I think you are coming across clearly!
There are only two further points I'd make:
There is intention, but intention is also subordinate to one’s own skill. I have in my head a very specific picture I would love to see in the real world with my eyes, but I can’t make it myself. This isn’t just me, it’s just that you need to have the skillset for your intention to be represented. All I can offer from my own two hands at this time will be an MS Paint stick figure and not the full, detailed digital art piece.
- I think you're undervaluing your own artistic ability, people like shitty drawings because they can empathize with the artist. Most propaganda now is done through the lens of memes & pop culture references and don't necessarily resonate better because of the additional detail added by a fully rendered piece. So ultimately I'd only encourage you to produce some crap drawings where you think appropriate, presuming you have time. Every pixel in that piece was placed there on purpose by you, and that has value. Also consider whether visual mediums are where you're most effective, this piece is inspired by a poem, there are countless mediums through which you can express yourself and I think it's a joy to engage with and get better at.
Did yogthos intend for this style to transpire, or did the artist pick this because of the theme? We could ask the same question on an art commission.
- The artist's worldview and perspective shaped their previous work, this work inspired the commissioner to select them, and their decisions show in the final piece. I think you'd get very different outcomes if you commissioned someone familiar with Lenin's work vs. someone who wasn't. Facial expression, lighting, pose, medium / constraints, etc. all tell a story and I think that story is interesting when it's a conscious decision made by a person.
I would be interested to see more examples of what the prompt is vs. the image outcome, just to analyze it more.
I think part of the beauty of art is that it translates an idea through different mediums, and at each step of the translation it is transformed by the experiences of the author/artist. The flip-side of this is the more times it changes hands, the more the original input is distorted.
The process for the creation of TCG art is a good analogy. When using these tools to generate an image, you are the one creating the world and providing the concepts to be represented in the piece. The AI as the artist then interprets what you've provided through the training data (or in the case of a human artist, their life experience) and produces an image.
I'm not the arbiter of what is / isn't art, but I don't think the distinction matters for the rest of the discussion.
As a consumer there are multiple lenses in which you can view the art:
- How do you interpret the image
- What choices did the artist make in the production of the image
- What can you tell about the artists experience / worldview from the image
- What historical / external context might have impacted the image creation process
I think you can do those for AI art, but most people aren't interested in those questions regarding AI (it's entire existence is dictated by training data scraped from the entire internet, and it has absorbed all of it completely uncritically), and since the prompter is one step removed from the final product it is more difficult to find interesting information about the prompter through the image.
So ultimately I think that AI obscures the prompter in a way that makes it difficult to "see" intentionality in the final work. ie.
- Did Yogthos intend for this to imitate a particular art style, or did the AI choose the art style because of the darker themes of barbed wire / war imagery
- The color choices in the final panel evoke a kind of eerie twilight rather than a sunrise, is that a representation of anything?
- Despite the red star rising, the sky is still gray, does that say anything? Does that have different meanings to us vs. the artist (cultural norms / history). Is that because the training data contains a lot of western propaganda depicting the "specter of communism" haunting the world?
And that's not an argument against using AI to generate images. Sometimes you don't need it to be that deep, but I think truly effective propaganda has an intentionality to it that is missing from the AI generated pieces I've seen.
I agree with you on the AI part for agitprop & that comrade Yogthos contributes greatly to the community.
I also agree that this piece being produced changes pretty much nothing materially about the world. It's not resource intensive to produce a single image.
Please do not see my questions as an attack, I really just wanted to ask what others got out of the image and where they think this would resonate with people. I would like to produce more agitprop myself, and this image misses the mark for me so I wanted to know what I was missing.
Totally get that I'm probably catching strays because of the general vibe of this thread but I do want to engage respectfully.
is it effective agitprop?
who is this for, what is the message, and why would it be persuasive? Is the core message easily digestible for the target audience?
I'd personally not do this considering the monthly costs of keeping a pet in stasis could be redirected to anything else and it seems to me that the technology is far enough out I probably won't live to see it.
Additionally you have to trust that the company you've chosen will remain solvent long enough for the technology to reanimate them from stasis.
Not trying to be a bummer, but they're important aspects to consider.
I think framing it as "american media is afraid of Israel's wrath" is getting things a bit backwards.
Yes, the whole US media ecosystem runs cover for Israel. However it's not because Israel has any real power over western media, it's because the US government supports Israel.
Israel only has power because they're a proxy of the US.
He's from the game Team Fortress 2. He doesn't represent anything in particular, he's just a funny beloved character :)
You can search for "meet the heavy" on YouTube to see the official character concept video.
nohup redirects output from your terminal to a file. worth a shot
They even do AI slop better than us 😭😭😭
The pain and destruction is caused by fascism, not by his intelligence. If he was "more intelligent", he would not cause less pain or destruction.
In practice I've noticed very little difference between cachy & other distros in terms of performance.
I think it's mostly convenience & marketing. I've run most mainstream distros and cachy definitely worked "out of the box" for gaming. I don't think it's worth swapping for if you're already using Linux.
Nothing wrong with cachy, I just don't think there's any special magic I've noticed that sets it apart from arch.
Very real, those in power prefer to give opportunity to those who hold similar values to them. In the west this means being a selfish racist piece of shit.
Being good at anything is completely unrelated to being a good person. If every person in the world was brilliant but a selfish piece of shit, we'd go extinct.
Take pride in your abilities, and be kind to yourself. You have value outside of your ability to generate revenue for shareholders. Compassion, Empathy, and emotional intelligence are separate skills you've invested time into that those people clearly haven't.
Also nurture yourself! I cannot overstate how helpful it is to be kind to yourself when trying to learn something new. The only way to get good at something is to first be bad at it.
I am not immune to advertising... I would buy the Lenin candy...
Do you really think that the intersection of 40s racism and FDR ideals (for white people) is a complete coincidence? That there was absolutely nothing else happening at that time related to the US being able to sustain higher living standards for the working class?
You clearly are not educated enough on this topic to have an in-depth conversation. That's not an attack on your character, but you really should consider learning more.
And before you say I haven't provided solutions, real solutions & real change require theory and practice. It's not easy and you will have a gut reaction to reject it because you are kept comfortable by the spoils of imperialism. This is why most people choose to not waste their time engaging with you and instead post memes. I have spent 30 minutes of my real life typing out a message that will likely not convince you of anything given what I've seen of your other responses.
If you actually want to fight for a better future then I'd be happy to provide you resources to learn more.
Look into moonlight / sunshine! That's what I use to stream games from my PC to other devices.
It has some difficulties sending option keys from moonlight to sunshine so if you use a tiling wm look out for that.
Otherwise it just worked out of the box for me :)
You too Oppo :)