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Hi. Today we're looking at AI-generated images, why they look like that, why fascists love them, and how corporations want to use them to cheapen the valuable work of creatives.

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Why Does "AI" "Art" Suck So Much? - EARLY ACCESS, AD-FREE, AND UNCENSORED

Hi. Today we're looking at AI-generated images, why they look like that, why fascists love them, and how corporations want to use them to cheapen the valuable work of creatives.

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Cletus Yesk

Looking forward to watching it! Just taking a break from putting in work on my own thing at the moment. Hopefully I'll be done on time this week.. I'm curious, based off the title alone- Do you think hitler would've still been hitler if he had had access to ai? Or would it be enough "bread and circus" for him to stay fully distracted? Do you think he would have a puritanical view of what art should or shouldn't be?

Vanessa Walsh

Oooboy here's one for me, an artist :/

Vanessa Walsh

Ok I drew some meep meep milkers. Where should I put them so smn fans can appreciate Muppet honkers

Vanessa Walsh

Ok, I made a karmbody and it's terrifying.

Sharien

on that clip of the guy explaining the difference between assembling something and art - when that other guy interjected that "ai cant do that YET" - the correct answer to that is: "Not ever." its simply not how these models work - you would need an entirely different approach for that

Sharien

generative ai is just a reprisal of the mechanical turk.

John Scigulinsky

Speaking of the Dead Internet and AI bots flooding social platforms - I've decided I'm going to be sending a "personal newsletter" to friends and family. A little email, every week or two, to tell them about my life. Like we used to do on old facebook - here's what I've seen. Here's a picture of my food. Here's a review of a movie I've seen that nobody asked for. Here's a mopey emo song I listen to when my crush doesn't respond to my messages. Then I thought a personal newsletter is a stupid idea. Who would read it? Isn't everyone sick of newsletters anyway? But now, I think it's the only way to stay in touch with actual humans. It's telling people about my life - or reading about lives of my friends - without having to interact with a highly (and increasingly) toxic platform such as Instagram or Facebook. It's like blogging, except the blog goes directly into your spam folder on its own! Who's with me?

Andrew Carkner

The intro animations keep getting better! Good work

Chazzaroo

Ah, the white hot hate I felt at the Princess M trailer is back. We should pick on the dude that did it, he should feel shame, it's shameful and the original artist hates AI, we shoud not let fans pretend to love something while spitting in the face of the artist.

Dan M

There's a reason Google search results are getting more terrible and harder to use... they want people to ask Gemini instead.

Steve Snyder

I wanted my wife to watch this episode, but she said she prefers me giving her a synopsis, which I understand, and I like trying to tell her things. It’s just a shit ton to remember! I guess I’ll be listening to this episode for the rest of the day trying to remember all the salient points. 😅

Nearby Couch

Great job handling the subject without frying all our optic nerves with examples of AI slop. I've avoided a bunch of videos on the topic because I don't want to see a parade of cautionary examples.

AEPSchmitt

Those double quotation marks speak loudly

Cory Hammerschlag

The keytar analogy is a pretty spot on comparison to the artificial hype around AI - it reminds me of the debut of the Segway, when people (who coincidentally had invested millions in it's development) were unironically saying that it was going to change transportation so fundamentally that we needed to think about how we would redesign highways to accommodate them - it's like if people kept repeating that for years and a whole subculture around the Segway developed while everyone else just rubbed their eyes a little harder and tried to see what nuance they were failing to properly appreciate about a pogo stick with a motor in it

Chris Hanson

Thank you so much for this, I’ll be sharing the public episode far and wide. I retired from Software Engineering at Apple after 20 years in August in part because there was an artificially-enthusiastic push—driven very clearly by the demands of the financial markets—to “catch up to the rest of the industry” and shove generative AI into everything, including the developer tools that I spent the past decades working on. While the company’s implementations are more ethical than most (only training on things explicitly licensed, doing some very hard work to preserve privacy guarantees, etc.) there was no apparent thought among senior management about the fundamental ethical problem of whether these features should exist at all. So I gave my notice, stayed on for several months to aid in the transition, and am now out because I won’t have anything to do with that shit. I’ve been sharing Ed Zitron’s articles on this same topic and theme for several months now with my colleagues across the industry. Now I’m glad to have something to share with everyone outside the industry. Thank you, team. I’m proud to support your work in this fight.

Armando MC

What Patreon level unlocks Cody's script for the 2013 blockbuster RIPD?

Todd Carnley

I think I like this episode but it needs something. Like...Milkers! Huge Milkers!

Tarren Renn

I use AI art for D&D tokens to play in my games, real low level stuff. I wish I had the artistic talent to draw my characters myself, but I don't. I am not trying to sell these things at all. I also use AI to write official letters and to get some descriptors and such for my games. I will edit both as necessary, but I do not think that AI is the answer to everything and I think that AI does definitely perpetrate perjury. I think that it is a matter of knowing the balance of where and how to use AI. Are you using it for advertising/making money? Are you using it for personal use? Are you using it to write school papers and not editing anything you "write" with it?

Cletus Yesk

Just finished the rough cut for my reaction video. It is absolutely brutal. You were incorrect so often that it took most of the full 4 hours to rip you several new ones. Mostly adding information rather than cutting scenes. I'd pity you if you weren't currently misusing your sphere of influence so thoroughly in this episode.