FooBarrington

It's not just a warning, it's also an option to reject.

It's an interesting question! From my point of view, "devaluing human effort" (from an artistic perspective) doesn't really matter - humans will still be creating new and interesting art. I'm solely concerned about the shift in economic power/leverage, as this is what materially affects artists.

This means that if your robot creates paintings with an output rate comparable to a human artist, I don't really see anything wrong with it. The issue arises once you're surpassing the limits of the individual, as this is where the power starts to shift.

As an aside, I'm still incredibly fascinated by the capabilities and development of current AI systems. We've created almost universal approximators that exhibit complex behavior which was pretty much unthinkable 15-20 years ago (in the sense that it was expected to take much longer to achieve current results). Sadly, like any other invention, this incredible technology is being abused by capitalists and populists for profit and gain at the expense of everyone else.

There's a simple argument: when a human studies Van Gogh and develops their own style based on it, it's only a single person with very limited output (they can only paint so much in a single day).

With AI you can train a model on Van Gogh and similar paintings, and infinitely replicate this knowledge. The output is almost unlimited.

This means that the skills of every single human artist are suddenly worth less, and the possessions of the rich are suddenly worth more. Wealth concentration is poison for a society, especially when we are still reliant on jobs for survival.

AI is problematic as long as it shifts power and wealth away from workers.

Morbius

Yes, which means that issues stay open for 5+ months, with absolutely no communication from the dev. Every time you have to pray that they didn't abandon the app, and that they will come back and fix your issue.

This wouldn't be a problem if they communicated more often or did smaller releases. And it was fine when I paid something like 2€, but it's no longer fine when paying 20€.

"What is this? A cross-over episode?"

I honestly regret buying Sync for Lemmy. With the higher price I expected better communication, but it's continuing the same as it was - going AWOL for months at a time, with very sporadic updates.

"Yes, I get it now, sorry. I won't take your chair again. Now can you PLEASE do something about this?"

Condom, never used.

By conquering my enemies bowels!

One of our cats tries to bite into plastic bags, but he misses. Every time. He keeps biting just past the side, so that he's only biting air. I don't know if he knows he's only biting air.