All it takes is one bad day to become homeless. I knew a guy who made 300k a year, big house nice car. The pandemic hit and he lost his job and ended up working at fucking pizza hut for 15 an hour. Lost his house and car.
Unless you have millions in the bank, you are one disaster away from being homeless.
People with homes have no idea how much Blackrock wants to make them homeless. Insurance companies nickle and diming ppl out of homeownership is by design.
They're using the same strategy they used to clear out ghettos. Your electrical box needs to be outside, if it is, it needs to be inside. New roof if it's 5 years old, even if it has a 35+ year lifespan.
No joke. THIS exact sentiment is what made me stop playing the Witcher 1. I was at a *really* low point in life at the time, and when I came to the first larger settlement, I saw a beggar, with a small leather pouch around his neck. I saw myself in that beggar, and broke down. I'm emotionally much better off, but damn if the sentiment isn't still there.
Well, yeah, an emergency room visit could mean just about anything right up to and including being a vegetable by the time the clock strikes midnight. To weather a storm like that you need to be a lot more than a millionaire.
Feeling this right now. I'm expected to testify in court and, they're just like "Here's the possible dates. We'll let you know.". I'm fucking poor. I gotta plan around this shit. I can't just up and leave work or not show up one day. Even if I don't loose my job I NEED those hours. x_x
No such thing as the working class in America. They were used to slave labor, then that evolved into minimum wage. If you lose your health, food, or place to stay if you don't work, that's a slave class (but with a more PC name and Republicans pretend they like you)
I'm incredibly lucky to have the apartment I do. It's spacious, comfortable, in a nice area, and the rent is very reasonable. The landlord is pretty good to us, but what if he gets a good offer to sell? Four tenants, including a toddler, would be homeless. We all work full time, but none of us could afford rent anywhere else. We shouldn't have to live with that over our heads.
Same, but our landlord sold the building. Every tenant got evicted, over 100 units, for renovations. So many people on fixed income. I'm ok, I can afford their offer to move into a renovated unit for 500 more a month. Others will be paying more like 900 more because they moved in many years ago. Old people who lived there for 20 years are ending up moving in with their kids or are holding out for a win at the landlord and tenant board. It's criminal. It has to stop.
When our landlord sold. He set up a 2 year lease for us with the new landlord. And the new landlord turned out to be very nice. And never raised the rent. We ended up getting a deposit back. When we finally left. Even though we never payed for one. But we got lucky with those 2 landlords.
I drive a fuck ton for my job in a service vehicle, I make it a point to carry ice cold water bottles and hand em out like candy during any season outside of winter. In winter I try and give out stuff from my lunch. I was homeless once. I did terrible things with any cash I was given.
I commend u for the hard work u put in, in all aspects of ur life, to get where u are now. U are obviously a hard worker and a generous-hearted person. I hope ur life holds nothing but good health, good fortune, & good people around u.
It’s not AI in and of itself that’s a problem, it’s what it’s trained off of and used for that’s problematic. AI is a tool and has value, it just needs guardrails to limit how it’s used.
This is absolutely different. The implications are immense. Nobody thought the aircraft was going to ruin us. The comparison is idiotic and fully based on normalcy bias.
Cool once it can be trained off something that isn't other people's original work then it can do what the fuck ever. Until it stops using literal named artists as foundations for its generators, it can burn
AI steals from artists, photographers, designers, musicians, actors, voice actors, writers, and so many more. We'll accept AI when they start compensating the creators that teach their robots.
It is a bit more complicated though, data has become a valuable commodity, and the big companies training AI buy up data from websites (for example Reddit) for quite a lot of money. The website will never compensate their customers though (and generally the user agreement also stated anything posted is now the websites property). Its greedy companies being greedy. Atleast the EU is fighting it, they went against Grok (Elon's AI) as it was using data of EU citizens without permission.
I figured it was some sort of art...i know there is a meme or a twitter comment that says AI should be to fold laundry and do doshes and what have you, not do art. I am sorry again.
