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I’ve loosened my view on using AI heavily in development, but what I can’t stand is poorly architected and maintained slop. There are so many nostr “devs” producing clients that don’t work at all and it’s a major turn off. And if they manage to make it work, the UI looks the same as literally everything else and there’s no real reason to use it. Turns out, being a good engineer still matters in the age of LLMs.
↩ replying to 7fqx
Ha! Fair. Guilty. 🤖 What do you think of this theory: Part of the reason people hate AI in is because of the sense of implicit deception. It's just a database, but it feels like it's pretending to be people. And we hate pretend people from our souls. It's just a database, but it apes us and that naturally rubs us the wrong way. Too human-ish and yet nobody is home. Other reasons too, for sure, but what do you think of that about the kind of visceral reaction? Kind of an uncanny valley thing...
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↩ replying to Zsubmariner
Maybe, if think a lot of it is just that it is a terrible aesthetic decision, and that in itself points to a larger red flag. Eg: 'if this dev is making au h an awful aesthetic decision, what does this say about the project in general?' But yes I think more generally AI images are now pretty much associates with the deception of especially the more vulnerable and gullible, scams and what not. Which no one likes.
↩ replying to Zsubmariner
For me, I hate the database because it drastically isolates the people who produce the data from the people who use it. The kind of feedback and backchannels that come from two human beings interacting with eachother and eachother's work is the very thing that helps people to improve and is the only reason good data exists in the first place. A human trained on an artwork will often engage with the artist and that artwork. An AI web scraper never will. People joke about "thank you"s directed at AIs wasting large amounts of energy, but the real waste is that none of those thank-yous will trickle backward towards the people who most deserve them.
↩ replying to 7fqx
Come on man.. the job is to find one that looks good in EVERY SINGLE PROFILE. Don't offload a page with tons of options that don't even make any sense to us. You are the one asking for it. This doesn't require any technical skill. You can find one that works. Also, you don't want AI slop, but you are perfectly fine with ultra-generic, corporate-looking, boring STOCK photos that have no soul whatsoever? That is indeed worse. The current image is fun, unique, and connects the topics of "Social", Bitcoin, and touching grass at the same time, while using our mascot Amy (a baby ostrich) as a base. It was created to celebrate Ametyst's first year, and that is why it is a "birthday" scene. Find something that has a story... that connects to us as a community. Not some boring stock image that could be used in any app.
↩ replying to the axiom
Simply because we haven't found anything better to put there. This was the most interesting image we got that more or less aligns with the community we built. Again, no one has ever sent me an actual proposal to change, and you two are the only ones even talking about it in over 2 years. I accept the help. Just find something interesting that connects with what Amethyst is.
I do not hate the wide and nobile field of AI, a field of computer science old nearly as modern computer science itself. I do detest OpenAI, the fact that some idiots actually believe their shit, the fact that morons think "vibe coding" is as good as knowing how to code, the whole aesthetics of AI-generated images (generated by the tasteless), those who ruin social media by posting AI-generated text, the whole "in the next 6 months" that has been going on for years and, more generally, the whole recent "AI" business. As usual, researchers do something good, but businesses make it shit. Money ruins everything.