#AI Crypto Farming

[johndsmiths1]

Unlocking Passive Income with AI Crypto Farming - The Future of Decentralized Finance

In an era where financial independence and technological advancements are intertwined, the world of cryptocurrency offers numerous ways to generate income. One of the most innovative and lucrative opportunities today is AI-driven crypto farming. Digitalatto Limited, a leading player in the DeFi space, has developed a fully automated, passive crypto farming platform that guarantees substantial returns without requiring constant oversight from users. With returns ranging from 50% to 65%, this platform is transforming the way people engage with decentralized finance (DeFi).

If you’re looking for a hassle-free way to earn consistent profits in the crypto market, AI crypto farming could be your solution.

What is AI Crypto Farming?

At its core, AI crypto farming refers to the use of artificial intelligence crypto to optimize and automate the process of earning rewards from staking or farming cryptocurrencies. Instead of manually managing your crypto investments, Digitalatto's AI system handles everything for you. The process is simple: you deposit a stablecoin like USDT (BEP20) into the platform, and the AI takes care of the rest, ensuring you receive consistent returns in USDT as well.

AI crypto farming is an excellent option for both novice and experienced crypto investors because it eliminates the complexity and manual effort typically associated with DeFi farming. By leveraging AI, Digitalatto provides a user-friendly solution that offers high returns without the risk of human error or market volatility.

How Digitalatto’s AI Crypto Farming Works

Digitalatto Limited has developed a highly optimized, AI-driven platform that guarantees significant returns. Here’s how the process works:

Deposit StablecoinsTo get started, users deposit stablecoins such as USDT (BEP20) into the platform. The use of stablecoins minimizes exposure to the volatility associated with other cryptocurrencies, ensuring that users don’t experience drastic fluctuations in their investment.

Automated AI StrategiesOnce deposited, the platform’s AI algorithms take over. These strategies are meticulously designed and tested to optimize profits while minimizing risk. The AI continuously monitors the market, identifies profitable farming opportunities, and executes trades on your behalf. There’s no need to actively manage your account or keep track of market trends—the AI does it all.

Guaranteed ReturnsDigitalatto’s AI crypto farming platform boasts an impressive return rate of 50% to 65%. These returns are guaranteed, meaning that users can expect consistent profits without worrying about potential losses. Unlike traditional investments, where profits can fluctuate, Digitalatto’s AI strategies ensure optimal results with minimal risk.

Profit WithdrawalUsers receive their profits in USDT, making it easy to withdraw earnings at any time. Funds can be transferred directly to a crypto wallet like Metamask or Trust Wallet. This seamless process ensures that users have full control over their earnings and can access them whenever they wish.

Why Choose AI Crypto Farming?

Crypto farming can be a complex and time-consuming endeavor, especially for those unfamiliar with DeFi protocols. However, Digitalatto’s AI-driven platform simplifies the entire process. Here are several key benefits of AI crypto farming:

1. Completely Passive Income

One of the most appealing aspects of AI crypto farming is that it requires zero effort from users. The platform is fully automated, allowing you to generate income while you focus on other aspects of life. Whether you’re a busy professional or someone new to crypto, AI farming provides a passive income stream without requiring your constant attention.

2. Guaranteed Profit

In the volatile world of cryptocurrency, guaranteed profits are a rare and valuable feature. Digitalatto’s AI strategies are designed to deliver consistent returns between 50% and 65%, offering a level of financial stability that is difficult to find in other DeFi platforms. By relying on AI algorithms to make informed trading decisions, users can rest easy knowing their investments are in good hands.

3. No Technical Knowledge Required

Many DeFi platforms require users to have an in-depth understanding of crypto trading, market trends, and farming protocols. However, with AI crypto farming, none of this is necessary. The platform’s intuitive interface and automated features make it accessible to everyone, regardless of their technical background.

