GunStarHero

The only fast food place that gives me any issues whatsoever is McDonald's. I get sick every time I eat there, without fail. So I just avoid them since I can go literally anywhere else.

I've gotten more into collecting laserdiscs and VHS tapes as of late. Also Xbox merch from Japan. Quite the little collection coming along for that stuff. I get it on the cheap usually cause it bombed over there and they don't care much for them.

Allow me to respond like you did to me initially. Fuck cars.

You have some valid points and some not so valid ones but you come off as petulant and patronizing, like someone that fundamentally disagrees with you but wants you to think you're on the same side. Doesn't help you come off as dismissive at times.

Says the guy personally attacking everyone with a different opinion with massive chunks of text and dressing it up like it's some cute little game.

Both the terms "art" and "artist" are loosely defined words but I am not here to argue semantics. I just think it's fucking shitty to be "gushing" about something that does more harm than it does good. I won't argue there are no pros to AI art, but like I said in the other thread, the cons far outweigh them and there's just going to be more and more of a disparity between the two as time goes on, exclusively in the favor of cons. Inspiration can come from literally anything. Shit I've looked at AI art and had inspiration to create something better because it was so shit. I'm sure you will twist this as a positive in some nebulous way, but inspiration is meaningless to the uninspired. I know it's more complicated than throwing some words together into a prompt and having the AI spit something out. I get it. But allow me to share something I learned as a chef over the years. If my boss brings me some ingredients he sourced himself and meticulously assembled and portioned for me, then hands them over with a vague prompt and asks me to make it, and I turn around and use someone's recipe I found online to make it, are any of us actually chefs in this situation? The finished dish is not possible without my boss, myself nor the recipe's author. But what does it actually mean to be a chef? You mentioned a pizza you seem to have ordered. Did you make it? Are you a chef? It wouldn't exist without the collaborative effort between you and the pizza place, right? You some kind of pizza artist? Of course not. You found a place that made something, ordered one to your liking, and they made it for you. Most people that cook a lot fall into one of two camps: traditional and collaborative. What I mean by that is either they use the recipes they learned and follow them to a T, like some family recipe or something they learned while studying cooking, or they take recipes and ideas they see others doing, be it online, on TV, in books, wherever, and use that as a sort of revolving door cookbook. Many things people do day to day are exactly what chefs do in the kitchen. So what's the difference? What do you think makes someone a chef or not? I go drone on and on about things like adapting, being knowledgeable, etc. but, to me, it really comes down to experience COMBINED with all the other fundamentals. And, tangibly, that may not seem like something that is too significant until you taste an experienced chef's dish versus some reading the same recipe. Little idiosyncrasies start making huge differences in the final product. It's also why you can sometimes fuck up a recipe you are reading because something in your immediate surrounding was not properly tended to. An example of that is being aware of your cooking setup and adapting to what it actually happening around you. You have to react on the fly sometimes, get a little freestyle with things, or in other words: be creative. I can write down every single step, down the to most minute details, in my recipe, but at the end of the day, the person reading it, creating from it, is not me and is not using my setup, so it will not be the same. It may be close, passable even, but it won't be mine. Every time I make a chicken alfredo at work, I follow the same steps, with the same ingredients, using the same equipment, but each one is slightly different. They are consistent to a point but they will always have some minor differences. Not going to ramble on about souls, but I believe art, in all its vast forms, is truly something that requires a soul to make. An AI is soulless. Maybe one day that will no longer be the case and it will be indistinguishable from a human, but it will still be a machine, not a person. It's really cool that things are advancing like this, and right now it's in a wild west state, but fuck right off if you don't think this will be reigned in soon enough. Do you remember how fun the internet used to be before everything got all corporatized? Same thing. Only this will start seeping into other things at an alarming pace. Art is everywhere, and art is many things. I'm not sure why you posted the banana taped to the wall in the other thread if not for either a smarmy "gotcha" moment or to rustle some jimmies, but that incident does pertain to art. Stupid as it sounds, taping a banana to a wall in an art museum is art. It gets people talking about what art really is, and that's a difficult question to answer because it is so many things, perhaps even all things at the end of the day. Just to let it be known, I didn't take the time to type all this to change your mind. I don't fucking care what you think and frankly you sound like a fucking spoiled brat defending AI art. I typed this for the sake of discussion and saying my piece. By all accounts, the AI is the artist. It behaves like a human artist by taking existing material and learning from it to create its own work. The person behind the keyboard is a customer at best, providing concepts and in turn collaborating with the AI to create something that did not exist before. AI had to learn how to create its images somehow, so it was feed or crawled the internet itself to gather reference material, again, something a human artist would do. But if I walk into a restaurant and tell a computer screen what I want to eat, and it assembles it and brings it out to me, there is no chef directly involved in this scenario, and the food is probably going to be shit anyways. Edible, sure. Passes as real food a human would make? Of course. But it's missing that human element, those idiosyncrasies. The devil is in the details, as they say, and while, no, I can't always tell AI art from human art, I'd rather a person with experience made it over some glorified app that some goober plugged words into for 6 hours until they got something they liked. It's all incredibly complicated and there's a lot to explore here, and to AI art's credit, it has people talking about art, maybe more than they ever have for many. On the flipside, you seeing amazing art when you go looking for amazing art is so fucking stupid to use in any capacity. Of course you saw good AI art, you fucking looked for it you jackass. Go look for cool human art, I bet you'll find some you stupid fuck. It's great that the creatively challenged can now masquerade as artists without putting in the time and effort to get good enough to express themselves artistically and then whine when someone tells them they aren't actually artists. And for the record, I have no skin in the game. Yea I used to make art, even did commissions for awhile, so I made money from it, but on the real? This shit is just plain bad. It's not as bad as deep fakes, which, oh my god what a terrible fucking idea, but it's in the same realm of horrifying implications and slippery slopes. But sure, pop off, defend your machine soon-to-be overlords and have fun playing with your toys while it's in its infancy.

