I love that the bear has a dick
LOL
The furries are at it again I see
All praise Hogbear
I didn't notice that and thank you for pointing it out because that's amazing
The bear respects hog out or log out
You've seen a six sided bear.. now... hear me out... a five legged bear.
POST THAT MUTHAFUCKIN HAWG
Once again, the "use case" for AI art is "makes it easier for scam artists to scam old people."
Every single time this stuff comes up with any sort of "practical" use for it, it's always something that actively makes society worse in some way. I've yet to hear an AI art defender actually justify why this is ok. It's always "Ok, it might be used by scam artists and cheapskates who don't want to pay artists and fascists to spread their toxic ideas and manipulate people, but it could have some hypothetical positive use case in the future, so we shouldn't discount it just yet!
It's an extremely powerful piece of productive capital that runs locally inside a fairly cheap piece of capital that most people can acquire. We can say "so powerful a device should never have been created!" but it was and it now exists as a piece of productive capital no less disruptive than countless other machines.
We aren't going to be rid of it now that it exists, so the only move that remains is to take hold of it, learn to use it, and exploit it - any artist picking it up immediately has an advantage over every gormless techbro dipshit that's just churning out nonsense without looking at it. Like every bit of aesthetic taste and ability to draw and edit image massively improves what one can do with a machine that cleans up sketchy linework and handles shading in seconds, while the vast majority of people using it are just hitting "generate" as a treat button and barking and clapping at the gibberish it spews out.
Like if you look at what techbros are doing, they love the dogshit pixar-style "I made a machine to generate shitty 3d blob art because I can't even be bothered to use generic assets in blender and do the most basic and braindead work ever" shit, or the "photorealism, but with oily brushstrokes and nightmare fuel JPEG error looking shit" style, which look awful and are almost impossible to fix up, but the AI is actually fairly competent at traditional art styles which are also trivial to clean up and edit since they're (comparatively) low-detail and abstract.
Seriously, if one looks at the people interacting with AI art right now most are just babbling at magic prompt machines someone else runs, then of the people involved enough to run it locally most are using simple prompt UIs, while the most complex thing anyone uses is comfyui, a braindead basic flowchart interface that's absurdly simple and easy to use, and most of the community cries about how it's too complicated and hard to use. Techbros are all talentless dipshits and anyone with a brain and art skills could take their toys and eat their lunch.
That is true, and ideally this would be a tool for artists (I would love to save time on backgrounds and things for example, using AI to fill in the parts of work I find tedious and time consuming and just fix it up as needed) but unfortunately it also doesn't generate wholly new art, it creates a collage of existing work, but doesn't attribute any of the art of the other artists used to make it. So even if it were a tool used by artists, it would be effectively stealing art from other artists in the process.
And the problem ultimately is any art space that allows AI art to be used is flooded with it. Look at the front page of deviantart for an example. Used to be an actually interesting art website with unique and interesting stuff, now it is just the same generic hundreds of pieces of AI art because it takes 0 effort to actually make. The market gets flooded and actual artists can't be seen by potential supporters because those supporters would have to wade through a mountain of shit to find their work. So it actively becomes detrimental to artists in any space it is allowed, which is why the only people who can get any sort of use out of it have nothing but contempt for art and artists.
100% AI art is only useful for replacing stock images and clip art. All the low effort stuff. MS paint memes might get replaced by ai stuff but I doubt that.
Using AI in conjunction with human made artwork, as another tool at the artists disposal, is where it can be useful. Theres all sorts of AI powered postprocessing thats been around for a while. But you could also do draw a spaceship and have AI generate a star field background for you.
Obviously, Capital will take a while to figure this out. It will attempt to use AI to solve its highest priorities first. Replacing all artists and scamming old people are more important than making good art.
Ehh, I generally don't like the idea of making AI do something in a piece of art unless the thing it's doing is so utterly inconsequential to that thing's artistic merit that it isn't worth a real person's time. Like, I wouldn't be mad if it got used to make 500 sand textures for the new Ubisoft game, for example, because no human being should be made to do that much work for such a minute impact. Even then, of course, there's still the issue that all the current models are founded on theft and are being used explicitly as a tool to extort the very same people they victimize, so this fun hypothetical question of "how much of our art should we let the computer do" is sadly tainted by the fact that it isn't actually "just the computer" doing it and, in fact, it is really the mimicked expertise of hundreds of thousands if not millions of hours of artistic creation being ground into grey paste and sold back to us for the benefit of big tech.