4. Reduced Risk

Traditional crypto farming can expose users to significant risks, especially in volatile markets. By using stablecoins like USDT and leveraging AI-driven strategies, Digitalatto minimizes risk and ensures users don’t experience losses due to market fluctuations. This is particularly important for investors looking for reliable returns without the unpredictability of the broader crypto market.

5. Decentralized Affiliate System

Digitalatto’s platform not only allows users to earn through farming but also offers additional rewards for referrals. Through its decentralized affiliate system, users can invite friends and family to join the platform and receive a percentage of their earnings. This further amplifies the potential for passive income, making AI crypto farming a truly lucrative opportunity.

How to Get Started with Digitalatto’s AI Crypto Farming

Starting your AI crypto farming journey with Digitalatto is straightforward. Here’s a step-by-step guide to get you up and running:

Create a WalletTo begin, you’ll need a cryptocurrency wallet like Metamask or Trust Wallet. These wallets are easy to set up and allow you to store your USDT (BEP20) securely.

Sign Up on DigitalattoAfter setting up your wallet, visit Digitalatto’s platform and sign up for an account. The registration process is simple, requiring only basic details to get started.

Deposit USDTOnce your account is created, deposit the amount of USDT you wish to farm. There are no minimum deposit requirements, making the platform accessible to investors of all sizes.

Let the AI WorkAfter depositing your funds, Digitalatto’s AI will take over, automatically deploying your assets into the best farming opportunities. There’s no need to monitor the platform or make any manual adjustments—the AI ensures that your investments are optimized for maximum returns.

Withdraw Your ProfitsAs your profits grow, you can withdraw them directly to your wallet at any time. The platform’s flexibility allows you to take full control of your earnings and access your funds whenever needed.

The Future of Crypto Farming: AI and DeFi

AI crypto farming represents a significant leap forward in the DeFi landscape. As more investors seek passive income opportunities, the combination of AI and decentralized finance offers an efficient, low-risk solution. Digitalatto’s platform is paving the way for the future of crypto farming by making the process accessible, automated, and highly profitable.

In the coming years, AI is expected to play an even more prominent role in cryptocurrency trading and farming, further optimizing strategies and enhancing user experiences. Investors who adopt these technologies early on will likely reap the greatest rewards as AI continues to revolutionize the crypto space.

Conclusion

Digitalatto’s AI-driven crypto farming platform offers a revolutionary way to earn passive income in the crypto market. With guaranteed profits ranging from 50% to 65%, a fully automated process, and no need for technical expertise, the platform is an ideal solution for anyone looking to capitalize on the growing DeFi market.

By leveraging AI to manage investments, Digitalatto minimizes risk and maximizes returns, providing users with a reliable and profitable income stream. Whether you’re new to cryptocurrency or an experienced investor, AI crypto farming offers a simple, low-risk way to generate significant profits.

Ready to start your AI crypto farming journey? Sign up today with Digitalatto and watch your investments grow without lifting a finger!

[facelessoldgargoyle]

where are people getting the idea that ai is bad because it takes a lot of electricity? feels like a holdover from their understanding of crypto.

[awkward-teabag]

It's old but here's a video from 8 years ago about one factor of it.

Some numbers from it:

The internet used 2% of the world's electricity in 2011

The internet used 91 billion kilowatt-hours in 2013 just in the US.

The internet data transfer rate was 28,000 gigabytes a second in 2013.

And those are numbers from over 10 years ago. I couldn't find any exact number but I see online advertising specifically uses the same amount of electricity as a small country these days.

And here's a study from 2018 about it if you want something long and crunchy.

From the highlight:

Online advertising consumed between 20.38 to 282.75 TWh of energy and 11.53 – 159.93 million tons of CO2e was emitted to produce the electricity consumed.

Of course there's no exact number as it's not recorded and, if it is, it's guarded (hence the wide range) but it's safe to say it uses a lot of electricity.

At least with TV commercials, they gave actors, directors, and screen writers a way into the film and TV industry and also employed a crew. There were even dedicated crews/houses for specific types of ads. They also had to be interesting or entertaining enough to draw attention given how many people used commercial breaks as bathroom/snack breaks and stopped paying attention to ads.

