Post AiyGCWmYCEcH1iTGFc by pennywhether@mastodon.online
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(DIR) Post #Aixlqqa0uWsfQtLvge by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-15T15:57:29Z
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If I didn't have 24k subscribers on YouTube I'd nix the account. I'm really kinda done with bullshit corporate social media.
(DIR) Post #AixlqrGuL3BxZvQBXs by pennywhether@mastodon.online
2024-06-15T20:39:17Z
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@ChrisWere Those places really are unpleasant to be on now. Almost everyone there are so beholden to algorithms with how they go about making content that the soul has long since been drained from the place.Even getting away from the silos themselves, if someone is just making their own site, it winds up being soulless in design, with a lot of choices made to tap into SEO.Indieweb and Fediverse is becoming much more palatable. Stuff with an actual soul.
(DIR) Post #AixzEzrJMVhEZ6Hzpw by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-15T23:09:21Z
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@pennywhether Totally agree. In some ways I'm too scared to even post on YouTube for fear of fucking up my channel.And people don't comment there any more, and I'm pretty sure 70% of comments are AI generated. As if you need an AI to generate: "Hey cool vid bro."The comments people leave on the Fedi are much higher quality and insightful, and there's more of them.
(DIR) Post #AixzlYRwI23V74wk64 by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-15T23:15:15Z
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@pennywhether If I post a dud video in the Fedi, people just don't watch it and that's all that happens.
(DIR) Post #Aiy1I2b1qC2zpeFiYi by pennywhether@mastodon.online
2024-06-15T23:32:18Z
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@ChrisWere It's like the Fedi is comprised largely of well-adjusted people. If they don't like a video, article, or whatever, they stop and get on with their day. Meanwhile, a lot of YouTube users and the like will actively complain in the comments and dwell on how they didn't like it.
(DIR) Post #Aiy1TEym8pPBQGhTvM by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-15T23:34:20Z
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@pennywhether Yeah, for all the whackiness that goes on here, I do kinda think people here are generally smarter and more emotionally intelligent than the general population.
(DIR) Post #Aiy3Mu5385z8mEk00G by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-15T23:55:27Z
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@uoou @pennywhether I watch a lot of YouTube myself, but so many of my favourite YouTubers have stopped making videos.
(DIR) Post #Aiy3cPfRyJ6z5QA8f2 by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-15T23:58:18Z
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@uoou @pennywhether I've noticed something deeply worrying. Every time I look on some art that moves me online, I immediately stop and have to check if it's AI. I really really really don't like that I can't tell the difference between a lot of AI and art.
(DIR) Post #Aiy3myLvrrglYZ4Ifw by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:00:12Z
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@uoou @pennywhether Hahahahaha
(DIR) Post #Aiy3z2ARViwkrXRgcC by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:02:24Z
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@uoou @pennywhether Sometimes I fantasise about running for the Pirate Party. Obvs can't do that for the EU now.
(DIR) Post #Aiy4JbsqQd2xQT1eL2 by uoou@fedi.drew.monster
2024-06-16T00:04:12.247223Z
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@ChrisWere @pennywhether Yup, me too. I suspect this is true for everyone who knows what’s happening.It’s terrifying. But a little bit of me is happy to see art get its bubble popped a little.I think dealing with this will be healthy for art in the long run.And… age old thing on the left. But automation is good, so long as the fruits of that productivity are shared (which they never are under capitalism).And, why does a robot making art degrade art, but a robot making a car not degrade cars?Everyone who makes or builds or contributes to the making or building of anything is a creative person.
(DIR) Post #Aiy4SIw0FYpzGLeHaq by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:07:46Z
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@uoou @pennywhether I feel like you're more qualified to hold that opinion that me, but I do agree.It's like when people realised that ChatGPT can write children's books indistinguishable from a human.Policy point 1: Publicly funded data centres.
(DIR) Post #Aiy4eANNtaSqC771oe by pennywhether@mastodon.online
2024-06-16T00:08:44Z
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@uoou @ChrisWere My habits have become somewhat similar. I'm actively perusing the web way less. Check the news in the morning, wander around indie sites (NeoCities was a godsend for this), then mostly use YouTube to grab obscure music I've been trying to hunt down for years when some anonymous hero decides to upload it.For me, the modern web has just become boring. Corporations have made their silos into destinations that are the equivalent of mindlessly flipping TV channels in the 90s.
(DIR) Post #Aiy4eBe5AzPo8BvsTw by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:09:48Z
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@pennywhether @uoou Yeah, it's like the corporations have basically poured bleach over the web.
(DIR) Post #Aiy4mpeeJ6LmXAJtmS by pennywhether@mastodon.online
2024-06-16T00:09:34Z
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@uoou @ChrisWere I also really need to setup Pleroma or something on my server. This 500 character limit that I have here is rough! XD
(DIR) Post #Aiy4mqqjrdcCEwz4GO by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:11:28Z
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@pennywhether Yeah, typical @uoou waving his massive j̶o̶h̶n̶s̶o̶n̶ character limit around.
