TACO BELLE

[MayReasonRule]

[Pharlo]

1. God help the people around the Taco Belle when that corset blows.

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Blunt force trauma from furiously flapping flab

Helluva way to go.

[SocialDemocrat61]

2. 😂

[highplainsdem]

4. Apparently more AI slop.

Please see this and the replies. Especially reply 5.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220351935

[Disaffected]

8. Calm yourself.

Please.

[highplainsdem]

9. Go read that thread and that particular reply. Please. These are very calm replies I'm posting.

[Cirsium]

13. Calm?

I am not "calm" about theft and about environmental destruction, are you?

How I found out that an AI had stolen my art

So just out of curiosity I wanted to check if my art has been scraped from the web and used by Stable Diffusion. They graciously allow you to do that on haveibeentrained.com. Behind this site is a site called Spawning.ai, and they state in their Q&A that „copyright is an outdated system that is a bad fit for the AI era.“ They also state that „We believe that […] the artist community will benefit from this [AI] training to be consensual.“ Let me explain briefly why I shudder when I read this: As an artist, the intellectual property right is the most important right I have. If I can’t manage the rights to my art and decide who is allowed to do what with it, it becomes worthless. If everyone can just take it, how am I going to get paid?

I didn’t expect to find anything because my art isn’t like the digital AI art style that you see a lot from these image generators. I go field sketching, and create scientific illustrations, I’m not a very well known artist either. But I was curious. The search result was a surprise. The site found countless examples of my art, scraped directly from my website and from other places on the web. What I found really unsettling is that the algorithm grouped many of my pictures directly together – I’m not sure if it really does that based on my style or on alt tag or url properties – it was creepy moment.

https://juliabausenhardt.com/how-ai-is-stealing-your-art/

As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires

Generative artificial intelligence uses massive amounts of energy for computation and data storage and millions of gallons of water to cool the equipment at data centers. Now, legislators and regulators — in the U.S. and the EU — are starting to demand accountability.

Two months after its release in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT had 100 million active users, and suddenly tech corporations were racing to offer the public more “generative A.I.” Pundits compared the new technology’s impact to the Internet, or electrification, or the Industrial Revolution — or the discovery of fire.

Time will sort hype from reality, but one consequence of the explosion of artificial intelligence is clear: this technology’s environmental footprint is large and growing.

A.I. use is directly responsible for carbon emissions from non-renewable electricity and for the consumption of millions of gallons of fresh water, and it indirectly boosts impacts from building and maintaining the power-hungry equipment on which A.I. runs. As tech companies seek to embed high-intensity A.I. into everything from resume-writing to kidney transplant medicine and from choosing dog food to climate modeling, they cite many ways A.I. could help reduce humanity’s environmental footprint. But legislators, regulators, activists, and international organizations now want to make sure the benefits aren’t outweighed by A.I.’s mounting hazards.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/artificial-intelligence-climate-energy-emissions

[highplainsdem]

19. The wording is calm, mostly due to years on debate teams and running forums online. I prefer to

get points across without yelling.

But am I angry about all the harm done by generative AI? Of course. Every rational person should be.

And no one should be posting AI slop.

As for what I've posted about AI in general and ChatGPT specifically here over the last 2-1/2 years, you can use the Google site search in the upper right corner of every board page to search for

highplainsdem ai

highplainsdem chatgpt

to find some of the threads - hundreds of threads - I've posted about generative AI and its dangers. To find all of them, you'd have to get a Star membership to use Advanced Search here. And since it shows only 250 results at one time, you'd need to do multiple searches.

[highplainsdem]

20. Just realized you might not have meant your questioning of the word "calm" to refer to my using it as

well. But I think I'll leave the reply above anyway.

There are a lot of reasons to despise generative AI - more appearing all the time. Anyone doubting that's true can check my earlier threads.

There are few IF ANY good reasons to use generative AI. And all of them are outweighed by the harm it does.

[Cirsium]

39. Correct

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I wasn't referring to you. Sorry for any confusion. I agree with you.

