Ah thanks for the correction. The splat terminology they also use confused me.
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Actually sorry not sure if they use triangle splatting, but gaussian splats at least.
But this subheading "Does it matter whether we know AI was used?" is just sad. There should be a space left for people who want to do stuff without AI. Niche, probably, but still. And this is why we should try to create ways to prove that stuff wasn't made with AI - that too will probably be based on compounded trust.
In the same fashion as people don't like watching chess players cheat, people will want authentic live music, and authentic art imagined by a human. At least I will, and I know I'm not the only one. Of course there will be bad actors that cheat, but once they're caught, they're not beating their allegations (see: Hans Niemann's stigma).
It is my life goal. But I have noticed that achieving this doesn't require:
> I can type two prompts to solve a task > I am building personal software for family
It seems to me that you're just using time spent with family as an excuse to prompt more.
Generating their own electricity how? I would be pissed if I got one of these xAI power turbines near my area [1]. And even if they weren't loud, gas plants are environmentally bad.
> They're generating their own electricity and excess power will be put back into the grid
Electricity prices will go up! The data centers won't keep generate their own electricity if they aren't forced to. They will just take electricity from the grid when it's cheaper than generating, and will start generating only when the costs of generating are lower.
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/musks-ai-power-plant-ge...
And agreed, when people have a problem with data centers, it isn't because of new technology, it's because the data centers represent taking resources (water, electricity, RAM) and power away (work as social leverage) from the people.
Also the future where there is no sacrifice to achieve your lifegoals seems just unnatural to me.
But really bad from a social perspective - as people lose their jobs they also lose their tiny piece of power in the society that was the labor someone else needed. Now that power has concentrated to the frontier model owners, and everyone in the future will depend on them.
And on a personal level, sacrifices people have made to become good at their craft have been made worthless, as any rich PoS can now prompt their way to "good" art and call their end result as good as something made with skill that needed years of training. That I really hate.
The only themes that rhyme imo are the loss of power to a smaller subset of humans (owners) and technological advancement enabling us to produce more (not necessarily better quality) with smaller costs. But people think that the history will repeat itself, and Jevons paradox will hold true, because it held in the Industrial Revolution; quote from the article: "Eventually, everything should be fine. The technology will be more powerful, and the job will still be there, it’ll just look different."
In this revolution, what if instead of being the human that invented the steam engine, we are the horses? "What happened to all the horses replaced by machines after industrialization? Humans keep a few around for entertainment but that’s about it." [1]
And no, this didn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2K_OLiZ_RM
"The CI tool was flagging an issue, perhaps correct, perhaps incorrect. But this is a real system so I had to dive in."
By diving in he ultimately just uses the AI to fix the problem:
"So I told Codex to make SonarQube happy, which it did by refactoring and splitting things up into 10 files".
Why isn't there a "shallowbot", or some CI configuration that tries to fix CI mistakes once before humans dive in? Plus it's not that deep, it's just shit code that was fixable with a "make sonarqube happy" prompt. I think the author is ashamed to admit that he's as generalist as everyone else now.
I do not share the same sentiment regarding drawn art or music and will try my best to support artists who don't need AI to perform/create. Modern music production already is using AI to its fullest extent for sure, its their loss. I've never listened much pop and instead have always tried to support people who actually have more skills in their toolset than just writing lyrics. My most listened genres atm include jazz, psychedelic rock and metal.
> For the Nick Hustles track that I shared, you cannot tell.
I accept that the future is bleak and there will be many cases where I won't know until someone points it out. It has happened a couple of times already. Always a big disappointment, then I shrug it off and go back to artists I know. I'm not alone in feeling this disappointment. [1]
> Many critics were quick and loud to say the users were no longer "real artists". Really, those critics have been left in the dust. In modern music production, vocoders are now commonplace.
How is this an apt analogy? Yes, those critics are better left in the dust, a signal modifier (vocoder) is just a signal modifier. Suno creates whole songs, skipping all the skills needed to even be a musician. Are you seriously comparing the two?
Also if that analogy worked, this "gotcha" doesn't really work for me as I never haven't really liked modern music production where playback is more and more common live. Multiple times I've thought of organizing a "live-only" festival where only simple setups are allowed to allow artists to show how skilled they really are, but I've realized that 1) most pop artists won't go there to show their lack of skills 2) jazz festivals exist for already skilled musicians.
I personally think there will be some "no AI used" label for artists, much like there is for organic food, and people like me who value human skills & craftmanship and want to support that kinda lifestyle can use that labeling when making purchases. Much in the similar fashion as with organic label nowadays I predict it will be gamed, there will be disappointments, but it will on a longer run be better than not having anything like that. It is to make a statement, it is to support local, smaller artists and reject the norm.
[1] https://business.columbia.edu/insights/digital-future/why-ai...
No it isn't, it's just about the absurdity of that statement vs. their usual marketing bullshit and what they actually deliver.
Plus it seems Suno still hasn't managed to figure the static noise creeping up as the song goes on (compare the sound of the hi-hats at the start vs. the end)
"Before starting the IPO process, we spoke to many business leaders who had gone through a similar process in the past. One piece of advice, which we heard in slightly different forms from multiple people, stuck with us: never let your company be worth a dollar more than it is actually worth. What they meant is that it is very dangerous when people buy your company's stock based on expectations you cannot fulfill or on incorrect predictions about how you will behave. This is in fact very similar to one of Anthropic's guiding principles: underpromise and overdeliver."
Not to mention that all of the imagery has this oversharp AI quality to it + there's random blurring happening all over the screen at random locations, presumably because the video generation is happening in 5s intervals.
The dog-like creature on the ship was a fun addition but for some reason there was this long awkward silence before, during and after Kuno pet it.
If this is your definition of an alive character then I suggest you go read some quality books or watch quality series made before 2022.
As AI can generate ~any image nowadays, there is potential for an infinite amount of AI art, driving the value of AI generated images to 0, unless artificial scarcity is introduced like in the case of Pokemon cards.
Whereas with humans, there isn't an infinite amount of human art, as only a subset of humans are skilled enough to create good art pieces. Human art should therefore theoretically always be more valuable than any AI art. EDIT: Have to add, human artists always make use of artificial scarcity as well by only making 1-N copies.
I value this scarcity, that there are people insanely more skilled than me, blessed with good genes and environment that are able to create art that didn't exist before in the space of human made art. It creates healthy role models for people to be inspired by. The scarcity or skills aren't artificial, but natural.
Your other point is likely true, but I never said anything to that extent, and most importantly the point does not validate the claims "Humans are designed to eat meat." and "Soy crop is shit for humans." that CrimsonRain made. So, no studies?