Drewbahr (he/him/his)
@drewbahr.cryptoanarchy.network
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Profile pic is of a clean-shaven adult white man with greying hair, next to the logo of American Ninja Warrior 2016.
Background pic (by dali164 at deviantart) is the Dragonslayer sword from Berserk within a bonfire.
You're still not beating the allegations here.
Just stop, collaborate, and listen man. It's really not at all hard.
Just stop, collaborate, and listen man. It's really not at all hard.
December 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
You're still not beating the allegations here.
Just stop, collaborate, and listen man. It's really not at all hard.
Just stop, collaborate, and listen man. It's really not at all hard.
I'm not sure why you feel like this is something to brag about.
December 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I'm not sure why you feel like this is something to brag about.
I really should get back on the Incubus wagon. I haven't listened since the mid-2000s.
December 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I really should get back on the Incubus wagon. I haven't listened since the mid-2000s.
Hey Dick, Section 230 is what allows us - the American people - to discuss the abuses by these big tech companies using online platforms -at all-.
You repeal Section 230, and you revoke our voice against the very powers you claim to be against.
You repeal Section 230, and you revoke our voice against the very powers you claim to be against.
December 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Hey Dick, Section 230 is what allows us - the American people - to discuss the abuses by these big tech companies using online platforms -at all-.
You repeal Section 230, and you revoke our voice against the very powers you claim to be against.
You repeal Section 230, and you revoke our voice against the very powers you claim to be against.
I do. Do you know what Poe's Law is?
December 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I do. Do you know what Poe's Law is?
while you still can, because if this shit passes you won't be able to say what you said in your reply to me!
December 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
while you still can, because if this shit passes you won't be able to say what you said in your reply to me!
Cool. We need a functioning government for that to happen. Part of having a functional government includes having congresspeople (and others) in a position to be influenced by their constituents, which requires talking to them.
So like, call them and tell them how badly they're fucking up
So like, call them and tell them how badly they're fucking up
December 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Cool. We need a functioning government for that to happen. Part of having a functional government includes having congresspeople (and others) in a position to be influenced by their constituents, which requires talking to them.
So like, call them and tell them how badly they're fucking up
So like, call them and tell them how badly they're fucking up
Better give up now then huh? No point in doing anything because someone put their name on a list once.
December 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Better give up now then huh? No point in doing anything because someone put their name on a list once.
According to Trump, the minute he heard they had oil and land
December 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
According to Trump, the minute he heard they had oil and land
For me, I think it's the act of creation. Once you've asked the machine to create -for- you, and not just play or display previously-existing art, then it crosses over into not-art in my book.
Again, it's a fuzzy boundary because it's not super easy to define; this is the wild west of AI right now.
Again, it's a fuzzy boundary because it's not super easy to define; this is the wild west of AI right now.
December 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
For me, I think it's the act of creation. Once you've asked the machine to create -for- you, and not just play or display previously-existing art, then it crosses over into not-art in my book.
Again, it's a fuzzy boundary because it's not super easy to define; this is the wild west of AI right now.
Again, it's a fuzzy boundary because it's not super easy to define; this is the wild west of AI right now.
Asking Alexa/Google/Siri/etc to play BABYMETAL isn't the same as writing music or performing an original piece.
If you ask an AI/LLM to "create a song in the style of BABYMETAL", then that's no longer art imo - for all of the reasons I've previously stated as my position.
If you ask an AI/LLM to "create a song in the style of BABYMETAL", then that's no longer art imo - for all of the reasons I've previously stated as my position.
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Asking Alexa/Google/Siri/etc to play BABYMETAL isn't the same as writing music or performing an original piece.
If you ask an AI/LLM to "create a song in the style of BABYMETAL", then that's no longer art imo - for all of the reasons I've previously stated as my position.
If you ask an AI/LLM to "create a song in the style of BABYMETAL", then that's no longer art imo - for all of the reasons I've previously stated as my position.
I understand that someone could input a prompt to an AI/LLM "with intention", but again - to me, that doesn't feel the same. Talking -at- a machine, having no actual dialogue with it, is not the same as collaborating with an artist.
December 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I understand that someone could input a prompt to an AI/LLM "with intention", but again - to me, that doesn't feel the same. Talking -at- a machine, having no actual dialogue with it, is not the same as collaborating with an artist.
CD players don't write music. Projectors don't create movies.
A DJ can use a turn-table to take previously-existing music (copyrighted even!) and create something new, but the turn-table isn't doing the creation - a person is, with intentionality and thought.
A DJ can use a turn-table to take previously-existing music (copyrighted even!) and create something new, but the turn-table isn't doing the creation - a person is, with intentionality and thought.
December 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
CD players don't write music. Projectors don't create movies.
