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If you don't know who I am read my user. I try to have a sense of reason and organization online but I very much fail to do so. I'll probably mostly just post random art if I feel like it and shitpost even more.
Text posts are tagged as "txt", images as "img", and so on. I usually sort them posts from vague to specific so start w that and go from there.
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As a Delaware native myself... well shes not wrong about any of it.
I love the irony of techbros shouting “YOU NEO-LUDDITES JUST DON’T KNOW HOW THE TECH WORKS” when they obviously don’t know how AI datasets that generate images work.
This is not true “artificial intelligence.” It doesn’t see images, form an understanding of them, then create something new. It’s not like a person looking at photos of frogs and then making a new painting of a frog.
That’s what tech bros seem to not get. True artificial intelligence WOULD be able to do that.
But the machine being fed real art is NOT artificially intelligent. What it does is take dozens of images and break them up into teeny tiny pieces, like a 5000-piece jigsaw puzzle but on a near pixel level. It also takes the understanding of those images based on what people say those images are.
Most puzzle-makers have the same die-cut, which means you can take pieces from multiple puzzles and put them together into something new. I won’t link it here so this post reaches the most people, but look up:
Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein
Examples of montage puzzle art:
What he did is EXACTLY what AI image generators do, except instead of using two or three artworks, one AI-generated image might use hundreds. And this is what those who actually understand the technology are trying to get across.
Right now, most things that exist are now fed into image datasets. The number of works that exist in midjourney and stable diffusion number in the literal billions. Datasets have stolen so much art that most people can’t fathom that kind of statistic because we’re just not capable of thinking in those kinds of numbers.
That’s why techbros think an art generator just takes inspiration from the works it has.
In reality, the reason tech-bros state that it takes them hours to get a particular set of prompts “just right” is because they are educating the machine. Basically, if you give it a set of prompts and it gives you something you don’t want, it is internally assigning labels to the pieces of the puzzle it gave you. Eventually, when you DO get what, the same datasets that produced those images will scrape them again and assign labels to pieces based on what is perceived as “correct.”
This is also why it is impossible to remove images from a dataset. Any image used to create an AI work must also exist within the work itself. Removing any one particular image necessitates finding and removing any child data produced from that image, or else the machine can literally just re-scrape it.
Currently, because a dataset uses the data from hundreds of images to create a new work and does not compensate the original artists for the use of their art, this qualifies as theft under international copyright law.
I hope providing a real-world example of how datasets work is helpful.
Can't vote cause all I can see is 2 people reaching towards each other.
This post is fucking crashing my phone
This post is also crashing my phone
that's why I'm reblogging it
Mine's barely holding on.
VACCINATE YA KIDS FFS
The other thing about measles is that it resets your body’s memory of other diseases. So all those times you’ve gotten sick? Your body’s memory cells no longer remember those illnesses, so even if you get the same type of illness again your body will react like it’s the first time you’ve been sick.
It’s so much worse than “just a disease”.
Measles does WHAT
Holy fuck
What the fuck what the fuck what the fUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK
antivaxxers also, in part, helped sabotaged the human lyme disease vaccine for lyme disease caused by borrelia burgdorferi infection (until 2016 the only known species of lyme disease causing bacteria in the USA). In 1998, the first lyme disease vaccine for the strain of the bacteria prevalent in the USA licensed. It passed clinical trials and was shown to be safe and effective; it was between 76 and 92% effective at preventing lyme disease with 3 injections. Antivaxxers proceeded to abuse the adverse affect reporting system, often complaining of arthritis, and this caused media and general hysteria about the vaccine. if you remember the flu vaccine hysteria around the swine flu epidemic, it was kind of like that. despite double-blind trials conducted both before and after licensing, that was unable to support their claims and instead displaying that the vaccine was safe and effective, the damage was done, and the vaccine was shelved in the USA. you can get a lyme disease vaccine in Europe, but Europe has a different strain of the bacteria that causes lyme disease.
Lyme disease can become very serious, it can infect the nervous system and cause neurological problems especially in young children who are often bitten on the head or the neck, undiagnosed it can cause chronic health issues that mimic other diseases. Without safe prophylactic measures beyond trying to minimize contact w ticks, this has driven people who have had lyme disease, have chronic effects from mass-disseminated lyme disease infection, or people who believe they have chronic lyme disease to go to quack doctors and undergo unsafe, unapproved medical treatment in an attempt to stop suffering.
