My photoshop skills are near zero, otherwise I'd have long gone and edited xkcd 2347 [1] to say next to the pillar "Something Fabrice Bellard probably implemented while half asleep just to prove he could do it".
There's a lot of FOSS projects that have something written by him in their dependency chain.
> Why use an LLM to do something that would take exactly the same amount of time and a lot less energy to just do in something like MS paint?
Can you prove that it'll take same amount of time for someone with
> My photoshop skills are near zero
to replicate the same level of quality as the generated image? From the looks of it, LLM managed to generate pixel perfect (or at least similar) font and probably took a fraction of a minute for the author to generate.
You seriously saying someone should put effort in editing a comic they didn't even cared on editing until they saw someone's comment? And somehow you equate the not putting effort to editing such comic to being fucked and starving?
AI hate sometimes makes people really lose their mind. Doing pointless random shit like this is a legit AI good application. Something that needs no creativity nor intellect to do. Just time. (And, most certainly, more than 10s.)
Two parent comments suggested that a deep level of skill is required to:
1] drag a box around the text and press Delete
2] type some new text in there in a similar handwriting font
The implication is that we're all too stupid and everything is too hard to do even tasks so simple that they take double-digit seconds to accomplish for people with rudimentary computer skill.
We can do things. Saving 5 seconds is going to hurt worse than it helps in the long run... like asking GPT what 2+2 is because you can't figure it out.
“ AI is going to utterly cripple people intellectually and motivationally.
If you can't even do the above ten second process, you may want to make more of an effort before you find yourself utterly fucked and starving.”
This does not sound like intellectual curiosity. Closer to polarized discourse that imho is making us less human.
When someone is not willing to even attempt to do a 30 second task, assumes they can't, asserts they can't, and people chime in to say AI is the only way they can achieve it, it seems worthwhile to point out the consequences.
Should we not be trying to do things?
Is it not in fact harmful to give up early on even such trivial tasks?
What happens when we actually need to do hard things?
I'd like to see metrics on that. But intuitively I'd say AI is faster.
Basically it's opening the tab and typing your thought vs speed running paint.
@sandermvanvliet what was the process and how long do you estimate it took you?
Personally it would take me awhile to find the template, the exact font and get the positioning just right.
I could make a crude one fast, and I've seen many crude versions of this meme. But matching the font is a bit more work, maybe there's a generator for it, but that's not paint nor do I know where it exists.
“Speed running paint”? You mean opening the image and dragging a text box over the existing text, changing the font to comic sans, and typing the text?
There are complicated workflows in Paint, this is not one of them.
Why have you failed though? Is the point to try to deceive people to think that XKCD actually published something else? Why not modify the xkcd one without hinding the fact that you modified it?
Because Nano Banana is better than wasting time for someone who isn't a 10 year veteran of MS Paint arts.
I'm tired of this kind of argument from anti-AI folks.
"Why not pick up a pencil instead?"
What if illustration was never "art"? What if it was always just a rote mechanical skill and the art itself was what the person was trying to communicate?
Maybe the technical aspects don't matter. Maybe it's the message we're conveying, our taste, our curation, our unique lens?
Yes. The art is "take a comic I didn't draw and replace some text." The pro-ai crowd is certainly brimming with artistic ingenuity. So much insight! Thank God they're boiling the oceans for this.
There's a lot of FOSS projects that have something written by him in their dependency chain.
[1] https://xkcd.com/2347/