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3 months agoNot so “soulless” if you initially found it funny… 😼
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2·6 months agoNo prob :)
You’re not gonna like the updated version I linked to then! 🙃 (It specifically lists the 193 UN member states + the 2 observer states of Vatican City and Palestine.)
Better quality version:
Source: Instagram
5·6 months agoIn the video, the creator (talking about the seasons where they live, in Southern Coastal California) states that instead of saying “spring” and “autumn”, they call both seasons “nice”, because they are indistinguishable. I’m using the same rationale, basically.
Maybe taking a look at the original scene will help.
It’s funny because when you’re reading it, it catches you off-guard, basically.
Seasons of Lahore, Pakistan (imo):
- Mid-December to February: chilly weather, often between 4-15 degrees Celsius, pretty mild compared to the rest of the year
- March: first spring, plants are noticeably becoming more alive, flowers are blooming, but temperatures are rapidly increasing. Around this time I set my heat pump to cooling mode
- April to July: first part of summer, very dry, heatwaves start to happen. Temperature is around 28-40 degrees usually
- July to early September: second part of summer, around as hot as the first part but monsoons start to happen
- September: second spring, ofc similar to the first but temperatures start to drop.
- Mid-September to November: the smoggy season. Pretty moderate temperatures (10-25 degrees), but there is way too much air pollution. A lot of it is due to farmers burning their stalks around this time. I set my heat pump to heating mode around the latter half of this season
3·6 months agoYou know it’s serious when you need a VPN to access it in your country
8·7 months agoOne of these is not like the others
I’ve seen many image macro variations of this scene, but never the original until today
1·7 months agoJust FYI, you accidentally typed “l” instead of “)”.
Me too until reading the replies, I thought it was about Christmas being on different dates for Western (Protestant + Catholic) and Eastern Orthodox Christians.
Me personally? Nope, I just stole this meme from somewhere else (like how all good memes spread)
Samsung Internet and Iceraven (probably Firefox, Mull, etc. as well) both disable screenshots in their private modes by default. Thankfully, you can disable this functionality in their settings.
3·7 months ago- Iceraven
- Nagram
- Obtainium itself
- RetroArch
- Squawker
- TachiyomiJ2K
- Voyager
- YouTube ReVanced
- YouTube ReVanced Music
- microG (for the last two)
Don’t kid yourself, the culture war bullshit has been exported worldwide, all thanks to the internet. For instance, there used to be self-declared “LGBTQ-ideology-free zones” in Poland until February this year.
Maybe !upliftingnews@lemmy.world could work.
EDIT: Never mind. Upon reviewing your post history and modlog, I’ve noticed a lot of “pick up a pencil”-esque statements that at best, don’t really contribute to the conversation and at worst, are inflammatory. While I initially posted assuming good faith, I’ve concluded that the conversation is unlikely to remain productive, and thus I’ve blocked you. Take care.
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Alright, I’ll make my point seriously.
No, I do not generally agree that AI-generated images are “theft”. GiovanH’s blog post explains it better than I could - please go read it when you find the time. But a tl;dr is that models aren’t simple collage machines - they actually pick up concepts from the images they’re trained on, and demonstrate an ability to combine them to output novel ones - not exactly, but pretty similar to how concepts are combined in manually-made art. It’s also mathematically impossible for image diffusion models to directly contain their training imagery, due to their small size (SDXL models, for instance, are around 6.5 GB while being trained on billions of images). Of course, there is a small chance of overfitting happening, which the post gets into more detail about.
Also, I don’t believe it’s meaningful to distinguish whether something has “soul”, based on its medium. People can’t agree on what a “soul” is, or if it even exists. What can actually be quantified is whether AI art invokes reactions in people - which it most definitely does, whether you find the comics funny, are repulsed by their mediums, or simply shrug at them and move on. Besides, it was a human who prompted to generate the image in the first place.
AI is a new technology, and it’s totally OK to be worried about its impact on society. However, I’d say the best way to go about it is to clearly state each other’s opinions and skip the buzzwords and assumptions. If you’re willing to reply back, feel free, even if you find yourself disagreeing most of the time! As long as we can keep this civil.