Backing up my Saved page from reddit, I found that Dall-E post from four years ago. It is buck-wild how far all of this has come… in image generators. Text still fundamentally sucks because people keep trying to use an improv partner as an oracle. And its artistic uses are of low value because text was always dead easy to crank out.

And all I though to comment was “generate nude Tayne,” about four hours before the American coup.

Moderation is a necessary evil. Otherwise everything becomes /r/Funny with different decor.

If any rando can see it, the robot can see it.

Only legislation will fix this.

If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.

Kill the DMCA.

Right, sorry, I shouldn’t have started calling people names. No wait that was you.

I should’ve taken a jovial attitude to a bizarre accusation. Oh wait I did.

I shouldn’t have picked a fight with anyone to begin with, hey wait, I didn’t.

What you’re doing is projecting the shittiest possible reading of literally two sentences and assuming that must be exactly how I meant it. You’ve barged into someone else’s misunderstanding and made it a personal argument. No amount of politely picking that apart - for example - by agreeing, and asking why referring to the past must be a complaint about the present - will dissuade you from this course.

If you don’t think that’s a case, tell me how else I could have phrased anything, to avoid this abuse.

It’s always a shame when a game just disappears instead of sharing all that work.

a free-to-play extraction shooter initially funded by NFT sales

It’s usually a shame when a game just disappears instead of sharing all that work.

No, that’s trolling. It’s an ad hominem phrased to sound polite to other people but infuriating to whoever you’re talking to, no matter what they said. An all-purpose no-effort nuh-uh.

David Graeber called this the triangular dynamic of bullying: it creates a moral drama in which the manner of the victim’s reaction to an act of aggression can be used as retrospective justification for the original act of aggression itself.

Like telling someone “calm down, honey.” The right response is fuck off. But you have to build up to it by explaining basically this comment, to prevent the asshole making you mad from going “see, I knew you were mad.”

You’re referring to something from the initial release.

Yes, I am. Why can you only interpret that as a complaint about right now?

When someone goes ‘hey, remember–’ that doesn’t mean they’re unaware of anything that’s happened since.

I had a stray thought about mathematics and a silly moment from a decade ago. Y’all are being dicks by reading that as impossible ignorance. Like I just woke up from a coma and this was the most pressing thing to comment on.

Say Nazi in the title, you fucking cowards. Sprinkle on some allegedly if you have to. You know goddamn well what it was.

Scunthorpe and ¢i@L!5 are why we can’t have nice things.

Actual piracy doesn’t bother me, but I’m supposed to care that a robot learned English by reading library books? Learning is what libraries are for. Yeah, the draw-anything robot can only draw The Simpsons because it’s seen The Simpsons. How else was it supposed to happen?

Training is transformative use. You can’t spend a zillion compute-hours guessing the next word of a story, in such a way that it can fake Tolkien retelling Shrek as a rap battle, and claim that’s the same as LordOfTheRings.txt on an FTP server. What the network is and does will not substitute the original work. Not unless the Silmarillion had more swamp ogres than I’ve heard.

Image stuff will become a brush that does whatever you tell it. Type the word “inks” and drag it over your sketch, and it’ll smooth out your lines. Type the word “photorealistic” and it’ll turn your blocky shading into unreasonably good lighting. None of this prevents human art. The more you put in, the more you get out. Stable Diffusion is a denoiser, where the concept of noise can be defined as bad anatomy.

Video stuff might end Hollywood, as soon as editors figure out they’ve inherited the Earth. The loosest animatics can become finished shots without opening Blender or picking up a camera. A static image of what a character looks like should be enough to say, this stick figure is that guy. Or this actor is that cartoon character. Or this cardboard cutout is that approaching spaceship. The parts that don’t look like that are noise, and get removed. We’re rapidly going to learn how blobby and blurry an input can be, for the machine to export a shot from your head, just the way you imagine it. And where it’s not exactly what you intended - neither is any shot ever filmed. A film only exists in the edit. So anyone who can string together some already-spooky output, based on the stories they’d like to tell, is going to be a studio unto themselves.

Did you know the word “recall” refers to events that happened in the past, when things were different?

Release early, release often.

The worst decision for all this work would be to leave it wasting away on some guy’s hard drive. Push whatever you got.

Just fund it with taxes, you dolts. Should’ve done it in the first place. It’s a function of the state, like anything else that some people use and some people don’t.

Recalling when two people found the same planet and did not see each other, disproving any implied multiplayer -

What’s the birthday paradox look like for “trillions?”

Training is transformative use. Same reason I don’t care which DVDs they show the draw-anything robot.

If I somehow stole ChatGPT’s weights and pruned them to one-tenth their size, that’d be on-par with leaking the source code to a game. Any support would be yo-ho-ho vigilante justice kinds of support.

But I just point my chatbot at your chatbot, and mine winds up better and smaller… tough shit.

What’s right is right no matter who says it. I don’t need to use Python to say I hate that Python has load-bearing whitespace. That’s part of why I don’t use Python. And if some Python diehard says Javascript both sucks and blows, I’ll probably agree with them, because I use that shit and it’s awful.

Every programming language is awful.

Programming is awful.

It’s the intersection of pure untouchable mathematics and hard grinding engineering, as expressed through plain text. You have to be broken in a specific way to wrap your head around this nonsense. That’s why we’re all the same kind of snark-filled dork. It’s why Basic and visual scripting never catch on as intended - they’re beautifully simple, but normal people Do Not Get It, and anyone who does get it would be equally at-home with a 6502 cheat-sheet and WozMon.

The do-anything robot gave us exactly what we asked for! That’s a vulnerability!

Also: jailbroke, surely.

What’s the use case for case insensitive file names?

Human comprehension.

Readme, readme, README, and ReadMe are not meaningfully different to the average user.

And for dorks like us - oh my god, tab completion, you know I mean Documents, just take the fucking d!