queermunist she/her

Tracing can bring people joy, but, it’s not the same. You’re cheating yourself out of an experience. You’ll never be as proud of anything your AI agent makes as a real artist will be proud of their own work, because you didn’t make it.

Or, to put it another way: you ordered a sandwich at Subway. You told the worker just how you like it, picked all the toppings, etc. Eating the sandwich might bring you joy, even! But, did you make a sandwich? Obviously not.

You aren’t making anything. You’re tracing.

Is that not a sunk cost fallacy?

The sunk cost fallacy would be “we’ve already invested so much into AI, we have to keep investing into AI to make it worthwhile!” As long as we’re not pouring more resources into AI there isn’t an issue. An AI model that is already trained won’t be untrained because we stop using it, after all.

It’s like freeganism.

This is the best use for AI image generators imo: throwaway meme slop that isn’t really supposed to look very good, wouldn’t have been made otherwise, doesn’t make any money off of other people’s labor, and did not take away a labor opportunity/labor power from anyone. It’s not like the AI companies are making money off of this, not even close, they’re all bleeding to death.

Oh it’s wasting water and electricity? The water and electricity were already wasted by training, you can’t un-waste the water or electricity. In fact, if you refuse to use the AI model they trained then the water and electricity were wasted for nothing!

Oh it’s plagiarism? Oh not precious property rights, I didn’t realize we were fucking capitalists protecting the sanctity of copyright.

Not specifically. I’m referring to the fact that any assigned reading in a public school is, by definition, assigned by the government.

Do I need a list? Come on, I’m sure you learned in school how eeeeevil Stalin is and how he was just as bad as Hitler. Or worse than Hitler! Then you just kept on believing the Animal Farm narrative, because you trusted the lies your teacher told you.

So speaking of, I recommend Lies My Teacher Told Me as a primer, so you can understand how woefully miseducated a bourgeois education will leave you. It has plenty of examples of the lies that the ideological state apparatus pumps into its schools.

And if you want to actually learn some real history about Stalin, there’s now an English translation of Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend. That’s definitely a heavier book than Lies, though, I’m still working through it.

Have you ever read a history book that wasn’t assigned to you by your government?

You’re probably familiar with the US Civil War, yes?

The Confederacy declared independence and established itself as a new nation, the Union took exception to that and fought them.

Was that imperialism?

The extension of a nation’s authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.

This is such a broad definition that it becomes meaningless.

This is kind of like the “you won’t have a calculator with you all the time” argument

It’s not even that! Students without a calculator don’t see their test scores crater, the work just takes longer.

It did not have a significant impact.

Then this is obviously different, because we are seeing a significant impact on test scores. Students that use AI test poorly.

I see short/choppy sentences, but not a lot of other slop writing indicators. What are you on about?

The “other” wants me to be raped to death in men’s prison, and are currently changing the legal system to make that happen.

I just want them to stop trying to torture and kill me.

It’s wild horse meat, right? The government rounds up wild horses and then they just ~disappear~

Bedtime stories just being history lessons would be super efficient, though.

4chan’s Chris “Moot” Poole created /pol/ immediately after meeting Jeff Epstein

Just a coincidence.

But in that case, the Constitution is irrelevant. It would be impossible even if there wasn’t a 5th amendment.

All that matters is who is in charge of the heights of political power, the law is a fiction they use to legitimize their authority.

Are we still pretending the constitution matters?

Except sometimes conservatives go out and shoot people.

They’ll ignore this and just claim that the deaths were covered up.