2026-10-05 15:02 UTC
This idea that the LLM is analogous to a camera is such an insipid, thought-terminating cliché.
Its completely wrong, too - the camera’s invention didn’t render painting obsolete like he implies. The only way you’d come to that conclusion is if you’re utterly devoid of creativity and artistic insight.
Iris suggested “prevent[ing] people from studying software development and only software development” in her article. I fully endorse that idea - at the bare minimum, it’d hopefully reduce the number of dipshits like this guy.
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@gerikson@awful.systems 2026-10-05 15:18
I think the advent of photography decimated a particular genre of painting - portraits, but it was still a tail-off. The middle classes could get photo portraits done but they were only B&W and small (a Daguerreotype is basically twice as big as a standard photo print) and still quite expensive. So if you wanted a big color portrait of a loved one, you still had to commission a painting. Same for landscapes.
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@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 2026-10-05 15:20
@BlueMonday1984@awful.systems @sinedpick@awful.systems > The only way you’d come to that conclusion is if you’re utterly devoid of creativity and artistic insight You might be onto something here