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I feel as if studio ghibli films being reduced to their 'cozyness' would be tragic if not for the fact that it is a deliberate branding thing for them. from the ghibli museum to the revolving door of hot topic collabs, miyazaki and/or the people he puts in charge of these things are aware of how desirable the worlds within ghibli films are. even at that, how meaningful is the politics of howl's moving castle being motivated by miyazaki's outrage at the 2003 iraq invasion when you examine it alongside the actual text of the wind rises? what does the environmentalism of ponyo mean when faced with the massive amounts of waste generated by ghibli merch you can get at wal mart? i'm straying from the point here but

this was an officially licensed product that was released to promote grave of fireflies

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oh shit chatgpt is ripping off studio ghibli. quick. someone give it a slot in a cozy indie direct and 6 figures in kickstarter funding

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Look, I'm not gonna pretend that I don't get it, when it comes to AI. But it's like this:

In most parts of the US, a residential electrician works only on houses and apartments. They use romex wire, that yellow cable stuff. You run it from the panel to wherever it's going, staple it to the studs, then make up both ends. You need to know basic electrical code but mostly it's pretty simple. A fast learner could be a decent residential electrician inside a month.

I, on the other hand, am a union industrial electrician. I work primarily in hospitals, factories, and research labs. Most of our wire is run in steel conduit that has to be hand bent on the job, which is an art form in and of itself. We work with much higher voltages, much heavier wire, much more complicated equipment, and we need to know much more of the code. Our apprenticeship is 4-5 years and that's only enough to scratch the surface of everything an industrial electrician might do.

And yes - I absolutely get a little defensive when unknowing people compare me to a residential electrician. There's absolutely a knee-jerk impulse to declare that they're not *real* electricians, that they're merely a pale imitation of what I do. But I fight that impulse because it's a *bad impulse*. Resi still takes skill and work, it's just different than mine. We're both electricians. And it's better for us to work together to improve working conditions for all workers than to get into pissing contests about whose job is more "real". And both our jobs are in increasing danger due to the proliferation of low voltage systems that the average homeowner can install and repair without hiring a professional.

So yeah, I do get it. But it has been very, VERY insulting over the last year to hear people repeatedly say "AI was supposed to replace blue collar jobs, not *my* job! My job is ~special~ because it has ~humanity~!"

Your job is not special. It's not more important than my job and it's not more fulfilling to you than my job is to me. And I don't get to insist that everyone start building homes with steel conduit just so less skilled people can't be electricians, and I don't get to yell at people for hiring a handyman to replace an outlet for $50 when my time would be worth $200.

I absolutely understand the instinct that AI art can't be real art because people who use it didn't "earn" it, or that automating art is uniquely damaging in a way automating other jobs isn't because it's "supposed" to be about human expression. But please actually think about what you're implying and who you're throwing under the bus when you say shit like that, and whether it actually holds up to your other values or if it's just a knee-jerk reaction you need to examine.

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how dare they use hayao miyazaki's aesthetics to glorify US imperialism, those are supposed to be for japanese imperialism

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This poll is asking about voluntary use of generative AI. For the purposes of this poll, do not count instances where you were required to use generative AI (e.g. for a school assignment, job required it, etc).

We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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i generally agree, i don't think this is "thinking" in a way we understand, but the more we fall into the ai hole as a society the more i think the ideas of like... qualia, thinking, consciousness, and sentience may need to be decoupled from each other which is an extremely unintuitive notion. and i also agree in that parrots are extremely intelligent (i've seen some parrots on the internet who definitely seem to be using language to communicate ideas) but that's not what most people mean when they use the stochastic parrot analogy.

exciting and extremely philosophically interesting stuff going on in the mechanical interpretability space if you like overthinking things. (i do).

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hi reach :) you're not only one of the people doing by far some of the most interesting stuff with image generation out there but also i think it's really cool how you encourage other people to do cool and interesting things with stuff like AWAY and your explainer posts. like, you make good art and you encourage other people to make good art, and that's very cool

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i think even if you disagree with the methodology of this paper in particular it's been pretty obvious for a while now that something more complicated than just picking the next most statistically common word is happening under the hood - the rhyming example given seems to disprove that pretty hard if you actually read the paper, regardless of if the methodology is sound or not (rhyming is famously a thing that requires thinking ahead). the "stochastic parrot" view hasn't been relevant for like at least a year and a half now. it has lost explanatory power as ai has become more complex (see: ability to do math) and fails to propose a mechanism for a lot of the more interesting emergent behavior, so i don't really take it seriously anymore - just a holdover from one of the first viral articles about ai bad.

also; rereading your reblog, this is an extremely confident assertion of how you think an ai works that is also just totally wrong.

also also; feature circuits are not even "anthropomorphism". you should read the prior papers also.

exciting and extremely philosophically interesting stuff going on in the mechanical interpretability space if you like overthinking things. (i do).

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People Love Studio Ghibli. But Should They Be Able to Recreate It?

rare example of rhetorical headline with a simple "yes" answer

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i think your trademark is anime girls in that moody dark palette of yours that i lack the art knowledge to describe. but its got lots of brown and purple

:)

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looks like you got saddled with the shitty old model. i gave it a shot through the new hotness that isn't garbage.

Every time a new image model comes out and i try it im always left with the slightly dissapointed feeling that is much more effort than its worth to make it do exactly what im asking for, by the fourth time i have to readjust the prompt to make it do what i had in mind i just throw my hands in the air and decide itd be much more easy to just draw the damn thing myself

That when it doesnt just outright refuse due to "content policy" even though what i asled for was perfectly tame

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New ask game:

Reblog if you want your followers to tell you what your trademark ™️ is. Like, what’s that thing that really identifies you.

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I Love the style of the stuff youve been posting lately. banger after banger.

thanks g

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mimic witch

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don't worry about me

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the actual paper itself is even more boggling. assuming that their "microscope" tool is accurate, this is what claude 3.5 haiku is "thinking" when it "thinks" about differential diagnosis.

and i honestly don't know how to react to this. did we... make thinking machines by putting all human knowledge into a box and shaking it up real hard until the language falls out? not to be hyperbolic (there's many reasons to doubt methodology, don't take this at face value because i'm an authoritative voice on the subject or because the authors of the paper are authoritative voices on the subject), but it sure seems like we might have made thinking machines!

i'm a little unsettled! not necessarily in a bad way but definitely in a way.

exciting and extremely philosophically interesting stuff going on in the mechanical interpretability space if you like overthinking things. (i do).

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what the fuck?

exciting and extremely philosophically interesting stuff going on in the mechanical interpretability space if you like overthinking things. (i do).