This would not be happening on the scale that it is if antivaxxers didn’t straight up execute a supervillain plot to sabotage the lyme disease vaccine. the vaccine was licensed in december 1998, which was the year andrew wakefield published his fraudulent research on the MMR vaccine
these people are fucking dangerous beyond compare
edited for clarity
antivaxer are terrorists and should be dealt like one
H.Bomberguy’s video on the anti-vaccine movement is absolutely worth watching in its entirety. Because it lays out just how fucking twisted and wrong the entire thing is, and how this entire movement that is KILLING CHILDREN is based on a lie for money.
wait wait wait wait WAIT!
YOU GUYS HAD A VACCINE AGAINST FUCKING LYME????
AND THOSE ASSHATS HELPED TO SHELF THAT STUFF?????????
Do you people even KNOW just how much trouble lyme disease makes every fucking year? Holy shit think of the possibilities!!!
So when I say I hate anti-vaxxers, yeah. This is why.
Fucking ANTIVAXXERS MAN- Oh, there’s a virus going around. Okay! We’ll introduce a weakened strain into your body so it can learn how to fight it off, with little risk to you and your health, and it will keep your kids safe too :)… what do you mean you’re gonna’ go and expose your kids to it anyway.
my first wondertrade in oras and i got a machamp incredible
all it knows is dig
level 31 and it just knows dig
what am i supposed to do with this
is
is this machamp’s name “homo matsuri”
as in
“homo festival”
yea this is good
Some more interesting information:
“Dig” in Japanese was originally “Ana wo horu,” which translates to “Dig a hole,” with the direct object’s being “Ana,” “a hole” and the verb’s being “horu,” “dig.”
The common writing of “ana,” “穴,” is the same as a colloquial term for the buttocks, “ketsu.”
“Horu,” in addition to it’s more standard definition, is also a slang verb meaning “to have anal sex (between two men).”
Your new Machamp is named “Homo Festival,” and it’s only move is to fuck a man in the ass.
- By Zed Sevcikova Sehyr , Ariel Golderg , Karen Emmorey , Naomi Caselli , The Conversation -
“Desire” and “still” don’t rhyme in English, but they do rhyme in American Sign Language. Just as poets can evoke emotions and meaning by choosing words that echo one another in English, actress and Tony nominee Lauren Ridloff chooses signs that visually echo one another in her ASL adaptation of Anne Michaels’ poem “Not.”
“Amazon employs a collaborative filtering engine to surveil consumers using its electronic shopping platform in order to promote its own commercial interests. Each time customers purchase products through Amazon’s online shopping platform, they turn over their private information and buying habits to the corporation. Amazon executives use this data to decide which products to manufacture and sell, and at what price, as well as what products to suggest to customers, and in what order. Although Amazon claims this strategy is designed to serve customers by “anticipating” their needs, critics highlight how Amazon’s use of surveillance technology manipulates consumers to further the corporation’s own commercial interests. Likewise, Amazon uses electronic technology to surveil its fleet of workers, including warehouse workers, delivery drivers, ghost writers, and other high-tech workers, in order to extract valuable information about their work flow that is used to further exploit, discipline, and control workers, increase labor efficiency, and inform the development of workplace automation and other business investments.”
— The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy
Worshipped by a certain cult of anti-World Government anarchists, the Saint of Malware has no defined form, appearing as whatever would cause the viewer to lower their guard the most. Playful and wry, she sees no issue in wantonly destroying any electronics she discovers, and is considered a terrorist by World Government - although she doesn’t understand why.
Fuck remembering what lead to the post I'm looking at! Short-term memory? More like no term memory!
What's happening with UK rn like Elizabeth II died, Charles took the throne, UK faced it's one of the biggest economic crisis, it's PM lost to a lettuce, tories fighting tories, an unelected PM of colour, Harry releasing a memoir which practically disses the royal family, UK banning the trans rights bill which the Scottish made and now Scotland is wanting and nearing independence?
