There are some models to generate AI images on your own hardware. You should be interested in Ollama, which you can run trivially (docker image) and which allows you to run various models on your own.
I use them 100 times a day.. at least. They are actually very prone to giving wrong answers; so you have to watch that and verify and ask for sources and tell it to explain it's contradictions, etc.. but they are still very valuable. I've actually been using them to walk me through terminal commands in Nobara. I recently came back to Linux and it has been super easy with AI's help. It makes the terminal incredibly easy now.
I saw there's few projects about installing A.I. models & use offline for image generation. But almost of videos I saw are show how to install them on Windows but not Linux. 😥
I wonder how it does it. It must look up one or more stock photos and merge them or use some kind of Photoshop like filter. There is some complicated code behind it however it does it.
Hi! I've ChatGpt Plus. Dall-e creates one image every time and save it in .Webp. I'd like to have four images in .Jpeg. If i ask it, it generate a single collage of images in .Webp. Any ideas? Thx!
It's all in how you prompt it.. It's that simple. You have to be creative in how you write out the prompts and what things to be sure to include.. and just dream up combinations of styles that are strange and shouldn't go together.. This is what makes the best results. Just a lot of trial and error and creativity with the inputs.
@@tristen_grant Whilst I fully support anyone's right to make a living from what they make or what they know, you can't "have your cake and eat it". Clearly many artists want to use the publicity that the Internet provides in order to show what they do to as big an audience as possible - but the downside of that is that all manner of "bots" will analyse that stuff on any web page or social media post for whatever nefarious AI data stealing reasons they need to do it for. It's not morally right but legislation on the Internet is always far behind where it should be and getting the entire globe to agree on the same legal principles of ownership and copyright is never going to happen anyway. The only "ray of hope" I can give you is to look at the currently reversing trends in the music industry where it seems that music streaming (or legalised music theft by Apple and Spotify, as I call it) has peaked and many music fans are going back to buying physical media and vinyl so that they own a physical copy of their music. Maybe art works will be treated the same way at some point?
This is the real one, proof: he made a video with the title: *"If You Support Free Software, You Should Support Gun Rights"* And I couldn't agree more.
@@mavfan1try to compare google image search results in 2019 and now with wayback machine. You'll understand why ai is destroying internet search and truth
Hey DT, would you mind covering the recent drama about the CoC, Linus and the bcachefs dev? There's been an update. Linus and the CoC are going full political... Stallman's principles no longer matter now apparently
Neural Nets ( IA it´s just a PR stunt ) are real and powerful tools. Do not use it to not support it would be like not using automobiles to not support oil companies. After all, not everyone has the resources to buy an eletrical car, as the same as paying a professional to create , in this case, the image. It is what it is. There´s no going back.
But automobiles have tangible, real world benefits that actively improve your quality of life. AI doesn't even achieve that, it's an inferior substitute.
It's comically ironic for DT of all people to flagrantly shill for big tech companies like Microsoft actively violating the trademarks of artists. You cannot claim to support freedom in software and the rights of those people involved while supporting this, they're just not compatible. "This tool exists and isn't going anywhere, so I might as well use it" is such a bankrupt line of thought that's not too many steps away from "Well guns exist, my life would be easier if I used that tool to settle disagreements." And that last thumbnail was comically bad, you would have been better off just taking a few screenshots of desktops and throwing them together. You're not even gaining anything from using this.
If you believe that a software license like the GPL is good because it protects the creator from having their code used in a manner against their will, then it's entirely hypocritical to not treat art and their trademarks in the same manner. If Microsoft created a really cool piece of software, but it had flagrant GPL violations. Then I can't imagine DT using it. But when it comes to art, suddenly he doesn't see the issue.
@millsjonah First, that's not really what the GPL stands for: The GPL doesn't prevent software from being copied and distributed, it's the total opposite, it allows to do that as long as you don't secret the code of it (therefore, allowing to be copied). Second, I don't know why are you defending copyright and gun control, they are the biggest threat to freedom, (well, I guess free speech is the greatest) Copyrights, patents and any form of intellectual property law should be abolished, it's one of the main causes of big tech monopolies. It's a very unfair law, look what Nintendo is doing with it. Gun control is basically the state prohibiting to own guns to law-abiding citizens, it doesn't stop criminals from using guns and it removes the right to self-defense, banning guns means "only the state can own and use it", it's an authoritarian law (you know, like those in oppressive regimes). Being pro free software and at the same time supporting these laws makes you an hypocrite. In fact, DT made a video named "If you support free software, you should support gun rights". And I couldn't agree more.
