Yeah, quantity over quality right here. If my favourite game doesn’t run on Linux, Linux is dead to me. Even if I had 5 favourite games and 1 doesn’t work, it’s still dead.

So for a lot of people it’s either 100% or it might as well not exist.

I disagree with the optinions stated in your reply.

You shouldn’t dismiss it just because you can’t get it to deliver what you need.

The garbage I see on the internet is enough for me to not use it. Let me hire a “prompt engineer”, I’m sure that’s more useful than a junior graphics designer. In your world, maybe.

Glhf

You are fucking high on your own farts. Learn to generate garbage images if you’re so scared, I don’t give a shit.

I know how it works, since we’re always hiring and looking for new talent.

I really don’t care what a passer-by-AI-is-the-future rando thinks about me.

I’m talking from a perspective of reality. What you “predict” or “feel” or imagine the industry is or going to be, doesn’t really interest me much.

No, I ate shit the first few years after uni, making coffee and changing texts on visuals.

Are you truimg to imply that a crappy image generator that can barely make text and has trouble generating the appropriate amount of fingers has taken over THE ENTIRE visual design industry?

We probably live on different planets.

You’ve made it clear, but it seems you’re unaware of how the design industry works.

You cannot beat a Nurburgring lap record with a slow, cheap car. You CAN do laps, but “doing laps” is not what the high-end companies want & need.

You cannot replace quality, expensive work with cheap work and expect the same result. Otherwise, companies would hire 1st-year-dirt-cheap freelancers, or outsource to fivr. Companies that do that are mostly starting themselves or are so cheap, that they are of no value to the designer.

Stop the “AI” dooming that’s only beneficial to the prople who sell it.

None of the highly successful people I know within the industry is worried about the generative garbage, because it’s all that is.

Yeah, quality is expensive, welcome to Earth.

That’s not capitalism, that’s economics. It’s the way it should be.

I invest half of my life’s time studying and honing my skill. I will charge accordingly for it.

Most clients don’t understand art or graphics to begin with, I guess.

That means shit prompts and shit visuals.

They just wanted someone good at Illustrator.

Well, that’s where the “not very good at graphics design” comes in. If you’re only hired because “you know illustrator”, that says more about you than the client.

Precisely what designers do - they make the visuals Pleasing. Doesn’t mater if it’s for goat sacrifice service or granny’s muffin shop.

It is a skill that can barely be learned by a person. Often very good designers have ‘talent’ or ‘good eye’.

Even though art is subjective, you can still pretty much rank designers.

My dude, I’m literally replying to a person who said “rip graphics designers”. Of course I’m talking about my on field.

Nah, I’ve just been in the industry long enough to not be scared of competition. Quality is something that a lot of well-paying businesses very much appreciate.

A crappy visual generator is on-par with an intern, at best.

The people who are startled the most, probably have never actually done design large-scale.

Yeah, not a high-end business.

These days they’re aware that good marketing & design = $$$.

I could not care less what low-end suits decide, they’re not what brings designers money.

More “AI” garbage means that good designs will have an easier time crystalising.

High-end businesses that need high-quality design would never use output from an “AI”.

If they do, that means they don’t take design seriously, and are fine with “not a very good graphics designer”. So my point stands, IMO.

If current “AI” is taking one’s job as a graphics designer, it means that one isn’t a very good graphics designer.

A garbage social network run by garbage people using hate to spur comments and clicks!? Well that’s unheard of!

On a serious note, thanks for sharing this.

“her” ???

Big celebrity of the “maker” space. Often showed signs of protest against the CPP, while living in China. Often controversial due to appearance.

Dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to die…

Apologies, I’ll see myself out.

What is a safe space except a place where one can be protected from that which they fear?

Again, so condescending. And you hold yourself as one of the “good ones”? Lol. You’re just helping the .art admin’s case, the more you talk, the more the defederation makes sense.

“Fear”. Okay. That’s either a projection or… I don’t know, stupidity. Your inability to put yourself in others’ shoes is staggering, but not surprising. Do you think that just because I walk around a pile of dogshit on the ground, I’m afraid of the dogshit? What is this logic?

Let me really chew this for you: wanting to avoid something, does not equal fear. I’m not on facebook because I fear 5G-anti-vaxx-GOP Karens, I’m not on facebook, because I don’t want to read that shit a.k.a, I WANT TO AVOID IT.

A safe space, is a space that is safe from idiocy & hate speech. A safe space where you cannot hide behind “muh free speech”. It’s basically like any other privately-controlled space, where the owner decides what is “safe”. If you enter a cafe and start giving out flyers with your own agenda, you will most likely be asked to leave. This is not because the owner is afraid of you, it’s because the owner doesn’t want you or your bullshit in their space, that they’re keeping safe. Privately held mastodon instances are not a public square. You hold no rights. You are entitled to nothing.

Defederating an entire instance based on one boost of one fairly innocuous news article

That is not what happened.

but at the expense of stepping on so many others’ toes.

Toes of fragile ego folk? Otherwise, nobody’s toes are stepped on.

I hope it’s worth all the drama.

Drama that you literally create out of thin air, just because an instance you were on got defederated? Now that’s fragility if I ever seen it.

Mastodon is a social network that’s designed to be eerily similar to Twitter

Mastodon is an open source project. It’s designed to be used in ways people find it useful to be used. Some create instagram-like experience (Pixelfed), some create Twitter-like experience, some create Behance\Ello\ArtStation experience. Your expectation of what Mastodon is and how it should be run is narrow-minded and simply incorrect.

If the aim of the mastodon.art instance isn’t close to the average use case for Mastodon

“Average use of Mastodon” sounds very similar to “Normal people”. Sure, let’s change the domain name, because of your expectation of how Mastodon should be used.

Imagine, Mastodon.art being about… wait for it… art? On… let this sink in… Mastodon?

Administrative actions can hurt people’s feelings, too.

Ah, there it is. It’s all about YOU. Again. Petulance & Entitlement. I’m done, it’s a case of terminal fragile-ego-techbro-ism that any time spent at the keyboard will not mend. But thanks for making me side with the .art admin even more, even though I have no horse in this race.