This post got me curious about how the term DHTML died so quickly. Apparently we hit peak DHTML in 2001, according to Google Ngram Viewer.
I’ve always remembered it as XHTML lemmings, didn’t know dhtml was a term at all!
Readit NewsAI output often 'looks like something' on first try, which makes it easy to assume no effort went in.
But there's a big difference between prompting and accepting the first output versus someone using search, multiple LLMs, actually READING the underlying papers, and iterating until it's done.
Sometimes that still means getting to 'done' faster than by more traditional means. Sometimes it means more depth than you'd manage otherwise. Sometimes somewhere in between.
Of course, by that point, either way, it doesn't really look like lazy AI output anymore.
Maybe it's not so much about the tools/agents as it is about the intent-to-engage behind them?
Yeah totally. Content aware fill is AI by any definition but I don’t have a problem with that.
It’s the stuff where, if the creator couldn’t be bothered to care about the details why should I? And most gen ai art is that way
What an fantastic problem to have! A few Ghibli films are a tad too odd or serious in tone for a movie night, but I can heartily recommend Ponyo, M.N. Totoro, and Spirited Away, the first being probably the most light-hearted and simple fun.
Great list! Totoro is my favorite,
I’d add Kiki’s Delivery Service to the ‘mostly fun’ side as well
> Or maybe the next great story teller to create something meaningful that touches people in ways that change their mental model of the world.
How many pieces of AI art can you actually remember? I mean, call to mind in the same detail as you can remember a photograph?
I think AI generated imagery is fundamentally compromised somehow in this regard: something subliminally uncanny, no matter how realistic, makes them harder to recall.
For this reason I personally doubt AI generated art will ever have a profound effect on people. Because it really seems to lack the mechanism.
Because it is the devaluation of art.
If the medium is the message, then the message of any AI production is that the correct amount of time to care about this thing is zero seconds.
Digging a hole and filling it up might very well have value as an art piece. The process is important for art, not just the end product.
And at the very least, if someone was willing to do back breaking labor to tell me something, it’s probably something they think is important
That idea is incomprehensible to me.
I see value (or lack of it) in what I have in front of me, not in how much a person had to struggle and suffer for it to come into existence.
Either something is good or it’s not. Creating something good can sometimes take a lot of effort, but it’s not the effort that makes it good. Otherwise digging a hole and filling it back up would be a valuable undertaking.
No, it doesn’t have to take effort, but that does mean that someone genuinely cares.
Like, I love blog posts. Really do, I’ll read anyone’s about anything. Someone thought of something and cared about it and put it into the world and that’s wonderful.
But someone making an AI post doesn’t care. And worse, it makes anyone who does care feel silly, like, why am I wasting my time on this thing that’s so worthless that whatever the first thing the computer spits out is good enough for them
It’s strange and highly unpleasant to watch people treat something as a zero-sum game that is decidedly not one.
No, I get it.
AI has the effect of making whatever it creates feel worthless. Something AI made says “this wasn’t worth spending any time on. It’s not something important ” Seeing something you care about become part of that Sucks.
I don’t think humanity will survive the next war.
I’m hopeful humanity will, but civilization isn’t making it
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That is just not true. The referees have the power to change the game. The fans have the power to change the game. The owners and the commissioners have the power to change the game. The players have no power at all.
I don’t see how that follows
It’s capable of dynamic flows, adding and removing programs, has ports of Chromium and Virtual Box. The devs daily drive it :)