@@red007master2 Yeah, but it still is gravely damaging to the internet as a whole. The artists whose art gets used to teach these models suffer, the people whose jobs get harmed (like cartoon artists) suffer, and internet content as a whole suffers as it gets bundled in with AI-generated, soulless content.
People can criticize AI all they want, they are going to use it eventually whether they like it or not. Sorry to the people who want to still live with sticks and stones. The future is here, embrace it.
@@qeqsiquemechanical9041 "People can criticize AI all they want" I wasn't aware that I needed your permission. " they are going to use it eventually whether they like it or not." Nonsense, Open Source will always be there to give you the choice to not use it and do it manually, even if it also offers you the opportunity to use it too. You clearly don't understand how Open Source works. (Poor education? Weren't taught how to think critically? Couldn't work that out for yourself?) "Sorry to the people who want to still live with sticks and stones." Just because I haven't spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a Ferrari doesn't mean I'm not perfectly happy driving a Toyota - it doesn't mean I end up walking everywhere I go. What you're doing there is presenting a "straw man" argument - and I bet your teachers never taught you what that even means. "The future is here, embrace it." The future is what I make it, not what greedy billionaires impose on to you sheeple.
After watching this I gave Dall-E (and one other model) the task of making a picture of empty space. Just a few stars for a background, specifically with no planets or celestial bodies in it. There's a rate limit of 25 images per 3 hours, and no matter how I tried to explain what I wanted (and more importantly didn't want), 24 of those had planets. I understand the need for a rate limit, but when 96% of the images include the one thing I asked it not to do, it's a little frustrating. I'll say this, DALL-E loves Saturn, sometimes I'd get two or three in an image, or a huge one that covered half the image. Arthur Dent had an easier time getting proper cup of tea.
Just a followup: I asked a different AI how it would go about asking ask DALL-E for what I wanted. I got a lot of feedback, including a note that AI can have difficulty with negative phrases like "no planets". It gave me some phrases to try, and the winner was "An expansive void of space featuring only a small number of stars and nebulae, without any planets present." ... Well, It did actually get one planet in there, but it was small and I can take that out myself. More interesting, DALL-E recognized that it managed to sneak one in, and even seem slightly amused about it. I think I may go back and explore the topic of how these ChatGPTs "want" to be talked to, could be an interesting venture.
i have artist friends who are, naturally, concerned about their futures. i don't know how practical it is to resist generative ai, but i do feel a little sad to see the "soul" (i.e. the humanity) taken out of art. i'm ambivalent on it all, i certainly won't condemn people for using it and have used it myself. but, at the same time, i can see why people are concerned over it. re: low level use of it for stuff like thumbnail creation, i can't see the harm. perhaps it could harm professional thumbnail makers, and that is concerning, but the motorcar was concerning to blacksmiths. i'm not saying it's moralistic one way or the other, rather just, it is what it is.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 as I said in another comment I won't take sides _but_ lots of human-made "art" is not art but just output of a human brain and a prompt Ever been on deviantart? Ever seen some corporate "art" used on websites and webinars?
Artists are just mad there jobs could be automated away as well, like everyone else’s have been. Nobody cares when we automate away other fields of work, why should I care about artists?
What are you talking about? AI has nothing to do with marketing unless company is trying to sell a better AI model. And yes, we do need it if we ever want to have a chance to advance further towards the future.
@@Brand0-d9w "What are you talking about?" I'm sorry you lack the comprehension skills to read and understand written English. That possibly explains your reliance on something else like AI to do your thinking for you. Don't worry, I blame the poor education system that failed to teach your generation how to think critically.
If you replace yourself with somebody else making the content for you but worse, people also won't be happy. Same thing With AI it's even worse, because it's much harder to add your own creative input in there.
The reason for criticism of AI is not because of the tech, it's because of the data laundering and theft of creative works for the sake of profit without compensating the creatives to train the models. This is why I'm so strongly against AI as a creative. The tech is fine, I don't mind the tech, but the way the models were trained is wholly unethical and I cannot abide that.
Hey DT ton help you understand the initial reaction, first Linux community is nitpicking on everything that’s new, and many people think the AI is stealing jobs from artists.
