i swear my eyes roll to the back of my head everytime i see someone say "well ai is bad generally BUUT there are a few things it helps with efficiency wise!" so seeing him concede nothing while describing advancing of life as working with the texture of processes is a breath of fresh air

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/191026/nous-demande-d-ecrire-que-lfi-est-derriere-le-mouvement-autour-du-17-octobre-la-fabrique-d-un-bouc-emissai I tried searching for other candidates and TikTok didn't censor them. They are doing similar things to Lula, which is a shame.

Dude was the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw this

Vaush doubted Varoufakis was a campist, but well, he's been doing this stupid "both sides" thing about the war in Ukraine for a while now, blaming NATO imperialism for it, repeating Russian talking points about "ethnic cleansing" in Donbass and "CIA coup" in Kiev. Seems like a typical campist trying to hide being a campist to me.
For the record, I'm not a huge fan of NATO too but I don't trust anybody who both-sides the Ukraine conflict.

Here's a tweet of his on the subject:
https://x.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/2008592055350743490

Cowboys and Indians was a children’s game that renacted frontier conflict. It isn’t played nearly as much as it was decades ago due to changing tastes and awareness. And obvious reasons that it’s racist.
However I’m curious if Israeli children play something similar. Given the fact that American children once played it:
What does Vaush think, what do you think?

All these AI rants from Vaush because he indeed turns into an evangelical condemning OnlyFans due to "high" moral convictions with no substance aside from his personal morality and refusal to engage with it... Love the guy but he becomes the ultimate boomer everytime the subject comes out

He claims no one engages with his argument but there is no argument from his part aside from a bunch of bad analogies and falacies so indeed there is nothing to engage with his ending conversation arguments

First he demands from chat what has improved what has become eficient yet the second a few chatters do mention it then he switches to claim efficiency its bad for social interaction

However the same was said the moment internet was born, same how people now spend all day reading books instead of working, that people spend all day reading news paper instead of thinking for themselves, that people listend to much to the radio instead of reading books or the newspaper.... And so on

He mentions the creation of machines to thread clothes but forgets that the first 20 years of the creation of threading machines people were against them and how all of them lost the sould of creation and how people are losing their lives their jobs their whole lives.

The reason why the right wing wins so many of the youth is not because AI is inherently reactionary but because leftist fail to harness the power of it so it ends all alone to the right wing side and due to sometimes just mere novelty then interaction then memes then even more joyful engagement neutral people get sided with the people who bring then joy entertainment and a comunity instead of social condemnation with no substance

If you remember the OG vaush he started streaming and debating because he saw how before him hasan and molestiny came to prominance, the whole field was just right wing pundits debating unorepared students or people who NEVER ONCE pushed hard any discussion since lefties and liberals were adverce to rising their voice or trash talking like the right wing love to do it on blood sports

It was not until those 3 outdid out debated the right wing usual shitposters that people finally understood that the left was not the caricature someone did on themselves, I know in my IT job at least +70 people who think of themselves as apolitical but hardcore gamers internet users so they just shitpost IRL what they seen "cool" people doing online/meming online, and when the left finally found its balls and started pushing back agresively my IRL enviroment did follow up 2-3 yrs latter.

Just like that AI is more about social engagement and a new field for any type of ideas to float there, by been a puritist Vaush and others like him are handling right wing retards another whole ass field with a growing audience left alone due to unwarranted self moralism with no real base aside from jacking your moral ego

Video related, people online dont want people to moralize them they want to have fun and in the middle of that fun they open themselves to listend to ideas which the left is no harnessing

I listened to Vaush’s latest criticism of AI yesterday and was annoyed. Today I thought I’d share my opinion here but found that someone else had already started such a thread and was predictably dog-piled. So instead of writing some tedious, long-winded lecture filled with a bunch of points that tasks a readers patience, I’ll leave it up to you to ask questions. Please keep it civil and in good faith.

All I can provide is my own perspective as an artist and answer questions. I don’t use AI to write Reddit posts. Nor will I use it for my replies. My mother was an English teacher who also had a masters in theater. Go figure.

I’ve been an artist for more than a half century and I’ve used the computer to assist with art creation for almost as long. From my dad’s printer/modem terminal that accessed his lab’s mainframe, an Atari 800, Amiga 500, SGIs, Macs, to PCs I build myself. I received BFA Computer Art degree in the mid 90s. I used to work in professional digital art industries such as video games, web page content, photo processing, and so on. I got a good dose of how artists are paid peanuts in order to line the pockets of CEOs who make hundreds of times my salary. Working freelance was, is, and will remain extremely difficult for me when I have to compete with the cheap alternatives of soulless corporations.

These days I paint. I haven’t achieved international acclaim (yet) but the paintings I manage to occasionally sell go for hundreds of dollars. Before art school, I painted in a conventional manner. Ever since I returned to fine art more than a decade ago, I paint and sell work that I create using a combination of photography, image processing, and hand-painted pixel art on wood panels I build myself. I also build my own PCs to do digital image processing as well as use tablets for work that requires a stylus.

I endured a time before the turn of the century when all digital art was met with scorn by much of the art academia and professional art communities. There are many differences in discourse between then and now such as social media and the general political culture.

I could go on and on about how I currently use AI to create art. Given the current attitudes about AI among liberal Americans, this would be pointless. Instead, I leave it to you to ask questions. I will answer them honestly, agree with some points, politely disagree with others, and give respectful replies.

UPDATE: Thanks to some of you who actually asked good questions. I had expected nothing but insults and down-votes. But I ended up spending my good morning writing responses. I have to get back to work on artwork right now. But I'll check in later if there are any more questions.