They are very interesting, so that makes perfect sense. Well, I’ll chip in.
Like all birds, owls are dinosaurs. I have spent an inordinate amount of my lifespan imagining what an owl would look like as a prehistoric therapod.
I was happy to discover that Prehistoric Planet included a rendition of just such a thing, with their interpretation of mononykus.
Thank you for helping me understand, I am fully prepared to accept this way of life
I know this is gonna sound weird, considering, but is there any kind of reason for the obsession with owls on hexbear outside of them being incredibly interesting and adorable? Like a symbolic thing?
(Without going into too much detail and doxxing myself, I use the name owl because it’s the English translation of my actual name, so I am surprised to see it all over the place here)
This is a Hooters, what did you expect?
16 or 17 owls of varying species NOT carpet bombing you with white-hot liquid shid? NOT mistaking your eyes and fingers for mice? NOT hacking up pellets full of human eyes and fingers into one of those little red baskets with the checkerboard paper that they put fries and chili-dogs in?
You need to leave, you’re making the birds very stressed, it’s not good for them.
Anybody see the “Homegrowns next” comment during this meeting? That’s us isn’t it? We’re the homegrowns I’m pretty sure.
Yeah the idea that disabled people need AI to make art, and trying to get AI out of art is ableist as a result is, in my opinion, astroturfed bullshit techbros use to justify straight up theft and a pure hatred of creativity.
What I’m referring to, and it’s a stretch because I’m trying to do hot takes, is literally just the text to speech stuff for people with vision impairment, it’s slightly easier to understand than Cortana or Siri and that’s where the benefits end. Maybe a program for generating a color palette or generating noise that gets blocked into abstract values and colors so you can make it into a painting, like playing random notes on a piano until you hear something you like. It would save 2 minutes for some people’s art process, and again, that’s where the benefits end.
Obviously you don’t need an AI for any of this, I don’t think you should use AI for any of this, all I’m suggesting is that if AI were being used these ways I wouldn’t be as bent out of shape about it. It would still be offloading empathy and creativity to a computer, which would still be a massive problem, but it wouldn’t make me nearly as violently angry.
Edit: I see now that my mistake in my first comment was using the word “valid” to describe AI use cases, that was just habitual turn of phrase, I don’t think it’s actually valid.
Two hot takes:
Firstly, generative AI has valid use cases for accessibility and quality of life features, unfortunately they’re completely overlooked in favor of the future hellscape dystopia we’ve been hurtling towards for a while now, where consumerism will be the only valid form of self expression, and your individuality will continue to be suppressed in favor of profits. (But somehow communism is the anti-individuality system?)
Second, it would be better for humanity if these things were sentient and hated organic life, than it is for these things to be completely unthinking, and their hatred for organic life is just a byproduct of the will of their creators, because then butlerian jihad would be the socially acceptable position. As it stands, these are a much more insidious, normalized threat that everyone will go along with until there’s no one left to remember that we ever had a reason not to do this.
You have to be very diligent about checking these. You get nothing for a few days while the mice get comfortable with it being around, and then the moment you forget to check it is the moment it catches a mouse.
At this point you have about two days before it becomes just about the least humane thing you’ll ever see in your life. I recommend setting a reminder on your phone.
If you don’t have ADHD (like I do) or something similar however, this is a good solution. People will tell you “if you release it in the wild its as good as killing it.” Personally I’d rather hand an owl or a snake it’s lunch on a silver platter, than kill a living thing and throw it in the garbage.
Art ingratiates the proletariat to society, it is a ready means by which someone with nothing can impress themself upon the world in an unpredictable and humanizing way. This actively works against the fascist pillar of dehumanization.
Art helps us to understand eachother. This works against the fascist pillar of fear.
Art is the fundamental means by which human experience is expressed and explored. This works against the fascist pillar of suppression.
Fascists love AI art because it is fundamentally incapable of integrity or empathy, creative or otherwise.
Converse is owned by Nike, they were known to be profiting off child labor up until the 90s, so I assume they’re secretly still doing that.
Statistically speaking yes
Understood