THIS motivated the "current largest labor action in USA"? Not the countless other reasons but THIS?
US petty burgies at Sigliberalism are apparently mad their comission-fueled comfortable life are being endangered and are trying to twist Marx to defend it. Also they suddenly started to love IP and cry crocodile tears about poor artists being ripped.
Also lol the donwnvotes in this thread are something entirely else, guy just shared his (admittely non-40k style) pics and every positivity for him is being dogpiled.
it's not manipulation of images -- they use them as training data and then create new images, like a simplified approximation of a human neural network
I get that's the theoretical framework, but all the images I've seen seem weirdly recycled -- like those of a second-rate art student who spends his time making pastiches of better artists' work. I imagine it's because the machine, unlike the human artist, is basically limited by the dataset, and as a result the images it produces don't look unique in our eyes?
I will say the Juche scholar in me revolts whenever I hear people in the industry use words like "intelligence" and "training" -- human concepts -- in talking about machines. No machine is ever truly intelligent, because it does not possess what Kim Jong-Il describes as "independence:" the ability to act in a way that is not predetermined by some basic perimeters like instinct. Calling the thing AI still reeks to me of tech industry hype.
Yes, it's definitely premature to call it AI, and it have entire mountain of discussions behind the issue, but that box is already open and the term sticked. The fact it was always very nebulous didn't helped.