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Cake day: October 24th, 2023
  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can you really seperate the art from the artist?
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    13 days ago

    Lol. Lmao, even.

    ROFL, perhaps!

    I’ve even tried running models on my local machine just to see what the hype was about. I spent a ton of time watching my GPU spit out things that were…interesting and novel for a bit, but ultimately realized it was just wasting my time with petty novelty, I could NEVER in my right mind attribute my own “skill” to any part of this process.

    My time was better spent going back to struggling learning to draw and continuing to study Blender, even as the prophets of the Ai apocalypse hype machine denounce my futility in persisting to become an accomplished human artist that expresses my soul.

    I want my affordable hardware back! I’d rub that genie lamp and replace GenAi with personal computing and free art classes in a heartbeat!

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can you really seperate the art from the artist?
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    13 days ago

    Seriously well-said. Thank you.

    I notice a few little arrows displaying a frustration with your reasoning, but no valid argument posed against it. (Perhaps a bit of crass at the end there rubbed them the wrong way lol)

    I really appreciated this response as a whole, though. I think all this purity testing and “witch hunting” does more to fracture our bonds with each other than it does to punish bad behavior from people behind the work itself, where the ire should be directed.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can you really seperate the art from the artist?
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    13 days ago

    I dunno, I take the approach, to quote Bruce Lee, “Take what works, leave the rest.”

    I’m a hopeless idealist in a lot of ways, but I think we cripple ourselves by applying stringent purity tests everywhere in a vain attempt to Never Do Any Wrong Ever.

    If you look hard enough, you will find something you dislike or an objectional opinion from any creator of anything, just about. And if you haven’t, it just hasn’t come to light yet. (Hats off to the wholesome BS-avoiding creators out there not being bad to anybody! 💜)

    People are, and will always be, imperfect, and while I think we should be aware of authors’ biases or failings when consuming their work, attempting to boycott everything containing an objectional element all the time only serves to make our culture heavily insular and rob oursleves of our own enjoyment in spite of the creator’s personal failings that may have nothing to do with the work in question.

    I’m not for supporting someone’s mission in actively being a malicious person, and people should be called out for bad public behavior, but there very much is this twitteriffic phenomenon in recent years where the line gets closer and closer and closer to demanding absolute perfection from people who make stuff, and I think we could all agree there’s a point where it becomes a futile exercise in the ridiculous that only serves to make us more bitter, angry, and cynical.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Has there been any successful Brands / Business' that have moved or grow on the Fediverse?
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    29 days ago

    Oo I haven’t gotten to use this one for a while. How do people feel about (covert or otherwise) advertisers in their spaces to interact with other humans?

    Since a picture is worth a thousand words.

    That meme was pretty popular on Twitter. Many people would harass profit seeking companies with it, block all advertising accounts, etc. Because they were there to communicate with each other. (And sometimes to publicly shame bad companies.)

    …But they lost that battle because the platform itself was designed to enable and push ads. The users were always the product.

    The Fediverse works differently. It is yours, mine, OURS.

    If me and my friends made a game and we’re excited about it? We can share it to a gamedev group primarily to talk about it, even if it has a steam page and people ask, sure. If it offers something for the community to discuss and engage (positively) over, it’s a good thing.

    If the point of the post was to “How do ya do, fellow kids?” In order to shill, it’s gonna get sniffed out real fast. Lots of for-profit cloud services try this nonsense and get busted.

    The world is in a scary place right now, and everyone’s looking for their next get rich quick easy money gold rush. The Fediverse is specifically trying to block that sleeze so people can be free to genuinely communicate without some polo-clad intern marching up to our coffee table and trying to tell us all the wonderful benefits of Starbucks.

    The Fediverse is not an “untapped market.” It’s designed to be a “tap resistant un-market.”

    At its best, it’s a town square where we behave like humans and discuss ideas, rather than a bazarr where you can’t hear your friends because everyone’s hawking goods in your face and screaming about their “GrEaT dEaLs!!!111one”.

    If you’re a business that actually seeks to be a genuine part of the community and benefit it in more ways than just sales, there might be a place for you. Being a co-op with ethical labor practices will take you far.

    But nobody’s going to swallow that “EdUcAtE aBoUt HoW yOuR pRoDuCt ImPrOvEs LiVeS!” swill here.

    Hope this helps!