The best part is that it sucks at almost everything! WHOOPEEEEEE!!!!

lmao for real like even tho it swallowed reddit, id rather ask a completely random redditor for advice than genai

because a random person can go 'i dont know? but maybe someone does-'

If there are skills I don't have, I know people who have them and who I can give money to get exactly what I want, not just some rough approximation, and I help other people out.
Or I learn this skill and gradually become better myself.
Plus my current creative outlet is miniature painting, where the actual process is more important than sharing some GenAI garbage online. I wanna spend however long it takes me to paint my mini and I want to be happy with my work. The minis I got the most joy out didn't get received as well as some I still liked to paint, but not as much. So what?
Sadly clout is a hell of a drug.

mini painting is HARD, i have some hyena figs i have not even taken out of the package because i'm afraid of working on such a small 3d scale. but for real!!!! exactly!!! id rather support a person who has gone through the effort to learn things. usually because they WANTED to learn how to do something??

like its not 'elitist' to wonder why all these slop jockeys who seem to hate creating and hate learning seem entitled to their laziness being valued exactly the same as someone who does things cuz they like learning, creating, and improving.

I have a box of >>gnoll minis<< (link there is to FA) painted up, here a small selection.
Regarding fear of mini painting, just try it. You cannot hurt the mini with paint, even if you slather the paints on as thickly as possible. Paint strippers are out there, or if you think the paints are thin enough, just give them another base coating and try again. When I got an airbrush I used some old minis to try the tool on, and the first ones sucked, bad airbrush (no pressure, little control, just cheapo garbo), but it was still a lesson learned, and treasured, as I now have a slightly better airbrush xD

ohhhh wow you got an airbrush even damnnnn

thats one of those tools i've wanted to play with but just haven't had the finances to sink on it. i feel like it'd be a really good way to learn spraypaint too!

A cheap set from Fengda with a small compressor and airbrush is around 60€, and it works well enough. No need to buy a big compressor and pro airbrushes to test things out.
And you can do airbrushing indoors at an open window, while rattle cans would stink your rooms up.

i dont even care if it takes the entire economy down with it at this point. fuck it, we ball.

someone pointed out commercials trying to get people to use genAI are already starting on the backfoot. "People say ai art is ugly, but-" lmao, lmao, not a great sign

I was promised a future where robots did the menial tasks so I could have more time on self-fulfillment.

What I got is a future where robots do the art and music and writing so I have more time to work at my job that cannot be automated away.

Fuck that shit.

take away our joy and our time so we cant even figure out How to connect with eachother or express ourselves, this is sure to go well for the ruling classes, it always does

Honestly, has so far. A lot of the way US culture is set up now is designed to keep too tired to do our own stuff (which might include questioning why obvious improvements haven't been made) and too scarce for resources and feuding amongst ourselves to concern with what's happening. Its all been designed.

Wealth inequality in the US is currently worse than it was when Louis XVI abdicated without telling anyone.

And before anyone ever says "what does one vote matter?", two things. If it didn't matter, they wouldn't be trying to stop you. And Louis got an 'extreme haircut' by one vote.

the ruling class exploiting us is like a boil. it festers and festers and they think they're doing just fine and no one notices

but when it pops
its gonna be bloody

See also "trust thermocline"

Love this. I saw an ad at a subway station a few days ago for AI and it felt like it was begging people to make use of it. I can’t wait until this crashes

the ai corpos are DEF on the back foot and BEGGING for us to make their huge exorborant money sink on ass kissing chatbots pay off

SORRY
NOT EVERYONE IS AS HELPLESS, IGNORANT AND OUT OF TOUCH AS CEOs....

100% this

Show me a GenAI with Jean Vander Pyl's natural human snark.

ai will only ever be a bad immitation of a parrot doing an immitation

at least the parrot does it because it finds joy or reward in the act

Lil guy sounds like me, still wanting to do things manually.

as long as it's engaging my brain, i see no reason to stop doing it?! especially if i LIKE it??

and even if i hated it... i'd probably just find someone ELSE to outsource the work to who DOES like it, because that's how ape together strong??? like if i hated reading i could find audiobooks. if i hated drawing i could commission artists! if i hated email i JUST WOULD NOT REPLY AT LENGTH??? lmfao

Too true