Cut off Nazis.

I’m not going to explain to you why that’s different than a slur. Suffice it to say, shut the fuck up.

In context, it’s an insult.

SDF admin finally remembered he has a Lemmy instance, and that fucker is now gone.

Hopefully they implement a little more oversight to avoid more “mods are asleep” situations. You don’t need instant response times. But when people start escalating and looking for you on other services entirely, and it still takes over twenty-four hours, over abject blatant bigotry - deputize some mods.

As does Tyler, The Creator, a decade later.

It’s how you target people, for mass murder.

That’s what it builds toward.

Like the actual Nazis and the actual Holocaust. This is what came first. They were still Nazis, before all the murder.

This is literally what the Nazis did first. This is their history, you dolt. This is what led to the actual no-shit Holocaust. This is what that process looks like.

‘They’re just calling these people subhuman child predators! Nothing bad could follow that. Today is the last day in history.’

Fuck off.

“Hitler was a vegan” level horseshit.

Is the jobs program why people fucking hate Nazis? Oh, no, right, it was all the innocent groups they targeted for mass murder. Like trans people. Nobody should have to explain to you how screeching about trans people as if they’re gonna eat your children is building toward that.

Yeah that guy’s a bigot who’s getting instance-banned as soon as the admin wakes up.

Incidentally, why the fuck does Lemmy’s sorting ever show you a post that’s -53? I’m not on page five hundred, here. Some anti-trans horseshit, which everyone already piled on and called out, is ranked basically alongside this post. Tear out that math and start over.

It’s especially silly because training is transformative use. If the robot read every book in the library, great, that’s what a library is for.

Decent goal, bad reason.

Right, like how people got sued for piracy, and now there’s no more piracy.

Shut.

Backing up my Saved page from reddit, I found that Dall-E post from four years ago. It is buck-wild how far all of this has come… in image generators. Text still fundamentally sucks because people keep trying to use an improv partner as an oracle. And its artistic uses are of low value because text was always dead easy to crank out.

And all I though to comment was “generate nude Tayne,” about four hours before the American coup.

If any rando can see it, the robot can see it.

And the hands. Whose are they?

Mine.

Lisa is unchanging.

Lisa is eternal.

Scunthorpe and ¢i@L!5 are why we can’t have nice things.

Actual piracy doesn’t bother me, but I’m supposed to care that a robot learned English by reading library books? Learning is what libraries are for. Yeah, the draw-anything robot can only draw The Simpsons because it’s seen The Simpsons. How else was it supposed to happen?

Training is transformative use. You can’t spend a zillion compute-hours guessing the next word of a story, in such a way that it can fake Tolkien retelling Shrek as a rap battle, and claim that’s the same as LordOfTheRings.txt on an FTP server. What the network is and does will not substitute the original work. Not unless the Silmarillion had more swamp ogres than I’ve heard.

Image stuff will become a brush that does whatever you tell it. Type the word “inks” and drag it over your sketch, and it’ll smooth out your lines. Type the word “photorealistic” and it’ll turn your blocky shading into unreasonably good lighting. None of this prevents human art. The more you put in, the more you get out. Stable Diffusion is a denoiser, where the concept of noise can be defined as bad anatomy.

Video stuff might end Hollywood, as soon as editors figure out they’ve inherited the Earth. The loosest animatics can become finished shots without opening Blender or picking up a camera. A static image of what a character looks like should be enough to say, this stick figure is that guy. Or this actor is that cartoon character. Or this cardboard cutout is that approaching spaceship. The parts that don’t look like that are noise, and get removed. We’re rapidly going to learn how blobby and blurry an input can be, for the machine to export a shot from your head, just the way you imagine it. And where it’s not exactly what you intended - neither is any shot ever filmed. A film only exists in the edit. So anyone who can string together some already-spooky output, based on the stories they’d like to tell, is going to be a studio unto themselves.