Not that most people would, but you can get training to this end. I remember Vsauce had a mindfield episode about the bystander effect and people’s willingness to stand up to injustice happening right in front of them. It stuck with me.

There’s nothing scammy about a product that provides you exactly the service you requested, with less risk and cost.

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Without reading or verifying anything, I’m just going to assume this is an Elon alt.

the cartoon implies that anyone who says violence isn’t the answer is lying/hypocritical.

No… it doesn’t. By its adversarial nature, it heavily implies the answers “no” to the first two questions.

Like, your main criticism is that the comic doesn’t make any sense if the answer to either question was yes, but that’s the definitive reason I wouldn’t read it that way.

A rhetorical question that you know (or are insisting you “know”) your opponent disagrees with is a very common language trick.

I dunno. What is it communicating to me?

As Royal Prince Clown of the High Appraiser’s Guild in Denmark, unfortunately, my opinion matters the most.

The bananamana gets credit for doing the Art Museum equivalent of a shitpost. I think everyone understands this intuitively.

The AI guy writes prompts. Maybe they do some touch-up after. But, this leaves a lot on the table: where is the museum curator filling in the little birds in the sky? Or the pedestrian across the street who makes it into some generateds and not others? Or the row of planets that, in video, turns into a guitar that then turns into a gas cloud that then turns into a trumpet-planet-thing that then dissolves into nothing? They live in the machine. A machine that doesn’t know what a pedestrian is, that doesn’t know what a trumpet is—It’s just visual noise. It may as well be TV static. It means nothing.

Why does the AI idea-guy think that their work should be interesting to anyone when it is 90% colorful jingle keys for me, the dribbling baby, to look at while observing their “concept”: Cthulhu dressed up as a police officer.

Did you like that? Cthulhu as a police officer? That’s my art. Type that into a generator and appreciate it for me.

The top 40 charts of music? 35 out of the 40 are pure crap,

Wow. This is a very old-man opinion.

imagine the majority of amateur fluff that people produce that are just low quality,

Are you comparing people’s weekend projects to, I dunno, Marvel movies?

I like amateur fluff, you know? I look for niche indie games on steam or itch.io just because I want to see what people are up to—what fun ideas they have. That it seems to bother you they’re not Casablanca is very strange to me.

And then they proved themselves by showing they do have soul and wit.

Consider this a challenge: make something with AI I actually want to see.

depending on the curator to do the actual creation of the piece

We might as well attribute that work to the curator, then, hm?

Does the artist also get credit for how high up the wall the piece was displayed? Which floor or wing it’s displayed in? Because this is what AI prompter’s claim. They paint nothing but enter painter’s competitions.

You get credit for the things you do, and not for the things you don’t. LLMs are built to decide for you.

The banana art resembles something made by someone who has no hand-eye coordination or technical skill required to make visual art,

Good thing they didn’t choose paints or acrylics, then, huh? That might have been embarrassing.

Why do you think this is a gotcha?

the vast majority of human art lacks the real nuance and emotional impact real art carries.

1. It by-definition does not. The fact that you can’t see this I think makes you an inhuman monster.

2. If this were true, why would I want any of it? Do you seriously consume art you think is garbage for no reason? Are you not busy? Is your life really so boring?

And a lot of that spam is now written by ChatGPT.

That lady, presumably, is one lady.

But imagine, for a moment, if satnavs had directed hundreds of thousands of people into this lake or that. Don’t you think that would be a problem? Like, we put glass guards around whirring saws for a reason.

Sounds like you’re the most replaceable. Bye bye, income.

Ohh, I get it now.
Wait, this is a good meme.

because it’s sort of how the food chain works,

If you’ll notice, it’s not very often a vegan advocates for cheetahs to stop eating antelope.

Then go and do that. I mean, what are you waiting for?

Here is a nice little inflation chart I’ve assembled:

You people are upset about (analogy) gas being 5.31 a gallon when you should be upset that you don’t make enough to afford gas at 5.31 a gallon. You should make enough to afford a $450 switch 2, and the fact that you don’t is because your masters have been stealing from you for 30+ years. Or since forever, if you’re as woke as me.

NES
1985 $179 -> 2025 $528
Games $49.99 -> $147

SNES
1991 $199 -> 2025 $464
Games $49.99 -> $116
Super Mario All-Stars $59.99 -> $140

N64
1996 $199 -> 2025 $403
Games $59.99 -> $121

GameCube
2001 $199 -> 2025 $355
Games $49.99 -> $89

Gameboy
1989 $89.99 -> 2025 $230
Games $29.99 -> $76

Gameboy Advance
2001 $99.99 -> 2025 $178
Games $34.99 -> $62

Nintendo DS
2004 $149.99 -> 2025 $251
Games $29.99 -> $50

Playstation 1
1995 $299 -> 2025 $622
Games $49.99 -> $104

Playstation 2
2000 $299 -> 2025 $552
Games $49.99 -> $92

X-Box
2001 $299 -> 2025 $535
Games $49.99 -> $89

Sega Genesis
1989 $189 -> 2025 $483
Games $59.99 -> $153

Sega Dreamcast
1999 $199 -> 2025 $380
Games $49.99 -> $95

Game consoles are sold at a loss. You are supposed to buy more games than the console costs.

I… what tips and tricks does this person think they’re going to get? You either sell the car, or you stop bringing it with you. There’s no third option. Is disguising it a third option? Wrap it in a little rubber chicken costume?

People would ask questions like this in reddit AMAs all the time, too, and I just don’t understand the impulse to ask strangers online before you’ve thought about it yourself even a little bit.