A DJ can use a turn-table to take previously-existing music (copyrighted even!) and create something new, but the turn-table isn't doing the creation - a person is, with intentionality and thought.
A DJ can use a turn-table to take previously-existing music (copyrighted even!) and create something new, but the turn-table isn't doing the creation - a person is, with intentionality and thought.
It's playing a song, but it's not writing one.
I see the direction you're taking this, and I don't agree with it. A CD player, or a record player, or a player-piano ... none of those are doing the same thing as AI/LLM. They're not performing the same role.
I see the direction you're taking this, and I don't agree with it. A CD player, or a record player, or a player-piano ... none of those are doing the same thing as AI/LLM. They're not performing the same role.
December 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It's playing a song, but it's not writing one.
I see the direction you're taking this, and I don't agree with it. A CD player, or a record player, or a player-piano ... none of those are doing the same thing as AI/LLM. They're not performing the same role.
I see the direction you're taking this, and I don't agree with it. A CD player, or a record player, or a player-piano ... none of those are doing the same thing as AI/LLM. They're not performing the same role.
It's a slippery slope, and it's not one I've completely solidified my thinking on. But it feels to me that "telling a machine what you want" isn't artistic, at least not in the same manner as "I manipulated these elements to make the image I want".
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It's a slippery slope, and it's not one I've completely solidified my thinking on. But it feels to me that "telling a machine what you want" isn't artistic, at least not in the same manner as "I manipulated these elements to make the image I want".
If Photoshop has changed in the decades since I used it, to the point that you're not longer manipulating elements yourself but telling it what you want and it sits and thinks, then spits out something ... then no, I wouldn't consider that tool use. I'd consider it editing at best.
December 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If Photoshop has changed in the decades since I used it, to the point that you're not longer manipulating elements yourself but telling it what you want and it sits and thinks, then spits out something ... then no, I wouldn't consider that tool use. I'd consider it editing at best.
I personally wouldn't consider Photoshop (as I used it back 20 years ago, fuck I'm getting old) to be AI. You're still -making- something with intention.
December 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I personally wouldn't consider Photoshop (as I used it back 20 years ago, fuck I'm getting old) to be AI. You're still -making- something with intention.
It never needed to be aspirational, just exemplary of my thinking here.
December 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It never needed to be aspirational, just exemplary of my thinking here.
But when AI "creates" art, it does not have intention. It does not have a point of view. It just ... generates stuff. And everything it generates is directly informed by stolen or unattributed art, with no (current) legal framework to protect the artist.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
But when AI "creates" art, it does not have intention. It does not have a point of view. It just ... generates stuff. And everything it generates is directly informed by stolen or unattributed art, with no (current) legal framework to protect the artist.
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At least when a person/animal makes art, they do so with intention and a point of view. It may be informed by previous works of art, in some cases even traced over it - and in those cases, there's a legal framework to deal with copyright infringement and what not.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
At least when a person/animal makes art, they do so with intention and a point of view. It may be informed by previous works of art, in some cases even traced over it - and in those cases, there's a legal framework to deal with copyright infringement and what not.
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No, of course not. I'm not a Luddite in the contemporary use of the word (anti-technology); I'm probably closer to a Luddite in the intended use case (pro-labor) as I understand it.
But when I see art, I want to know -someone- made it. Or, perhaps, some clever animal.
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But when I see art, I want to know -someone- made it. Or, perhaps, some clever animal.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
No, of course not. I'm not a Luddite in the contemporary use of the word (anti-technology); I'm probably closer to a Luddite in the intended use case (pro-labor) as I understand it.
But when I see art, I want to know -someone- made it. Or, perhaps, some clever animal.
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But when I see art, I want to know -someone- made it. Or, perhaps, some clever animal.
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but I'd rather the writers, the artists, come in and fix it themselves, in their own voice - rather than miss a placeholder because it "sounds okay" and just forget to change it.
December 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
but I'd rather the writers, the artists, come in and fix it themselves, in their own voice - rather than miss a placeholder because it "sounds okay" and just forget to change it.
Which is a problem, imo. I wouldn't want my voice as an artist to be replaced by AI just because it fit and I forgot to change it.
Again, the whole point of the placeholder is to be obvious and fixable. It would be (and is) jarring as a gamer to be faced with placeholder text in a finished product;
Again, the whole point of the placeholder is to be obvious and fixable. It would be (and is) jarring as a gamer to be faced with placeholder text in a finished product;
December 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Which is a problem, imo. I wouldn't want my voice as an artist to be replaced by AI just because it fit and I forgot to change it.
Again, the whole point of the placeholder is to be obvious and fixable. It would be (and is) jarring as a gamer to be faced with placeholder text in a finished product;
Again, the whole point of the placeholder is to be obvious and fixable. It would be (and is) jarring as a gamer to be faced with placeholder text in a finished product;