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Supreme Court strikes down Chevron, curtailing power of federal agencies ( www.scotusblog.com )

This sucks. This is leaning further into the Major Questions Doctrine that SCOTUS has been pushing, where agencies and their actually knowledgeable, employed scientists and technical experts, have no real control over regulatory policies, and instead are beholden to Congress and judges to decide e.g. how many ppm of a chemical...

Soundhole ,

It is extremely kind of you to take the time to explain since our media can't seem to be bothered to.

OP: "This is my most advance moon photograph EVER it consist of 81000 images and over 708GB of data." (see comments.)

From the other place: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1dmibwd/this_is_my_most_advance_moon_photograph_ever_it/...

Extremely high res moon photo, with enhanced colours. The surface is pockmarked and traces of different elements are apparent across the surface.
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Soundhole ,

Thanks for sharing this!

'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement ( www.theatlantic.com )

As soon as Apple announced its plans to inject generative AI into the iPhone, it was as good as official: The technology is now all but unavoidable. Large language models will soon lurk on most of the world’s smartphones, generating images and text in messaging and email apps. AI has already colonized web search, appearing in...

Soundhole , (edited )

As a "creator" myself, I'd like to say to my fellow artists who are anit-AI, get over it. AI artists are artists too. Yes there is bad AI art, but there's bad art in every medium. If done with care and skill, AI art can be completely awesome and if you have an open mind, you might even find some space for it in your work. But even if you don't, have some respect for the AI artists out there who put time and effort into their craft. There's room for everyone.

Soundhole ,

Well now that's just close minded!

Go back and read discussions about synthesisers when they first arrived on the scene and you will see much wailing and gnashing of teeth about how synths are not real instruments and etc and so on. Then do the same thing when hip-hop goes mainstream and people say it's not "real" music because the musicians don't perform with "real" instruments, I guess.

You see where I'm going with this? There's lots of examples like these in music and visual arts and they nearly always stem from ignorance.

I don't know anything about AI music generation, but visual art can be generated by AI models on local machines with a great amount of fine tuning and depth. Further, people feed their original artwork into the AI and manipulate that, so it's not so cut and dry. This idea that folks just write a sentence and the computer barfs out an image is uninformed.

Anyways, I'm blabbing. Hope that helps.

Soundhole ,

Ah, you are picking apart the examples instead of taking in the point. Well, I tried.

To answer your question, yes. Automatic1111 and ComfyUI are two of the most popular.

Soundhole ,

It's really not.

Maybe someday you'll do some research into the history of art and music and get some context into how technology has influenced both and the repeating patterns of the reactionary art that tends to get produced by artists you've never heard of when that happens.

Or maybe you won't!

Either way, good luck.

Soundhole ,

I mean, just because you don't care doesn't mean nobody does.

If I was running a school where students with physical challenges attended, I would not feel comfortable asking them to use software called Gimp, so I would just avoid it.

That said, I would avoid it anyways in favor of Krita, I'm just saying.

Soundhole ,

Also, Microsoft could just be lying.

Soundhole ,

Honestly, it's less about trusting Microsoft than the inherently flawed nature of a closed source operating system. There's no way a user can tell what's really going on behind the curtain. Maybe that was okay before, but I think the capabilities of AI have pushed us past that point.

Soundhole , (edited )

People spending that much time on their work can and should create things in meat space.

EDIT: This comment got some hate and in retrospect it does sound pretty snotty. No disrespect to any digital artists intended, including AI artists.

I just meant to highlight that more traditional artists can still create in meat space and newer AI artists simply cannot do that easily yet. I personally hope any artist with the ability to focus for hours and hours considers also doing meat space work. Actual tangible, 3d work can only be sold once, but can be sold for a lot. And it's cool.

Soundhole ,

Is OP self aware of the irony of this meme? Maybe that's the point? I cannot tell.

EDIT: Also, practice self love: use Krita.

Soundhole , (edited )

Good to see people finally stop being a bunch of reactionaries about it.

Artists make art using tools. AI is a tool. Bad artists still make bad art regardless of tools.

EDIT: Getting down voted by n00bs that don't even know a DDIM from a Euler A but call folks 'prompters' like it's derogatory.

Soundhole ,

I read recently about the "Dark Forest Internet" theory where people are doing exactly what you're talking about; retreating to small groups on Discord, email chains, texts, shit like that because the wider public Internet has become a bot/propaganda hellscape. I know it's become more common for me also.

Soundhole ,

I understand why women pick the bear, but I also understand why men are insulted. It's not that hard to empathetic is it?

Maybe I'm wrong.

Soundhole ,

Yeah I probably would too. I mean, "Man is the real monster!" is an old trope for a reason.

What's troubling is I wouldn't necessarily feel the same about a random (unarmed) woman in the forest and I suppose that's the root of the feels here.

But that probably has something to do with my biases/preconceived ideas of gender as well if I'm being honest with myself. Yikes this bear thing is deeper than it seems at first lol.

Soundhole ,

Right, that's that gender bias I was referring to. Like not all guys are big or tough and not all women are small or meek.

I have been in an abusive relationship and did not fully grasp the extent of the abuse until I was fully out. It's insidious stuff and can affect anyone.

Soundhole ,

Yes, let the hate flow through you.

Soundhole ,

A statement like, "most women need to be excluded from society," would be grossly misogynistic.

When you say the same thing about men, it doesn't make me think you're an especially enlightened person, I'm sorry.

I think the Patriarchy is the problem and participating in endlessly pitting genders against each other doesn't help.

Soundhole ,

There's nothing vague about the Patriarchy, it's well understood.

Anyways, I'm sorry you're so angry. Good luck.

Soundhole , (edited )

I thought you were being racist until you said that thing about public transit, so we're good 👍

EDIT: I was making a dumb joke, y'all. I thought OP did not need to worry about sounding racist at all so I was trying ricochet off of that. Sorry, pretty clearly did not land right, I apologize.

Soundhole ,

...unless they ask nicely, of course.

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