It annoys me on social media, and I wouldn’t know how to react if someone did that in front of me. If I wanted to see what the slop machine slopped out I’d go slop-raking myself.

I don’t know how to explain it, but all fake linocut/woodblock print images are kind of samey in a way that sticks out when you see it, compared to linocut/woodblock prints by artists.

It’s almost always this same background color/texture in generated images too, whereas with real prints you might have paper that looks very different even if it’s that exact color. And plenty of artists go wild with the paper and ink colors.

It’s not just one thing, it’s a lot of little things that give it a bad vibe.

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No, it sounds like a mindless statistics machine because that’s what it is. Even stupid people have reasons for saying and doing things.

I personally find the psychological effect - the devs thought they were 20% faster even afterward - to be pretty interesting, as it suggests that even if more time overall is spent, use of AI could reduce cognitive load and potentially side effects like burnout.

This assumes that lower estimated time = lower stress levels, when other factors could easily be throwing off time estimation. Think the trope of someone very busy at work who realizes they’ve worked through lunch or dinner. I would have expected people who spend 20% less mental effort on something to be less engaged and more bored by the passage of time, not less.

Also, importantly, improving worker conditions is something that can reduce burnout without the burden of massive data centers. We don’t have to make a machine that produces the illusion of speech to pay people better.

Big if true. Maybe as much as 330,000 the mass of the earth.

Steamy book reader, you say? 👀

Detectors aren’t 100%, blah blah, but this isn’t even pinging on any I used. Text doesn’t look AI. The image has a weird quality to it, but to me it looks more like a filter/bad camera/bad lighting than AI.

With some flour you can bring fediverse posters to your area!

You can insert ‘old.’ before any Reddit link (old.reddit.com) to bypass that crap

⚠️ CORN FOG!

That’s fucking great! I hope they are safe to use in people and make it to market soon.

Only works if you pair it with a good open-handed slap across the face. They don’t want you to know that anymore, because of woke.

(don’t make me /s this)

I said apps but I probably should have said websites and apps, because websites aren’t exempt. I hear you on how frustrating it is when they’re making everything an app, though.

It’s absolutely Orwellian, and people should be angry at the UK for forcing this onto any website their citizens access.

Applies only to the UK, which is requiring it for apps that host adult content: https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act

I thought for sure this had to have the saturation cranked up (very common when people post colorful birds), but the pic is straight from the Macauly Library and, if anything, underplays the fine details of the colors due to the image degradation.

Oh god, that dude. I’d just managed to block the memory of this out.

God, I wish it only happened once.