No, scamming people is much easier with crypto. The transactions are irreversible, for one.
As it is with cash.
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akritrime commented on Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator godmodeai.cloud/ai-sprite... · Posted by u/lyogavin
> Yes, it closes up certain avenues on how artists make money but it will most probably make up for that by making them more productive.
How?
In a few years as image generation consistency improves, any video game artist can go from just creating characters for some other game dev to creating full-on animated sprites directly. Instead of having to depend on someone else to code their ideas, they can directly create that game. And the inverse will also be true, game devs can use AI to create generic arts for their game and work faster, create games that depends more on tech than art. Both flavors of games will bring something unique and doesn't invalidate the work of the other as useless.
akritrime commented on Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator godmodeai.cloud/ai-sprite... · Posted by u/lyogavin
Comparing teaching other humans to "teaching" a model is absurd.
AI can't take their creativity but it will take their means of survival so a few companies can profit instead. Yeah, great trade-off.
The point isn't about comparing teaching and training. The point is about how humans use tool to improve and advance. It is more about comparing AI to books as an aggregate of knowledge. Just like how humans uses recorded writing in the form of books to analyze and adapt better ways of communication, humans can also use AI to be productive in fields that was previous out of their reach.
akritrime commented on Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator godmodeai.cloud/ai-sprite... · Posted by u/lyogavin
Is this using OpenAI's GPT-image or something different?
akritrime commented on Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator godmodeai.cloud/ai-sprite... · Posted by u/lyogavin
It’s sad how the existing corpus of artists’ works are being used against them.
The only reason this can generate images like these is because artists previously created artwork like this. And then in return they get:
> you don't need to high an artist or animator to develop you game.
Unless you created all the training material yourself, any model like this is highly unethical, in my opinion.
Imagine if writers complained that stuff they wrote were being used in literature classes that teaches people how to read and write because how sentences they once toiled over for hours would now be used in mundane letters.
AI can't take away an artists creativity, just like how photography didn't kill painting. Yes, it closes up certain avenues on how artists make money but it will most probably make up for that by making them more productive.
The statement above is that one would expect Framework to have chosen a platform which does not require soldered RAM, not that Framework kept such an option by choosing this AMD part.
All that aside, I absolutely can't wait for desktops to decide to go the same route of having 4 memory channels instead of 2. Right now the only way to have >2 channels is to buy workstation/server class stuff or an APU.
From their LTT video, it looked like they chose to do Desktop because of the AMD platform (and not the either way around, where they planned a desktop product and then chose AMD strix halo). Apparently setting up the manufacturing pipeline for laptops built on strix halo is expensive as of now and there are only two laptops in the whole market using it. So Frame.work choose to go the desktop route to save on cost while still making the platform available for everyone.
The genius behind crypto is that it's not just the extremely gullible. I know a fair number of really smart people, academics even, that have bought into the cryptocurrency hype.
It has this kind of veil of "high techness" to it that is appealing to smart-but-uninformed people (like me in 2021). I'm embarrassed that I fell for it, but on the bright side it does make me a bit more sympathetic for other people who also fell for it.
To be honest, a distributed logic execution engine is an interesting tech, it just isn't something to build any high value economy on top of.
I mean... Just to be clear, Electron has pretty much taken the world by storm.
Huge number of Enterprise/productivity apps are shipped on Electron.
It's hard to beat the value proposition on the business side if you need a website for the product.
Yeah I was going to comment the same thing. A very big reason why we are even having this conversation about a browser engine powering native apps is because electron exists. Yes it's sub-optimal but that hasn't impeded its conquest in the slightest.
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I am more surprised at how the general notion has shifted towards the idea that Next.js is the default starting option now. It just feels like such a drastic change to me, compared to even 2 or 3 years back (last when I paid enough attention to frontend stuff).
only a sith speaks in absolute. plenty of especially free AI products out there
and who is funding them? how are they paying for their servers? a product can't be free, someone somewhere is paying for it. the main question is why are they paying for it.