I like your energy!

My fault…

How does democracy survive when fascists outbreed everyone?

One is cheaper

Oh good point

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Minivan, hands down!

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Ditto!

A solid 3.5

That’s amazing! Wow!

Almost Pink Floyd.

Wow, thank you!

Oh wow, alright. Thank you!

Wait, what’s going on here? Did he do something or is this just a random shitpost?

You are me hero today!

You are now required to wear a cape for the next 24 hours.

Even this ketchup packet isn’t big enough for my mother in law when she orders lasagna.

Yes, she drowns it in the ketchup.

That’s a lot of wasted space filled with air. Pack that shit with cream cheese at least!

The ethical stuff is a real issue, not just how the training is derived but wealth inequality being accelerated and so on.

That said if you find yourself in a place where it’s “use AI or lose your job”, using AI is probably best unless you’re independently wealthy already.

And if you’re in that place, don’t use it wrong. Make sure to train the AI you’re using on correct (and ethically sourced) materials. GPTs your company pays for will have a path to this for example.

Just asking an untrained AI specific questions about your work isn’t likely to end well. And then people give up on the tool and eventually lose their job over it.

It sucks ass, and I expect down votes for even sharing this. But I know too many people who have been let go and are really struggling to find another job. So do what you need you do to keep feeding your family.

And vote against the assholes putting us in this place. Join a Union if you can, etc.

I had given up on my art after decades of no progress. I spent the time I would have spent on improving my art (and many other things) on raising my children instead.

When A1111 came out I tried it and was trying to train it on my old art. I thought maybe AI can bridge the gap in my technical shortcomings.

I got frustrated that I couldn’t get it to replicate my style so I bought a wacom knockoff to fill in the blanks where the AI struggled. That lead to more actual practice and me getting better without AI and shortly there after giving up on AI image generation.

Now I can do some pretty good stuff I could never do two or three years ago. And the be toy that is AI got me started again.

I never considered anything I did with A1111 to be “art”, it was a toy I was trying to push to its limits and that processes got me back into a hobby I love.