Then meaning does not simply come from ‘the struggle, the challenges.’ Art is a sprawling complex aspect of human existence, and once again, a new thing has people making grand assertions for why only the old ways are real art. Directly addressing these philosophical declarations often results in open hostility. I’m not sure passive-aggressive ‘agree to disagree, good day’ is much better. Why’d you say anything if you don’t wanna talk about this?

As if amateurs never code stuff the normal way.

… so does it count or not, when someone spends just as long fighting these tools to express what they want?

Does the professed difficulty of getting the robot to draw what you want impact that glib treatise on the nature of art, or are we instantly in words-don’t-matter territory?

Most code is not art. I certainly don’t care what someone experienced while making a program; I just need it to work. If a jumped-up chatbot lets people make something with only a shallow understanding of my field of expertise - great. That is the dream of BASIC, realized. If that shit works then we’ve successfully made computers a bicycle for the mind.

Just don’t let them touch networking or cryptography.

I find it hard to justify the value of investing so much of my time perfecting the art of asking a machine to write what I could do perfectly well in less time than it takes to hone the prompt.

And a professional guitarist can probably pull off a better solo than an audio model, in real time.

And a professional artist can certainly draw exactly what they want faster than talking the robot into rendering it.

Why do we keep comparing the robot to expert humans? You already learned how to do the thing the hard way. No shit the tech isn’t superhuman. There’s still obvious value in a tool that does things for people who know what they want but not how to do it.

It didn’t used to be.

Boomer tropes exist because divorce had to be granted. It wasn’t just a choice by either spouse. It was a parliamentary or ecclesiastical decision, and if some jurisdiction got too free in handing them out, they could be reversed.

You were expected to get married and stay married until one of you died. Even if it meant separate beds and not asking why he frequented that bar by the docks.

No one else on Earth will claim ranch noodles.

“If you added cream, this would be quite like a British carbonara…”

“And if my mother had wheels she’d be a bicycle.”

Exhilarating gas!

It is criminal to post the version of this that doesn’t lead into Eye In The Sky.

His response of correctly spotting unanswerable antagonism?

What you’re doing in the comment above is participating in a harassment campaign. Presumably you have no such grand intent, but no pebble feels responsible for the avalanche. It’s a purity test, where deleting the offending image is seen as equally incriminating, pointing out the touchy response is equally offensive… and you, a self-proclaimed supporter, are linking to a zero-tolerance scold account that only tracks this sort of receipt. There’s not much daylight between @duckaislop and “anti-woke” Steam game lists. Different motives… identical behavior.

The crystal clear message is wagging a finger at anyone thinking of buying this game that doesn’t even use this tech. Your professed endorsement does not match this behavior.

Workflow should be seamless.

As if they match between “pro” applications.

Sorry this thing isn’t exactly like that thing, but if you were already used to this thing, you’d never worry about the program and all your work being remotely deleted.

People who can’t find nuance in this topic aren’t worth humoring. Instantly describing a complex image into reality is cool, actually. Calling it theft is deeply silly when the preferred alternative is an unaltered screenshot of some popular cartoon. It’s dead easy to hate on these specific companies and capitalism in general without kneejerk bad-faith harassment.

with a shitass company attached to it that keeps fucking over customers.

That’s the worst part. You’re getting the money! Don’t you want money? Isn’t that the point?!

God damn, at least be rationally evil.

Yes, but that’s essentially ‘I would simply not have that problem.’

Having erased the game everybody loved for a janked-up and shamelessly greedy do-over, they’re now trying to erase even its memory.

Like how specifying “Halo CE” requires further disambiguation.

If - if - they release another Xbox, they’re gonna name the fucker “The Original Xbox.”

Downvoters don’t know what “fair use” means. Or do, but would rather work backwards from kneejerk opposition to an outcome.

A robot read every book in the library. That’s what libraries are for. If it can’t reproduce any book more closely than a Wikipedia summary, and serves a different purpose - that’s a protected work.

Training is transformative use.

A gigabyte of linear algebra that can rap about the Silmarillion is plainly not just copying. It’s not even large enough to contain a meaningful fragment of every book that shaped it.

“I came to rob your house and you fought me so I shot your dog. What did you gain from this?”

Protecting fair use is more important than any hate-boner toward chatbots.