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@thomasfuchs people who say "Deportation is not ethnic cleansing" can also fuck off.

@thomasfuchs Understood. FWIW I was not trying to "gotcha", although I can see how it might look that way.

@thomasfuchs Out of curiosity, how many people you tell "I am unfollowing you because of generative 'AI' images" claim it is a false positive? If some, how many of those do you believe?

@sylvie I really miss the days when I found takes like this extreme. @cwebber

@thomasfuchs I think for me the main issues are environmental destruction, and what for want of better terms I will call plagiarism. I'm not interested in "per-inference" costs as long as enormous, energy and water hungry data centers are being built or proposed. Even solar and wind power (although vastly superior to fossil fuels and nuclear power in this sense) have significant impact at scale. I'm also skeptical about "local models will save us" on several grounds, unless the modestly powered machine ingests only data whose creators specifically consent to that use. Yes, it's impractical, but I thought we on fedi already had the "consent is impractical" discussion a few times. Finally (and you did invite unstructured!), I don't want to directly or indirectly support the businesses of some of the worst people on the planet. Every hour I spend reviewing AI generated PRs makes these services a little more useful. I'm not ashamed to say that I just want to the AI bubble to pop as goal, not as an means to some other thing. We didn't boycott South African wine because it tasted bad, but because it enriched terrible people.

P.S. This post is not an invitation to "Change my mind", but a response to a request for thoughts about AI. Reply guys will be blocked.

@cwebber It's like, when you go outside and the sun beams messages straight into your brain. Except there is only one sun and it is owned by corporations, just like in the real world.

@ariadne I guess linuxjournal.com is all slop all the time now. A few days ago there was a similar [1] sloppy clickbait article about Debian.

Dunno who "George Whittaker" is, but if they are real person they should be ashamed of impersonating a journalist.

[1]: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/debian-experiments-ai-assisted-bug-triage-open-source-projects-face-growing-report-overload

@ami_angelwings ooh, in that case ART from murderbot for A. It stands for Asshole Research Transport and it is a cantankerous AI that becomes almost as interested in media (hence.in art, geddit?) as murderbot.

Anthias in Sogod Bay #Philippines. Converted to "Black and Orange" with #darktable.

#MonochromeMarch Zine permission granted.

@gemlog That might be a good link for you, but not for the rest of us...

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@vbernat/116240955542340468

I guess the question of tabs versus spaces is finally settled for me.

@kermode I was thinking about our escalator discussion yesterday in Osaka. I said to myself, why the heck are we all standing on the right of the escalator. Then realized "Oh right, Osaka". Took the 45 min commuter train to Kyoto and followed the crowd on the left out of the station. So it isn't even Kansai verso Kanto (roughly, East versus West) but some split within Kansai. I'm not sure I have the patience to find the left-right border between Kyoto and Osaka.

Blue dragon nudibranch. Sogod Bay, #philippines .

It is slightly interesting to think about why this doesn't work as well for me in monochrome. There is a ton of contrast here, but not much between the rock and the slug. Also the composition is very documentary: I found a cool thing and tried to fit it into the frame. Anyway, in the spirit of #MonochromeMarch here is a posterized version from #darktable

Zine permission granted.

@gemlog probably Osaka, they like to be different from Tokyo. @ton

@gemlog I've left Tokyo (I'll be in Kyoto as of next week), so we don't have to figure out if I could do it or not. @ton

@gemlog Still in .jp. Probably I should not be posting before finishing my first cup of coffee.

@gemlog As a New Brunswick resident, I have to say "follow New Brunswick's lead" is not something I hear every week.

@gemlog You're very welcome, I'm glad the not-too-ambitious trip we made was still interesting for you.