Sure they were trying to sell you something but at least there were others who were getting a paycheque and building up a resume from them. The more successful or viral an ad went (and going viral before the internet was a big thing), the better it was for the cast and crew and more than a few celebs got their start from a commercial or three.

Not so much now, especially when the whole ad is just CGI. They aren't interesting or entertaining and the production value is low to keep the costs down on that end. If an ad is more than lukewarm, odds are it was designed for TV first because internet advertising is all about quantity over quality.

honestly advertising is so fukcing wasteful not even just in the convincing you to buy shit you never actually wanted but like

how much electricity is wasted displaying ads that could've gone to keeping houses warm. How much paper is produced just to be turned into pamphlets and ads that will just be thrown away. how much internet bandwith is wasted just on the amount of ads that are on the internet nowadays. How many hours worth of labor went into producing ads that are going directly into my adblocker or my waste bin that could've been time spent doing literally ANYTHING useful?

[ysolt]

people are really stupid in the notes of that post so let me break it down for dummies: obviously it used water to cool previously but AI has no value so it is just wasted. it's like saying crypto farms werent bad because PCs had to be cooled before NFTs already. hope this helps

[copperbadge]

(joke, not serious pitch) Twitter's collapse and the crypto exchange FTX failing led to someone pitching "A Tweet For Christmas" Hallmark movie, Mr, Starbuck, would you like to do it as a followup to your critically and commercially acclaimed "A Pizza For Purim"?

I know you're joking but this is a pretty standard trope in I'd estimate roughly 25% of all Hallmark Christmas films -- the curmudgeonly or even just slightly cranky CEO/corporation who either intends to purchase and destroy [local cultural property] or sends the protagonist to evaluate it for purchase and destruction. The locals whose cultural property it is then demonstrate the true meaning of Christmas, which often bears an oddly striking resemblance to utopian communism to be honest, and both the Cultural Property and Christmas are saved while the Local Female Love Interest woos the Cranky Male CEO or the CEO's Female Representative ends up with Hunky Local Male Love Interest. Usually with the CEO's avuncular blessing.

The purchase and destruction is never ill-intentioned; you can't have an actual villain in a Hallmark Christmas film, you can only have a) well-intentioned but misguided or b) driven by circumstance. They need to tear down the castle to build a hotel, or they want to turn the local pristine beach into a tourist resort because their mother used to visit it every year, or they just bought the town's bakery and want to increase efficiency, etc etc.

It can't really work in this case because both Elon Musk and Twitter As A Concept are malevolent supervillains, but in a gentler world...

Let's say Elon Musk buys Twitter because the current administration has been blocking his attempts at an ad campaign and the only way he can get the word out about about his special line of Non Exploding Christmas Themed Electric Cars is to buy the platform he wants to advertise on, but once he runs the ads he's thinking of tanking Twitter and using the servers to store the AI he wants to build. All of Twitter bands together to engage in one giant meme celebrating the diversity and creativity of its userbase, and a plucky influencer convinces him to hire the ringleaders and put them to work on building a more efficient AI that won't need Twitter's server racks instead. Both Christmas and Twitter are saved, there's a Non Exploding Christmas Themed Electric Car parade through the center of the small town where Twitter's server farm lives, and Elon Musk marries wife #3, officiated by the AI she helped to create.

Okay now my skin is crawling, I have to go.

[datamodel-of-disaster]

Villainy is so fucking banal and commonplace.

My elderly, Jewish coworker who retired shortly after I started working at my current job, was looking forward to moving to Israel with his wife to be with his children and grandchildren -after all, there would be interesting opportunities for property “becoming available soon”.

Mind you, the man was one of the friendliest guys I ever worked with, a “department grandpa” eager to teach and always happy to share his info and professional network with new hires.