(DIR) Post #Aiy4n48ETuKhQyGips by pennywhether@mastodon.online
2024-06-16T00:11:28Z
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@ChrisWere @uoou Yeah, but even worse they got some in my eyes, and I think I may have swallowed a little.
(DIR) Post #Aiy52jybBcAjYZEklc by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:14:16Z
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@uoou @pennywhether
(DIR) Post #Aiy5Ah048VHGdsiO00 by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:15:41Z
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@uoou @pennywhether On a side note, I'm not likely to be able to do an election livestream, I'm gonna try and sneak into the count, I wanna front row seat for David Davies departure. Wanna wave see him off myself.
(DIR) Post #Aiy5BiSGDGGRRZOIC0 by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:16:00Z
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@uoou @pennywhether Could try and do a live report from the floor though.
(DIR) Post #Aiy5jwD3ZyxRwub76O by pennywhether@mastodon.online
2024-06-16T00:21:03Z
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@uoou @ChrisWere One would hope that automation leads to people having more time in a good way, not just structural unemployment and starvationThe thought of degrading art makes me think people focus too much on the end result, ignoring the process. I get that it's a career for people and that there is a lot of commodification in art.Even if AI made all sorts of art, it doesn't take away from a person's self expression and indulging their imaginations. I just hope I'm not romanticizing here
(DIR) Post #Aiy5jx8q79B8q7dGAS by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:22:11Z
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@pennywhether @uoou Yeah, totally.It just feels like the substance of our culture is being watered down with fake noise.
(DIR) Post #Aiy5xSF9n0Yx461cie by pennywhether@mastodon.online
2024-06-16T00:24:36Z
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@ChrisWere @uoou Yeah, a lot of the best art is a reaction to something. It doesn't just happen in a vacuum. AI will make works of art, but the creator is a machine. It didn't live a life and have things happen to it that stirred its heart, driving it to put together a specific creation, be it a painting, music, or whatever.AI works on inputted parameters, not life experiences.
(DIR) Post #Aiy61dgPCRFhhblXeK by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:25:22Z
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@pennywhether @uoou Yeah, it's not actually art, it's a calculation disguised as art.
(DIR) Post #Aiy6FfT1MZU7I2C8Zc by pennywhether@mastodon.online
2024-06-16T00:27:52Z
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@ChrisWere @uoou Yeah, and that's why it will struggle to resonate with people. It can serve some a function on a base level, maybe even be spectacle, but finding deep connection with an audience may be a tough sell. Lyrics in a song connect with people for a reason, and AI can't come at it from the same angle as a person.
(DIR) Post #Aiy7HZLZBlfmqFB81A by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:39:19Z
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@uoou @pennywhether I suppose this an important distinction between art and illustration.As in not all art is an illustration, not all illustrations are art.
(DIR) Post #Aiy7N8EOutvyTvTmFM by pennywhether@mastodon.online
2024-06-16T00:39:17Z
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@uoou @ChrisWere Absolutely. There are plenty of people with ideas that don't know how to bring them into reality, but if they could at least articulate them to the AI they can get something that hopefully approaches what they had in mind.It's kinda like those posts on the tattoos subreddit of "what I asked for vs what I got" and the person had an idea they could only express as stick figures, then the artist made something amazing from it.
(DIR) Post #Aiy7N9iDPXNR4gR6MC by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:40:22Z
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@pennywhether @uoou I've tried running AI stuff on local hardware, and have some some degree of success.I'm reluctant to to do too much though, I kinda feel if I over-do it I could burn out my PC.
(DIR) Post #Aiy7YT1xvQhIAw4Gxs by pennywhether@mastodon.online
2024-06-16T00:42:29Z
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@ChrisWere @uoou Yeah, that would be tough. It looks like the big corps are just throwing more and more hardware at AI and raw horsepower is powering its current improvements.
(DIR) Post #Aiy7fOxZSWgFZpJpoW by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:43:45Z
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@pennywhether @uoou Yeah, but perhaps there's only so much horsepower you can throw at AI before you get diminishing returns.Creative use of a dumber AI might at least give us a chance against the corps.
(DIR) Post #Aiy7qPf5BqiawGvDJw by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:45:36Z
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@uoou @pennywhether Yeah, the power consumption is a problem. But as renewable technology rolls out, we'll have to find creative ways to make use of the energy being generated in off-peak times, so there's scope for innovation.
(DIR) Post #Aiy7wMVFqX6sseA4jQ by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:46:44Z
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@uoou @anjune @pennywhether What a headline though!