I have a mixed opinion on AI. On one hand, AI can be used for some good reasons, from concepting and drafting text, images and even audio, to correcting mistakes, to even just chatting and getting new insights. However, AI also introduces risks and challenges for artists and people who want to help them out. Artists, whose art was scraped to train this AI, don't like that AI is used by people who pretend they're the same type of artist as they are and lie to people about their skills, and then get paid more because they can generate faster art than regular artists.
Oh no, Dt likes AI. Robots are going to rule the world, lol......I hope AI won't take over his channel...... When I see an AI generated thumbnail of ladies in compromising positions on different youtube channels I report every single one of them. There's a lot of kids that use youtube. They don't need to see that kind of crap.
Dude, stop promoting the taking of money from my wallet. AI art is dogshit, I've used FLOSS tools exclusively as a professional illustrator for the last 15 years, and these tools trained on art without permission and I've lost a dozen clients to Midjourney subscriptions. I've made my pivots to compensate, but DALL-E literally trained on my art without my permission. Do better, dude.
It's probably little consolation to you but as a long-term computer hobbyist from pre-Internet days who also worked in the IT industry for decades and has supported FOSS and Linux for almost three decades, all I see this as doing is filling the Internet with more gimmicry and crap that I have zero interest in anyway. Peak Internet was in the early days of broadband and Google in their "don't be evil" era, probably around 2000-2008 when you could just create a website to just show the world what you make or do, sell it by mail order and make your money that way - with no "middle men" taking their cut with their "platforms". I'm not even a musician but I consider music streaming to be "legalised theft" by Apple and Spotify as "middle men platform providers" and, as a result, I only buy physical media on CD or vinyl because that's the best way to reward an artist, as well as going to live concerts and buying the merchandise. And as a "FLOSS brother", I can only wish you the best of luck and success going forward.
To be fair, you trained your skills on other people’s art without their permission, that’s how learning something works. 🤷♂️ Learn to use ai as a tool, you still have 15 years of experience that your regular joe and a ai prompt doesn’t have.
There are some models to generate AI images on your own hardware. You should be interested in Ollama, which you can run trivially (docker image) and which allows you to run various models on your own.
Thanks for keeping me up to date on cool tech!
DT have you attempted to install and test ROCm for AMD Gpu's . I think it only officially supports Ubuntu on the desktop side
I use them 100 times a day.. at least. They are actually very prone to giving wrong answers; so you have to watch that and verify and ask for sources and tell it to explain it's contradictions, etc.. but they are still very valuable. I've actually been using them to walk me through terminal commands in Nobara. I recently came back to Linux and it has been super easy with AI's help. It makes the terminal incredibly easy now.
I saw there's few projects about installing A.I. models & use offline for image generation. But almost of videos I saw are show how to install them on Windows but not Linux. 😥
Not DT falling for AI slop 💀💀💀💀
It is so over for us
I wonder how it does it. It must look up one or more stock photos and merge them or use some kind of Photoshop like filter. There is some complicated code behind it however it does it.
Hi! I've ChatGpt Plus. Dall-e creates one image every time and save it in .Webp. I'd like to have four images in .Jpeg. If i ask it, it generate a single collage of images in .Webp. Any ideas? Thx!
Dunno DT, isn't that stuff closed-source? Doesn't it violate GPL and a bunch of other licences?
I mean, I don't give one f, but I thought you did
still waiting for the Linux distro optimized for LLM's
Most of the good LLM images I have seen are a combination of artist and LLM. The average person I fear produces slop
It's all in how you prompt it.. It's that simple. You have to be creative in how you write out the prompts and what things to be sure to include.. and just dream up combinations of styles that are strange and shouldn't go together.. This is what makes the best results. Just a lot of trial and error and creativity with the inputs.
And the worst part of AI is AI generated images in Google search, I wish there should be an option for turning that off.
The worst part of AI is that its trained on images without getting permission or compensating the creators.
@tristen_grant yes totally unethical practice
@@tristen_grant Whilst I fully support anyone's right to make a living from what they make or what they know, you can't "have your cake and eat it".
Clearly many artists want to use the publicity that the Internet provides in order to show what they do to as big an audience as possible - but the downside of that is that all manner of "bots" will analyse that stuff on any web page or social media post for whatever nefarious AI data stealing reasons they need to do it for.
It's not morally right but legislation on the Internet is always far behind where it should be and getting the entire globe to agree on the same legal principles of ownership and copyright is never going to happen anyway.
