The different uses of AI are not inexctricable.
Many generative inpainting models will run locally
Continuing to treat AI as a monolith is missing the point.
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The different uses of AI are not inexctricable. This is the point of the post. We should be able to talk about the good and the bad.
I don’t see the relevance here. Inpainting saves artists from time-consuming and repetitive labor for (often) no additional cost. Many generative inpainting models will run locally, but they’re also just included with an Adobe sub.
Spoilers: We will not
Generative inpainting/fill is enormously helpful in media production.
4·1 day agoSo more like “slut.”
When I’m on the phone with a real human being in customer service, I’m often actually talking to an egregore of the company. They’re reading scripts (written by AI?), being scored by an AI that’s listening in to the recorded conversation, and responding in ways that the conversation tree tells them to respond. Even in the call center jobs that aren’t so managed, there’s really only so far someone can go off script. So while I definitely want more genuine human interaction in the world, I dunno if this is the hill to fight on. All that said, we’re definitely headed for the cyberpunk future, cause everything’s run by a buncha gonks.
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few AIs in my time.
Nah, it’s from wikipedia.
Good catch, edited the comment to include limes.
So, like neon tubes, I guess. Tron and Cyberpunk aesthetic… Cybertron?
1·9 days agoProbably Nausicaä, although it woulda been the ~85 English dub Warriors of the Wind.
L…l…l…l…look at you, hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
Mysticism has a way of filling a volume. They’ll ask question after question until they get the answer they want: “No, we’re not sure why charge is a property that a particle can have in our universe, but…” - “Got it, mystery.” Then they’ll turn around and shepherd all these “mysteries” into their god of the gaps to demystify them anyway, so they can feel wise when they should feel curious.
Obligatory Gremlins 2 Brainstorm Key & Peele sketch
Generative inpainting doesn’t typically employ an LLM. Only a few even use attention transformers. It costs in the range of $100,000 - $10 million to train a new diffusion or flow image model. Not cheap, but nothing crazy like training Opus or GPT 5.