It is AI gen images you can tell especailly from the way the A is botched in the "pAycheck" part among other insconsistencies. Ai gen images exist from taking everyone's collective art and images without compensation and seek to uproot the creator lifestyle.
AND YET it is not. It is not a person. It is not a human and humans do not directly input pixels to weight a % towards one pixel or another based on digested images fed into themselves with the intent to uproot and dethrone and destroy other artists at a base level. An analogy at best but an ai pixel compressor and generator does not a human artist make. I should know. I work with them. I am one. Please stop parroting this worthless equivalence.
Ues and no. It's a probability engine trained on millions of image/description pairs. So it takes the prompt and with its LLM capabilities it generates pixels that, based on its training, have a better probability of being there for that prompt. That's the surface level explanation. So as I understand your point that humans are also just a collection of experience and that artists borrow and get inspired all the time it's an argument that doesn't really hold very long when compared to AI. And I
2) say this as someone who uses AI in my work for like 50% of my daily tasks. I use it like I'd use a calculator. It's integrated in my IDE and while I'm figuring out how to implement a new feature it writes all the boilerplate, tests, storybooks for my components. Then I verify the work, tweak it if necessary. Writing unit tests for the complex and storybooks for the app I work on would represent 30% sometimes 40% of total development time. It's now 5% to 10%.
Slowelovin
That’s me !
Zange0
Damn that dude in the shop is huge
lurkertron5000
Did some artist miss a paycheck because of this shitty ai?
MutatedHorse
All it takes is one bad day to become homeless. I knew a guy who made 300k a year, big house nice car. The pandemic hit and he lost his job and ended up working at fucking pizza hut for 15 an hour. Lost his house and car.
Unless you have millions in the bank, you are one disaster away from being homeless.
partypopperpants
Which is why I can’t afford to give you anything
BaklavaWearingBalaclavaWhilePlayingBalalaikaOnBlackLava
AI generated in the style of bizarro
dwolvin
Oof.
fcib
He didn't receive his paycheck and now has no face.
Bubblewrapiscool
And robot fingers
astrangehop
Yet another reason rent-to-own faces are a scam
DropDrop
I missed a paycheck because AI took my job.. not well, but the gross soulless images it produced pleased the gross soulless CEOs.
vcgetdown
Desire to know more intensifies
DriverIRQnotlessOrEqual
You see the trick to getting ahead in life is to just be born rich
STGxDante
People with homes have no idea how much Blackrock wants to make them homeless. Insurance companies nickle and diming ppl out of homeownership is by design.
STGxDante
They're using the same strategy they used to clear out ghettos. Your electrical box needs to be outside, if it is, it needs to be inside. New roof if it's 5 years old, even if it has a 35+ year lifespan.
quietwalker
... all the more reason not to help them, everything you give has the chance to push you over that line.
4vie
No joke. THIS exact sentiment is what made me stop playing the Witcher 1. I was at a *really* low point in life at the time, and when I came to the first larger settlement, I saw a beggar, with a small leather pouch around his neck. I saw myself in that beggar, and broke down. I'm emotionally much better off, but damn if the sentiment isn't still there.
RedCamaro
mackasaint
Great representation of Justin Trudeau's Canada
1kaura1
jokes on you, i dont live in the US
AwwWrecker
Bet AI took that homeless guy's job.
kimchipizza
I'm in this picture and don't like it.
Affray
1)Dude has two left feet, right hand is backwards or has only two fingers, homeless guy's left foot it weird and smaller than the right even
Affray
2)though it's closer, gibberish words on signage, no doors anywhere, the corner of the building is 3/4 of a sidewalk tile further out than
Affray
3)the same wall that's four feet away, one of the two ghouls in the background has no right arm or leg below the knee. AI stuff is weak shit
thebigbaka
And that's just the way *they* want it
Gibleteousjack
aslum
Good thing artists are getting paid to make stuff like this instead of having their artwork stolen and recycled.
hnngh
Most people are a emergency room visit or a fender bender away from being homeless.
Sooner70
Well, yeah, an emergency room visit could mean just about anything right up to and including being a vegetable by the time the clock strikes midnight. To weather a storm like that you need to be a lot more than a millionaire.
