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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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If they could draw or make music, they wouldn't need a robot to do it, and they clearly want to but don't have the skills.

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[–] MeatballMam@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They're not even really using the ai correctly. If you really absolutely must use ai, there is a way to do it without ripping people off, harming artists, or being a petulant jackass on the internet.

Draw something. Draw something, upload it to your precious ai, "ok llm, here is what I can draw at my current level, tell me what I need to work on and give me exercises I can do to improve."

Boom. You can actually become a better artist, still use your precious ai, not hurt anyone, and actually develop a skill, and improve your life without a single artist getting harmed or a single person getting ripped off.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Or better, check out a book from the library because ai will give you the art equivalent advice if putting glue on pizza

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure... If the AI could consistently give accurate, relevant answers and not conflate everything it has been trained on together resulting in incorrect or even entirely made up garbage.

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if it improves your skills in your own opinion it isn't wrong.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago

It's not likely to actually improve your skills even in your own opinion if it's not actually giving good advice or techniques. 🙄