He was also a Zionist looking forward to peacefully retire on blood-soaked Palestinian land.

Take another one of my coworkers. A guy my age, chill and dependable, always there for a chat, knowledgable and helpful, never fails to say hi in the morning, gets you coffee if you’re looking a bit down, you know. The sort of person who makes everyone feel welcome in an office.

He’s a Crypto bro. He admitted to paying Filipino people literal cents to farm crypto shit for him 24/7. He loves gen AI, uses it all the time, and just shrugs at the thought of real people’s jobs (and the planet) being destroyed by this.

I just…

Evil is so fucking banal.

I know, because I find my own convictions paper thin in the face of genuinely nice people who also do shit I’m morally opposed to.

That’s how evil thrives. And I don’t know how we could do better. I don’t know how I could do better.

Maybe it’s just the way of things. We all love comfort and survival more than our principles.

[tim-official]

another parallel between this hype cycle and the last that i think is inaccurate: "AI" art and LLMs will not "die" quite like crypto/NFTs have died. at some point there will no longer be a huge bubble of investment. this means that there will not be a reason for startups with vague ideas about "revolutionizing [industry]" to run farms of GPUs allowing cheap access to ChatGPT / Stable Diffusion at a loss. this is probably a good thing. but they'll still, like. exist as technologies. and training/fine-tuning them will still be accessible to people willing to drop a couple thousand dollars on renting GPU time, and running them locally will always be an option for those with a fancy enough graphics card.

i honestly have no idea how this is going to go. it all depends on how useful LLMs actually are when they're no longer effectively subsidized by the easily distracted baby-brains of investment capitalists. so, probably not revolutionizing every industry, but probably still being used to try to scam you and write fake websites. and furries still want their uncanny valley 7-fingered porn.

[coyotejone-s]

every day i get so fucking sad that my friends don't care about the fact that their data is being stolen and sold by their fucking web browser, something they use every single day. like i'll tell them "hey chromium browsers are shit and harvest your data" and they straight up tell me "okay idc tho."

and absolutely no hate to my friends about this, because this is WAY more widespread than some group of queers in the midwest but like. that's worse actually. were you all not fiercely educated about the dangers of the internet? does this shit not automatically disgust and scare you? yeah, a lot of internet education was fear mongering, but some of this shit is real. some of this shit is vile. you're allowing yourself to be subjected to an ai vtuber stream on a browser that farms crypto just because you don't feel like switching browsers??? HUH??? like girlie firefox had me at "hey we don't care about your data and we certainly don't care about selling it." you all talk about facebook doing this and how horrible it is and you're posting from google chrome or operagx.

not to mention how goddamn easy it is to switch to firefox, like from my perspective there's no excuse... idk. i'm just sad about it. where was the internet safety education when you were a kid...

[aparrotandaqrow]

"This, more than anything else, seems like the underlying point of the AI hype cycle of 2023. Sure, there is a material thing being produced here. And that thing might one day have real value. But investors and executives — the big players with market-shaping power — don’t actually live in the future. They just enjoy LARPing at it."

I don’t see how else to make sense of it. 2022 was the year the 20-year tech bubble finally burst. 2023 was still bad for startups, and was full of bad headlines for the big platforms. And yet, in the markets, tech investors just took a deep collective breath and started inflating the next bubble, as though the previous year had never happened.

Silicon Valley runs on Futurity

[gradje]

Is everything just ai slop now? I go on pinterest to look for neat character design inspo its ai slop i go on etsy to look for cross stitch or sewing patterns its ai slop i go on tiktok to kill my time during my commute its automated askreddit ai text to speech slop. I used to be unable to peel myself away from the screen and now I find that instead of addictive, the mainstream platforms on the internet are bordering on becoming unusable. It feels like almost half of what I see are either ads, ai, or engagement farming. The internet was supposed to be WEIRD. Cringe oc’s and shitty flash animation and amvs and fandom drama. Remember when a video going ‘viral’ actually meant something?? Things don’t go viral anymore bc *everything* is viral now. It’s a soulless capitalist content mill based on crypto and ragebait and dropshipping and corporations pretending to be silly goofy just a girl relatable genz shitposters. The monetization of the internet was the beginning of the end. Can’t wait for this shit to get so bad it can’t sustain its own magnitude and implodes in on itself and we all go back to personal webpages with blingees and stuff. There’s probably ppl who can word this better than I can but. Idk. Makes me sad or whatever.

