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I don't think people who really like to draw, or code repetitive tasks etc. are using AI for that. Well, maybe at work where they don't have an option.
people who don't care to do those things are using ai for them, leaving the people who do care, and usually spent a large part of their life learning how to do those things well, with nothing to do.
incidentally, learning how to do something properly makes it easier to see how bad ai is at that thing.
You aren't using the dockworker's services either. Work changes in time. There are still people who sew by hand too, but you can also buy affordable clothes if you are poor.
i do though. i order packages and the dockworkers take them off of the ship and load them onto local transport. i take a ferry and the dockworkers make sure the ship is securely tied off before i dinembark.
In the time before containerization a lot of people used to be dock workers. Today virtually noone is a dockworker anymore. That's what I was referring to.
That's a large part of how the world became as connected as it is today.
yeah but automating jobs with a high risk of injury and guaranteed fatigue damage is one thing. nobody was ever a dockworker as a hobby.
How many are actually going to do repetitive, menial coding work so that some people who enjoy that for whatever reason would have "something to do"?
Sounds like a big ask. Besides, if you enjoy coding that, I don't think anyone is preventing you from doing that. Unless it is work, as said. Then you have to do whatever they tell you to. In that case there's no decision to use or not to use it either way.
Youβve clearly never written software in your life but for some reason you let marketers tell you how it works.
i was more thinking about art or writing, but if you're doing repetitive menial coding work then there have been tools to replace that for like 50 years.
Yeah this is just another tool for that
that sets fire to a tree for every sentence, yes.
I don't think those using it care tbh
nope, that's pretty obvious. it's easier to visualise with local models that make the apartment heat up a few degrees.
Is it really that intensive with coding? For image/video generation I've heard it's pretty bad but coding seems like a less intensive task. But so is gaming tbh, that heats up my apartment plenty
it's the same thing, image generation just takes longer. per output.
That sounds like image generation is more taxing?
in the same way that playing minecraft for two hours is "more taxing" than playing for one, sure
Two games was actually the example I had in mind, with them both demanding resources but the other being much more taxing on the system, yeah
well that's not what's going on. there's a reason i explained it the way i did.
It uses less system resources vs you use it for less time, the result is the same? I don't see the difference myself
both scenarios use the same amount of resources but one uses them for longer. that's not "more taxing".
You are saying it uses the same amount of computing power, but the time is different? I guess I was more concerned about resource use. If you drive your car 100 or 200 km, it might use the same amount of fuel per km but you end up using more fuel on the longer drive
yes. it's not more resource intensive, it's just doing more iterations.
and from my measurements, spending 15-30 seconds on max power draw is not a lot compared to gaming for an hour. datacenters use less power per iteration than my gpu, but they run all the time.
A broken tool that cost way too much even when they were giving it away.
I mean a lot of people are using it. I guess they think it's worth it
Remember, if you copy and paste from stack, you're a bad developer.
Too many developers think they code better than they do.
The code from stack is (or was) written by a person who has some interest in solving the problem in a good way.
You should not be blindly copying things from stack.
I actually can't remember the last time I've even done this.
huh?
I like the fact that society depends on artists to have art. Artists like making art and society wants art. There's a cosmic balance in that. The world is designed in a way that gives people good jobs. The only problem is the fact that we use money and the artists need to be paid. If artists were just given enough food and housing by some sort of gift economy, it would all work out great.
I am unhappy that capitalists can now get art without relying on artists.
I think most doing grueling labour would disagree with that.
If you want art from artists you can still get that. You say society wants art so that should be all fine, as long as society isn't fine with AI slop art.
You know what AI isn't doing? Grueling labor.
Sounds like the world isn't designed perfectly, if you ask me
We don't need AI making it worse.
We don't need it, but some want to use it
Yes, I agree, the world is also designed to give people horrible terrible jobs, and sometimes even enslavement. It's fucked up. So I say keep the good but destroy the bad. Let's have a communist revolution!
Not gonna hold my breath on that one
It is not people who likes to draw who are the customers, the customers are the people who need someone to draw for them. I mean this is literally happening on a massive scale right now, with artists being out of work because all those smaller jobs as illustrators which was their bread and butter gets done (badly) by AI instead.
But if you like to draw (or eat ice cream) you are free to do that still though. The situation in the comic is about someone who likes to do that thing, rather than someone wanting to get paid for doing it to others
As someone who likes to eat ice cream, I can't afford to eat ice cream anymore. Art supplies aren't free, and sure, I could just buy the cheapest pen and paper, but then that's just drinking lukewarm sweetened milk.
Was the hobby cheaper before or wdym?
I think they meant, that the work that ai is doing now, was what financed the hobby before...
It sounds like people are alright with whatever the AI is producing as an alternative. Others financing your hobby seems like an exception to how it usually works
The only true use I found for AI while programming is boilerplate, aka code that is really simple with only one way to do it.
I don't really have an equivalent for 2d art, but in 3D art that would be basic shapes like spheres, cubes, pyramids
So actually, the analogy would be a robot that unwrap the ice-cream's packaging for you.
Apparently some people like writing that boilerplate