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naught101

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I'm a climate scientist by trade. Interested in interesting things. Ecology, complexity, politics, social change, music.

  • David Revoy (open source comics artist) is tired and frustrated of people calling his human art, AI-generated

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  • It's crazy to imagine the only value in an art work is how well it conveys a joke

  • David Revoy (open source comics artist) is tired and frustrated of people calling his human art, AI-generated

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  • I hadn't noticed it, but the whole style is petty similar to a lot of his recent work, so I guess it's not a deliberate point.

  • David Revoy (open source comics artist) is tired and frustrated of people calling his human art, AI-generated

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  • Damn, that's a super crass way of approaching the world.

  • When you think upon the legacy of your time in this world, what do you think is the most positive contribution you have made?

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  • Ain't we all

  • When you think upon the legacy of your time in this world, what do you think is the most positive contribution you have made?

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  • Climate activism. Helped get the issue of coal mining and export on the local, state, and federal agenda in Australia in the late 2000s, while living next to the world's biggest coal export port. Still doing bits, but I think that was my most effective period (working with many others, obviously).

  • DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever

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  • Unfortunately

  • DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever

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  • Look, as a southern hemispherian, given everything that's going on right now in the northern hemisphere, I'd be pretty fine with going missing TBH.

  • David Revoy (open source comics artist) is tired and frustrated of people calling his human art, AI-generated

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  • What does this mean? Is art not content?

  • David Revoy (open source comics artist) is tired and frustrated of people calling his human art, AI-generated

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  • Must be frustrating. I've been following him since he was making tutorials using alchemy and mypaint around 2010, so I've seen his style coalesce. I can understand the commenters' suspicion, it just kinda sucks that some of the most common AI styles landed so close to his..

  • How many accounts should I have for the fediverse?

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    What's the most cursed, weird, bizarre, strange, funny or uncanny thing you have ever seen in Google Maps or OpenStreetMap?

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  • I see it - I'd guess it's dirt on the window?

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    What's the most cursed, weird, bizarre, strange, funny or uncanny thing you have ever seen in Google Maps or OpenStreetMap?

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  • That's amazing. Legends.

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • They have uses in certain circumstances. They also have lots of negative aspects (that are broader and more systematic, as far as I can see). I think in a net-benefit sense they are not, in fact, helpful (to an organisation, or to a society).

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • The question isn't where the point of no return is - we've been beyond those the whole time. The question is how bad we want to let it get. Ever fraction of a degree extra warming means worse impacts.

    Agree that less than +2°C is unlikely (though not completely impossible). But still, better that than +2.5°C, etc.

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • It's changing a lot of things, but many of them in only relatively minor ways. It's not affecting e.g. food supply systems in a significant way - it might be screwing up the management structures of companies involved, but that will be repairable fairly quickly..

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • A more recent (and maybe closer) analogy is the advent of ebook readers and the heralding of the Death Of The Book. I suspect we'll be in a similar place in a few years - books stores are doing just fine, perhaps even better than pre-ebook.

  • People prefer stories written by AI – especially when told they’re written by a human

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  • Considering you immediately down voted my comment, I think it's fair to ask: is that a genuinely curious question?

    edit: fuck it, I've been thinking about this anyway, may as well write it down. A few points:

    Firstly, a few decades ago a similar claim about junk food would have been very hard to find evidence for, because research on it's detrimental effects didn't gain much momentum until after it was obvious there was a problem. AI will certainly have a similar lag, so it's unlikely that we'll have hard evidence of it's effects (especially in the wild) for years or decades.

    That said, I have a few hypotheses for impacts on readers/reading:

    • "quality" in this study is probably fairly highly correlated to "average" - text that reads simply and clearly, because it tries to be as close to cultural norms as possible is much easier to read. That removes barriers to reading, which to some degree makes it more fun to read. But it also makes it less challenging to read. Counterpose this with creative literature that often has a really strong author's voice that can be a bit challenging initially, but beautiful it you persevere with it. I'm thinking like Ursula Le Guin, or Haruki Murakami.
      • in the longer term, reading a lot of AI writing is likely to lead to a strengthening of the bias towards simple, generic language. In turn this could lead a reduced demand for really creative writing. By analogy, we've already seen something similar happen with hollywood films over the last couple of decades - more focus on generic (e.g. Marvel) and rehashed stories.
      • AI use is already leading to more generic, less explorative science - see Hao, Q., Xu, F., Li, Y., & Evans, J. (2026). Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus. Nature, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09922-y
    • Because LLM-produced writing inherently produces less diverse content (because it is an averager, with noise, see the Hao reference above), then it's less likely to produce ideas that challenge the mind, and require the reader to engage critically.
      • LLMs usage is already associated with reduced critical thinking capacity: Gerlich, M. (2025). AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking. Societies, 15(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc15010006
    • LLM's well-known tendency towards "hallucinations" is all fun and games when it's overt, but more insidiously, more subtle hallucinations happen constantly too, and go undetected. This can end up producing ideas/memes that are subltly wrong and potentially damaging, but get accepted by the reader because the sound pretty close to the truth (especially when you're lulled into a false sense of security by a voice that sounds VERY MUCH like it knows what it's talking about).
    • Guardrails are garabage and easily bypassable and have already lead to deaths. While reading doesn't have the rabbithole effect of using an LLM as a chatbot, it's still capable of producing horrendous ideas and framing them as positive.
    • I suspect that reading less diverse content also results in a degraded capacity for imagination in general, so it could lead to less good art in the world.
      • Imagination is also necessary for solving major socio-environmental issues, and even for things like planning to prevent terrorism, so this could have broader ramifications in the long run. See Weick, K. E. (2005). Organizing and Failures of Imagination. International Public Management Journal, 8(3), 425–438. https://doi.org/10.1080/10967490500439883

    I feel like a had more points, but that'll do for now.

    Plus obviously all the other GenAI complains - environmental destruction, copyright theft, EEE power grabs, associations with fascism in general..

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    What's the most cursed, weird, bizarre, strange, funny or uncanny thing you have ever seen in Google Maps or OpenStreetMap?

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    Underrated albums/EPs from the last 2 decades?

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    Lemmy community sidebars need more "related communities" links

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    What recent books or articles have shifted your worldview?

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    Pro-Trump Cuban Rapper El Funky About to Be Deported

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    If you could explain to your 19 year old self what you are doing with your life today, what would they say?

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    Is it possible to be comfortable with two desktop OSs (e.g. shortcuts, mouse)

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    When reading (or listening), what kind of imagery hits you the hardest?