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I spent waaay too much time on this.

@rysiek

Worth it.

@Bro666 @rysiek Absolutely worth it.

@blaine

@rysiek I am so sorry.

@blaine uhh please tell me this is not AI slop

@rysiek it is 100% ai slop. See also this thread https://bsky.app/profile/dame.is/post/3llces4rnas22 – I couldn't resist making the cuts deeper.

@blaine eh.

@rysiek @blaine related: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114233237481620961

@miro @rysiek @blaine and https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114233722780283183

@viq @miro while I agree, give @blaine a break guys, there's a reason why I didn't link to these myself here nor went into a longer argument against AI.

@hko @rysiek obviously that whole moment moved *extremely* quickly. One thing I'm not sure of is that as far as I've seen, Studio Ghibli (not Miyazaki) have been very quiet through all of this. ChatGPT refuses to do style transfers for most artists that I've tried. The open question is: have Studio Ghibli, or Disney through some licensing loophole, *permitted* OpenAI to do this? Some clarity on this point seems essential.

@hko @rysiek
My own feelings on AI slop are "it's complicated" but to ill-advisedly paraphrase, in addition to "fuck exploitive and monopolizing tech, literally bring out the guillotines" I will also say that (1) we should respect and pay artists, (2) copyright itself has long been fucked, (3) everything is a remix, and (4) many musicians in the 1870s were deeply opposed to the idea of recording performances.

@hko @rysiek I don't have answers, but our fight is with the structural issues as manifested through the tools. After spending literally decades screaming "NOT LIKE THAT" at my screen, I have zero, no, *negative* faith that moralizing about this stuff will influence how and where these tools get used.

I wish I had a handle on how to approach the problem, but it's somewhere between @rudyfraser.com "Find Joy" and @zephoria's stance here: https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-an-interventionist-mindset/

@hko @rysiek (which is all to say, I wholeheartedly accept the criticism of and agree with Rysiek's original "Eh" )

@moritz_negwer spot on.

@rysiek @moritz_negwer add the #SignalGate hashtag for visibility

@cryptadamist @moritz_negwer ah that's the hashtag. Wasn't sure, thanks.

@mogul ooh, had no clue.

Sorry, I mean: yes that is totally an intentional reference.

@rysiek I wondered, but I have such faith in you.

@mogul too lazy

@rysiek You have already given us so much

@mogul also, the rank of Major is above Captain, which means he had to be Captain at some point in time.

@rysiek