i mean, the ad was in english so kinda? i never clicked on them so i can’t say for sure

though don’t forget that a person who speaks english doesn’t have to be from an english speaking country. most people who want to travel/live abroad will know at least some english

when i used apps with targeted ads, amongst generic type of stuff i also used to get two polar opposites of ads:

1. ah, we see you’re in poland and use english a lot, want to learn english?

2. ah, we see you’re in poland and use english a lot, we can help you get your immigration papers for legal employment

both at the same time btw. apparently being a polish national who speaks english fluently marked me as some sort of ad-anomaly

the ads also believed that i was a senior? at some point i even got a spam call inviting me to join a study on back pain T–T like bro you’re at least 10 years early, relax

people be like “I love the world!” from the surface of a planet with an atmosphere and in the golden zone of warmth of their star. No. Go outside and let’s see

ah, i assumed you were talking about public models. the sort of stuff that you specified now is fine in my books. might be a good idea to mention that you don’t mean the slop making AIs from the start, since that’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone says “AI art”

let me know when AI actually makes something new instead of mass plagiarising actual artists’ work (whilst burning through tons of water)

because at the most generous you could call what AI does a “collage of anonymous artworks guided by a user’s input”, but in reality, it’s just stealing, and you don’t even know who’s art you took

overlap between drawing and photography? easy, composition, colour theory, framing, in fact you could take everything (aside from gear knowledge) from photography and apply it to drawing or painting

pretty much all mediums of art have the same basic core - concepts that can come in handy no matter what other medium you grab, shapes, colours, compositions - you learn those by working with any medium, and you can take them everywhere else

i meant the knowledge of line weight, colour theory, perspective, shapes, how light works, where shadows fall, how to treat your values, and the million other things that you can take to paper, that i have taken to paper as a ditigal artist

drawing ditigally is one way of drawing sure, but the skills you get as you draw are 90% transferable to any other medium - you just need to learn the new tool first

obviously it won’t be the same, but you’ll still be able to use the knowledge and skills you’ve obtained drawing digitally - to help you put the idea in your head onto the paper much better

and AI prompter would be on the same level as someone who’s never touched a pencil before

that language model doesn’t regurgitate the media it was trained on. it just makes sure you don’t misspell your thats

no,

if someone learns art on digital systems they can grab a pencil and do the same on paper. maybe they’ll be annoyed by lack of the undo button, maybe they’ll have to learn colour mixing, and how materials interact with each other, but the core ability to make art is fully transferable between ditigal and paper

same goes for animation. btw. your statement about it doesn’t make much sense, keyframes are a concept used by both digital and traditional animators. and if you meant frame interpolation then it’s a brute force calculation of the most average of averages given two data-points, 90% of the time the animator has to go back and fix it, developing their animation skills that they can then take to paper and do just the same (would just take way longer)

now what will a prompt typer do without their AI?

fuck all is what they’d do. the only transferable skill from that would be idk writing image descriptions for the visually impaired

i usually either opt for going through windows, or wait for a woman or an enby to open a door and then run at them aggressively before they close it

then the title is misleading

they can’t just put a game on their platform, the publisher needs to agree and set up terms of sale - if the publisher is going against what GOG want then it won’t be easy to compromise

fire hot -> fire bad! if fire bad, need to cover word to not summon fire!

looks to me like someone just kept their phone’s camera on whatever default settings it came with and one of those settings happened to be an “enhancing” algorithm that makes a generic image “better” but give it two overlapping patterns and it gets a stroke

edit: upon further examination, there’s a keyhole at the bottom of the door, it’s just AI, ugh

this is the “relatable and funny online lingo”, nobody actually talks like that

survivorship bias - those who have uninstalled, are not bitching about windows anymore

to fight an anecdote with an anecdote - when i play games sure i don’t experience the fear of death, but i do experience compassion towards what i’m fully aware is a bunch of pixels & lines of code presented to me as a character in a video game. and i experience the thrill of discovery or a tough fight with a boss. the more i’m immersed in a game the deeper emotions i feel.

and VR in particular is much more immersive. even in a game like Beatsaber, which doesn’t aim at realism, your brain interprets the boxes coming at you as actual objects about to slam into your face. you intuitively attempt to dodge them, especially when you’re in the flow state of playing.

games can elicit emotions, and VR games can do it in an even stronger way. from my perspective, there is no reason to doubt the results of this study, especially if the fear response wasn’t measured through a subjective report of emotions, but through observing the physiological effects fear has on the body.

the research is supposed to highlight - not prove, there is nothing to prove, it’s a fact - how much fear women and girls go through in their daily lives, that men or boys don’t have to worry about

on the other hand, i like being surprised by gifts :( i don’t want to know what i’m getting beforehand

yeah exactly that’s why i worry about it and think about it. because if a new mind emerges from somewhere within the code - it’s going to be at least as intelligent as a person, and treated as nowhere to our equal. we as humanity are going to pretty much instantly create digital depression at the very least, and i find that deeply saddening

the thing that itches my brain the most - if you can perfectly fake idk, the survival instinct, if you can fake emotions, if you can fake satience, if you can fake wanting… how’s it different from the real thing? mimicry is also a human feature, if you’re “faking a survival instinct” and you have no other motive than to just fake it because other are doing it and so you gotta, how is it any different from a real survival instinct?

“fake it till you make it!” we say, “motive behind actions isn’t as important as the results of said actions” we also say, will we think the same when it comes to the machines?