EmptySlime

The thing that pisses me off about that statement most is him trotting out that anecdote about the 90s like the situations are in any way comparable. If you bought a game in the 90s even if it cost $80 you got the whole fucking game. You know damn well that at the end of the day that $80 game nowadays is going to end up totaling closer to $200 after all the shit they remove to package up separately and sell as DLC.

The cynical part of me says it's probably because cameras grab everyone. Compared to human enforcement which can be... Subtly encouraged to only enforce the speed limit on the "right people"

Another insane entry for the pile of cuts made because they're just doing a Ctrl-F for whatever buzzwords they can think of and cutting anything they find on that list I guess...

Out of curiosity, when did they show that? Every interaction with demons I remember from it they are shown to be manipulating people at best.

The "Diplomatic Envoys" were literally trying to figure out the town's barrier so their master could come in and slaughter them.

The "little girl" in the flashback with Himmel outright says that she called out for her "Mommy" despite demons literally abandoning their young once they're born because "that word stops humans" and nothing more.

Like yeah it's inherently difficult writing something that looks human as actually an irredeemable monster that the only solution is destruction because dehumanizing vulnerable groups is pretty much always the first step in real life genocides. But I don't recall any instances of demons in Frieren actually showing "humanity" for any other reason than to manipulate and kill humans.

People: "We're tired of all these 'misunderstood villains' we want unapologetically evil for the sake of evil."

Frieren: "Okay here's monsters that learned to imitate human language and emotion solely to manipulate and kill humans."

The same people: "No! You're wrong! They're just misunderstood and you're doing a genocide!"

Yeah, any media that depicts something human like being an irredeemable monster that the only solution is destruction is inherently tricky because dehumanizing is pretty much always the first step in mass atrocities irl. But my God I've seen so many people tie themselves in knots trying to give the benefit of the doubt to demons in Frieren.

Well yeah the AI support is just the next iteration of confusing telephone trees and long wait times. The direct hope is that they make it just convoluted enough that a chunk of people that they before would have to "waste money" serving and fixing whatever problem they had will instead just give up without opening them up to liability for denying service. Only now they can do it while hiring even fewer actual people to handle the cases that get through.

Exactly! It's almost like stuff like this is actually pretty great when it's a tool for the artist rather than an attempt to replace them. The accessibility angle would be amazing... If only it wasn't powered by the damn Orphan Crushing Machine and didn't need to steal all of the art/literature/whatever other data the corps can get their grubby little mitts on in order to train the models.

But that's the entire point. They want to pay for a machine they can write off as an equipment investment rather than a team of competent and well paid human artists. Even better if they don't even need some comparatively low wage "Prompt Engineer" to run the damn thing.

I hate the accessibility argument because it's so disingenuous. Yes, technically if I used these models it would have allowed me to keep making art when my wrists were in such pain I couldn't use my stylus for longer than 30 seconds. But the problems with AI way outweigh that potential good.

That's usually why these kinds of people like AI. They are utterly lacking in creativity. The accessibility argument is such bullshit too. Yes, if we ignore the glaring theft issues with training these models, then in a certain sense it would've allowed someone like me to continue making art when my wrists were in such excruciating pain that I couldn't even hold my stylus. But that's not why these chuds like AI.

They like AI because they hate art and they hate artists. They hate artists because artists have those skills and they don't. So they want to automate them out of existence. They want to make those skills that make them feel inferior worthless.

As far as I've seen their argument is usually something along the lines of "The West is so antagonistic, of course they have to cozy up to Russia. They're pretty much the only country not trying to destroy them."

It's all bullshit of course. In reality it's almost always just Campism. North Korea opposes the ~~Great Satan~~US therefore they must be good. Any evil they've done has to be actually our fault and not any kind of evil or corruption from them.

I'm guessing some variation of "You don't understand... The West forced them to go all those things with the sanctions or whatever" has definitely been said by that individual before.