[highplainsdem]

40. Thanks! And I'm sorry I misunderstood. Those are great links you posted, and I hope people will look

at them.

[MayReasonRule]

10. I Post What I Find If You Don't Like It Just Block It - Disparaging Other's Posts As "AI Slop Seems Needlesly Derogatory

Your assumption and opinion is duly noted.

Vote Blue no matter what else you do!

[highplainsdem]

11. It looks like typical AI-generated slop. There are very good reasons NOT to post it. Please see that

thread and particularly that reply I indicated.

Do you know who created the image in your OP? Because if you don't, they might not even be liberal. AI slop can be generated so easily and mindlessly that they could be trying various subjects randomly, just to get views. Saw AI slop here the other day from a YouTube account that had tried dragons, superheroes, time travel, etc., as subjects before discovering anti-Trump posts worked better as bait.

[MayReasonRule]

15. Have A Nice Life... Vote Blue

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. It's a clear piss take of Trump, and you think "they might not even be liberal"?

You're not thinking this through. It's not "mindless" or "random".

[highplainsdem]

24. GenAI can be used to present any viewpoint, and the user doesn't have to agree with the viewpoint

depicted. I've seen a lot of accounts from AI artists hitting on all kinds of subjects. They're just trying to get views.

And genAI is illegally trained and unethical to use, period. See the thread and particularly the reply I recommended they look at.

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. The image is hosted on imgur. There's no one trying to get views with it.

Posting it here will mean fewer views of it wherever the person who got an AI program to produce it posted it, not more. You're just policing DU for any use of AI. The message of the picture is liberal.

[highplainsdem]

29. Again, see this thread and the replies - and reply 5 in particular - and maybe that will help you finally

understand why AI slop is so harmful:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220351935

[muriel_volestrangler]

31. I wasn't convinced when I read your thread before

and I wonder why you keep pointing to EarlG's post when he specifically asked you not to?

[highplainsdem]

33. He asked me not to post a separate OP about it. I wonder why you don't think people should know

about his post on AI slop. I didn't mention here that it was EarlG's post.

[muriel_volestrangler]

36. I'm not convinced by that "argument" either

The more times you try to get people to take a reply to you as justifying whatever you think yourself, the more like spam it looks.

[highplainsdem]

38. I simply recommended people look at what he said. Why are you defending posting AI slop?

There are anti-Trump arguments and art made by real people whose views are known. They get less attention when people waste time on slop.

[Traildogbob]

5. Who gonna post

The TACO Bell chihuahua with aTrump wig with a brown painted face, promoting TACO’s, on Tuesday’s, $45.47 for a dozen. (Only available to white people).
Noem provides the meat. Only ketchup as a condiment. Nine of that Latino pepper shit. This is MurKKKa.

[lame54]

6. Belle of the mushroom balls

[Jerry2144]

7. Taco del Lago

Sounds like a real restaurant

[Mr.Bee]

12. He can't breathe in that corset!

[BoRaGard]

14. No wonder magat Thruples are wild about Krasnov (R-Felon)

[lastlib]

16. ...spewing TACO bullshit..... n/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. AI slop is so fucking boring

[highplainsdem]

18. +1,000,000

[MayReasonRule]

21. "Those Damn Kids These Days"

Maybe just block what you don't like instead of unduly disparaging what others find and post to share for fun.

Perhaps...

Either way... all my best to you and yours.

VOTE BLUE!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

22. Generative AI art duly deserves disparaging, and I'm happy to do it.

[highplainsdem]

25. ...

[NEOH]

27. Taco Belle could be Miss Lindsey Graham

:Taco Belle could be Miss Lindsey Graham crazy:

[TommieMommy]

30. Hilarious 👍👍

[debsy]

32. Someone I know just made this one

https://imgur.com/a/259SAWs]

[MayReasonRule]

41. Here Ya' Go So All May See!!

[twodogsbarking]

34. His boobs are bigger.

[relayerbob]

35. Only in Musk's ketamine dreams

[orangecrush]

37. ...

[milestogo]

42. Oh the poor corset.