The only "ray of hope" I can give you is to look at the currently reversing trends in the music industry where it seems that music streaming (or legalised music theft by Apple and Spotify, as I call it) has peaked and many music fans are going back to buying physical media and vinyl so that they own a physical copy of their music.
Maybe art works will be treated the same way at some point?
Maybe don't use Google Search?
@terrydaktyllus1320 any good alternative?
You literally created spam and publicized it on your channel. People will call you out when you spread spam. AI generated spam destroyed the internet.
DT, I'm with you on this one. AI is real and is going to happen, so we in the free software community should embrace it before we pull an Apple.
Where did the real DT go.
Microsoft took him out back and replaced him with this clone.
@@millsjonah he’s now BT
He probably realized how nonsensical FOSS community is and will soon go back to macOS.
This is the real one, proof: he made a video with the title: *"If You Support Free Software, You Should Support Gun Rights"*
And I couldn't agree more.
Art used to be a profession. Surprise! The state has no use for your kind! 1984.
Yea, let's flood the internet with fake garbage. What a great idea.
It’s also great that no one is forcing you to use it.
One man's trash is another man's treasure
It's not garbage. AI now wins art contests and is better than artists.
@@mavfan1try to compare google image search results in 2019 and now with wayback machine. You'll understand why ai is destroying internet search and truth
thats the same thing a google search user would say. lol.
It's not AI yet, it's just ML.
AI-generated spam is ge,nocide.
its not killing anyone lmao 😂
Hey DT, would you mind covering the recent drama about the CoC, Linus and the bcachefs dev? There's been an update.
Linus and the CoC are going full political... Stallman's principles no longer matter now apparently
DT, AI “art” is trained on stolen art from actual artists. It is not a good idea to support it.
No art was stolen
@@LiquidZuluNot by DT, but the people creating the models used other art to train them without the artists’ consent
@@n3kosis Now they're even using people's voices without their consent. 💀
Let's ban inspiration! No more taking inspiration from other people to use on your own, that would be stealing..
AI can regurgitate better than you. Why not use it for its advantage?
Neural Nets ( IA it´s just a PR stunt ) are real and powerful tools. Do not use it to not support it would be like not using automobiles to not support oil companies. After all, not everyone has the resources to buy an eletrical car, as the same as paying a professional to create , in this case, the image.
It is what it is. There´s no going back.
Lazy cheater everywhere. 💀
@@GoolagThemTube Suck it up!😄
What can you really say? The dead internet theory is REAL and that's it.
But automobiles have tangible, real world benefits that actively improve your quality of life. AI doesn't even achieve that, it's an inferior substitute.
@@GoolagThemTubeirrelevant laggards everywhere too.
Couldn't agree more as in all newer discoveries can be used for good or evil. Common Sense and the Good will always prevale IMO
It's comically ironic for DT of all people to flagrantly shill for big tech companies like Microsoft actively violating the trademarks of artists. You cannot claim to support freedom in software and the rights of those people involved while supporting this, they're just not compatible. "This tool exists and isn't going anywhere, so I might as well use it" is such a bankrupt line of thought that's not too many steps away from "Well guns exist, my life would be easier if I used that tool to settle disagreements." And that last thumbnail was comically bad, you would have been better off just taking a few screenshots of desktops and throwing them together. You're not even gaining anything from using this.
If you believe that a software license like the GPL is good because it protects the creator from having their code used in a manner against their will, then it's entirely hypocritical to not treat art and their trademarks in the same manner. If Microsoft created a really cool piece of software, but it had flagrant GPL violations. Then I can't imagine DT using it. But when it comes to art, suddenly he doesn't see the issue.
Trademarks??
@@ninstars copyrights, my bad. lol
Exactly this! But he refuses to make Android / Linux content because it's not completely free like GNU /Linux he said 😅
@millsjonah First, that's not really what the GPL stands for:
The GPL doesn't prevent software from being copied and distributed, it's the total opposite, it allows to do that as long as you don't secret the code of it (therefore, allowing to be copied).
Second, I don't know why are you defending copyright and gun control, they are the biggest threat to freedom, (well, I guess free speech is the greatest)
Copyrights, patents and any form of intellectual property law should be abolished, it's one of the main causes of big tech monopolies. It's a very unfair law, look what Nintendo is doing with it.
Gun control is basically the state prohibiting to own guns to law-abiding citizens, it doesn't stop criminals from using guns and it removes the right to self-defense, banning guns means "only the state can own and use it", it's an authoritarian law (you know, like those in oppressive regimes).