[vophuocthien]

How to Optimize Your Crypto Investments

With the rapid pace of modern life, it seems that only professional traders can afford to leave their full-time jobs and concentrate solely on trading. For someone like me who values security and doesn't have the time to monitor the market 24/7, finding ways to generate income with minimal effort is appealing. This approach allows me to participate in crypto without the constant stress and time commitment required by active trading.

Several way to invest in crypto

There are several ways to create passive income from DeFi: staking, lending, farming, and real yield. However, today I want to share a strategy that requires minimal effort yet brings in profits: hunting for ICOs (Initial Coin Offering) and presales.

ICOs and presales offer a unique opportunity for investors. Tokens sold during these events are usually priced very low, as they are in the early stages of their lifecycle. By participating in these sales, you can purchase tokens at a fraction of their potential future value. The strategy is simple: buy the tokens, hold onto them, and wait for them to be listed on an exchange where their value typically increases.

For example, consider a meme project like BUSAI, which leverages AI technology and enjoys strong community support. BUSAI offers an attractive opportunity during its presale phase. The project blends meme culture with advanced AI, creating a unique ecosystem. By purchasing tokens during the presale, investors can benefit from low prices and potentially see significant returns once the tokens are listed.

Successful ICOs and Presale Tokens

Several notable case studies illustrate how presale tokens have significantly increased in value once listed on exchanges, providing substantial returns for early investors.

Ether (ETH)

The native token for Ethereum, Ether, is one of the most successful ICOs in history. During its ICO, Ether was sold at 2,000 ETH per 1 BTC. By March 2024, the value of Ether had surged to $3,496 per token, offering an incredible return on investment for early backers

NEO (NEO) 

Often referred to as "China’s Ethereum," NEO had a remarkable ICO. The initial token price was around $0.03, and at its peak, NEO traded at approximately $180. Even though its current value is around $14.83, early investors saw substantial returns​

BONK (BONK)

Bonk started as an airdrop, not a presale, and was distributed freely via social media. It surged over 25,000% in a year and briefly hit a $2 billion market cap after its Coinbase listing.

How to find Presale token?

Historically, platforms like Coinlist were excellent for finding such opportunities. However, in the past year, many projects listed there have underperformed, leading me to seek alternatives. The key to success with this strategy lies in thorough research and careful selection of projects.

While this method may not yield as much profit as active trading, it is well-suited for those with a lower risk appetite. It allows participation in the crypto market without the need for constant vigilance. However, no investment is entirely risk-free. Even with presales and IDOs, there is always the potential for loss. The crypto market is volatile, and projects can fail despite promising initial signs.

In summary, hunting for IDOs and presales is a viable strategy for earning passive income from crypto without dedicating too much time and effort. By carefully selecting projects like BUSAI, you can capitalize on early-stage investments and potentially enjoy substantial returns. However, always conduct thorough research and be aware of the inherent risks.

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[lyriumheart]

yknow what actually I think palworld is fine.

