molave

Community sizes are smaller but the larger ones are large enough to sustain conversations

Here’s an interest stack to (re)start with: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34889

NFTs

Anime! There’s something about their way of storytelling that tugs my emotions no other medium can do.

Delayed Gratification

Thank you for your thoughts. Hope it helps.

Financial literacy, primarily how to live within or below your means.

Almost anything at this point. It feels like the “first hit is free” modus of drug dealers.

Corporate-owned AI (or anything corporate, really) will be used to control sooner or later. As such, I’m not a fan of those, and I agree with your concerns here. I like community-based and local LLMs, on the other hand.

if there is too much art, so much so that no one will pay for it, won’t everything turn into a living garbage dump? Chances are, if you ask most people in your immediate area, they’d prefer human-made art if they can find someone and can pay for their services. For me, AI art is a result of a “creative demand overflow”, for lack of a better term, because not enough human artists are there to do everything.

You’ll find someone willing to pay to differentiate themselves from the sameness of mass-produced AI art.

That worked five years ago. Why wouldn’t it work now?

If “worked” mean “I just don’t bother because I can’t draw and I don’t have money, so I’ll keep my ideas in my head”, sure.

13abyknight

What’s the point? Where’s the story, where’s the work, if everything is so simple, then what’s the point?

I’m not a good artist. If I could commission someone to make art for me I would. The reality is if we restrict art sources to human artists in absolutely all cases, nothing much will get done. There’s so much demand and not enough supply. I will commission someone if I intend to distribute work. If the point is to give the viewer a rough idea i.e. an unfinished product, I will not hesitate to use AI as one of my many tools available to get my point across.

Hidden Brain and Hardcore History

Lemmy communities are more tight-knit because of its size. That means if you go against the narrative, you’re cast out, for better or worse.