‘People say it’s a tool, but they use it for the thing it does!’ … what?

How else could you use generative AI, except to generate a thing for you?

Most things that could be commissioned - aren’t. The money is never spent. The money isn’t real. No one is robbed when a robot does the thing instead, because what it’s instead of, is the thing not happening.

You cannot kvetch about this replacing all artists forever and still insist it’s a flash in the pan. The tech works. You can run it on your own computer, to-day. It plainly serves a desirable purpose. That alone makes comparisons to NFTs as spurious as those dolts insisting ‘people doubted the internet.’

Any visions of this blowing over should’ve vanished when it became a porn faucet.

‘Nobody anywhere wants this because I personally feel icky.’ Okay good luck with that. But it’s not a coherent opinion.

This software is obviously fucking desirable, or people wouldn’t be using it. And posting it, and following it, and commenting on it, and on and on. There’s a lot of people besides you.

After the dot-com bubble, the internet didn’t “die off.”

This topic gives me flashbacks to arguing with creationists. Y’all invent whatever sweeping absolutes must be true, for your next sentence to matter. So there is only one possible reason for art! and if that reason’s different from comment to comment then ehhh who cares. False! Okay true but only if. Anyone who disagrees isn’t a true Scotsman. It wasn’t a ranking, my guy. “Better than” isn’t relevant.

And now it’s not even a tool. That’s a neat trick. It’s the only mechanism ever invented that’s immune to human intent! It becomes a legal person whenever that’s convenient to someone spitting at it. No mere user is responsible for some horrifying combination of fetishes in one image, no matter how long they spent tweaking the controls for this software. A picture is worth infinity words, so any resemblance to ideas a human being wanted and worked toward is utter coincidence.

And it’s snake oil!, despite visibly functioning as advertised. To such a degree that you’re worried that artists will starve. It’s okay, they’ll come back to life, once this constantly-improving new class of software vanishes on account of mumble mumble hey look over there.

Hate getting lock-sniped on a high-effort response.

‘Upvotes mean it’s fine’ is how you get /r/Funny with different CSS.

Turkey abandons bid to make people change nothing but the name.

That much is true.

We are grateful for our iron lung.

Seriously. There’s a vast gulf between saying ‘aww, she’ll never like me,’ and adding, ‘that whore.’

A band so miserably contentious that their drummer got replaced in the middle of the music video.

The better and more honest version is “Coast Is Clear” by Skrillex and Chance The Rapper.

The album Tubthumper was made as a complicated joke. They’re an anarchist collective who sold out, delivered a dozen commercially viable songs that were still about unions and electoralism and homelessness, then went right back to what they were doing beforehand.

For those unaware: it’s “Pretty Little Ditty” written by John Frusciante and Flea.

A lot of the stuff you guys are putting out there is pretty tame. I’m just saying.

Do you own a mirror?

A song about haters making fun of people for liking the band, and it became their signature. It escaped containment via Shrek.

“Waste” is a much better example of what they were capable of.

How do you feel about “Working As A Waitress?”

It’s almost time.

Honestly it’s almost saved by the cover version using “Sober” by Tool.

Nah. “Challenging” is not a quality you want in a drummer.

Lennon and McCartney were obviously quite talented, but neither of them could go “Hey by the way Eric Clapton’s here. Mic him up.”

Derp. The worst part is, I don’t watch basketball. I was surely clanging to Jonathan Davis, lead singer of Korn.

Plus it produced a gimmicky album pressing where the groove spiraled the wrong way.

King Crimson - Peace, An End.

‘Sometimes I listen to radio and go what is this crap?, and every time, the answer is the Red Hot Chili Peppers.’

Disagree, though. I’ve heard that song in concert.

If it’s just Anthony Davis that raises your hackles, John Frusciante is the guitarist who keeps leaving and returning, and Shadows Collide With People is why they keep letting him back in. It was co-written by the voices in his head.

I dunno if it’s the worst song on that album, but it’s the most repetitive by far.