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Goredho

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  1. Do you mind sharing what you do for a living? I'm curious. I'm a software/devops and data engineer.
  2. I mean, did you read the article Brisket was responding to? It's an AI company whose mission statement is literally to automate away all human labor. Not an industry. All industries. Starting with white collar jobs, and then manual labor when robotics catches up. And their launch is coming at the same time that there is a push for cementing zero regulation of any AI efforts for a decade. The new avenues opening up you posit? That's just another human labor target for them to automate away. That's not hyperbole. It's their stated intent. Will they succeed? I certainly hope not.
  3. You assholes left me no choice. Could be worse though, I couldn’t get the AI to put PRS headstocks on the guitars.
  4. Quoting you again, as one of the experiments I tried with AI was to see how it might work at creating a graphic novel from Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian". I gave it this prompt: Generate a graphic novel scene from this description of a commanche war band: A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools. This is what it spit out: But, if I told it to generate two separate images of The Judge based on two different paragraphs from the book, the Judge would not be consistent across the images, even if I took the first image and used it to guide the generation of the image from the 2nd scene. But once that is improved to the point of indistinguishability, you'll see AI entertainment take off. There is a whole lot of creative work that is either un-copyrighted or in the public domain that could be used as prompt sources for AI generated entertainment.
  5. We're only human, after all.
  6. As an indy musician, I've been using AI a lot for cover art and I am experimenting with AI generated videos. The biggest issue I see right now is that it's hard to have a central or recurring character across images or scenes with video. The stuff that looks great now are mostly collections of scenes of random humans doing or saying something. It's difficult (maybe impossible given current state of AI?) to have something like a singular protagonist or villain that is present throughout a bunch of different scenes in a more comprehensive work. When that can be overcome, that is when you'll wind see movie making disrupted.
  7. I hear you. An attempt is certainly being made, but that does not meant it will succeed. Fight against the provision in the big beautiful bill that aims to bar states from regulating of AI for the next 10 years. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-big-beautiful-bill-ai-regulation-ban-tech-2025-6
  8. I mean, it is the logical end to a game of capitalism.
  9. One interesting (to me, anyway) use I have for AI is when I cook. Take a pic of the contents of your fridge and pantry and tell it to give you a recipe that matches what you have on hand. I'll typically know the main ingredient, so I'll say something like, "I have 4lbs of chicken breasts. Analyze the images of ingredients on hand and give me an interesting recipe for the chicken." Have had 3-4 new recipes that people raved over. Now those people speak in binary, but hey, they got a good meal out of it.
  10. Just FYI, you're losing this argument and might want to quit digging the hole.
  11. There are really two things being discussed here. 1. Damage to Iran's nuclear weapons program and how far back they have been set 2. Our President's wish-casting assertion that the damage was complete and total before any such assessment could have been made. You can hope the answer to #1 is "complete and total" while also feeling like #2 is stupid, not in anyone's best interests and quite possibly dangerous. I mean, the Ocean's Gate CEO certainly assured everyone that his sub's carbon fiber hull was da bomb, people took him at his word and there was no harm from his bullshit... until it imploded at a depth of 4000 meters. That's where I'm at. I sincerely hope the President is right. It's in our best interests that he is. Because if he's not, and we wind up conducting ourselves as if Iran's nuclear program has been obliterated when they have in fact escaped that fate, then we certainly are not safer than we were a week ago.
  12. https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/19/famed-ai-researcher-launches-controversial-startup-to-replace-all-human-workers-everywhere/ Teaser: Mechanize was launched on Thursday via a post on X by its founder, famed AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu. The startup’s goal, Besiroglu wrote, is “the full automation of all work” and “the full automation of the economy.” Does that mean Mechanize is working to replace every human worker with an AI agent bot? Essentially, yes. The startup wants to provide the data, evaluations, and digital environments to make worker automation of any job possible. Besiroglu even calculated Mechanize’s total addressable market by aggregating all the wages humans are currently paid. “The market potential here is absurdly large: workers in the US are paid around $18 trillion per year in aggregate. For the entire world, the number is over three times greater, around $60 trillion per year,” he wrote. Besiroglu did, however, clarify to TechCrunch that “our immediate focus is indeed on white-collar work” rather than manual labor jobs that would require robotics.
  13. I was thinking Benjamin Netanyahu shows up presenting Trump with a gold foil covered chocolate medallion telling him he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
  14. The next evolutionary leap of the Stratocaster design by PRS.
  15. I would say we are in an unprecedented golden age of American propaganda and misinformation. As for entertaining the idea we are being lied to by our institutions, absolutely. Make sure you apply the same standards you want from others to the institutions you choose to put your own faith into and hold them accountable when they engage in obvious bullshittery.
  16. There’s literally no way to know if the messaging from our government is representative of the truth or more eating the dogs/eating the cats nonsense. All any of us can say is “the information sources I’ve chosen to put blind faith in have led me to believe X.” Maybe Trump’s right, maybe he’s wrong, but nevar forget this quote from our VP: ”The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” Where does that any means to an end attitude toward voter influence end? At cats and dogs in an election year? With strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities amidst sagging approval and horrific headlines? You don't know and neither do I. But what I do know is that a government that is willing to so brazenly mislead its people is not one I personally can put much faith in.
  17. I have no doubt that we have a reasonably accurate damage assessment in hand. I’m just not sure it’s in the President's hand, and if it is, if it would be allowed to contradict the result he proclaimed shortly after the attack.
  18. There should be an SNL skit where Trump orders the strike and everyone in the war room starts pantomiming an air attack on Iran. Running around with their arms spread like wings and making whooshing sounds while others act out explosions and scream “Mercy, Trump! Mercy!” Then JD Vance speaks up to say, “Mr President. Through your daring leadership, you have completely obliterated Iran’s nuclear program and ushered in a golden age of Middle East peace.” Tulsi Gabbard raises her hand and says, “Wait… we are getting intelligence reports that we may n…”. JD cuts her off “SHUT THE FUCK UP, TULSI!!! YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT!!” Needs an ending.
  19. Are we sure it’s a good thing to shatter the President’s notion that he successfully nuked Iran into the Stone Age? I mean, we either did, in which case there’s no need for us to get further entangled, or he thinks we did, in which case there’s no need for us to get further entangled.
  20. You really need to paint them with different colored nail polish and let us bet on the lone survivor. You take 5% for... shrimp food, or whatever, and the winners split the rest.
  21. He sounds NeoConcerned.
  22. Satan's penis no less.
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