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planish

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  • I'm not an artist. If I sketch something, and have an ai upscale it for me, is it still slop, vs just asking it to do everything?

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  • So the people training the models are stealing art by using it for training over the objections of the artists, right?

    The products of the models couldn't be made without everything that went into the models. But why is (making? using?) those products "theft", and also thereby bad, versus something like stealing spray paint and doing graffiti on the side of the hardware store? Or shoplifting a bunch of figure drawing reference books and cutting them up into a collage?

    The fascist project to transfigure the entire history of art into capital they can rent out is obviously wrong. But surely when you steal a thousand works of art and sum them together to make something else, you're making the very definition of a transformative work, right? What about all those human artists where appropriating stuff was an important part of the art?

  • I'm not an artist. If I sketch something, and have an ai upscale it for me, is it still slop, vs just asking it to do everything?

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  • That seems to be a common opinion among artists, I guess because you can see all the flaws in the thing you made and where you wish it were better. Those feelings are real, but they're not true. Your art was fine before; it didn't need any improving, enhancing, or upscaling to be art or to be valuable.

    One theory of the true nature of art is that it isn't at all to do with what's on the canvas or what shape the sculpture comes out being, but that art is fundamentally about who is making it, and how they do it, and why they do it that way.

    You're asking if what you end up with is "slop", but no one can answer that for you because slop isn't a natural kind. If you want your art process to be a process where you do some sketching and then run it through a graphics card along with all of art history and a short poem, you can absolutely be the artist who does that process, and what comes out will be genuinely your art.

    But it sounds like right now you are an artist who does some sketching, doesn't really like the result, and taps something they don't really believe in, instrumentally, for the sake of a more marketable end product. And who then turns to the Internet because actually they feel bad about that process and don't really stand behind it, looking for some kind of approval or permission they can't give themselves.

    Develop a process consistent with your values, steal as much or as little as you like (as all great artists do), ignore the opinions of people on the Internet, and whatever you end up with will be art. Act against the compass of your own soul, chasing the approval of others, and the result can only be slop.

  • I'm not an artist. If I sketch something, and have an ai upscale it for me, is it still slop, vs just asking it to do everything?

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  • But if someone directs the generation of an image, and represents it as an image generated by a tool trained on basically all public images ever, they aren't really passing off the result as theirs, are they?

    It's hard to understand the resulting image as being made by particular people and stolen from them. None of those people have ever seen it or know it exists, for example; are they genuine co-author?

    If you think of it as made by all artists, somehow, can one properly steal something that's of an essentially publicly-owned or common-heritage nature?

  • Is it possible to host a lemmy instance over I2P?

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  • I don't think ActivityPub is set up for one server storing and forwarding a whole feed of everything, like Usenet. Right?

  • What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting?

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  • But you can, in fact, be too careful. Availability is one arm of the security triad.

    If whatever complex configuration you have set up to avoid exposing something to the Internet is incompatible with something and what you wanted to do can't be done, or if you look and see that setting all that up would be too hard and don't bother to expose the service at all, then your security posture is incorrect because your service is just as unavailable as if someone else broke it.

  • What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting?

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  • That certainly sounds like a thing you would want, nay need, to fix.

  • Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon's New Chatbot Will Make America 'More Lethal'

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  • Chatbot users

  • Upwards mobility

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  • How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

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  • It could probably change the language selector.

    If I'm an elite hacker spy who works for the hacker spy division of the Chinese army, am I going to change the system language of the thing I am hacking to Chinese and forget to change it back?

  • How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

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  • Mostly so they could say they did.

  • How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

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  • You don't do the development on the board.

  • What is the newest thing you can legitimately historically re-enact?

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  • I feel like it would be kind of silly to reenact, like, the 1980s. Or, even though it was hugely historical, the Vietnam War. It was terrible and people who had to deal with it are still alive; what would be the point of trying to show people what it was like? Do people really have trouble imagining what life was like in the 1980s? Wasn't it basically like now, unlike, say, the 1890s?

  • What little things do you do each day that are your small ways of sticking it to the man?

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  • Ads can't be permitted to pay for things, though. One has a moral obligation to make sure that that strategy does not work, because it degrades both whatever the advertisements are inserted around (which becomes optimized to get attention at the expense of anything actually useful, like entertaining or conveying information) and the people who perceive it (because it creates capital inside their minds, in the form of brands, artificially alters their culture, and deliberately creates fear, mistrust of loved ones, and feelings of inadequacy).

  • What little things do you do each day that are your small ways of sticking it to the man?

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  • Perceiving advertisements is unethical. Good job!

  • Bun has been acquired by Anthropic

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  • Why does Anthropic think they need a JS runtime though? Are they just like "well Microsoft has a command line tool for installing JS packages so we need one too"???

  • Do you feel sad about the fact that you'll probably die within 100 years (or less) and you (well... that's most of us tbh) can't do much to leave a significant positive legacy?

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  • It's not that hard to leave a significant positive legacy. It only needs to be person-sized. Did you have one pretty good child? Congratulations, you did it! Did you have, like, three good friends? Give yourself a big ol' check.

    These aren't easy, but they aren't in general un-do-able.

  • Locked

    It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on?

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  • I don't think there can be that high a density of fascists. sh.itjust.works just voted overwhelmingly to defederate some kind of MAGA nonsense instance. Mostly it seems like nice folks overhere who know fascists are bad news.

    It might be full of individualists with no grounding in Marxist theory, of the type that much annoyed Vladimir Lennin. I couldn't tell you because of my poor grounding Marxist theory, and I don't see that as a problem because of my individualism.

  • What are some things you put a ton of effort & work into, but it pays you $0, and you wish there could be some reward for all your hard work?

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  • A very saleable hobby nowadays!

  • What are some things you put a ton of effort & work into, but it pays you $0, and you wish there could be some reward for all your hard work?

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  • Imagine how messy it would be if you hadn't been cleaning though.