I know how to make a piano sound:

• using an LLM
• starting from a piano recording
• subtractively synthesizing with any software
• additively synthesizing with any software
• or, if I wanted to spend a ridiculous amount of time, literally drawing out waveforms

I can take that sound and arrange it:

• with any DAW software
• by painstakingly arranging them by audio clips
• on paper with traditional Western notation

The point is, the tools an artist uses are just tools for efficiency. The product is (effectively) the same. I am not reliant upon any one piece of the process except for my actual mind and body. If I go deaf, I’m in trouble. I’m not Beethoven.

“Created art using AI” and “let AI generate a piece” are pragmatically different. I’ve used a tool to generate a percussion “sample” by messing with sliders. That tool used AI to form the hits, but there was no LLM attached, and the tool only uses samples it has the rights to (at least so it claims). I’ve used that as an instrument, but I still compose my music. I consider my art to be the composition. Most of my instruments I pull from samples, although I do synthesize my own sometimes.

There can be a novelty to AI generated work, which is what it was in like 2020-2021. That was fine. For example, it would be interesting to see something like “This is the average song of 202X,” where every song of the top 1000 most streamed were combined on several different levels. But now that, in the art world, we have bozos letting it take over the entire creative process save the arduous task of typing out a few words (not to mention very directly stealing other artist’s work) and expecting to be taken seriously, it’s just exhausting.

What you say is true. However, I think you are undermining the role the audience plays in “completing” a work of art. A piece does not have to, nor does it hardly ever, mean the same thing to the artist as it does an observer.

Yes, because art is always a one-dimensional competition and my appreciation is a scarce and perishable resource.

Do you have any suggestions for a slice-of-life style show focused on a few guys’ perspective? I don’t know much about it, but I’m thinking something similar to Nichijou? Or Joshiraku?

Something where it’s not punishing if I miss or don’t understand a few lines.

I used to rotate through the same three episodes of Duel Masters from the video store when I was small. That was technically my first anime, although I wasn’t familiar with the concept of anime at the time.

The first anime I watched while being aware of the fact it was anime was Sword Art Online. I was introduced to that when I was in 5th grade, and I guess it made me feel like I was “in.” I could never get past the first episode of Gun Gale.

Nowadays, I really don’t watch anime. At the risk of sounding ignorant, I find that in most anime I’ve experienced, there is so much shallow exposition that I’m left with very few questions and without a sense curiosity by the end of it. Two exceptions: psychological horror and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Psychological horror pretty reliably avoids the whole excessive exposition thing, and JoJo is rife with it but gets a pass because it sparks my inner 12 year old.

However, I’m going to start watching more anime. I’m finally picking back up my Japanese studies, and I need a way to hear the language consistently.

They tried this already.

Cannot stand Duo and Microsoft Authenticator. Proprietary MFA clients should be ridiculed.

Hyperbolic and lacking nuance? Yes. But I came here to shout into the clouds, not to be fair.

It doesn’t have to carry that genderedness into English.

Let’s hit “magister” and then work our way down. I swear to god I’d change the shit out of my pronouns to fit mage.

The issue, I guess, is that Mr./Ms. have had centuries to be normalized into common use, whereas “magister” still holds a bit of prestige or honor to it. I’m just spitballin’. I’m definitely going to read more into this when I have some time.

I drink tea, but not like a “coffee drinker” drinks coffee, nor how the average American drinks soda.

The caffeine doesn’t feel noticeable to me, but I am still mindful of drinking it right before bed.

I just like my oolong sessions.

I started a new role this week and I feel like my job is too important. A lot of self-doubt this week.

I have faith that I’ll handle things, though.

However, I am concerned that my job is morphing into something less than what I care for. It feels like we’re moving to a low-code solution, but personally, I want to get technical.

https://youtu.be/yL1z1ZHD0K4

Rolling Girl by wowaka

Yes. And I hate that it’s so hard to do now. My generation will always have a phone and earbuds in, and then complain that it’s hard to meet people.

I’ve gotten in an elevator with people my age and received awkward looks and silence when I make even a small comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_of_nakedness_and_clothing

Do you ever eat out at restaurants?

Drinking culture

You could accept that premise, and I’d argue that in that case if child internet safety is an issue, then the only solutions are either to force safety protocols or to leave kids in jeopardy.

I meant there would be no way to stop any OS from just waving users through and automatically converting their account into an ‘adult account’, or just asking users “Are you 18 yes/no”. How many variations of Linux are there now?

Right, but in this case, the parental controls just wouldn’t be doing their job. I mean, you’re right—there’s nothing you can do about that. But if I’m turning on a setting to enable a parental control and it doesn’t enable the parental control, then I’m 1) complaining about Microslop in the case of Windows, or 2) switching my kids to a different distro in the case of Linux. Again, I’m against the idea of government-mandated on the OS side. I’m undecided on the website side of things.

I’m gonna transcribe a section of a comment I made in another post:

Upon setting up the device or account, it is the parent’s responsibility to create a password or biometric or whatever to activate/deactivate the safety mode. No personal information required. It should be pretty easy. Are there technically ways for the kid to get around this? Yes, but that’d be breaking the trust. In the same way you’d deal with your kid sneaking out of the house, you deal with that separately. | https://programming.dev/comment/22589550

I’d be in favour of the government commissioning and funding this and making it free-to-access for parents.

That’s interesting. I’m in America and, unless it’s FOSS, I definitely 100% do not trust a government-commissioned application that needs to see and manage all of my home’s network traffic in order to work. Especially not right now.