Being pro free software and at the same time supporting these laws makes you an hypocrite. In fact, DT made a video named "If you support free software, you should support gun rights". And I couldn't agree more.
DT, please make a video about setting up and configuring labwc, which is the wayland version of openbox.
ew. yikes, even. cringe.
Live in the past grandpa.
@@mavfan1 i'm a software developer teamlead and i know about AI more than you'll ever do.
Mega cringe even
the only AI i've touched, was the brave search and leo, i haven't found a reason to mess with any of that stuff,
AI should not be used to make art or anything remotely creative.
Based but ok😂
Don't use it then.
@@red007master2 Yeah, but it still is gravely damaging to the internet as a whole.
The artists whose art gets used to teach these models suffer, the people whose jobs get harmed (like cartoon artists) suffer, and internet content as a whole suffers as it gets bundled in with AI-generated, soulless content.
Why do I need to pay some artist if i can generate anything i need in minutes, lot of jobs will be gone in future and we must just accept it
💯
People can criticize AI all they want, they are going to use it eventually whether they like it or not. Sorry to the people who want to still live with sticks and stones. The future is here, embrace it.
Can you give me one genuinely good example of why I would actually use AI, and how it would benefit me?
@@millsjonah no but he can ask chatgpt to do that for him 🤣
Art requires sentience. Machine Learning is not a sentient machine. The sticks and stones you mention are the tools that made all of human culture.
@@qeqsiquemechanical9041 "People can criticize AI all they want"
I wasn't aware that I needed your permission.
" they are going to use it eventually whether they like it or not."
Nonsense, Open Source will always be there to give you the choice to not use it and do it manually, even if it also offers you the opportunity to use it too. You clearly don't understand how Open Source works. (Poor education? Weren't taught how to think critically? Couldn't work that out for yourself?)
"Sorry to the people who want to still live with sticks and stones."
Just because I haven't spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a Ferrari doesn't mean I'm not perfectly happy driving a Toyota - it doesn't mean I end up walking everywhere I go.
What you're doing there is presenting a "straw man" argument - and I bet your teachers never taught you what that even means.
"The future is here, embrace it."
The future is what I make it, not what greedy billionaires impose on to you sheeple.
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After watching this I gave Dall-E (and one other model) the task of making a picture of empty space. Just a few stars for a background, specifically with no planets or celestial bodies in it. There's a rate limit of 25 images per 3 hours, and no matter how I tried to explain what I wanted (and more importantly didn't want), 24 of those had planets. I understand the need for a rate limit, but when 96% of the images include the one thing I asked it not to do, it's a little frustrating. I'll say this, DALL-E loves Saturn, sometimes I'd get two or three in an image, or a huge one that covered half the image. Arthur Dent had an easier time getting proper cup of tea.
Have you tried doing it yourself?
@ALien-bx7se oh sure, I've even won a few photochop contests back in the day, but DALL-E was the challenge of the day.
Just a followup: I asked a different AI how it would go about asking ask DALL-E for what I wanted. I got a lot of feedback, including a note that AI can have difficulty with negative phrases like "no planets". It gave me some phrases to try, and the winner was "An expansive void of space featuring only a small number of stars and nebulae, without any planets present." ... Well, It did actually get one planet in there, but it was small and I can take that out myself. More interesting, DALL-E recognized that it managed to sneak one in, and even seem slightly amused about it.
I think I may go back and explore the topic of how these ChatGPTs "want" to be talked to, could be an interesting venture.
i have artist friends who are, naturally, concerned about their futures. i don't know how practical it is to resist generative ai, but i do feel a little sad to see the "soul" (i.e. the humanity) taken out of art. i'm ambivalent on it all, i certainly won't condemn people for using it and have used it myself. but, at the same time, i can see why people are concerned over it. re: low level use of it for stuff like thumbnail creation, i can't see the harm. perhaps it could harm professional thumbnail makers, and that is concerning, but the motorcar was concerning to blacksmiths. i'm not saying it's moralistic one way or the other, rather just, it is what it is.
Images produced by AI are not "art", they are merely the output from a "non-intelligent probabiliity engine".
@@terrydaktyllus1320 yeah, i think "art" is probably the better way to put it.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 as I said in another comment I won't take sides _but_ lots of human-made "art" is not art but just output of a human brain and a prompt
Ever been on deviantart? Ever seen some corporate "art" used on websites and webinars?