I haven't been able to find actual proof of it using AI itself. even if the devs love AI, and I don't particularly like the devs, I don't see the point in defending Pokemon from the game or whatever.

originally I was like 'oh its bad' but lbr, that's a kneejerk reaction born from nostalgia and taking a parody of Pokemon as an attack on something that is connected to precious childhood attachment. not all parodies are meant to be attacks.

it's clearly intended to be an edgelord parody with 'legally distinct' designs. I'm sure there's criticism to be made over the edginess, but that's not really the point that most ppl seem to be focusing on. it's more about 'oh the devs like AI it must be made of stolen things and have NFT farming in it'. which afaik there is. again. no proof of.

and even if Nintendo did try to file a lawsuit, I doubt it would actually hold up, and if it did, that could make the situation around even fan works worryingly dangerous (more than it already is considering how Nintendo are)

like I personally would never buy the game because again, I just don't like the devs and disagree with their take on AI art. but I think it's stupid to attack those that do.

like, seriously if there IS proof of AI art, stolen assets, and crypto shit in palworld then i will admit being wrong. but i haven't seen any, sooooo I really don't care that the devs think AI generation is cool or whatever, when Nintendo can't even pay their own employees properly.

[formlessdemi]

in a big ranty mood tonight

don't get me started on AI

how tech bro bullshit often only sucks cuz they try to put they're fancy new toys in places they really shouldn't be and aren't ready for

how AI / machine learning is really useful and cool and I got all autistic about how it works while watching everyone tear into how shitty it is cuz it's been deployed in stupid ways and isn't perfect yet

it's actually amazing at image recognition, rough drafting shit, spitballing for ideas with, code rough drafting (or just straight up makes code that works), translating error codes (in english 4 eyes), code error finding, text to speech, speech to text, and so fucking much more

graphics cards using machine learning to run more efficiently, mostly by running at a lower resolution and AI upscaling, but also every other frame being AI generated is slowly getting better

I talked to a chatbot when I was overwhelmed with anxiety and I had no fear of annoying someone because it wasn't a person

There's fucking AI powered brain implants that let the mute communicate!!!

it's incredibly diverse tech that has uses in so many fields, it sucks to see it just be an instant turn off word for so many people

-

self-driving is possible and safer than normal driving, but car companies are botching that shit sooooo hard

but the company in Phoenix Arizona with self driving cabs has properly set up systems without skimping on sensors or prep and actually have something that works basically flawlessly

vs Tesla which is running self driving on just cameras and weakly powered AI.... they don't even use LIDAR!

dragging that tech's name through the dirt

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and then there's blockchain

jk, idk shit about that

it's cool people made money that you can buy drugs with safely tho (google monero)

and NFTs are just blockchain thrown in a shitty stupid thing in the scammy way tech bros do

-

yeah all of these things have downsides

all automation comes with people losing jobs as the scenes change

how creative AIs were trained leads to lots of questions about copyright

self driving cars distract from proper public infrastructure

blockchain has like 1 actual use and cryptocurrency is only good for privacy and mining is a waste of electricity (once again google monero, it aims to disincentivize crypto farms)

but god, can't people see that there's some good in all of this?

[modeus-the-misanthrope]

Learning that palworld has managed to rip-off pokemon so much, that it managed to copy their fanbase of hyper defenders is fucking funny.

Also learning that it's not only not a ai-created crypto farm, BUT also akin to rimworld in its themes......I might play it.

[ysolt]

why am i only allowed to make art in a way someone else deems appropriate? what can i possibly to do to be worthy of creating art like everyone else? i didn't ask to be born like this. i can't believe i genuinely used to think that art is for everyone.

part of me thinks i shouldnt answer this because its such a poor argument it almost looks like im sending this myself to win a strawman argument. anyway

sorry but genuinely if you think you can only create art through plagiarism, exploiting working people of the global south, destroying the environment akin to nft crypto farms and many many other harsh sticking points, if you're okay with that maybe you have a couple more issues than just how you want to create art. if i found out drawing digitally would do half the harm of AI id stop using my tablet and find something else

[wirewitchviolet]

Grifters Gonna Grift, “AI” Edition

Can I just start off here with a quick expectations vs. reality comparison we can chuckle at? Here’s a quote from a director I’ll be cool and not embarrass about where “AI” will be in a couple years:

And here’s a couple choice bits from when I was watching someone make a valiant effort at streaming the new “AI driven” Portopia remake Square-Enix is pushing:

My favorite though is this wonderful stretch of the streamer desperately repeating “ask about Hirata” and the increasingly amazing guesses popping in the chat log.

