this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 144 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

An AI generated contest.. thats the most low effort contest ever. Glad this person did what they did and used real skill.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Like a book recommendation contest

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

even a book recommendation contest could only be this dumb if the only way to participate was to shout out random words and hope it would coincide with a good book title

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Concur. I would actually like a book rec event

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

What a stupid fucking idea for a contest. "Press a button until something interesting pops out. Best button pusher wins." Glad it got subverted like that.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

It’s the opposite of the OP’s headline.

Aimbot works because being good at games is essentially bending your skills to match a simulation, aimbot can have the simulation parameters written into it.

LLMs are blenders for human-made content with zero understanding of why some art resonates and other art doesn’t. A human with decent skill will always outperform a LLM because the human knows what the ineffable qualities are that make a piece of art resonate.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

100% yes but just because I really hate how everyone conflates AI with LLMs these days I have to say this: The LLM isn't generating the image, it's at most generating a prompt for an image generating AI (which you could also write yourself)

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 weeks ago

Haha, humans taking over AI jobs!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 weeks ago

Somehow they invented a contest that’s more boring than watching paint dry.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The analogy sucks because it implies AI is in any way beneficial.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Generative AI or AI in general?

Because AI has tons of uses that are actually very beneficial.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

A very small example: First Person Shooters and other action games would be very boring without enemy AI.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Why do people act like generative AI has no uses? AlphaFold2 was a generational leap in protein folding. Alphatensor was used to find previously unknown sparse matrix multiplication algorithms. These are all examples of generative ai being useful on a societal scale.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a bad analogy because aimbots actually get good results.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

But they also suck out the joy and soul of games, so it's pretty apt.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm shocked i haven't seen captchas of the form "choose which image is AI generated"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

People who use Lemmy would be able to tell the difference most of the time, but the average person would have zero idea.

Just look at any of the YouTube videos with obviously AI generated clickbait thumbnails that get 10s of millions of views. Or all of the shitty obvious Photoshop thumbnails that existed before AI.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

You cheated. Of course if you're an artist, you're going to make better art than AI.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

it's like... yeah you can tweak every single parameter and build your own checkpoints and stack hundreds of extra networks on top of one another and that is certainly a skill, but creating art with intent is an entirely different skill. and the first one won't give you shit if the contest is about creating art with intent.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

He's a modern day John Henry.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What front end is this? Looks gorgeous

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Is it not mono? It looks like mono.

Edit: oh I'm sleep deprived, I thought you said font.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

I appreciate the enthusiasm

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Im pretty sure that's called cheating.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you listen to the AI preachers at their pulpits, AI gen works the same way that people making art does, so how could it be cheating if they're the same thing?

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