finally twigged that machine learning, despite being devoid of thought, is probably still -good to think with-
I’m gonna go live in a bucket
@kissane I agree, and I also think there’s a useful implication that comes right out of this: that it’s generally more useful the less we try to force it into the (“the”) human image.
@vruba I think that second part is a good chunk of why visual ~AI was immediately so much more interesting (to me) than the text stuff
@kissane Hard same. There are things I want to try one day with text tools, but the chatbots in the news leave me cold at best.
@vruba I keep trying to donk around and care but they are
*night masto whisper*
super fuckin boring
@kissane Whereas I’m kind of embarrassed by how much fun the image generators are for me.
Also, as a third category, doing little projects in domains that interest me on my home workstation has been one of my most fulfilling pandemic hobbies. It’s given me a bunch of new metaphors and produced nothing Useful, so, huge success.
