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This is very general and I don't see the point honestly.

Different countries are very different.

You probably can name "the usual grifters" in your domicile but don't expect the same patterns to be transferrable to different regions.

Sometimes pathologies are portable like the the authoritarian state capture toolkit but even there _who are you doing it with_ can be quite different even though _how you are doing it_ may seem familiar.

Also by any metric the general unspecific list of countries "east and west" has lots of variance in life expectancy, happiness, poverty, literacy etc.

So I can only read this as pointless general venting or faux cynicism.

I mean the whole point of democratic system _is_ you want rotating cliques and infighting. Because defaulting to consensus isn't really that democratic.

The large blocks need to be able to move forward in legislation but the more uglier and tumultuous the backroom dealing are (within legal bounds) the healthier the democracy is.

Browser developers implemented the dev console there. You are not reaching it ”just because you have kb/m”. You can reach dev tools as easily via touch on a pc with touch support.

Touch is really nice UX modality.

But it sucks to use application designed for mouse with touch.

So it's not that "touch is bad UX modality" it's "applications should be designed for touch as first class citizen" and by design I mean _proper_ design as in from the ground up not just prettier colors and slihgtly tweaked layout.

" you have less control."

Keyboard and mouse don't give you any more autonomy over the application developers state machine.

I'm not sure I understand the claim of "being in control". The UX is different, sure, often. But that's not "control" over the design of the application.

Yes. Design sells.

"Why would anyone get Eames Lounge Chair? I can buy similar enough kit for a 20th of the price".

Since many of us are sort of keen on products this would be really, really good to remember :)

We may be at some sort of communications gap.

To be clear my intent is not to misrepresent your statement, just to explain how I hear it.

"I am talking about fairness of application of law"

But there is no fairness in application of law?

The law is the law. Just like 1 + 1 is 2, the role of the legal process is to compute this. And it should apply to same to any party that is active in a legal process.

The fact they are rules mean they are expected to be respected and enforced.

You are here repeating the same argument that goes "it's only a crime if you get caught".

This is a specific philosophy of law.

Now while rule of law has different meanings depending on the country where you live, in a nordic democracy like Finland legislation exists for the benefit of public good, and acting by these laws is one of the foundational expectations in the society.

The fact they are recognized to serve the public good, means everyone is expected to follow them, and not following them is not only a process error, but in fact, deeply immoral.

I do realize different countries operate differently and somewhere else laws are not necessarily about trying to achieve philosophical good outcomes for the population.

But in Finland "well it's the law but who follows those things" argument is not common sense rule of thumb but considered wanton disregard of public good - which everyone considers to be a shared responsibility to maintain.

No, those are not art in themselves if they are based on dumb prompting.

They are random noise pastiches.

Art requires authorship.

I mean that's my definition :)

The author needs to have sufficient level of artistic skill and talent to be able to produce pieces with artistic merit. Even if they just prompt it - which they likely wont because prompt based outputs alone generally suck.

My definition for sufficient level of skill where AI tools become useful as a form of expression with true artistic merit, would be that you must be able to generate the same image with traditional media without AI:s help

If it turns out there was deep authorship in these works on some level (other than just running through random prompts) then the situation becomes more nuanced.

You should be able to tweak each individual detail with exact authorship. And _understand_ what you are doing.

So if an established painter, photographer or cinematographer uses prompt based tools, there the tools become part of expressive workflow that likely has higher artistic standard.

You can't really develop this sensitivity with prompting alone (generally).

_General_ artistic value is a DIFFERENT thing from doing something a person personally enjoys, though!

It's totally fine to enjoy prompting images.

People enjoy doing puzzles, building legos, practicing piano, playing computer games etc.

Ie engaged in activites which they enjoyu without external valuation mechanism involved.

These things are called _hobbies_. And it's awesome to have hobbies whatever they are.

You can use AI to transfer content between mediums and manufacture designs.

Succesfull artists don’t necessarily develop the pieces beyond conceptualization and editorial control.

See for instance Damien Hirsch. Or the academic painters with their own workshops.

AI can handle large amounts of routine tasks. Like converting an image to a 3D mesh. I don’t frankly see the difference between that and Damien Hirsch giving his craftsmen a task to deliver a piece.

If you talk to modern art critica you will end up with argumentation where the concept of the piece is what matters not the execution or it’s quality.

If original concept is all that matters very hard to see how AI generated steps could not be part of that pipeline.

Nobody is claiming getting random stuff from generic non-specific prompting counts as art.

But what if you do an original painting or drawing; then have AI convert it to 3D mesh and print it - and pass it off as art? That is a non-obvious situation.

Not really sure why removing the AI component would make anything better. They are a new modality for art and expression.

To give you an idea how the situation really is like, for example Finland has municipal compost inspectors that track individual property composting.

While things can fall through cracks your disregard for regulation does not really apply as a fair example to the milieu.

I think this is missing a nice hack.

Learn to draw.

Then ask the model to restyle the image.

You can get wonderful photographs with the exact composition and scene you want for all sorts of use cases.

Second hack.

Model the scene you want from low resolution geometry (boxes, spheres etc) for the composition. Then use that to ground the generated image (ie give it as reference) and ask the model to re-imagine it in the style you want.

"jump through pointless bureaucratic hoops?"

This here is the exact sentiment which is making the entire country quite angry.

These are not pointless bureaucratic hoops.

The entire voting population is quite worried of large multinational companies starting extractive projects that damage the environment, like mines.

These are the same processes that are put into place to stop say mining companies wantonly ravaging the landscape.

It's a canary of a large company attempting to avoid the process, which was put in place to protect the environment.

So everyone is now quite concerned that are the environmental protections really functional or not.

Basically everyone considers nature to be a public good in Finland. There is "every mans right" which allows you to camp and collect berries almost everywhere, for instance. Majority of the population has vacation homes in the forests next to lakes. A large mine that ignores environmental effects can thus damage both the public goods and the value of private properties quite a lot. I mean - that is the feeling the people have.

So it's not about "company doing something in their own property, big deal". It's about respecting safety mechanism to protect public goods.

And, that the government should keep everyone equal under the law.

No one is thinking only about few trees. Everyone is quite angry that a company could not follow due process without any backlash and worried what happens with, say the next large mine if the systems intended to protect the nature are not really working.