There are 2x as many Blacks in prison in the US as Uyghurs in China. But we don’t call it genocide just like we call our rich Billionaires instead of oligarchs. At least for now we can make fun of Trump without being arrested. But I don’t know how much longer that will last.

Tell it to the American Blacks in prison. Glass houses. We’re all bad.

America has a greater percentage of Americans locked up than China has Uyghurs locked up and we don’t have a Thorium reactor either.

Ha! I have mechanical keyboards subbed and split keyboards subbed. Didn’t know of ergomechkeyboards. Thanks!

Yeah, you can swap more on a framework laptop than the mini PC he’s using.

However glasses, a mini PC, keyboard and battery is smaller than a laptop. Using whatever keyboard you want instead of what came with the laptop for forever is also nice.

It’s not only a picture. It’s a picture with a description. It’s the starting point. You don’t start a painting by going from blank canvas to finished product. You start with a sketch.

Now imagine if ip laws were removed. Any company could take open source work and sell it as their own while ignoring any GPL that requires the source code to be distributed.

Mass production started long before cars. The industrial revolution began in the 17th century. Interchangeable parts was invented by Eli Whitney. He showed a flint lock that could be assembled by anyone, instead of a skilled metal worker that needed to customize each part so they fit together perfectly.

https://study.com/learn/lesson/eli-whitney-interchangeable-parts-overview-history-importance.html#%3A~%3Atext=While+historians+do+not+credit%2Cparts+replaced+by+unskilled+workers.

Outside of art, machine made parts are far more perfect than hand crafted.

That was fine before mass production made perfect copies possible on an industrial scale.

You don’t need the person when you can copy the object and produce it at volume and scale because you already own the factories.

Before Trump announced it publicly. Martha Stewart was jailed for less.

If I needed a painting of a bird, it would be much easier to show the artist a photo of a bird and then describe how my idea differs from the photo instead of spending hours describing to the artist what the bird in my mind should look like.

Bradley didn’t like that his boss wasn’t standing over his shoulder describing everything while Bradley sketched the picture.

The other artists in the article had valid points.

So you would prefer lots of meetings, messages and redone work instead of someone showing you a picture that kind of represents what they want?

But Bradley wasn’t complaining that they were trying to sell AI. He was upset that his manager used AI to give him a rough estimate of what he wanted Bradley to create.

adjust the end result to accommodate later changes in the requirements.

That’s the end result.

AI is particularly bad at both of those.

Bradley wasn’t talking about delivering AI art. He didn’t like that his manager used AI for prototyping to simplify describing what he wanted Bradley to create.

He wants the manager to describe his ideas to him, then spend hours sketching and inking the idea only for the manager to say, “that’s not exactly right” and start it all over again. Bradley must be an hourly contractor because his argument makes no sense. A picture is worth a thousand words. Bradley wants more meetings and email exchanges instead of getting results.

AI slop can be bad but this Bradley doesn’t understand that businesses exist to make money.

Bradley talking about his manager:

"He doesn’t know that the important thing isn’t just the end result, it’s the journey and the questions you answer along the way”.

If Bradley is making art only for personal growth, he needs to quit and make his own indie game.

Because if you are working for someone else it’s not the journey, it’s the result. Get it done quicker and then slack.

I didn’t see tokens/s anywhere?

Google says a Casio watch needs .004mA so not quite enough.