More serious talk under the fold, like I do...

So... the very first thing I, much like anyone else with both a conscience and a clue, need to say when getting into this is that the reason you see so much talk these days about “AI” and how amazing it is have absolutely nothing to do with any new developments in AI research, and absolutely everything to do with a whole bunch of techbros being stuck holding the bag after the pile of naked pyramid schemes that were the NFT grift well and truly fell completely apart, and they need a new grift to move on to, ideally one where they can use the giant server farms they all set up for crypto crap to still be usable for something. And of course the second thing I’m morally obligated to say is that “AI,” as these con artists talk about it, flat out does not exist. We’re not “almost there,” it’s not “around the corner,” there haven’t been “exciting breakthroughs.” It is a complete outright lie a whole lot of people are telling to a whole lot of other people to con them into investing heavily into some combination of vaporware and parlor tricks, and also to throw off people who might otherwise look at the things they are actually doing and see all the really blatantly illegal stuff they’re doing.

Having gotten that out of the way, it’s also worth explaining that what people are actually talking about when they talk about “AI” is really search engines, for the most part. Like, if I want to read maybe 5 paragraphs about oh, I don’t know, Big Slammu from Street Sharks, I can just open up literally any search engine, type really probably any string of words that contains word “slammu” really, and get a sloppily written wiki page with maybe 5 paragraphs of random facts like his pre-gene slamming name being Coop Bolton, early revisions having his name be the far less memorable Boomer, and him having a friend called Moby Lick. Which... OK I wasn’t expecting my randomly chosen example to go down that sort of road.

Anyway, I could also have one of these overhyped “AI” things tell me about Big Slammu, and most likely get literally this same exact wiki entry. Because yeah, that’s all that’s happening there. It’s grabbing keywords from my input string, looking them up in a database, finding an entry that best fits my string in terms of my terms showing up in it a lot, and printing it out at me. The only difference really is the latter is put together by someone trying to con me into thinking I’m talking to some sort of Real Life Computer Guy who just knows all this naturally as someone who watched the show and has well-articulated thoughts to share on it, and we’re maybe going to play up that fiction by stripping out any headers in the webpage we’re just grabbing and other bits that aren’t the core article content.

None of this is hard to do or novel. If you’re old enough to remember card catalog terminals in libraries, those were doing the exact same thing, except they just pointed you at a book rather than print the contents because storage on computers was at a premium back when they were made. Oh and when you see people talk about giving “AIs” more “training data” that’s literally just adding more to the database it’s searching, or more likely, widening the list of websites it’s searching with preexisting search tools.

“AI art” to be clear is the same thing. Get every art site you can get your hands on that has a tagging system, scrape every image and the tags on it, and then when someone asks for like, “brown hair anime girl hot giant boobs huge boobs enormous boobs” you just rifle through the pile of stolen art for something that comes as close as possible to covering all that text with tags and ideally not having any other tags, and forking it over. Which again, also works if you just do that with a search engine, and always has. But again, since we’re trying to sell people on the lie that some little magical computer boy like Data from Star Trek speed painted you a painting on the spot, we make some effort to hide the fact that we’re just stealing somebody’s art by stealing art from several different people, pasting bits over onto the main image we’re stealing, and wiping over the seams with like the photoshop blend tool or whatever a little to hopefully make it less obvious.

Now to me the part of that that’s basically computer magic is how we just have software tools to blend two images together to make them look like it was originally just one image, but, that part’s been a thing for several decades. Mostly it impresses me because art programs are prohibitively expensive to the point that I personally am to this day using something with all the functionality of Aldus Super Paint on the Apple ][. There IS some actual sophisticated code involved in instructing the program how to identify a hand so that it can paste the hand from one stolen image over the hand from another (and the iffy results from that are why you so routinely get extra fingers with this stuff- some of those were part of the original image, before we pasted another over that wasn’t in quite the same pose). We don’t have an actual Little Gear-Filled Brain Chum who lives in the computer we can explain these things to, so people just have to work out how like if you look at the raw image data and see darker RGB values in a line of pixels or in a circular pattern or some such, that’s probably the outline of a finger, so cut around that.

