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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only people who can quit their “pointless” jobs in the name of “moral ambition” are those who are lucky enough to not need them in the first place.

The article does say exactly that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

So many philosophers did this! My favourite is Hegel, who 'rationally' reached the conclusion that German was the best language, Prussia was the best country and Protestantism was the best religion. Nothing to do with the fact that he'd been raised in German-speaking Prussian Protestantism, oh no.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This is it. The temptation to slap on reciprocal tariffs is obvious but it's generally self-defeating. Much better to do things this way and free up trade elsewhere.

 

Right approach, IMO. Let America fight its suicidal trade war. The rest of the world can trade freely!

 

Workers feared Jingye executives might sabotage the works, according to a person briefed on events.

A union source confirmed that police were called this morning at about 8am after Jingye executives tried to enter the Scunthorpe plant. The executives left shortly after.

The workers locked out the bosses. The police arrived and backed up the workers. Bosses went home. Fucking amazing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Her instincts are the worst. Imagine being a conservative and not being able to exploit a 'rally round the flag' moment!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Good question.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The Newer Forest.

Always makes me laugh that the 'New' Forest is getting on for a thousand years old.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Again, you've written quite a long comment, almost none of which is pertinent.

Music is not math. Some aspects of it can be expressed mathematically, yes, but that's not the same thing.

Imagining the idea 'I'd like to see an image of a lemming', which is what you've done, does require some imagination. However, the output is not art because the process used to go from your 'prompt' to the image was not a creative one. (Also, this isn't entirely pertinent, but the image output is really bad. If it had been made by a person and otherwise looked like this, I would still say that it was just ugly, bad art.)

You may well be a creative and imaginative person; I don't know you and I wouldn't want to judge! However, your image of a lemming was not the result of a creative process and so is not art.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago

Current AI is lacking both.

Only word wrong here is 'current'. AI will never have creativity or craftmanship. It's impossible.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago

You're lazy and talentless, and you like how it allows you to steal the hard work and talent of others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

That some, most or all art is partly or wholly derivative of other art is not relevant because the process used by 'AI' does not resemble the artistic process. When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet (a work derived from an older play, itself derived from an older myth which itself had been through countless retellings, variations and translations), he did not do what an LLM does, which is approximately to say: 'It's statistically likely that the phrase "to be" will be followed by the phrase "or not to be"'. Putting together statistical likelihoods is not creativity. This alone shows that AI 'art' is not creative and therefore not art at all.

Additionally, instructing a machine to make things from prompts does not require creativity. Creativity is not 'having ideas'; it's an ongoing process. When you tell an image generator to make an image, you're not asking it to create something, because it cannot do it. You're saying 'Show me the statistically likely output for this input'. Again, this statistical generator is not the same as, nor is it comparable to, the human imaginative process.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago

Yes. It can only exist through stealing the creative work of others.

Also, it looks terrible.

 

I was quite surprised to see Streeting say this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, everyone here trembles under my tyrannical rule. I try not to let it go to my head.

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