[HN Gopher] Artists are fleeing Instagram to keep their work out...
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Artists are fleeing Instagram to keep their work out of Meta's AI
Author : ckozlowski
Score : 49 points
Date : 2024-06-06 12:54 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| thegrim33 wrote:
| It's always interesting to note editorialized headlines. People
| "fleeing" Instagram, or "scrambling", or covid "surging", etc.
| When they could just provide the data about how many users are
| leaving and let the data speak for itself.
|
| Whether there's even any data behind this or if it's an article
| based on a handful of random tweets who knows, as it's a pay-
| walled article.
|
| On a meta level, what percentage of HN readers are paying for a
| subscription to the washington post? Why are links to paid
| articles even allowed when the vast majority of readers won't
| even have access to read it?
| foundart wrote:
| > Cara founder Jingna Zhang said the app has grown from about
| 40,000 users to 650,000 in the past week
| s1mon wrote:
| And Instagram had 800 million in 2017 (the last year with
| data on Wikipedia). Other searches and sites have numbers
| well over a billion users. I don't see how Cara is at all a
| threat or significant at the moment.
| foundart wrote:
| https://wapo.st/45bTxIp
| mrguyorama wrote:
| >On a meta level, what percentage of HN readers are paying for
| a subscription to the washington post? Why are links to paid
| articles even allowed when the vast majority of readers won't
| even have access to read it?
|
| HN rules explicitly say we aren't allowed to complain about
| that
| hu3 wrote:
| I wonder if it is it allowed to complain about the rules.
|
| Admins seems to be quite open and helpful from what I saw.
| throwup238 wrote:
| Worst case scenario someone flags your posts. Go nuts with
| it.
| paulddraper wrote:
| Instagram refugees seek refuge from Meta's AI
| Larrikin wrote:
| I wonder what percentage of HN posts have someone complaining
| about the headline of an article instead of it's contents.
| jjtheblunt wrote:
| you spelled "its" wrong. :)
| matthewsinclair wrote:
| Well played, sir. This comment is peak HN. You have nothing
| more you need to do today. Give yourself a pat on the back
| and head home.
| jjtheblunt wrote:
| :). sometimes things are too funny here, i must confess.
| bediger4000 wrote:
| I subscribe to WaPo, but the latest editor changes are making
| me leery. I'm keeping an eye on the slant of their political
| coverage, and I'm ready to unsubscribe.
| barryrandall wrote:
| I wonder what the average rank of the most popular comment
| complaining about the headline is.
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| The "article" is two paragraphs and links to a single
| Instagram user who protested the website, and it says users
| are "flocking" from Instagram.
|
| I agree with their complaint.
| rsynnott wrote:
| I mean, based on the comments on the average post, at least
| half of the commenters never actually click the link, but
| instead imagine what it might have been based on the
| headline, so it seems fair that headlines would have a unique
| importance on this here orange website.
| exabrial wrote:
| I want a computer to do my dishes so I can work on Art; I don't
| want a computer to make art so I only have to do dishes.
| exe34 wrote:
| you could learn mindfulness meditation, then you could do
| either the dishes or the art and derive, allegedly, the same
| pleasure.
| bluefirebrand wrote:
| Sounds like self-gaslighting to me
| throwup238 wrote:
| You have just unlocked the Religion tech tree!
|
| Press 'M' to start a Crusade.
| exe34 wrote:
| all forms of happiness or disappointment ultimately boil
| down to a decision that's made somewhere in your brain:
| this is bad. this is good. it is entirely within your means
| to decide for yourself, no matter your circumstances or the
| vagueries of happenstance.
| shrimp_emoji wrote:
| Zen meditation is less gaslighting yourself into "false
| good" and more "the wise old man bowed his head solemnly
| and spoke, 'There is actually no difference between good
| and bad things. You imbecile. You fucking moron.'"
| exe34 wrote:
| it's the same in Stoicism, once you realise that you get
| to choose for yourself, it doesn't matter what external
| circumstances are, you can still be pleased with your
| choices within what's open to you.
|
| your comment also reminds me of discourses by Epictetus.
| he sounds like an irritated teacher modelling what
| patience looks like.
| dorkwood wrote:
| Too bad you didn't tweet this. You could have got 100k likes!
|
| https://x.com/AuthorJMac/status/1773679197631701238
| shrimp_emoji wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox has bad news
| for you.
| IshKebab wrote:
| I dunno if that's entirely the case. State of the art LLM
| reasoning is very impressive but it clearly can't replace
| actual people doing complex reasoning jobs yet. Even stuff
| like telephone helplines.
|
| On the other hand we're starting to see some crazily
| impressive progress on the physical robotics front.
|
| I think it's definitely still an open question whether we'll
| see e.g. a humanoid robot that can load a dishwasher, or an
| LLM that can _reliably_ .. I dunno, edit a video, first.
| ipaddr wrote:
| Dishwashers exist. Now you can have a machine wash dishes while
| a machine makes art.
| shrimp_emoji wrote:
| As a programmer, I'm thinking about fleeing GitHub for similar
| reasons. :C
| Bjorkbat wrote:
| I'd probably jump ship myself were it not for Github's social
| features.
|
| I like my little green squares
| Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote:
| FYI Gitea has green squares. Assuming we are taking about a
| rather pointless activity graph thingy.
| meowface wrote:
| Their policy is to not use code from private repos, right?
| iamacyborg wrote:
| The opt-out process was pretty easy, despite Meta using
| purposefully misleading language to make it seem more
| complicated.
| paxys wrote:
| This is the kind of article whose source is 4 tweets.
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