If we’re going to have a dictator’s face plastered everywhere, why’d we have to get one that looks so stupid?
Like big brother in 1984 at least fits the vibe of authority and power. Big brother exudes the aura of intelligence and confident control… but Trump just looks like some geriatric pedo who has the cognitive faculties of a half dead badger (because he is lol)
A poster of Trump doesn’t inspire fear; it makes me think “making eye contact with this poster will probably lower my IQ”
Why can’t we have a more aesthetic dystopian collapse?
While “varying degrees of hostility” seems valid, I don’t really agree in most cases.
“AI” is a very useful predictive tool especially in like biochemistry, but gen AI for images, especially using corpo models, is a really horrible use of it.
Trying to generate an image using a pixel by pixel based model is like trying to approximate pi using a simulation of sliding blocks, counting collisions. Will it work? Yeah. Is it very accurate? Not really unless you waste a shit ton of time and processing power.
The energy cost alone is a significant reason to despise AI generated art, but add to it the fact you’re using other people’s work without crediting them, and the fact that using and hyping up this art encourages other corpos to build their own models, wasting even more energy and practically DDOSing sites to scrape data…
Doesn’t seem like this stuff is very redeemable.
I guess I don’t have anything against personal models trained on data with permission from the artists and run locally. Hell, if you know the style you want, it’s best to train with just that style and not all the art on the internet, but if you’re already putting in that much time, you could probably just pay an artist or draw it yourself.
(Don’t tell me I chose the wrong instance lol I’m aware)