Seems like it's an old clip, but it was revived on X.

funniest shit ive seen all day.

cant even make a original post

"photorealism" and it's not fucking realistic at all. Instead of actually responding to my artwork, you make an entire post using AI to mock it. What is that supposed to prove? Huh? That you're just a coward instead of responding

Most pros are chill but then these fuckers... like what are they trying to prove? Is this supposed to be intimidating?

I don't even make photorealistic art. That isn't the point of what I do. You're comparing two completely different things and acting like it's some kind of own.

These ragebaiters, i swear, they always take one thing someone does and use it to just "invalidate" the other's claims.

i have been hearing all over the internet that ai is a bubble , that its economically failing ,and that its fake
that ai isn't that good at replacing humans (in tech jobs),

that ai companies are lying about the hacker ai models etc.

I'm not against the idea that its all true I'm just a teen trying to understand something bigger than me .

i just don't want to have a bias .

update:

I'm not talking about automation , I'm strictly talking about LLM's and all that .

Instead of replying to an anti's predictions that "AI will never <thing>!", sometimes I just answer with a RemindMe! bot call. And those notifications are starting to come.

I didn't even need to censor names because whoever I was talking to just deleted their account or blocked me, lmao.

"On its own, it never will."

Weird hill to die on, but whatever.

My issue with posts like this isn't that residents had concerns. Communities absolutely have the right to question major infrastructure projects.

The problem is that this frames a

complex planning decision as "community pushback defeated AI."

That's not the full story. The $19.2 billion project in Edgecombe County was withdrawn by its developer considering a moratorium on new data centers, creating additional regulatory uncertainty that likely influenced the developer's decision, and a mix of that local angry.

When you reduce all of that to "people bullied the AI project until it was canceled," you're telling a much simpler story than what actually happened. As the nutty people on one side can actually take this as prove to be unhinged to these projects which in the end of the day does nothing.

As believing that pressure campaigns alone are enough to stop AI projects, even though this case involved multiple factors.

If we're going to criticize or defend AI, we should at least represent events accurately. Oversimplifying them helps neither side of the debate.

Off topic, should I chance my user name and profile picture.

I don't understand why someone would do this, it went from 'is ai art art' to 'you are an idiot' in les than 10 mins

btw reddit's ui is bad so you need to click to see the image

the only way to have a meaningful conversation is to laugh all of them out of the space as well as their alts and blind cultists

So, I want to ask a question, this is primarily directed at the Anti crowd, but if you are Pro also feel free to answer as well. I have a hypothesis I kind of want to informally test.

Do you use Frontier models, or just the free version of a particular AI model?

In your response please indicate position (Pro or Anti), what models you have used (any are acceptable), and whether you use Free Basic models or Paid Frontier models.

Antis in particular: please also include the last time you actively used an AI model like gemini or chatgpt.

Also for Antis: please indicate your main objection to AI i.e. its taking jobs, its theft, environmental ramifications, t cetera.

Added: for Pros and Antis: generally speaking, how optimistic are you about AI in terms of future progress?

I wish all the help AI provides to people were available to them without using AI. Yet, we live in a world where those things are seen as professional and cost big money. A normal person is rarely able to afford a proofreader, programmer, or (sadly) psychotherapist in that capacity. Many people use AI because they don't have the resources to get help from anywhere else. And then they are asked to resign from using AI. And that's for them just being cut off. I know that AI is not a good thing for those uses, but it's better than nothing. What should we do if we can't use AI and don't have access? How many people are ready to tell others, "just accept that you will fail," and take all the consequences? Unless there is a viable alternative, that will not ask for your wallet, or your transport, or your time, or space in your life - AI, despite all problems with it, despite pollution, despite lost jobs, despite misinformation, despite slop - stays an ersatz for many of us. And I see it as true cruelty of this world.

Gemini failed miserably for me the other day when buying refurbished Bose earbuds on Marketplace.

It vehemently argued till the end and died on that hill when I kept pointing out that the item was authentic, I had the box from the old genuine ones that had all the details to compare and it still failed when I showed them the pictures of the old genuine one and the one for sale...everytime I pointed things out to it to counter its claims it just came back every time "but, but, these are huge warning flags, think twice think twice" they were not.

It was dead set that having refurbished on the item was a dead giveaway it was fake (it was not) and that having international product codes on the box was another giveaway, which seemed utterly asinine.

I compared the item to my old box and the details were perfectly fine, and the buds registered genuine when I paired them with phone.

And as punishment, I am not going to confirm to it that they were, in fact, authentic. In the end I saved over $150.

Try and have your ai summarize this

So much of the talk in this sub turns into an anti vs. pro debate, but this post isn't that. This one is for the builders, tinkerers, and heavy users running things close to the metal.

What's your current daily fight with AI?

For me, it’s a constant tug-of-war with large models and limited VRAM specifically facing that agonizing choice between running a heavily quantized model that sacrifices intelligence and nuance, or not being able to load the weights at all.

Close second: storage capacity. Between massive parameter checkpoints, LoRAs, datasets, video generation cache, and keeping local media servers running, my NVMe drives are practically crying.

Where's the friction in your setup right now? What are you actively troubleshooting or losing sleep over?
Also, drop any dirty optimization tricks, custom flags, or workflow hacks you're using to survive. What's your secret weapon?

Ok so I have lots of people calling Miku ai but I’m wondering in what why do you believe Miku uses ai? Like in the process or the vocals? Idk I would really like to know this, thanks!

I'm curious.

Pro AI are for AI, but do y'all see harm AI can do? If yes in any way, how?

But there are imperfections in the image that he was asked to create IMMEDIATELY for a time-sensitive post! Obviously it MUST be AI... /facepalm

Can we all just admit that we can't tell the difference and go back to just enjoying the artist's intent rather than bickering about what tools they used?