Hi!

My previous/alt account is yetAnotherUser@feddit.de which will be abandoned soon.

  • 4 Posts
  • 952 Comments
Joined 11 months ago
cake
Cake day: June 1st, 2024

help-circle





  • What does that even mean?

    My comment argues that claiming antisemitism includes discrimination against anyone who is a semite has zero historical basis. It would also now exclude many Jews who are not semites yet were targeted by the Anti-Semites.

    Of course genocide is bad. But anyone arguing Palestinians should be genocided because they are all “antisemites” will never be convinced by arguments. Therefore, there is no point in attempting to adjust the definition of antisemitism.






  • A photographer without a camera cannot produce art though. They can imagine it, explain it and even make a rough sketch - but the end result isn’t art. It’s a concept for art that is not yet made reality.

    Similarly, there are differing levels of effort in order to create AI art. For instance, someone using an LLM to create an AI picture has approximately as much artistic merit as someone using their phone to take a selfie. It requires roughly the same amount of effort as well.

    But for other AI art, it can take a lot of time to get everything right. I’ve dabbled with Stable Diffusion two years ago and there is a lot of finetuning and parameters you had to set to get anything worthwhile. My attempts roughly looked like taking a photo with random brightness, contrast and exposure settings: like utter trash. With some time and practice one could likely get adept at manipulating whatever model one is using and generate plenty of images with purpose.

    Most AI generated images have little to no artistic merit, just like most pictures taken with a smartphone camera. But you cannot conclude that any and all art with either of those tools is therefore impossible.




  • having the ability to create art from scratch is what makes someone an artist

    This implies photographers aren’t artists though. They rely on a specific tool - the camera - and utilize it to create art. This ranges from “just” taking pictures to setting up elaborate scenes.

    Another example - for which I have forgotten the name - is art utilizing computers. Not in the sense of anything digital but rather electronic calculating machines built to beep, boop and blink. I’ve been to an exhibition which featured this type of art by one artist. Some were interactive, some weren’t, some were (partially) broken after decades of age and some were still functioning. Most were built during the 60s to 90s by the way. I believe the artist never did created any other art, at least publicly. He was an artist nonetheless.

    I’d say AI art is art. Any definition of artistry which attempts to exclude AI art must also exclude other unconventional art forms.

    The question shouldn’t be what art is or isn’t anyways. Such questions often lead to gatekeeping or nazis. Rather, it should be about the meaning of art. And most of AI art has the sole meaning of looking decent. AI art cannot ever replace more meaningful art as it alone lacks much meaning. It may at most supplement it, with some artists perhaps using AI deliberately as part of a work.




  • Es gibt einen klaren Unterschied zwischen Nichtwissen und der nicht vorhandenen Widerlegung einer Behauptung.

    Niemand kann Letzten-Donnerstag-ismus widerlegen - also der satirische Glaube, das Universum wäre letzten Donnerstag entstanden. Alle Erinnerungen und alle menschliche Geschichte seien explizit so erschaffen worden, um alles älter aussehen zu lassen.

    Trotzdem gibt es sehr wenige Agnostiker, die sich hier auf “Nichtwissen” berufen und daher keine Aussage machen können.

    Warum soll es mit einem Gott anders sein? Nur weil der Glaube an höhere Mächte etablierter ist, ist dieser nicht seriöser als unwiderlegbare Satiretheorien.

    Prinzipiell weiß ich nicht mal, ob ich überhaupt existiere. “Ich denke, also bin ich”? Woher weiß man, dass man denkt?

    Die Frage, ob ein Gott existiert ist genauso unnütz und es hat keinen Sinn, darüber nachzudenken, es sei denn man studiert Philosophie.


  • It assumes the man is being imprisoned for just cause

    Guantanamo Bay doesn’t rely on any cause though? It’s literally a US torture camp where nothing matters. No due process, no just cause, no nothing. It’s worse than CECOT in everything but scale.

    Have you ever seen any country’s opposition figure successfully demand something from another country? I personally haven’t. Usually the government alone controls any and all foreign relations.

    Hell, Israel has literally detained and deported two British MPs on a parliamentary delegation - not just a visit. And they’re part of the governing party, no less!

    It’s genuinely not surprising that El Salvador reacts this way. It’s the literal default reaction to a nongovernmental politician demanding something.

    And yes, I think it’s appalling that the I US deports anyone and everyone, legally or otherwise. This doesn’t affect El Salvador though since they detain whoever the US sends there. The US argues this man is a terrorist, therefore this is sufficient justification for them.

    Had Britain started deporting migrants to Rwanda and a MP from the Green Party requested to visit someone “mistakenly” deported, they would’ve been denied access as well.

    I just really don’t think there’s anything noteworthy in the rejection alone.


  • “Right to work” legislation exists in other countries with strong unions.

    For example, in Germany you cannot be compelled to join or to leave a union which makes “right to work” the default nationwide. Forcing people to join unions they do not want to be part of violates their freedom of contract. For similar reasons, employers cannot ban employees from talking about their wage, from having relationships or demand they sign “non-compete agreements” . The freedom of contract is constitutionally protected and cannot be waived just like that, even if all parties were to agree.

    Yet unions are significantly stronger here than in the US.