Artists are just mad there jobs could be automated away as well, like everyone else’s have been. Nobody cares when we automate away other fields of work, why should I care about artists?
@@missing_score2 I mean, it can be art of enough people believe it is. But it's not that probable
Nah, AI is weird. All it should be used for is funny meme videos.
Especially in creative fields. AI will literally destroy art. Hope you guys enjoy the dystopian future you want so much
Art will not die. People nickle and diming you for shitty drawings will.
"Artificial Intelligence"? That's "marketing speak" that justifies someone selling you something you never needed in the first place.
And yet it’s not going away.
What are you talking about? AI has nothing to do with marketing unless company is trying to sell a better AI model. And yes, we do need it if we ever want to have a chance to advance further towards the future.
@@Brand0-d9w "What are you talking about?"
I'm sorry you lack the comprehension skills to read and understand written English. That possibly explains your reliance on something else like AI to do your thinking for you.
Don't worry, I blame the poor education system that failed to teach your generation how to think critically.
@@Brand0-d9w And what future is that, dude - redundancy?
AI DT. We cant be sure that its even DT maybe its alredy AI deep fake
If you replace yourself with somebody else making the content for you but worse, people also won't be happy. Same thing
With AI it's even worse, because it's much harder to add your own creative input in there.
The reason for criticism of AI is not because of the tech, it's because of the data laundering and theft of creative works for the sake of profit without compensating the creatives to train the models. This is why I'm so strongly against AI as a creative. The tech is fine, I don't mind the tech, but the way the models were trained is wholly unethical and I cannot abide that.
I mean that thumbnail with the Linux desktops.... Ubunnu, xce ...creepy looking tux. It looks like trash. It is AI slop!
Hey DT ton help you understand the initial reaction, first Linux community is nitpicking on everything that’s new, and many people think the AI is stealing jobs from artists.
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Stable Diffusion, Flux.
I have a mixed opinion on AI. On one hand, AI can be used for some good reasons, from concepting and drafting text, images and even audio, to correcting mistakes, to even just chatting and getting new insights. However, AI also introduces risks and challenges for artists and people who want to help them out. Artists, whose art was scraped to train this AI, don't like that AI is used by people who pretend they're the same type of artist as they are and lie to people about their skills, and then get paid more because they can generate faster art than regular artists.
Oh no, Dt likes AI. Robots are going to rule the world, lol......I hope AI won't take over his channel...... When I see an AI generated thumbnail of ladies in compromising positions on different youtube channels I report every single one of them. There's a lot of kids that use youtube. They don't need to see that kind of crap.
Happy to see DT embracing new technology and staying open minded to trying new things. The copyright is a problem but to there are also benefits.
DT, Please stop... This is embarrassing af especially coming from someone who cares about gpl and libre software
Dude, stop promoting the taking of money from my wallet. AI art is dogshit, I've used FLOSS tools exclusively as a professional illustrator for the last 15 years, and these tools trained on art without permission and I've lost a dozen clients to Midjourney subscriptions. I've made my pivots to compensate, but DALL-E literally trained on my art without my permission. Do better, dude.
You're a greedy, greedy, man.
Was frankly shocking to see his views on this, given his support for free and open source software. Much love and support to artists like you friend.
It's probably little consolation to you but as a long-term computer hobbyist from pre-Internet days who also worked in the IT industry for decades and has supported FOSS and Linux for almost three decades, all I see this as doing is filling the Internet with more gimmicry and crap that I have zero interest in anyway.
Peak Internet was in the early days of broadband and Google in their "don't be evil" era, probably around 2000-2008 when you could just create a website to just show the world what you make or do, sell it by mail order and make your money that way - with no "middle men" taking their cut with their "platforms".
I'm not even a musician but I consider music streaming to be "legalised theft" by Apple and Spotify as "middle men platform providers" and, as a result, I only buy physical media on CD or vinyl because that's the best way to reward an artist, as well as going to live concerts and buying the merchandise.
And as a "FLOSS brother", I can only wish you the best of luck and success going forward.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 thank you so much! Yeah, the kicker is I'm also a lifelong musician, tour all the time, etc., and yeah - streaming is thievery.
To be fair, you trained your skills on other people’s art without their permission, that’s how learning something works. 🤷♂️
Learn to use ai as a tool, you still have 15 years of experience that your regular joe and a ai prompt doesn’t have.