Awh it’s just a little joke that we can all share in, about liking older things. Very harmless stuff!

Wasn’t this exact text posted a little while ago with an AI spam picture? I swear I saw it in the feed before

These look great! Good job 🤘

It feels so weird to call this controversial. Doesn’t that usually mean something similar to “polarising”? Who are on the poles here? Nazis, and the rest of the world?

From the wiki entry, “…interpreted by many as a Nazi or fascist” salute. It’s like, yeah I guess it was interpreted by many that way, in the same way many people interpret water to be wet.

Why are the writers of this wiki entry giving so much wiggle room for Nazis? What the fuck?

Greed

I realise my comment seemed sarcastic - it’s not, I’m being genuine; this desperate corporate grasping is so infuriating.

It’s like they feel threatened that any amateur could do analysis and offer a better product in that field than they could.

Old, grey-haired, boomer businessmen who are scared of people actually working to create things rather than just resting on a monopoly.

Mm, sort of like that Doohan crash in Suzuka.

Go on, take your little robot pictures and fuck off

Yeah that was a brutal snap. So sudden!

How does race direction always miss everything? It’s mad. I understand it must be a hard job, but like… Wtf? Cutting away as soon as the nose of one car is ahead of another, missing battles up and down the order in favour of watching P1, P2, P3, and P4 go round in a procession. Makes the races seem so fucking tedious.

So typical of the out of touch big businessmen to do this kind of thing. Rat bastards.

Oh. Gross.

Hmm, notorious bastard company obviously fires a bunch of employees for wanting to unionise to protect themselves from notorious bastard management, gets backlash, and then says “no, they were actually a bunch of very naughty employees! if you’re not a naughty employee, you’ve got nothing to fear” yeah fuckin right.

I’d ask if they think everyone in the world is stupid but they made billions off of GTA online and this won’t affect their reputation (or bottom line) one iota so… I mean yes, we’re all stupid.

It is so weird that you keep declaring everybody who doesn’t agree with you is addicted to smartphones. Your AI spam and your fixation on upvotes/downvotes is annoying.

Other people in these comments have suggested a few existing solutions that may help you, like Newpipe, and you’ve replied telling them to keep doomscrolling.

I understand you’re not a professional coder and that’s fine, as long as you can understand that nobody is going to be impressed with the LLM output you’ve pasted, or with your excuse of “it’s okay for me to use LLMs because AI is already ruining the internet” as if that makes any sense.

You mean you’re not excited for the KPop Demon Hunters Cinematic Universe? I’ve heard they already cast Scarlett Johansson in all three starring roles.

Who?? Must be a tiny band nobody’s ever heard of

Interesting! I understand your first point, about not devaluing the art from your baseline of enjoyment just because it’s not human-made – I don’t agree, but that’s just a personal opinion of mine, and I can totally see what you’re saying.

Your point about the American Republican party using AI images to communicate (or create) anger is really interesting to me. I was thinking after writing my reply that, despite my feelings about generative AI, I ultimately don’t care if AI imagery is used in advertising because adverts are not genuine conversations anyway.

I feel similarly about the Republican party, or any political party from any country, using AI imagery as propaganda.

Propaganda, to me, is an intentionally dishonest and manipulative communication. That’s not a criticism of propaganda; advertising is dishonest and manipulative too. A prosecutor’s closing arguments may “spin” the truth and intend to manipulate a jury. Dishonesty and manipulation aren’t “bad” to me, per se, on their own - it’s what the intention behind the dishonesty and manipulation is that makes those things bad, or neutral, or good.

When I see adverts, or political propaganda, I don’t even begin to establish that “trust” or “connection” I mentioned in my first reply, because I know it’s not a genuine communication. Similarly to if I open a spam email and it contains a sob story about a family that needs money - I know it’s bullshit, so I don’t feel bad for them.

I think you hit the nail on the head when you called it a tool. Part of me feels that for something to be “art”, the kind we’re (I’m) talking about at the moment, it can’t have a utility like a tool would. I’m not sure if I really believe that but it’s certainly a distinction that feels natural to me without thinking.

Sorry mate, this was mega rambly 😂

For me, art is in the eye of the beholder (so like his initial emotional reaction, and like what I understand your point to be).

But there are also aspects that are a bit more innate to the art itself. It’s sort of like a conversation, for me; if I see a piece of art I think is beautiful, and I’ve felt something emotional in response to it, I start to try and understand what the artist was trying to say through the work, what story they might be trying to tell, who they might be. It’s a connection. They might be expressing their emotions, thoughts, or experiences, and I might be empathising with another human going through that. There’s a level of trust from my side that they’ve put in effort and are being genuine.

If I find out it’s AI art… Well, there’s no conversation there, is there? Nobody made that picture. Nobody is communicating anything. Nobody is considering how a viewer might feel. Nobody has created anything. A machine has, unfeelingly, mashed a bunch of actual art together, and now the result is in front of me. If I know beforehand, I won’t bother looking. If I’ve felt emotions, I’ve been lied to and will look away.

You can feel differently, of course. I’m just explaining how I feel about art. I don’t enjoy being lied to.

Can’t wait for Black Country Texas. Going to be an insane sound with that southern drawl lol

Congratulations on 90 days! Huge achievement, you deserve to feel proud. I’m also going through a bit of a journey with sobriety.

Around the three month mark was a bit of a difficult time for me, too. I’d gotten over the constant temptation, but was still tempted while IN bars. I was isolating socially, and spending more time alone.

Having that time alone, and having some free headspace rather than focusing on not drinking, led me to boredom and restlessness. There was a lot of ruminating on mistakes I’d made, or on things I’d missed out on, or on how I absolutely had to make the most of my free time. Lots of stress!

I picked up some new hobbies. I’ve found it satisfying to start trying things that I was always too self conscious to do before; running, taking photos outside, writing music. I walk a lot now. I listen to podcasts, and I wander around my area. I booked a bunch of little events for Halloween, so for instance today I walked two hours into the center of the city and went to a talk about medieval manuscripts, and then spent another two hours walking back.

I text myself ideas. Ideas for cool little visual designs, or photographs, or songs, or games I’d like to try to develop. Whether I revisit them, hmm… less often, but making the notes is enough for me right now. I think about my finances, and try to figure out where I could be saving money. I think about people I haven’t spoken to for a long time, and wonder about what small changes I can make to my life just to see what happens.

It’s hard to exist without occupying or distracting our minds, because the human mind tends to exist in a slightly negative emotional state when it’s not actively engaged with something (I think it’s called the Neutral Mode Network if you’d like to find out a little more about this). It’s uncomfortable, but sitting with my thoughts in a (hopefully mostly) healthy way was ultimately positive for me.

I’m only a little further into sobriety than you, 198 days, but I can honestly say these past two months have been sincerely transformative for me.

I hope you can find something in my comment, or in other comments, that helps. There is a stopdrinking community here on Lemmy which seems supportive, so that could also be worth checking out. Otherwise – stick to it, you’re doing a great job! Best of luck! 👍