This was a great read! As someone who was initially excited about the possibilities of AI art, it’s been hit or miss with me.

I’ve come to realise over time that I like the connection that art offers. The little moment of ‘I wonder what the artist was thinking when they imagined this and what experiences did someone have to get to a place where they could visualize and create this?’

And I think that’s what missing with AI art. Sure, it can enable someone like me who has no skill with drawing to create something but it doesn’t get to the point of putting my actual imagination down. The repeated tries can only get to point of ‘close enough’.

For me, looking at a piece and then learning it’s AI art is basically realizing that I’m looking at a computer generated imitation of someone’s imagination. Except the imitation was created by describing the art instead of the imitator ever looking at it. An connection I could have felt with original human is watered down as to be non-existent.

I just hope I can

Finally finished my play through of Cyberpunk 2077 that I started when it came out on ps+. Enjoyable enough that I bought the Phantom Liberty DLC before I finished the base game. Stability still seems to be an issue. Had about a dozen crashes but never lost more than 10 minutes at any time.

I’ve realised I don’t like when games don’t let you max out all the available rpg skill trees. Always leaves me wondering if I could be having a better time. There’s playstyles that I wanted to try out but couldn’t because of limitations. I wish more games did unlimited respecs like Bg3 did.

I think I might give Sifu a shot next.

This seems to be the plan. It’s the third result for ‘photoshop vs gimp’ on DDG.

How do you find a recruiter without LinkedIn?

And how can we be sure that all the instances federated with any instance we participate on aren’t run by law enforcement themselves? I’d be surprised if there aren’t running instances by every major investigative agency themselves.