I’m no programmer, but I think limiting AI in any fashion would require limiting the general usage of code. Again, could be wrong, but isn’t “AI” just machine learning?
It's an image created by an algorithm that smashes pieces of existing art in its database to create a "close enough" image to what the prompt is. It isn't really "learning" at all, and the "AI" part is just a marketing buzzword. I see it like those NFTs and things, it's a cool fancy new technology thing, with no real practical applications right now, so people are being convinced of some hypothetical future benefit while the only people actually benefiting at present are grifters.
Someone please teach the ai that a teddy bear shouldn't have a penis
Depends on where you buy your Teddy Bear from.
Somebody accidentally left the model trained with furry art on
No
Teddy bear dick
I wouldn't have noticed if you didn't point it out.
BIRTHDAN JANE
HAPPY BOACN EAKENIIN! <3
How come their content creating AI can't even draw a birthday cake, but our content AI here on Hexbear can accurately portray everyone else as a bunch of liberals fighting to be the one true leftist?
Superior Russian hackermen born and taught in a test facility somewhere along metro-2
Happy Boacn Eakeniir, everybody!
Every time I come across AI-generated gibberish text I wonder to myself for a second if I'm having a stroke. Years ago I read an account from a stroke survivor who talked about how the text in the book she was reading suddenly transformed into a bunch of random squiggly lines and shapes that she couldn't decipher, followed by the usual symptoms like one-sided weakness and numbness. It's haunted me for years now.
Every time I read AI-generated gibberish I wonder to myself if that's what it's like when you have a stroke.
I don't think she has much time left to grow her baking journey
What do you mean? She has all the time in the world
she's been decorating cakes for 116 years and that's the best she could do?? smh
All that time spent decorating cakes took a heavy toll on her literacy
I love Birthdan Janes work on the acclaimed podcast, Blowbnx
"Oh look, unspeakable horrors beyond comprehension..."I understand the importance of Captcha's now. AI only vaguely understands the concept of letters.
Dead Internet theory
Somebody should ask AI to draw a clock. I think it might have dementia
I don't even understand the purpose of this. Like, the account is literally just AI pictures of old people with the same caption.
Happy Boacn Eakeniip!
Wow so lifelike it totally fooled me!
RIEEN HOOER
WAS IT ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR RIEEN HOOERS TONY
I go to youtube, I get served a million AI-generated YouTube shorts awkwardly recounting Warhammer 40k stories overlaid on top of AI-generated 'art' because I clicked a 40k lore video once.
I go on Facebook, I get a million clips of random movies with an ai voice completely butchering the plot of the scene, people in the comments asking for the movie title interspersed with malware links.
I go on Reddit, and I get a million fed-bots telling me that China ate my mother.
I go on Twitter, i get served open Nazi propaganda, grubhub discourse, and blue-checks going "As a large language model I cannot comment on current events"
Like what's even the point of social media anymore? It's not entertaining, it's not social, its barely even intelligible.
I wish someone would invent an ad-blocker that just nukes everything that smells of AI.
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I go on hexbear and I get called a
If it weren't designed to be addictive, no one would use it.
I've been 100% hexbear (lemmy) and mastodon for the past year and it's been great, federated shit is the future
Beautiful Cabin Crew 🌹 Scarlett Johansson 💋💋
it got really close on that one happy birthday though
BIRTHDA/Y JANE (;
another fantastic confection from Meemaw Dharamdath
The bear has a cock
She made so many y cakes she's now made of fondant.
I've seen dozens of these, and it's always peach cream in the caption.
birthday James
Ok I’m going to need some background because apparently this is more than generative bullshit
Did this catch Facebook’s algorithm
This image and text are the facebook equivalent of the P U S S Y I N B I O tweets. The 121 year old cake lady with an AI image is everywhere. Usually it's attached to some bot account that links another bot account that eventually leads to some kind of scam. Usually they try to get engagement on the AI image, since there are a ton of boomers on facebook who sincerely do not understand they're looking at generative AI. Then there will be links to an AI generated recipe site with ads everywhere. This is the internet now.
I don't think anyone at 121 years old is "growing" anything, I think they're lounging and going "goddamn how the hell am i still here" with varying flavors of either positivity or negativity depending on how much pain they're in at that moment
There was that 115 year old dude still doing marathons though to be fair.
KLEEN WOOER
MOST EFFICIENT SYSTEM