Bill’s entire stage persona has been that of an everyman. While his material is diverse, it’s mostly observational comedy, and he regularly criticized the rich along with celebrities that perform for morally dubious people.

Some months ago, the Saudi Government hosted a comedy festival, and flew out pretty much all the big names, Bill included.

So the man who partially built his career on being observant, relatable and joking about celebrities who perform for dictators, went and performed for a defacto dictatorship.

After receiving massive backlash, he first tried to wash it on various interviews as some sort of “for the Saudi people, not the Saudi government” bs, which nobody bought, so he pivoted to antagonizing his critics (his own audience) like he does to hecklers.

He is the only comedian whose work I cared about that went, and I held him in very high regard, but nobody should separate the art from the artist while the artist is still alive. He likely doesn’t need the money, so it’s safe to say it was motivated by greed, he contributed to the culture washing of a regime that murders people on the regular, including chopping up journalists in their own embassies.

Yeah, you either didn’t read what I wrote or your brain has rot beyond any meaningful discussion, good luck out there.

I am engaging with this, because I want to believe Lemmy can be better than Reddit.

That being said, while I agree that LLMs and diffusion models should never touch anything close to art, anything that is life or death and anything legal or financial, it’s important to remember, AI is an entire subfield of research in Computer Science, its many decades old and encompasses so many technologies that I could not even name them all.

LLMs and diffusion models are two of its many impressive achievements, we literally solved the natural language processing problem. It took us like 70 years, and because some silicon valley ghouls’ rhetoric, we get (supposedly) well meaning people talking like Luddites.

Fundamentally correct, there is a machine now that can replace some workers, but technology isn’t the problem, the capitalists are. This technology can make so many people’s lives easier, so many things better and it doesn’t need to be expensive or cause harm to the planet, because all of that is a fundamental problem with capitalism, this is not leaded gasoline.

Yes! Another problem is, not everyone is using AI in the sense that people think of.

AI is a large field, it studies many different methodologies and aspects of automation, prediction, generation and observation, yet today most people outside the field use it for LLMs and image generation, which throws the baby out with the bath water.

In addition to that, there are publicly available LLMs, some have datasets obtained entirely from consenting parties and public domain works. You don’t have to pay billionaire technocratic fascist a single dime to use such marvelous tools computer scientists worked decades to bring forth.

A machine can never create art, it can never take responsibility and should never be allowed to make decisions, it’s a tool.

It pains me, when I was entering my teenage years, I had two paths, physics or computer science, for a while I focused on both and in the end, economic pressure along with AI research pushed me into CS.

Now I get to watch decades of research, millions of man hours get trashed on the internet because a few rich ghouls from silicone valley gave it the last push and claimed it as their own.

The Swiss have relentlessly been working on ethically trained models with data willfully contributed and borrowed from the public donain, but we never get to talk about it, or the fact that China’s frontier level models are democratizing what the Americans stole, they didn’t do it out of kindness, but it regardless, gave us back part of what was stolen.

I appreciate you chiming in, it’s nice to see level headed folk.

You’re the exact type of intellectual black hole that poisons any amount of productive discussion on the topic, moral absolutism runs rampant everywhere, but especially on this platform, people love pretending they are better than reddit, Twitter, or w/e. but it’s equally impossible to have any nuance.

Shameful display. Pathetic.

The comment above yours and people who use the same arguments are clearly uneducated on the matter.

Not everyone is spending untold thousands on Claude or GPT models. People still own hardware, that they can use to run frontier models. Most open source contributors don’t have the kind of money these out of touch people think we do. I can’t even justify a subscription to either of those companies and I know I’d make good use of it.

We donate our time to these projects, and with that, our knowledge and skill. The problem is, time is finite amd these moral crusaders don’t even drop a cent to these projects, much less a weekend. The use of LLMs is purely to save time. Some things would never get done without the time compression on offer, but because they need life to be black and white, none of the good that could ever come can be justified.

Hate how you’re so upvoted because not only is your information third or fourth hand depending on perspective, you also outright believe it and knit your idea of consent around such weak thread.

She’s joking, if anything this is a defeatist joke around the fact that she is nearly powerless when it cones to being objectified and sexualized without her consent, and the dark humor on display is very on brand. So the screenshotted comment, presumably a viewer of hers, should be familiar with her style of comedy and her struggles with being objectified and her likeness being misused.

So that comment is by someone who either does the exact thing to her that she doesn’t want, or they are genuinely so porn pilled that they genuinely haven’t ever picked up on what she’s talking about and are only there to objectify and sexualize her.

I would not have bothered to comment unless I knew enough about her, her content and the thoughts she shared surrounding these things, I suggest we all adopt this approach in the future.

The Tomb Raider remasters seem interesting, and as for a meme…