Depends on the brand. If it was secretly manufactured by any particular nation’s secret military service, then Maybe.

While your points about the patronage system and its weaknesses are valid, you’re writing off several centuries worth of legitimate human endeavor because the systems that enabled it were dodgy. Guess what though? That’s literally all of history, dodgy AF, featuring an intrepid cast of characters more awful the deeper you look. That doesn’t make the art or music worth writing off though.

But honestly:

What is interesting though is the fact that AI art, and the LAION-5B dataset used to train the models is a true and earnest reflection of sorts of what images today really are

“Earnest” is definitely not the word you’re looking for. Derivative, maybe, because you said it yourself, they’re reflections; and as such, they’re going to reflect what images of today are; like you said. That makes them derivative, and I feel a vast artificiality that makes my heart sink when I look at the vast majority of them.

Choosing machine-created art over historical art is choosing a passing fad over centuries of culture. It’s your right; but to write off history with a wave of the hand means you’re missing out on truly expanding your horizons.

Expanding ones horizons absolutely does and should include art history, which is a part of human history.

Love the name and shame. Everyone needs to know about this guy

That is very fair

If you don’t blast the sound then what even is the point

Anyone who buys into Will.I.Am’s hype is automatically the wrong person to run anything more than a lemonade stand

Also, gave a platform to “John of God”. She’s sketchy AF

Nope, I had lots this year. It’s been lovely

Microplastics

Whoops, guess I’m now the enemy of a hundred million Americans

My bad

Aww, thanks! Consider me slightly more educated than when I awoke this morning :)

I still don’t know what ich_iel is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask

saying competition and fear are incentives to improve service

Fear? Seriously? A public health care service that’s been under-funded by design will “improve service” out of fear? These politicians have no morals.

The idea of “robot dreams” is no longer the exclusive domain of fiction.

No, LLMs are not AGI. They don’t dream, and hallucinations don’t count.

Thanks! I was intending for it to be more of a shitpost, but I guess I’m not very good at those, it turns out

Lol whoops, I meant to give a wrong answer, my bad

1. Pick some friends that you like
2. Download “I Am Never Going To Give You Up” by Rick Roll
3. Put the song on the disk in very low quality .mp3
4. Give the disks away as “fun, retro” drink coasters
5. Watch as they use the coasters, unaware that you Rick Rollered them

Indeed. Workers exist in order to work. Why would workers want to strike, when instead they could be working? Good thing the government is stepping in to keep them in their place. /s

Oh snap, super my bad then