Adrian Jacques

“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

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Even on a more practical level, scientists typically want to run machine learning to sort through vast amounts of data, and only their data. The packages sold by AI companies involve training on untold amounts of (stolen) unspecified data that just make them unreliable for science. Different beasts.

Machine learning was being used in science before tech bro losers decided LLMs was going to be their next scam (after the utter travesty that was NFTs). AI is a marketing ploy and financial bubble threatening to cause a major economic crash. Machine learning and AI should not be lumped together.

This is also my hill to die on.
I'm a former gifted kid with most of my family in teaching related jobs. I went to art school and work in a field where people can often lament being bad at drawing. It always makes me sad they seem to think it's a inate trait and not a skill to learn if they want to.

une pochette d'album représentant une immense tête de philippe etchebest, faisant son iconique expression faciale plissée, échouée au milieu d'un lit de rivière, avec en premier plan une dizaine de petits humains sur une colline en surplomb

Et bonjour à tous o/
J'ai sorti un best of de mes mashups/shitposts francophones.
si vous aimez les jeux de mots nuls, jean-pierre coffe et le groupe tragédie cet album est probablement pour vous.

Bandcamp ;
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Youtube ;
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A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown:

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Got the same issue when drawing on my tablet. I guess it's the OLED screen being very vibrant. Kinda hurts my digital painting training. Color is hard enough as it is, and even harder if I have to compensate for what it might look like on a regular screen.
But I say you did a great job either way :)

I think Dedra scared herself there.

in french we say "criminou" as a pun with "criminal" and "minou" (kitty, pronounced meenoo) :3

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

Contexte : bsky.app/profile/gaut...

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Tribune Non à l'utilisation de l'IA générative pour la communication de la Ville de Montpellier

Suite aux affiches en IA générative par la Mairie de Montpellier, nous publions une tribune, signée par plus de 150 artistes et travailleur•euses de l'art de la région.

@michaeldelafosse.bsky.social

En intégralité ici : framaforms.org/non-a-lutili...

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A neat trick is the same graph can be used to show the difference between millionaires and billionaires (more or less...)

A fun way to make the median worker salary go down is to lay off a bunch of longtime employees who were senior enough to cost some money but not senior enough to be part of the protected executive class!

Et je précise au cas où ce n'est pas clair. En utilisant Midjourney la mairie se rend complice de travail non rémunéré. Midjourney est une machine à plagiat qui vole le travail d'artistes pour alimenter ses bases de données. Tout travail mérite salaire, celui des artistes aussi.

Il y a plein d'artistes et illustrateurs à Mtp qui auraient fait un chouette boulot qui représente vraiment les montpelliérain.es. Il n'y a pas de bonne raison d'utiliser un outil qui détruit le droit d'auteur ainsi que la planète. Il faut juste avoir un peu de respect pour le travail des artistes.

@michaeldelafosse.bsky.social ce serait vraiment bien que la com de la mairie arrête d'utiliser l'IA générative. La dernière affiche contre le racisme est chouette dans l'idée, mais le visuel est médiocre et recopie des clichés exoticisants (qui sont présents dans les bases de données de l'outil).

Grâce au café ce matin, j’ai trouvé une solution pour vous @michaeldelafosse.bsky.social / ville de Montpellier.
Engager un•e artiste local, voire en CDD même mi temps, pour la communication de la ville par saison ou année !

Si le free-lance coûte trop cher par exemple.
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Hamdan Ballal holding his Oscar award.

Yuval Abraham, co-director of ‘NO OTHER LAND’ via Twitter/X: “Hamdan was assaulted and beaten up, not murdered. My use of 'lynched' was a mistranslation from Hebrew (English isn't my first language). He's injured and being held at a police station in a settlement. They did not let his lawyer speak to him yet so we don't know more.” Updated reply: “After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.”

Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian co-director of the Oscar winning short-film ‘NO OTHER LAND’, has been freed:

“After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.”

Sign the Petition Global Filmmakers call for the release of Hamdan Ballal

Filmmakers, please sign this petition calling for the release of filmmaker Hamdan Ballal chng.it/CNFBPdnQcx

J'ai fait du son ! On a participé à la Trans Joy Jam avec des copaines. Je me suis occupé des effets sonores et j'ai appris à utiliser Fmod que j'ai branché sur Godot. J'ai aussi fait les visuels des pions pour les phases de jeu de plateau.
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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

Ravi de savoir que mon compte mubi est utilisé à bon escient

Looks great and I really love the font work here

I was there a few months ago! Reminded me of backgrounds from Terry Gilliam's Brazil. Loved it.