Why do you think interesting stories are mere window dressing? Window dressing is hiring famous actors and recording pretty faces in pretty places.

Now show us “the stick” method.

It’ll be more interesting.

Meh. If I have to watch an Oscar winner that has all those things but it’s the same old story that I’ve seen redone a thousand times forget it. I don’t care that the acting was fantastic or that the cinematography was absolutely the best. I still know what’s about to happen.

Comedy can be great no matter who is in it and the cinematography doesn’t matter. That’s because the dialogue needs to be fresh and clever or it just won’t be funny 🤷

Give me more weird and interesting sci fi and fantasy! Throw the fantastic writers and cinematography at that instead of "guaranteed minimum sales/viewers* like we’re currently living with for 90% of all movies and shows.

Oh? Does he really want to set a legal precedent that a sitting president can undo the pardons of prior presidents?

Perhaps he’s on to something! 🤣

That’s fine! How would you keep things interesting?

Or are you just boring?

Mourning doves are dumb as bricks though. We have an open doggy door (had to remove the flap because the chihuahua couldn’t push it open) and every now and again a small bird gets trapped in our patio. It’s almost always a mourning dove.

Robins, cardinals, orange-beaked birds (forget the name), and boat-tailed grackles can get out pretty fast on their own if I just open a door and shoo them around for a bit. Mourning doves will bloody themselves trying to get out through the screen over and over again until I catch them with my hands (which I’ve done at least six times now).

They’re a staple food for the ospreys, eagles, red tailed hawks, and cooper’s hawks though. I find bunches of their bloody feathers in the yard all the time 🤷

No, it could be true. AI—especially with .NET—tends to generate exceptionally verbose code. Especially if you use “AI best practices” such as telling the AI to ensure 100% code coverage. Then there’s the, “let’s not use any 3rd party libraries, because we are Microsoft” angle.

.NET is already one of the most absurdly verbose languages (only other widely-used language that’s worse is Java). Copilot could easily push it over the top 🤣

All it would take would be for Microsoft to have AI rewrite some of the core libraries.

Here we go again. It would be strong evidence that if you elect a demon, you get a plague.

The “god sends natural disasters to punish sinners and non-believers” camp had it all wrong! Instead, it’s, “god sends plagues to punish hate-fueled idiocy” (or just collective idiocy in general).

Note: I’m actually an atheist but it would be funny if this is how the universe worked 🤣

Talk about the wrong response!

If they want people to not look away or do something else while the movie is playing you gotta keep it interesting.

Ya know, like perhaps making movies that aren’t just rehashes of the same old stories.

Make movies and shows that keep people on their toes!

Making a crime drama? Throw in some traveler from the future or a demon or both! Give the judge two heads because of a “merging accident” or something!

Putting together a horror movie? Throw in some romance among the monsters! Have them feed each other eyeballs or something!

Making an anime? Try something totally radical! Like a male protagonist with non-dark hair that has a personality, or make a couple—in love—who get stuck somewhere together, alone have actual sex (like normal teens would) or something!

Making a K-drama? Add a black guy and make him one of the main characters… Haha, just kidding! That would be too radical! That’d be just as extreme as making an anime that covers the time period a few years after “the hero” formed his harem!

Note that there’s more than one model to do pixel art and there’s pixel art LoRAs that do a decent job. There’s loads of flexibility when generating this kind of thing.

Also, you can just tell it to generate a thousand over like 10 minutes and pick the best one and use that as a base to improve upon. AI is just a single tool in the workflow.

I also want to point out that not everyone can just pay someone. Don’t be paternalistic: If people want to use AI in their workflow for any reason that’s their concern. To angrily throw your hands in the air and say, “I’m not touching it because AI!” is like giving free money to the big publishers.

You’re setting a completely unnecessary high bar, “you must be this rich to ride.”

This is my take at well, but not just for gaming… AI is changing the landscape for all sorts of things. For example, if you wanted a serious, professional grammar, consistency, and similar checks of your novel you had to pay thousands of dollars for a professional editor to go over it.

Now you can just paste a single chapter at a time into a FREE AI tool and get all that and more.

Yet here we are: Still seeing grammatical mistakes, copy & paste oversights, and similar in brand new books. It costs nothing! Just use the AI FFS.

Checking a book with an AI chat bot uses up as much power/water as like 1/100th of streaming a YouTube Short. It’s not a big deal.

The Nebula Awards recently banned books that used AI for grammar checking. My take: “OK, so only books from big publishers are allowed, then?”

If you use a pixel art export node in ComfyUI that won’t be a problem. There’s a whole guide about it here:

https://inzaniak.github.io/blog/articles/the-pixel-art-comfyui-workflow-guide.html

No shit. There’s easier ways to open the fridge.

Hey, we don’t know he wasn’t born there for sure, right? I want to see his long-firm girth certificate!

He wants to be president of Venezuela? Sure! Let’s deport him there 👍

unless you consider every single piece of software or code ever to be just “a way of giving instructions to computers”

Yes. Yes I do. That’s exactly what code is: instructions. That’s literally how computers work. That’s what people like me (software developers) do when we write software: We’re writing down instructions.

When you click or move your mouse, you’re giving the computer instructions (well, the driver is). When you type a key, that’s resulting in an instruction being executed (dozens to thousands, actually).

When I click “submit” on this comment, I’m giving a whole bunch of computers some instructions.

Insert meme of, “you mean computers are just running instructions?” “Always have been.”

Hmmm… That’s all an interesting argument but it has nothing to do with my comparison to YouTube/Netflix (or any other kind of video) streaming.

If we were to compare a heavy user of ChatGPT to a teenager that spends a lot of time streaming videos, the ChatGPT side of the equation wouldn’t even amount to 1% of the power/water used by streaming. In fact, if you add up all the usage of all the popular AI services power/water usage that still doesn’t add up to much compared to video streaming.

Sell? Only “big AI” is selling it. Generative AI has infinite uses beyond ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.

Most genrative AI research/improvement is academic in nature and it’s being developed by a bunch of poor college students trying to earn graduate degrees. The discoveries of those people are being used by big AI to improve their services.

You seem to be making some argument from the standpoint that “AI” == “big AI” but this is not the case. Research and improvements will continue regardless of whether or not ChatGPT, Claude, etc continue to exist. Especially image AI where free, open source models are superior to the commercial products.

So we’re not blaming Grok/Xitter, then?

The article implied that the whole thing is because of Xitter’s AI. Not because there’s bad people that will use it.

Bank account details are a form of credentials. If I gave them to you, I’d also still have them.

If you took the money out of my account, that’s theft though. Because the account is a digital way of holding something physical (money). It’s a mechanism of exchange, not data in and of itself.

Besides, money isn’t real anyway!