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MatrixDev - - (+2|-0)
Should I use AI to generate thumbnails for text posts?(self)
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I do it every now and again for my official posts. I could do it for everyone. If I automate it it would likely be in a stable diffusion or dall-e style. The ones I made most recently are the new anime style from chatgpt. That's what manual generation would give us.

Here is a dalle style:
https://goatmatrix.net/c/MatrixDev/EQF6vXHf1H

Here is a gpt style:
https://goatmatrix.net/c/TheosOpiumDen/DpAQ9m3pDL

Fun part about using the GPT style if you right click the thumbnail they will have ester eggs in them that wont be in the relatively square thumbnail:

https://img.gvid.tv/i/e8jtJ6gr.png

If I delay generating the thumbnail we can capture some of the comments into the context.

I'm in no way obligating myself to do this but I've made a poll with some fun options.

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[-]Theodore_Kent2(+2|0)

Can we currently upload a thumbnail for text posts?

I like the thumbnail I got for my poem the other day. Is this auto-generated by AI?

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[-]x0x71(+1|0)

Not currently. It would actually be easier for me to support thumbnail urls.

Those thumbnails were manually generated by AI. The drain one needed a second pass.

But if I do them automatically and at scale dalle and SD will be cheaper to run. That will give you thumbnails that are more cool than funny.

https://img.gvid.tv/i/3C1JqDnM.png

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

At first I was ambivalent.

Then I thought, maybe a trial to see, then a hard decision.

Then I looked and realized the images aren't clear, thus not good, even if elements of the fake art are excellent.

And I was thinking about what I used to do on SaidIt: take the time and effort to find my own thumbnails, and start every text post with [thumbnail] + (link). Usually, but not always, SaidIt would assume the image from the first link.

Then I started to think how lazy it would be to autogenerate more poor noise, low expectations, and disenfranchise real images and creators.

So ultimately, hard no.

A.I. is upon us whether we like it or not. Doesn't mean we have to immediately bend over and take it. There's still time to be discriminating about it, until there isn't.

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[-]x0x72(+2|0)

What do you mean by not clear? The tone of the image is the art style. They all happened to take similar styles as each other because I ran that batch in the same chat context. Because of the first image generated, a lot of the tones in this case come from pulp fiction

IDK. I'm not too worried about artists. I don't believe in reverencing people. Especially not people who demand to be reverenced. It's why I hate politicians. The second I can't do something because it will piss someone off because it wont give them due reverence is the second I want to make a point of pissing them off.

My industry's programs can do their work better than their art can make programs. So why isn't anyone reverencing the programmer? Probably because the programmer doesn't ask for the word programmer to be spoken in softened tones, just like most groups of professionals don't. But the artist demands to be loved. Maybe many of them don't. But they have enough groupies who make those demands to make it feel like they do.

I will never treat an artist as more than just a person. Which means if the only reason I can't do something is because they will take unwarrented offense then that means nothing to me.

Imagine if programmers started forming mobs saying artists were making bad programming in their television shows like NCIS and they need to cease all production until it's good. It would be ridiculous. My field can make bad art just like their field can make bad scripts that reference tech poorly. I couldn't even imagine being offended, but that's how ridiculous I'd have to be to match them.

The second someone demands to be reverenced they need to be clowned on.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

Valid perspective.

Not clear as in I don't even know what the message is, what the purpose of them is, nor what they're trying to do with odd icons, bad grammar, and extra arms. I suppose it's good for practice. They are better than most other generic A.I. renders.

Reverence or reference? I praise revere folks who've earned it. The entire copyright scam is rigged against artists and culture. A.I. will only make all that worse. A.I. and we don't have to care about artists, but we also don't have to care about children not learning to write cursive, much less reading, writing, arithmetic - or being sexualized. But I do care about the collapse of the West and the enslavement of the planet. As an artist I am not happy that the creative world is being bulldozed by mass produced suitable but not superior content, though it is fascinating to witness it - like WW3. I'm not the first to wish A.I. could do chores more than the fun creative stuff.

It's service and product and I don't think most artists (outside of corporate media) demand to be loved any more than plumbers expect you to be satisfied with your plumbing. Like much, 95% of any kind of field of creations is not good (architecture, furniture, literature, movies, music, performance arts, porn, product design, visual arts, websites, etc.) leaving 5% as noteworthy.

Yes, clown on fake reverence. I'm talking about appreciation of the evaporating real and worthy - akin to vanishing verifiable history.

Fake images were a neat novelty for a minute, like fake tits and bubble butts, but now IMO they're a another gross reminder of the looming technocratic extinction.

Yes, all of this is somewhat hypocritical coming from me - who intends to finish a draft of a cautionary screenplay about A.I. - then use A.I. to visually make it into a feature.

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[-]LarrySwinger1(+2|-1)

Do it faggot

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