It’s a way to do distributed parallel computing using consumer-grade hardware. I don’t actually know a ton about them, so you’d be better served by looking up information about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster

Maybe you want something like a Beowulf Cluster?

Because it doesn’t just “cannibalize shitty pretenders.” It steals from quality artists as well. This is not moral virtue signaling, it’s a fact, and if you don’t like that fact, take it up with reality.

It’s not about whether AI can make good art. It’s about how it got to that mediocre point in the first place. It’s about how nobody is offered the chance to opt out. Do you need to memorize, store, and reference every Studio Ghibli art piece to figure out how to paint or draw in that style? Probably not.

And if you want to pull rank, I got my studio art degree decades ago. Don’t pretend that just because “you’re an artist, too” (or that you’re learning about art) that it absolves you of your complicity in supporting open theft—by billionaires, no less. And if you plan to become an artist someday, don’t be so naive to think that you’re somehow better than those “shitty pretenders” or that it won’t affect your livelihood, too.

Oh but it actually is, and there’s been loads of studies on exactly what combinations of chords and transitions people generally find pleasing to listen to.

Okay, pedant. Perhaps I should have been more specific by using the word “melody.” But those chords you mentioned aren’t all the same. They might be the same notes, but they’re all played differently, with more or less expression, with varying tempos, etc. There is math and theory and even marketing studies involved, but Music is more than just notes strung together in a pattern.

It’s a sad reality of the industry, like it or not.

Okay, but I’m not talking about the industry. I’m talking about music in general, of which the industry is a single part. AI might sound similar to or use some of the same pattern-following as mainstream music, but that doesn’t make them equivalent, just nominally parallel.

And focusing only upon mainstream music discounts the vast array of non-mainstream music. There are countless musicians that try new things, that don’t follow the mathematical patterns, that tell “stories.” Most of them don’t make it onto the radio or into movie soundtracks, but that doesn’t make their art less valid or varied, especially when comparing it to AI slop.

Then rather than going to AI, which again only supports art theft, go to a forum like Lemmy and ask for some suggestions. I think you’ll find music lovers are more than willing to offer suggestions.

It means you don’t know what good music is (and I mean that kindly), and by using these services that were trained on real musicians’ art, you’re feeding yourself garbage while helping normalize art theft.

Music is mathematical. The chords, the rhythm, the time signatures—all of that is based on math. There’s a hypothesis that there’s a (large) finite number of songs that can be created, due to this fact. If you are enjoying something produced by AI, it’s only because it is utilizing these mathematical patterns. However, there’s a big difference between AI “music” and music produced by real artists.

The AI can follow a pattern, but it’s not creative. Music isn’t just making patterns. It’s also about telling stories through sound, and that’s not something AI can do, because it has no experiences to draw upon. It can’t comprehend what it means to be human, and it doesn’t have deep thoughts that drive it to create.

So if you like something from AI, figure out what genre it is and look for real artists in that genre. I guarantee you’ll at least find something in the indie scene that fits what you like, and you’ll be supporting real art.

It’s a blast! The devs listen to and are involved in the community, you can go back and play earlier season content at your discretion, and all the paid content is optional cosmetics that exist primarily as an additional revenue stream for the devs, so no pay to win or praying to RNGesus to get that one ultra rare drop everyone needs.

Are boycotts really the best solution to stop this epidemic in gaming?

Yes, but not if you don’t convince others to join you.

How can we best prevent these gambling grey markets and the gaming to gambling addiction pipeline?

Educate people on the dangers. Show them why it’s gambling, because there’s a lot of apologetics out there to trick people into thinking it’s not. Point out the same slot-machine-tactics they use to get people hooked.

And then convince them to boycott. The CEOs that put this shit in games know how to read sales numbers, and if sales start dropping (or player counts), they’ll soon figure out that it’s because of their lootbox/gacha systems.

Lastly, give people alternatives. I usually point people to Deep Rock Galactic, but there may be others that are better suited to people’s tastes. “Just leave” isn’t really effective if they don’t know where to go.

Kinda skeptical myself. For anyone unaware, they tried to make an Aptera model several years ago before all the trade fuckery, and despite making waves and turning heads, they eventually had to call it quits due to lack of funding.

I hope they succeed this time, now that people want EVs, but my expectations of success are low.

Not going to read most of this paper, because it reads like a freshman thesis, and it fundamentally oversells or misunderstands the existing limits on AI.

In closing, I consider the limits to these limits as AI gradually, but relentlessly, becomes ever-more capable.

The AI technofacists building these systems have explicitly said they’ve hit a wall. They’re having to invest in their own power plants just to run these models. They have scores of racks of GPUs, so they’re dependent upon the silicon market. AI isn’t becoming “ever more capable,” it’s merely pushing the limits of what they have left.

And all the while, these projects are still propped up almost entirely by venture capital. They’re an answer to a problem nobody is having.

Put another way, if the leaders of the AI companies are right in their predictions, and we do build AGI in the short- to medium-term, will these limits be able to withstand such remarkable progress?

Again, the leaders are doing their damnedest to convince investors that this stuff will pay off one day. The reality is that they have yet to do anything close to that, and investors are going to get tired of pumping money into something that doesn’t return on that investment.

AI is not some panacea that will magically make ultracapitalists more wealthy, and the sooner they realize that, the sooner we can all move on—like we did with the Metaverse and blockchain.

We’re focused on pop-up mealshares, so it would mostly be supplies to help with that, but we also give out toiletries and outdoor living supplies.

Yeah, charity work is classic overconsumption. /s

Remember, when you aim to misbehave, black bloc is your friend.

Neat. That’s way more interesting than the pop science hype pieces.

Can’t have all those qbits driving on the highways for free! /s

Maybe we just don’t like AI, and billionaire fuckwads just need to suck it up and move on, like how Zuck bet the farm that the Metaverse was going to be the next hot thing and now has to pretend he didn’t spend gobs of money on it.

But no, it’s the cancel-culture mob. 😂 JFC, what a take.

I liked that one. I’m supremely doubtful he’s correct, but I don’t think his directorial prowess has anything to do with it.

Same. Hard times are coming, and I have a suspicion it’s going to be worse than 2008.

People will need to do what they can do, and I don’t blame them for surviving.

As an American, I’m already subscribed to !buycanadian@lemmy.ca and !buyeuropean@feddit.uk.

I’ll eat those tariffs to ensure the companies that stood at Trump’s side feel it in their stock portfolios.

The purpose of tariffs (in a normal world) is to make it harder for domestic entities to buy international goods. Typically, this will spur growth of a particular sector of industry within a country over time.

The way Trump is using them as a battering ram in an attempt to punish other countries, rather than incentivize steady growth, is why the US market is tanking and likely headed to another recession (or worse).

By retaliating in kind, the EU will be incentivizing their citizens and companies not to buy from the US. This will hurt companies that are based in the US, like Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc., further sending the US economy into freefall and bolstering the European economy, since they aren’t trying to punish every single trade partner in existence.

There may be other ways they try to move money around to avoid the tariffs, but governments are aware of how big businesses operate and often try to close those kinds of loopholes. Since this has become a global political issue, I would imagine they’ll be keeping a more watchful eye than normal on things.

Mini Apps version 1.2 makes mini apps load faster within the World mobile app, adds haptic feedback, enables customization, and allows you to pin your favorite mini apps to your phone’s home screen without needing to open the Worldcoin Wallet app, according to the company.

Eww, why would I want to have a garbage cryptocoin app that opens other apps?

Cryptobros are so weird. Like, their brains have been so thoroughly addled that they can’t see reality except through crypto