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[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Since Gen art became a thing i've been using it episodically to create images of a civilization of space-faring boars, representing the future of my glorious South-Western France civilization. They raise ducks and grow wine in space, and the lore is getting a lot deeper than i first thought. It's so fucking fun man.

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Okay now I'm hooked. What's the Story of the Boar-men

[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 day ago

I ... I don't know man !

I think some time around the year 10000 humanity solved most of their problem and the only remaining scarcity was "good living". Like, cultures that had a sophisticated way of enjoying life through good food, good drink and good companionship suddenly came at a high premium. The people from SW France became insanely wealthy very quick, and a sort of federation was struck between the Gascony people, the Basque and the Brittons. It was really the only possible counter-power to the more colonialist and military minded Italians.

Boar religion could be described as Albigensian catharism, except in space. Their freedom-loving ways are despised by the Italian catholic church but the galaxy is so vast that religion wars never really break out, it's just local skirmishes.

I haven't yet determined what animal the italians have morphed into, really glad to hear any suggestion.

Oh and here's a picture of the Assembly of the Perfecti, held annually at Baiona Station :

[–] Lobreeze@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

It bothers me more than it should that his snout is sticking out through his helmet glass

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHY DO YOU TELL ME! Now I can't unsee it q_q

[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 day ago

I think they have adapted to life in hard vacuum they just wear those helmet cause they look pretty

[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

how else would it smell the grapes?

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I've gotten arguments that it's theft, because technically the AI is utilizing other artist's work as resources for the images it produces. I've pointed out that that's more like copying another artist's style than theft, which real artists do all the time, but it's apparently different when a computer algorithm does it?

Look, I understand people's fears that AI image generation is going to put regular artists out of work, I just don't agree with them. Did photography put painters out of work? Did the printing press stop the use of writing utensils? Did cinema cause theatre to go extinct?

No. People need to calm down and stop freaking out about technology moving forward. You're not going to stop it; so you might as well learn to live with it. If history is a reliable teacher, it really won't be that bad.

[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well said.

I'd like to add that the biggest problem, imo, is the closed source nature of the models. Corporations who used our collective knowledge, without permission, to create AI to sell back to us is unethical at best. All AI models should be open source for public access, sort of like libraries. Corpos are thrilled we're fighting about copyright pennies instead, I'm sure.

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[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The issue has never been the tech itself. Image generators are basically just a more complicated Gaussian Blur tool.

The issue is, and always has been, the ethics involved in the creation of the tools. The companies steal the work they use to train these models without paying the artists for their efforts (wage theft). They've outright said that they couldn't afford to make these tools if they had to pay copyright fees for the images that they scrape from the internet. They replace jobs with AI tools that aren't fit for the task because it's cheaper to fire people. They train these models on the works of those employees. When you pay for a subscription to these things, you're paying a corporation to do all the things we hate about late stage capitalism.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I think that, in many ways AI is just worsening the problems of excessive copyright terms. Copyright should last 20 years, maybe 40 if it can be proven that it is actively in use.

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[–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (5 children)

We talk about freedom the same way we talk about art,” she said, to whoever was listening. “Like it is a statement of quality rather than a description. Art doesn’t mean good or bad. Art only means art. It can be terrible and still be art. Freedom can be good or bad too. There can be terrible freedom.

Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

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[–] fern@lemmy.autism.place 13 points 2 days ago

Oooo an AI straw man

[–] essell@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I agree.

I have all these images in my head and zero artistic skills to create them.

Thanks AI, if indeed that is your real name, for helping me with Visual aids for my teaching work!

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