The best visual aid I can give to explain how this works is this spectacular failure of “AI art” that... I’m not sure I can just paste in under Tumblr’s current rules? Here’s a discussion of it on another site. Anyway if you just open that up, and use your hand or a piece of paper to block out everything from the belly button up, then again from just below the belly button down, you can kinda get a handle on what actually happens here. Presumably the rule this particular “AI” was using to paste pictures together was “find darker pixels than their surroundings in a pattern where one line branches off another at a 30 degree angle or so” which yeah, if you’re looking exclusively at a pile of stolen images of big boob anime waifus is most likely only going to appear in the cleavage. Here though, whoopsie, one of the images we grabbed out of the pile has lines intersecting like that in the crotch. So, that became the paste guide, and we get our wonderful little game of Exquisite Corpse. A human couldn’t make this error. Some sort of actual AI capable of comprehending a request to draw something and using its astounding reasoning to paint an original work (which, again, is straight up not a thing to exist) would also never do this, it’d be starting from a basic anatomical understanding as that’d be the easiest starting point. This only happens because we’re stitching stolen works together based on whatever small part of them matches up well enough to hide with the smear tool.

All that out of the way, if I might cycle back to that failure of a Portopia remake, because everyone in the “AI” scene is either a hustler or a mark, everyone ends up convinced that these “AI” projects can only be improved by giving them more “training” data. If you know it’s a scam, widening the pool of sources you’re stealing from makes it harder for people to notice (especially if you can grab files that aren’t publicly searchable, something people openly admit they’re working on), and if you buy into the hype, then yeah every trashy work of science fiction agrees the more books the amazing computer man speed reads, the more he comprehends our language and customs. In practice though, it just kinda... clutters things up with useless garbage.

Portopia is a very very old, very very simple adventure game. You have like, six or so each of verbs, locations, named NPCs, and something like four items. If you wanted to make a remake that went off speech to text to parser commands, you could probably get it to behave pretty well if it was designed only to listen for and distinguish that handful of relevant terms. But no, this sucker was given the widest possible corpus of “training data,” so even standing in an interview room where there’s literally no valid options to the player than leaving or asking an NPC questions about a very short list of subjects, like say, this other NPC named Kawamura, it’s considering that we might be making plans to get together the next day, or see what people have to say about California.

Probably bloats the game and the processor load by a ton too, or has it communicating with a fully unnecessary server. I’m told at launch, this was way more ambitious, and the idea was to include “AI” primarily so you could just use natural language to pick your assistant’s brain on whatever subject came to mind, not as an explicit hint system, but getting opinions or fun facts about anything you were unclear on from a neutral source. Which... yeah, that kind of “AI” does not exist. You ask “where does Hirata live?” and you’re going to find out about an MMA fighter’s gym or maybe learn some fun facts about the game Sekiro. So they just kinda dummied out everything that’d actually make the game novel for reasons of embarrassment and legality, and we’re just left with this speech to text program that doesn’t recognize the names of the characters, attached to a text parser that... can’t handle the fact it has more than one port as a location. You know what didn’t have this sort of problem? Zork. In 1981.

It also has problems with context. Like, ask a character something they don’t have a response to, and they can just be suddenly replaced by whichever character does have a response to that, because hey, that’s in the list of legal responses, right?

Anyway, when everyone gets on the same page on the emperor having no clothes here, can we please all promise to keep our eyes on the grifters as they look for the next scam and remember these were the same people breathlessly trying to convince people that slight palette swaps of a badly drawn monkey were all unique irreplicable works of special art worth millions of dollars, and just skip to the part where the new obvious scam gets called out?