WholesomeAsFuck
Well, most people in the USl
WorstPostEver
hyptosis
FUCK AI SHIT
Sludgesoda
Oh come on, who hasn't seen a bookstore with a giant man selling a copy of Yeoki Hisbilet?
SakuraSunsets
Right? And I myself own a copy of Pl€D£3!
RowanUnderwood
WorstPostEver
EccentricNimoy
Willford Brimleys Halloween Spectacular
comeonjointhejoyride
What is this?
TarrkertheNewt
Feeling this right now. I'm expected to testify in court and, they're just like "Here's the possible dates. We'll let you know.". I'm fucking poor. I gotta plan around this shit. I can't just up and leave work or not show up one day. Even if I don't loose my job I NEED those hours. x_x
StellaMatutina
No such thing as the working class in America. They were used to slave labor, then that evolved into minimum wage. If you lose your health, food, or place to stay if you don't work, that's a slave class (but with a more PC name and Republicans pretend they like you)
lildude52ca
What really pisses me off i can afford to save up the down payment for a house but it will take me 4 lifetimes to be approved for a mortgage
hEaDb3ntOv3rRaisEth3PostEriOr
Shouldn't it be 'you're me'
NiHZ
"I'm you of your landlord decides on a whim to sell your house out from under you and ruin your life."
thedarkcanuck
I'm incredibly lucky to have the apartment I do. It's spacious, comfortable, in a nice area, and the rent is very reasonable. The landlord is pretty good to us, but what if he gets a good offer to sell? Four tenants, including a toddler, would be homeless. We all work full time, but none of us could afford rent anywhere else. We shouldn't have to live with that over our heads.
NiHZ
Same, but our landlord sold the building. Every tenant got evicted, over 100 units, for renovations. So many people on fixed income. I'm ok, I can afford their offer to move into a renovated unit for 500 more a month. Others will be paying more like 900 more because they moved in many years ago. Old people who lived there for 20 years are ending up moving in with their kids or are holding out for a win at the landlord and tenant board. It's criminal. It has to stop.
zertmaster
When our landlord sold. He set up a 2 year lease for us with the new landlord. And the new landlord turned out to be very nice. And never raised the rent. We ended up getting a deposit back. When we finally left. Even though we never payed for one. But we got lucky with those 2 landlords.
xmaneds
I never give money directly to homeless people; I serve homeless people in homeless shelters and I donate to the homeless shelters. But no direct cash
Sebastopol140
I give them often. I know it's not always the best thing to do but they need help.
OutlawGerman
I drive a fuck ton for my job in a service vehicle, I make it a point to carry ice cold water bottles and hand em out like candy during any season outside of winter. In winter I try and give out stuff from my lunch. I was homeless once. I did terrible things with any cash I was given.
my2micmacs
I commend u for the hard work u put in, in all aspects of ur life, to get where u are now. U are obviously a hard worker and a generous-hearted person. I hope ur life holds nothing but good health, good fortune, & good people around u.
OutlawGerman
PrincessLeliana
Great point but fuck ai
hyptosis
FUCK AI YES
anyrandom0
It’s not AI in and of itself that’s a problem, it’s what it’s trained off of and used for that’s problematic. AI is a tool and has value, it just needs guardrails to limit how it’s used.
Muffyns
And how do you enforce that. Unregulated ai already exists so does piracy and people who wont care and can develop their own unregulated ai
Noctourn
Downvote all AI images not marked as AI
XZorbys
Yes butt fuck ai
maincarrot
Would if I could! Maybe soon?
StrangerRangerDanger
guy walking has 2 right feet and 2 fingers
Klaxun
Two left feet
vicvalour
Ah, now I see it, inside curve and no inside curve, really hard to tell though, humans could do that too
BishlamekGurpgork
Fucked up text in the background is the dead ringer.
TheMostKink
People with great points and no art skills can use AI to get their points across better.
FurtiveGlancer
Agree with the sentiment - but it's progress.- like the automobile, aircraft and the Internet... Inevitable and painful
vcgetdown
This is absolutely different. The implications are immense. Nobody thought the aircraft was going to ruin us. The comparison is idiotic and fully based on normalcy bias.
