Just because you’re using standard materials, it doesn’t mean you can’t combine them in a unique ways and even if every possible sentence has been said before, that doesn’t mean everyone has heard it before too.

The point is that not being allowed to pull from existing content is an impossible standard. Nobody is being as original as they may think they are and even when you truly come up with an idea independently it’s highly likely that you’re not the first to think of that.

Why do you find it such a depressing idea? I face this attitude often when discussing free will as well, which I genuinely don’t believe in either but that has zero effect on my ability to get excited or motivated about things.

Northern europe. There are no gas lines going into people’s homes here.

Nope. I do plumbing, home renovation, small construction jobs and property maintenance.

Unless it requires a permit or special training, I can likely do it.

It may not be capable of truly understanding anything, but it sure seems to do a better job of it than the vast majority of people I talk to online. I might spend 45 minutes carefully typing out a message explaining my view, only for the other person to completely miss every point I made. With ChatGPT, though, I can speak in broken English, and it’ll repeat back the point I was trying to make much more clearly than I could ever have done myself.

Paint brush and generative AI both need a human to operate it. Neither can create anything alone.

GenAI is a plagiarism engine. That’s really not something that can be defended.

Human artists / writers take influence from others as well. Nobody is creating art in a vacuum and I don’t see generative AI much different from the way humans operate. I’d argue it’s virtually impossible to write a sentence that has not been written before and every new human-created art piece probably has a really close equivalance that has already been done before.

If a human had done this you’d call it a “really bad drawing”?

Like some college campus in the US, probably. Or Portland.

According to the haters, this is not art and they’d immediately be able to tell it was done using AI.

100 year old german artillery fuse cap from the Finnish civil war era. It was 10cm deep in the middle of a forest trail.

If you get a $1 discount on something it means you’ve got a $1 more to spend on something else. Financially speaking, there is no practical difference to you simply earning an extra $1. Piracy saves people money which means they have more money to spend on something else. It’s not the same kind of profit an AI company makes but the difference is mostly in scale and semantics. With AI companies you’re also paying for the computing power needed to train and run such AI, so it’s not exactly that they’re just serving you pirated content and charging for it.

Most people are led by emotions rather than cold and analytical reasoning. I believe everyone has the capability to think objectively but that capability gets clouded when ever they’re taken capture by strong emotions. That’s why they can reasonably consider an abstract but difficult trolley problem but then lose their minds when Elon says something stupid on Twitter.

I want to believe that the majority of people around me would infact not want to cast death sentences haphazardly like that but rather they’re just expressing how they feel. It’s a way to signal to the group. “Elon is a nazi and deserves to die” roughly tanslates to “boo Elon”

He who is without sin can cast the first stone.

Can you truly be evil though if you can’t tell the right from wrong?

Pirating movies or games for personal use is for profit. You’re saving money, which is effectively the same thing as earning money. The difference is in scale, not in kind. Just because you as an individual person are causing less harm by pirating content than a major corporation is, it doesn’t mean you’re not still commiting the exact same crime both legally and morally speaking.

10 - 15 euros probably

Lack of OIS on the camera. Literally the only bad thing about it.

Ironically I came to Lemmy with the hope of meeting less people like you who act like a complete jerk towards strangers for no reason.

Because I ride my bike in the forests and there are no bike lanes there.

Billionaires and starving people tend to live in different countries though. What ever makes someone a billionaire in the US isn’t probably the same thing that makes someone else starve in Africa. One could even say that thanks to the wealthy westerners there’s less and less starving people in those places. There’s been a huge decrease in world wide poverty over the last few decades.

Most of the threads I’ve started (on other accounts) have been about ideas rather than events or people and they’ve reliably made it to the front page, so there’s definitely demand for it. There’s probably several reasons for why threads like that are so rare, but I’d imagine a big one is fear. The reception on Lemmy to a post like that can, and usually will be quite hostile. People do have opinions and they’re quick to hop in and tell you’re wrong about something but at the same time they’ll think twice before putting their own ideas under public scrutiny.