While your points about the patronage system and its weaknesses are valid, you’re writing off several centuries worth of legitimate human endeavor because the systems that enabled it were dodgy. Guess what though? That’s literally all of history, dodgy AF, featuring an intrepid cast of characters more awful the deeper you look. That doesn’t make the art or music worth writing off though.

But honestly:

What is interesting though is the fact that AI art, and the LAION-5B dataset used to train the models is a true and earnest reflection of sorts of what images today really are

“Earnest” is definitely not the word you’re looking for. Derivative, maybe, because you said it yourself, they’re reflections; and as such, they’re going to reflect what images of today are; like you said. That makes them derivative, and I feel a vast artificiality that makes my heart sink when I look at the vast majority of them.

Choosing machine-created art over historical art is choosing a passing fad over centuries of culture. It’s your right; but to write off history with a wave of the hand means you’re missing out on truly expanding your horizons.

Expanding ones horizons absolutely does and should include art history, which is a part of human history.

Love the name and shame. Everyone needs to know about this guy

Full brim, white and beige. Classy AF

I’ve heard of Ohio, so I can confirm that others have witnessed this

Hats are back

Fashion has declared it to be so

…I am fashion, for the first and only time ever.

Hey

Anyone who buys into Will.I.Am’s hype is automatically the wrong person to run anything more than a lemonade stand

Also, gave a platform to “John of God”. She’s sketchy AF

Whoops, guess I’m now the enemy of a hundred million Americans

My bad

Aww, thanks! Consider me slightly more educated than when I awoke this morning :)

I still don’t know what ich_iel is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask

It’s been two and a half months, but I’m almost done creating a board game from scratch. It’s like Risk, but Cat themed, and featuring a massive deck of cards.

Next up, gotta start work on the prototype before I can invite some people over to play and hopefully learn if this game actually works as a concept, needs some rule tweaks, or is utterly confusing and broken.

The idea of “robot dreams” is no longer the exclusive domain of fiction.

No, LLMs are not AGI. They don’t dream, and hallucinations don’t count.

they stop screaming for 4 years

That’s not how children work.

Mmm, the neon green lines really sell the putrification.

I’ll place your Lemmy Cesium award in a safe place, where it will not be exposed to water

Oh snap, super my bad then

No, I’m just shit-posting, my bad

Those two kids look like they’re related. They may also be neighborhood troublemakers, from the look of that baseball bat the one is holding.

Also, that’s a weird looking bush in the background, pretty sure that’s either AI or UI

On the top, a bright, clear sunny day, a few picturesque clouds in the sky.

At the bottom, a river, once clean, where corporate logos such as Google and Microsoft sit, partially submerged, stains spreading into the waters around them.

In the middle, a bridge: well constructed across and overtop the river, across which various Fediverse logos are crossing

I dunno, I’m not a graphic designer