Get_Off_My_WLAN

I’m starting to feel like everything I do at work is under duress.

Yes. But even if FedEx wins that, they already screwed over their customers when they pushed the costs of the tariffs onto the consumers. So the customers have to remind them who really paid for the tariffs.

Even if they may seem feckless, it’s still better to have as many judges officially rule against them because it literally legitimizes what we’ve been saying.

To be fair, they might’ve been expecting the trash, but probably weren’t expecting all of the renegade pooping. Even at Ueno Park in Tōkyō, which is probably one of the most crowded places during sakura season, you’ll see extra trash bins, but not porta-poddies.

I also didn’t go to Arakurayama during the festival. I went in February, and if it was already crowded with literring tourists then, it must be awful during sakura season. Japan has been receiving record overtourism for the past few years (ever since re-opening in late 2022). I saw it mentioned on NHK News like almost every day. Yeah, they might be a little tired of the extra tourists now.

There are public bathrooms at the park. It was packed with tourists and their litter when I went in 2024 though.

As for the streets where people actually live, they shouldn’t need to have a bunch of ugly porta-potties occupying the streets in front of their home. It’s a place where people have always lived, not a place that exists solely to be a tourist attraction.

I guess I wrongly assumed all tourists would have the common sense to not defacate in someone else’s yard.

“I am now competing with illustrations that may have been trained on my own work without permission.”

That’s fucked up.

Are you just stating a hypothetical scenario, or are you misleadingly implying this guy arrested his wife?

Because 1. he’s not law enforcement, and 2.

The uncertainty has left the newlywed questioning whether his time serving the country was worth it, he said.

It always bothered me how so many Twitter users in Japan just kept using Xitter after everything Musk has done to it, like they’re not even aware. I think the language barrier has been filtering some of it out until now.

But,

I am not afraid of AI; I believe in its future and potential. However, I cannot accept my work being used, learned from, or exploited without my consent.

Boichi, that’s what’s been happening with AI to everybody’s art this entire time!

In a post on social media on Friday, Lt Gen Ben Hodges of the army compared Tuesday’s gathering to a 1935 “surprise assembly in Berlin” where German generals were “required to swear a personal oath to the Führer”, Adolf Hitler, in the lead-up to the Holocaust and the second world war.

What I mean by adding something of our own is how art, in Cory Doctorow’s words, contain many acts of communicative intent. There are thousands of microdecisions a human makes when creating art. Whereas imagery generated only by the few words of a prompt to an LLM only contain that much communicative intent.

I feel like that’s why AI art always has that AI look and feel to it. I can only sense a tiny fraction of the person’s intent, and maybe it’s because I know the rest is filled in by the AI, but that is the part that feels really hollow or soulless to me.

Even in corporate art, I can at least sense what the artist was going for, based on corporate decisions to use clean, inoffensive designs for their branding and image. There’s a lot of communicative intent behind those designs.

I recommend checking the blog post I referenced, because Cory Doctorow expresses these thoughts far more eloquently than I do.

As for the latter argument, I wanted to highlight the fact that AI needs that level of resources and training data in order to produce art, whereas a human doesn’t, which shows you the power of creativity, human creativity. That’s why I think what AI does cannot be called ‘creativity.’ It cannot create. It does what we tell it to, without its own intent.

My comment is replying to the guy talking about whether or not you can call AI ‘creative’ though.

You’re forgetting the fact that humans always add something of our own when we make art, even when we try to reproduce another’s artpiece as a study.

The many artists we might’ve looked at certainly influence our own styles, but they’re not the only thing that’s expressed in our artwork. Our life lived to that point, and how we’re feeling in the moment, those are also the things, often the point, that artists communicate when making art.

Most artists haven’t also looked at nearly every single work by almost every artist spanning a whole century of time. We also don’t need whole-ass data centers that need towns’ worth of water supply to just train to produce some knock-off, soulless amalgamation of other people’s art.

Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

I get it, because we want to do the opposite of what RFK Jr wants the majority of the time.

Been to Louisiana. Can confirm.

A neat thing about living in Japan is that there are announcements and signs everywhere telling you to please keep your phone silent and to turn down the volume on your headphones so that noise doesn’t leak out either. ‘Silent mode’ is literally called ‘manner mode.’

It’s time to delete X? 🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 Always has been.

I had traveled to Southeast Asia recently, and used Grab for the first time there to get a taxi. I was surprised by how precise it was. No wonder.

Technically not a sabbatical, but I saved up a bunch of money, quit my job, and have been studying abroad in Japan.

It really is a cool tree, but man, having to walk near fallen gingko nuts every day during the autumn is kind of torture.