As nice as it is that people whom otherwise could not create art can now do so, and how much more we will see now, I have zero respect for people calling themselves artists of any kind when only using an AI to create things. There are pros and cons to AI art, but I think the cons far, far outweigh the pros and will continue to do so more and more as the AI get more refined.

Probably This Is the End, but Dodgeball and Zoolander are up there, too.

Genuinely enjoyed the little chats I had with him when he frequented the casino I was working at a few years back. Seemed like a cool dude. RIP.

Depended on the establishment. Some places in Vegas I was tipped nightly by customers. Other places I never got a tip working in the back of the house.

Ice cream without the ice seems more like cream to me. And round up for tips.

Yep those are the ones. Insanely tiny. Tasted fine but just way too small of a serving to buy again.

We grabbed some frozen dumplings and it said there were 6 in the box which was fine but when we opened it up they were the tiniest little nothings. Honestly was just sampling their selection but I would have been pissed if I was expecting a decent quantity of food.

With the lack of Krogers nearby, I've started going to Aldis, myself. Good value for the price but sometimes the portions are atrocious. Still, if I can feed 2 people for a month for under $200 and eat relatively well portioned meals without using coupons or getting sales items, it works for me.

Probably going to go the porn route eventually. That is to say, the average person will use that access to free, on demand content/product and will never see a need to pay for it when it gets to a certain level of polish from the AI. On the one hand, this will inevitably "steal" work away from artists as potential customers will opt to go for the free route, though I'm sure those in the know will just continue using artists for polished results for the time being. On the flipside, it can give an artistic voice to those unable to produce their own art for one reason or another and may result in a collaborative art between a human wordsmith and an AI artist giving us something we have otherwise never had. As potentially beautiful as that may be, I am reminded of rage comics, which gave a similar voice to those without artistic ability by giving them the option to plug in art and text to express themselves, albeit in a much more static manner. I am also sure some enterprising users are already planning how to make full blown content this way. Imagine a graphic novel series made entirely from AI generated images (or the visuals, anyways). I recall a previous discussion I had regarding the harnessing of dreams to create things on a screen and a strong willed person making a full blown story/movie from that. While that may remain science fiction, I could easily see someone fine tuning these AI and hammering out the logistics to make a visual story.

It's Milarkie all the way down.

You were probably confusing this and the stabbing incident with Abe's grandfather, Kishi, who was PM in 1960, but he was not fatally wounded in the attack.

If you're talking about Inejiro Asanuma, he wasn't the PM; he was the leader of the Japanese Socialist Party. He was killed during a debate on TV when a right wing, nationalist teenager bum rushed the stage and stabbed him to death with a short sword.