Mesa

There are three types of people:

The type of breakfast people in movies would eat one bean sprout from and off they go.

I think this comment in this thread answers your question or, at least, other questions of a similar sentiment.

Arguing that AI art is bad by pointing out its material flaws is largely unproductive (I'd even argue that it's counterproductive) because those flaws are theoretically surmountable. This post is a great example of that, and it highlights the reason I actually hate the presence of AI-generated work amidst the artistic world. It causes humans to hallucinate errors in normal artwork, and it normalizes this wack idea that perfection exists in art. It pollutes our intake of artwork and makes it exhausting to explore unfamiliar artists. As a personal anecdote, I used to love finding tracks on YouTube with less than 300 views and a weird thumbnail. It used to be an instant click. Now, it always feels like there's an 80% chance that it was soullessly generated almost entirely with AI—and so I click those videos less.

It's not because AI generated music sounds bad, or because AI generated images look bad. Sometimes they look great. But I don't really give a shit that it looks great if there's no human context behind it that I can ponder. AI work removes the value of discussion to me. Fuck that.

I've seen discussion about the idea of "the curtain is fucking blue," as it relates to the crisis of thought-terminating cliches, and the scariest thing to me is that, with AI work, the curtains are actually just fucking blue.

This leads me into a whole rant about how "Death of the Author" is so frequently misappropriated, and how it relates to the role of AI in the art world, but this comment is long enough.

Spanish is more inflectional than Japanese. Keigo, the more respectful forms, holds cultural nuance, yes; but it isn't standardly required for meaning.

Japanese is the more foreign language, but I've felt fairly let-off-the-hook as far as inflection goes.

Learned some Spanish in high school and went beyond curriculum because I really like linguistics. Started learning Japanese in middle school, fell off, and picked back up on it a few months ago.

Japanese is definitely more difficult for the average native English speaker.

With virtually no languages beyond dialect distinction can you take an idea from one and directly translate it to the other and be fully fluent—however your rate of success doing so is going to be higher between English and Spanish than it'd be between English and Japanese.

I will say, however, as a native American English speaker, I have an easier time listening to Japanese than I do Latin American Spanish.

Your suggestion of promoting AI-generated product as expression and their idea of poisoning the AI well are not the same.

A dialectical discussion can and often does include "no, your suggestion is counterproductive and undesirable."

"It's a doggy dog world."

If only...

Why would YouTube not count as social media?

Pre-rebuttal in case you go in this direction: Being a social media platform and being a video sharing platform are not mutually exclusive.

Guess who becomes much easier to brainwash and control when the kids of this generation don't have access to unfederated information and educational outlets?

The adults of next generation!

Fuck this new world order.

The thing is, AI doesn't need to take over the world if the BiG tHiNkErS are so eager to replace humans regardless of its merit.

That corny ass song from a few years back:

"I don't wanna be alive, I just wanna die today"

->

"I wanna be alive, I don't wanna die today"

Didn't even get the joke here because this is how I always imagined genie wishes working.