FurtiveGlancer
Yes - calm the f*ck down - the sky is falling and I'm as worried - just saying it's inevitable
CaptainInvictus
Cool once it can be trained off something that isn't other people's original work then it can do what the fuck ever. Until it stops using literal named artists as foundations for its generators, it can burn
TeaOverdose
AI steals from artists, photographers, designers, musicians, actors, voice actors, writers, and so many more. We'll accept AI when they start compensating the creators that teach their robots.
FurtiveGlancer
We wish - but ain't gonna happen - the cat's out of the bag
Filolial
It is a bit more complicated though, data has become a valuable commodity, and the big companies training AI buy up data from websites (for example Reddit) for quite a lot of money. The website will never compensate their customers though (and generally the user agreement also stated anything posted is now the websites property). Its greedy companies being greedy. Atleast the EU is fighting it, they went against Grok (Elon's AI) as it was using data of EU citizens without permission.
alwaysfeedingme
A friend has asked me, he doesn’t understand the ai comment. Ai taking jobs???
Zedrapazia
The AI does take jobs. Jobs of artists that is.
Noctourn
It's AI art but not labeled, so it should be downvoted
cafecafe
The hands. AI don't understand function so fingers are often messed up
Leni1314
The faces in the background look straight out of a horror film.
hyptosis
AI has cost me nearly 12k in work so far, in the last 14 months
prosper020
I 100% believe you. Out of ignorance and curiosity I wish to ask, how do you know how much money you didn’t make due to AI?
hyptosis
I know because my employers said 'we don't need you this year, we're going to use ai' and I mad XXX per month on that job the previous four years.
mmmurppp
That's terrifying. Sorry.
andrewrankin1087360
Like the other person, its terrifying and im sorry. No need to answer this, but what line of work are you in if its hurting you so badly?
hyptosis
illustration, concept art, storyboards, and thanks
andrewrankin1087360
I figured it was some sort of art...i know there is a meme or a twitter comment that says AI should be to fold laundry and do doshes and what have you, not do art. I am sorry again.
ragekritz
It is AI gen images you can tell especailly from the way the A is botched in the "pAycheck" part among other insconsistencies. Ai gen images exist from taking everyone's collective art and images without compensation and seek to uproot the creator lifestyle.
CycloneSP
that's how normal artists work, too tho. they sample thousands of other artists work to train themselves.
CaptainInvictus
I hope you get replaced by a robot soon too, their posts can't be any worse.
ragekritz
AND YET it is not. It is not a person. It is not a human and humans do not directly input pixels to weight a % towards one pixel or another based on digested images fed into themselves with the intent to uproot and dethrone and destroy other artists at a base level. An analogy at best but an ai pixel compressor and generator does not a human artist make. I should know. I work with them. I am one. Please stop parroting this worthless equivalence.
spookyactionatadistance
Ues and no. It's a probability engine trained on millions of image/description pairs. So it takes the prompt and with its LLM capabilities it generates pixels that, based on its training, have a better probability of being there for that prompt. That's the surface level explanation. So as I understand your point that humans are also just a collection of experience and that artists borrow and get inspired all the time it's an argument that doesn't really hold very long when compared to AI. And I
spookyactionatadistance
2) say this as someone who uses AI in my work for like 50% of my daily tasks. I use it like I'd use a calculator. It's integrated in my IDE and while I'm figuring out how to implement a new feature it writes all the boilerplate, tests, storybooks for my components. Then I verify the work, tweak it if necessary. Writing unit tests for the complex and storybooks for the app I work on would represent 30% sometimes 40% of total development time. It's now 5% to 10%.
crimpitdown9001
I look at hands. AI doesn't understand hands
ragekritz
They sometimes get hands right, instead look for weird inconsistencies and ask why someone would make something in a certain way.
TheTechDweller
It will soon enough, will you still care when you can't tell the difference? Of course we all think we will.
firlefranz
crimpitdown9001
Username relevant +1