hot cocoa on the couch posted:

people that think that ai is gonna replace hella jobs - remember that most large corporations have an enormously bloated middle management/bureaucracy layer that is staffed almost exclusively by fake job havers which doesnt even need ai to displace them, and yet they are still employed

kntfkr posted:

Sorry, as an open language model I don't have a tongue and cannot lick your toes.

Rad-daddio posted:

the one thing I like about AI art is that in its low effort form it looks like poo poo and instantly outs whoever is using it as a scumbag.


...in some other stuff it's frightening how powerful it is. I can see some aspects of the stock photo/footage industry being heavily affected by it.

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

sa posters dont need ai, as they have a whole forum worth of friends

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

I didn't realise this was already happening but had it in mind as a potential scam when writing that post about how AI is going to be abused by the worst people.

One of the worrying AI developments is the drastically reduced datasets needed to produce convincing outputs. There are cloud services that can be fed a fairly small amount of audio of a person speaking and generate a text-to-voice model that's convincing enough to fool a casual listener.

The same is also true of image generation. I've seen a few tutorials where people take a dozen images of their face, feed them into programs running on some 24GB VRAM server they've rented for $5 an hour, and it producing a model they can use to create AI images of themselves.

This is all presented as "hey, I made an AI me to put my neckbeard head on a ripped body", or "here's what AI thinks I look like as an anime". In reality it's going to be used by predators scraping 20 images off someone's Instagram to create fake revenge porn or blackmail images

Outpost22 posted:

Am I an AI?

My Lovely Horse posted:

Oh man I can't wait for the AI chatbot that has ad prompts secretly included by force

Gutcruncher posted:

I mean pre-existing megacorp, let’s say Amazon. I don’t mean “corporation that sprung up exclusively for a cryptoscam”

Like a corporation that makes a bajillion dollars a day just out of nowhere vanishing because some dipshit says “let’s have chatgpt run customer service. What could go wrong??”

Smugworth posted:

I just graduated from a prompt boot camp
Who wants to hire me, looking for big figgies only plz

Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:

No Shogun spoilers please.

ultrafilter posted:

Hollismason posted:

Gonna be honest if I could have a AI that I could feed Dungeons and dragons maps then it spitnout a 3d image I would buy it.

Busters posted:

Can't wait for the fast food places using AI drive throughs to get majorly hosed by someone breaking them.

naem posted:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

AI paper clips will destroy us all

Hollismason posted:

Oh wow. That's neat but no what I'm talking about is feeding a 2d image that's barebones into a computer and it spitting out something for VTT

Gutcruncher posted:

So wait when I was a kid and my priest peed on my face was that a legit baptism or not? This is important.

William Bear posted:

The farmer forgot his keys, ok?

Gutcruncher posted:

I mean you say that but the other image isn’t as instantly recognizable as AI at a glance. This one INSTANTLY screamed “this is ai” to me scrolling by before seeing what you wrote, while the other I at least had to stop on and look for a second

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

that number sounds high, but i dunno, maybe. when i worked for a company that designed and built grinding mills (like a front loading dryer that tumbles rock and ball bearings), i was told an interesting stat: somewhere between 2-5% of the worlds total energy consumption (not just electricity, but total energy, including burning fossil fuels) is used in mining new rock. around half of that is used in just one process at the mine: grinding or comminution in the mills. So something like 1-2.5% of the worlds total energy consumption went strictly to grinding rock. this was a lesson in why incremental improvements in grinding efficiency yielded huge returns

not hard to imagine when you see a mill like this:



and know its filled with hundreds of tons of 3-6" ball bearings and huge chunks of rock

anyway. just reminded of that with that claim of the internet using 10% of the worlds electricity (again, not doubting that necessarily)

Tarkus posted:

Nobody knows because we have no concept of anything outside of pleasure and pain to drive us to do things. But why does any living thing do anything? Because that's how it's designed/evolved.

E: it's an old question but is it ethical to create a machine that suffers or experiences pain?

Knot My President! posted:

partner sent me this (oc)

naem posted:

it’s going to be fun when the guys who created AI lose their jobs to AI

they thought that writing code was safe but what if code writes itself?

Das Boo posted:

It kinda already has. Most AI coloring is very over-wrought and over-produced. It seems to have real trouble with simplicity.

wilderthanmild posted:

If I recall correctly, GPT-4 is actually 8 smaller models glued together rather than like 1 well trained general model.

Hammerite posted:

Berryums

Tarkus posted:

So I noticed that Linkedin has AI buttons below almost every post now. Ok, fine, shoehorn whatever Microsoft. They want you to have premium to actually use it to see what the AI 'takeaways' are. lol

Mr Teatime posted:

Yeah. My wife is a professional illustrator with years of experience and a masters degree in design and illustration and now she has to deal with comments about how so and so part of her work is “sus”. It was sussy ears the other day. Sussy. Ears. People have accused work from like 2017 of being AI gen, people have accused ink work in her sketch book of being AI.

It was bad enough when AI was going to take work away from an illustrator but now you have to deal with the frothing psychos coming the other direction. Literally had people spam emailing a convention she volunteers for doing art charity stuff demanding they poo poo can her for being an AI artist.

Longlisted for the folio society last year and hopefully this year too but now she’s super reluctant to even post about it because they’ll do the same poo poo there.

Gutcruncher posted:

Unfortunately AI art can also poo poo out fake “progress” images to try and trick people.

I guess all you can really do is make sure your image includes things like text and hands to completely eliminate all AI accusations