you could go to neuron 65423455 and tweak the weight but as the models are by nature inscrutable this is not a useful exercise. You cannot study what training went in, analyses sources for bias, replicate the creation, or anything else a truly open source model would be, you can simply run the finished product.

Hobbyists and anarchists can deploy a locally hosted AI to work against capitalism, with none of the downsides. It’s perfectly possible to use AI tools ethically and responsibly.

Can you? The technology is fundamentally nondeterministic, impossible to analyse, extremely convincing which makes disinfo/bullshit (in the Frankfurt sense) much more dangerous. Further because of the compute required to train them and the lack of source these models rapidly become outdated and of diminishing use. I think capital is better undermined by building solidarity, sabotaging these machines/their training, and making sure you retain your ability to operate without tools created by them.

But folks aren’t fighting against them by complaining to us, they are instead directing their energy to fighting with an anarchist instance which is dedicated to fighting against capitalism, including corporate abuses of “AI” tools.

I don’t think anyone is trying to harm the instance, simply convince people. Are people ddosing you guys? doxing people? If you believe someone is doing something harmful you basically have a moral duty to try and convince people don’t you?

Are we responsible for any of the harms associated with corporate AI? No. And we have never “promoted” AI, at most, we have just defended the way in which we use it, because it isn’t harmful in that context. And yet…

The horde is interesting but I do think that it is dependant on capital as outlined above, and that in general using these things devalues language/art/humanity and harms your brain.

In terms of relative harms, the anti-GenAI crowd on lemmy has done way more actual harm than anyone on this server has by posting an AI image.

There are many devoted leftist that are against this stuff, there are many horrible techbro types that love it. It is not reasonable to smear a position based on the worst people that hold it.

I mean, you don’t become a head of state without a certain degree of approval. Seems a bit oppressive to try prevent people, especially since it’s probably combined with mourning the destruction of a country in an illegal war.

This doesn’t engage with the point at all. There are places and times to fight particular battles.

fwiw i think slop machines are boardline useless and largely culturally harmful but even if they worked well. Like if extruded images were worth looking at and chatbots were reliable for things other than lie and cause psychosis then promoting them at this stage would be harmful.

Capital controls them, it is intrinsic to the approach that massive amounts of hardware and energy are needed to create them, as well as input data and unpleasant human labour. They will be used to crush labour, making revolutionary action harder, and atrophying skills and becoming dependant on them is placing yourself at the mercy of silicon valley freaks.

Resisting further degration of working conditions and bargaining power through imperfect means is a good tactic. Disney or whatever gets way more power from being able to fire all the writers, animators, and actors than keeping control of some fucking cartoon for another few years.

reddit and its consequences has been a diaster for the minds of young men.

You think fundies are gonna read that and get something out of it?

I better set this up this arvo. Myrient archives so many old games that you literally cannot obtain all in an accessible way.

Losing the files would be a digital book burning.

What is the point of this remark? It seems overly literal. The post isn’t saying that some point is carved into the stuff of the universe, nobody thinks if you get a powerful enough microscope you’ll see “make art and fornicate” written in little wiggling molecular strands. We’re all raised in the same postmodern world lol.

There is subtext to all human communication, in this case the subtext is “Inasmuch as humans find reasons for existing beyond simply a biological aversion to suicide the outlined reasons are not satisfactory. Nonetheless society is hostile to acting out other goals, this is a problem.”

So why make the remark? Do you think people don’t know that there is no cosmic purpose? Do you want to stand out as having been exposed to ideas from nihilism and absurdism? What do you add?

It’s a shame you feel that polluting our cultural heritage with bullshit, and damaging people’s brains, is worth being able to sit on your arse.

Using chatgpt carries its own death sentence

That list is divided into “extract rents” and “work a job” It seems kinda weird to call a job passive income just because you’re not paid a wage. But no I don’t mean people buying a book you wrote.