(DIR) Post #Aiy86QDQtjclI4ceaO by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T00:48:33Z
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@uoou @anjune @pennywhether "We've left a bunch of Christmas lights in the back room and now it's gained consciousness."
(DIR) Post #Aiy9K3i3TJEzUu0ooS by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T01:02:09Z
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@uoou @pennywhether Surely for something to be art, it has to have at least a semblance of a message?AI is notably void of this.
(DIR) Post #AiyA2CHmwjVWq1lzMW by StaceyAyodele@cubhub.social
2024-06-16T01:10:17Z
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@ChrisWere @uoou @pennywhether I agree...it's annoying as hell. I kinda wish AI art never came into being tbh.
(DIR) Post #AiyAVS1BX84c1pxLKS by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T01:15:27Z
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@uoou @pennywhether@mastodon.onlin I know you're not really into big YouTubers, but this Irish woodworking guy is fun to watch. He crafts tools the old fashioned-ish ways.https://www.youtube.com/@EoinReardon
(DIR) Post #AiyB1A8xWgSFrGiJOa by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T01:21:11Z
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@uoou @pennywhether For sure.Now I'm just thinking, are the road paintings art? Cos I've seen some council workers really put some love into them.
(DIR) Post #AiyBVeX56YksnOXGOO by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T01:26:42Z
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@uoou @pennywhether We should start an appreciation movement. It's art that brings us value every day.
(DIR) Post #AiyDUaf6D61mPSuI5Y by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-06-16T01:48:53Z
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@uoou @pennywhether Nice.Honestly, watching councils pour shitloads of public money into trying to revive a dying high-street (essentially business stimulus with our council taxes), when they could be putting that money into public spaces that don't rely on you spending money to function.
(DIR) Post #AiyGCWmYCEcH1iTGFc by pennywhether@mastodon.online
2024-06-16T02:19:23Z
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@ChrisWere @uoou Yeah, and when they do try and resuscitate those areas, it's often just big corporate chains that swoop in now, which is super boring.Commercial rents are too high to get small businesses into them that would actually have some character and breathe life into a neighborhood. I'd much rather a locally owned bookstore, or coffee shop, or whatever to yet another bank, burger chain, or some such.
(DIR) Post #Aiyc5fDocK86AOM8aO by anjune@chaosfem.tw
2024-06-16T06:24:39Z
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@ChrisWere @uoou @pennywhether “GPT4 outperformed by jumble of wires, cable cupboards, needles in haystacks, studies show”
(DIR) Post #AiycGPKw1BYA5KoE9A by anjune@chaosfem.tw
2024-06-16T06:26:35Z
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@ChrisWere @uoou @pennywhether “GPT4 outperformed by jumble of wires, cable cupboards, hay bales with and without needles in them”
(DIR) Post #AiywDp9FapswLvOCLA by frankstrater@mastodon.social
2024-06-16T10:10:13Z
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@ChrisWere @uoou @pennywhether One could argue that what we appreciate in art and gives us value, is beauty.I'm aware that introducing this concept doesn't help in answering what art is or should be, but I'm thinking about this a lot lately. As in: can AI "understand" beauty and create something beautiful? or is it all just automated "design"?For a more conservative view, I highly recommend viewing this old BBC documentary episode, "Why Beauty Matters": https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/w/4trXnArWwKS3L5qpouSoeR
(DIR) Post #AjfVS5U6Dz0zUzRS4W by me@social.jlamothe.net
2024-07-06T22:34:52Z
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@ChrisWere @pennywhether Which raises a question: how many of those 24k subscribers are bots?
(DIR) Post #AjfVS6j1byY3LZQsyW by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-07-06T23:02:48Z
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@me @pennywhether Considering my subs have been in slow decline for a while, I'd say probably not many, but there are definitely a lot of dormant accounts following me.The older a channel is, the less accurate the sub count is.
(DIR) Post #AjfVflsttSiilTZESe by stevelord@bladerunner.social
2024-07-06T23:05:18Z
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@ChrisWere what's the quality of interaction like there? Does it have any material impact for you?
(DIR) Post #AjfVqQnmcONiZ1Fykq by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-07-06T23:07:14Z
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@stevelord People rarely leave comments on YouTube videos any more. I think it's just not the social place it used to be.I recently turned comments off, since I've stopped reading them.
(DIR) Post #AjfWBy9vnAKc6It17Y by stevelord@bladerunner.social
2024-07-06T23:11:09Z
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@ChrisWere Sounds like you're not really getting much from it. Being free of YouTube's Channel -> Content Mill model might also free you up to play with other types of video format.
(DIR) Post #AjfWHmld3mOMVTICrQ by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-07-06T23:12:13Z
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@stevelord I haven't been getting much from it for a while, which is why I've been focusing on my content @readyfedigo and I've been really enjoying it.Also streaming from @OwnChris