That’s not a surprise. Experts always gave the most conservative assessment. They do that because they didn’t want to look like they are alarmists and lose credibility. So everybody was conservative all the time, always calculating with the optimistic numbers and ignoring all possible feedback loops.

If you ask me, users kind of suck.

Pretty good. I mean bad choices.

People here will hate you for saying that 😁.

Yes it is. It is and also a generalization.

And in the end, it doesn’t matter. The are tens of thousands of people dying each year to support the living standard you enjoy, but you have focused on ai. Your outrage is a fallacy.

Artists are always starving is because that’s how it’s always been. I don’t think it can be an argument for or against anything.

I’ve worked with ai image generation professionally and I can say that they are not missing new ideas if people using them aren’t. They are great for brainstorming new ideas. They can’t make a design, but are a great tool speeding up the process.

I love art. I go to galleries often. I don’t think ai can do that and will never be able to. Not true art like capturing a moment in time with the original style of the artist and their life experience. I don’t think ai is a threat to that.

He’s right. You have to use the tools at your disposal. It’s not only a matter of survival but also about streamlining your work process. Focusing on the main design decisions and letting the machine do at least some of the leg work when possible. It’s more pleasant like that.

I don’t mind people hating on ai. Everybody can not use it as much as they want.

Artists have been always starving. The future is such that if you can’t compete with ai , chose another profession where you can. That’s not something I want, but the world is changing and people have to change with it. That’s either with another profession or by voting in politicians that can redistribute the wealth back to them. There is no option where the progress stops , where the clock stops ticking.

That’s bullshit exaggeration and you know it.

Plus there are legally made models.

Massive energy is used to give you porn, its the way it is. Humanity needs more and more energy all the time. Making that one thing you don’t like the problem is not sensible.

I don’t know what you mean, but as a designer I can imagine my work without ai anymore. I get the same response from everybody I know In my line of work.

I don’t get banning it. At most for the ethical prudes is limiting one self to the models that were legally trained. But I have no problem admitting I am not one of those.

Omg. The damage has been done? Cows have been killed, because someone used an ai generated texture for mud.

Russia uses nuclear capable missiles almost daily since the start of the war so I don’t know what this article is about. But I also admit I didn’t read it.

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Whatever you say boss.

Lol. First you state the obvious. I don’t think anyone could interpret his comment in any other way. Then you think I’m naive for saying another obvious thing.

Did you just learn a a new word and wanted to use it?

Technically it probably won’t happen before the next presidential elections.

So blatantly, that I can imagine just a full fascist takeover of USA next.

I work a a software company that mainly develops one online software and people are used to work with computers. But even here I feel like there is some strange invisible barrier.

IT was trained to work on windows. What we do - everything works. The cost is there, calculated, it’s actually pretty small compared to everything else.

Changing is just unimaginable for a company like that - to take this risk, and for so little upside.

At a user level, almost no one would have an issue. But at the process level, damn.

I switched to Manjaro and it’s like nothing has changed for the work I do now.

At work we use windows and I don’t imagine that will ever go away. I don’t know enough about this stuff anyway, but I think there is to much work and risk involved to change.

I think you completely misunderstood.

Superficial bla.