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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: If you're a fucking moron
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:00:07 -0000 (UTC)
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Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote at 18:18 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 18:00:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> 
>> While I would've worded it nicer, I agree that AI isn't super useful and
>> almost every implementation I've seen has been a marketing gimmick
>> and/or useless.
>>
>
> Idiot.
>
> AI, or more properly, pattern matching, can be quite valuable in
> image sharpening, background removal, and other image processing
> tasks.

Agreed, and /some/ tedious tasks, like captioning.

> But the big push for "AI," as with all commercial products that
> cater to imbeciles (and there are a LOT of those), is to provide
> verbal and programming composition which any competent professional,
> including myself, would summarily reject.

Yeah, that's the kind I'm frustrated with.

> The imbeciles will love it, at least for a while, because it removes
> a creative burden from their otherwise comatose brains.

Fear of failure is a real thing, I will say that it could be useful for
getting something out regardless of quality but for most projects just
doing art would be way more beneficial.

> Can AI replace YOU?  I would strongly believe that it can.
>
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


As an artist, probably not. Hopefully not.
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