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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3613920

https://archive.ph/tR7s6

Get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

“This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told the New York Times. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”

"But I still want to get paid for it."

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[–] [email protected] 228 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Stupid tardigrade doesn't even know how to play a violin

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago

He’s doing his best!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Good thing it's got a cello then.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Stupid human doesn't even know what a violin looks like.

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

per Wikipedia

On September 21, 2022, Allen submitted an application to the us copyright office for registration of the image. Prior to the first formal refusal, the Copyright Office Examiner requested that the request would exclude any features of the image generated by Midjourney. Allen declined the request and requested copyright for the whole image.

So what I'm getting from that is his Photoshop edits aren't significant enough to constitute a copyrightable work on their own and the copyright office was right to deem it a non-human production.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I'm just happy someone at the copyright office knows what they're doing

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 month ago (26 children)

Another idiot who thinks "prompt engineering" is a real skill and not just another step those companies are using idiots for free AI training.

You ask AI to draw a ninja turtle on a skateboard, and that "effort" they put into phrasing their request well enough for the AI to understand makes the AI learn the 10 past attempts were looking for what the 11th got

And now it won't take ten tries to go that route

Any "skill" by the user has a very short expiration date because the next version won't need it thanks to all the time users spent developing those "skills".

But no one impressed with AI is smart enough to realize that. And since they're the on s training the AI....

Idiots in, idiots out

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Promp engineering" is as useful skill as Google fu used to be.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I completely agree. I wonder whether some IT bachelor's degrees now have lessons in AI prompting. I remember in 2005 there was a course we had to do which could've been labeled "[shitty] Google-Fu" or something. "information searching" is what it would more or less translate to. Basically searching using Google and library searches well. And I don't mean "library" in the IT-context, but actual libraries. With books. Just had to use the search tools the locals libraries had.

Such a fucking filler class.

In my year like 60 started, two classes. After three years like 8 graduated.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's kinda dead now due to enshittification but the vast majority of humans I've interacted with could use a class on how to use a search engine.

Edit- it could be made more modern by showing how to ignore sponsored stuff, blatantly SEO shit, AI shit, etc

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Im old enough to have to learn to use AND, OR and NOT to be used on search engines.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I've worked with tons of people who do not understand how to effectively use search engines. Maybe this was done poorly but it seems reasonable enough to me in principle.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (28 children)

I like the comment that said the AI is the artist and he's just a commissioner, makes perfect sense.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's not "famous" that should be in inverted commas, but "artist".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (12 children)

We call those quotation marks.

But yes.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed.

Get fucked, you no talent ass clown.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I said this when it was posted elsewhere- how is he calculating those millions of dollars?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

RIAA and MPAA anti-piracy strategy, aka, made up bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

It's easy. He chose an arbitrary number that was very big but just shy of 99% unrealistic, according to his own flawed judgement.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

Not the Onion. This was unexpected...

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

eat shit dude

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Ha! Not the onion was made for this headline!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.

He made the art shown below. It's not even good lmao, why the fuck would you declare something like that if you make the shittiest looking AI art. What a fucking clown.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago

It looks cool from a distance, but it really falls apart when you look closer

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

He didn't make shit.

A computer made it. He provided some guidance.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm hoping someone with actual talent paints the AI picture and then copyrights it

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

"Famous" A"I" "Artist"

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure there's a misspelling. It's spelled "douchebag" not "artist".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ChatGPT, show me the world's tiniest violin playing "No One Gives a Fuck" in A minor.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

“Famous”?

Never heard of him.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

The layers to irony in this case is almost too delicious.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago
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