Ari Prakash

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programmer, trans woman, college student
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Age19
Pronounsshe/her
GitHubhttps://github.com/ariscript
Show threadAri PrakashJun 12, 2024
@eb i want turing to see this and marvel at our feats
Show threadAri PrakashJun 12, 2024
@eb humanity has peaked with the invention of this app. the internet cant offer anything better
Show threadAri PrakashJun 10, 2024
@eb seems to be doing a bad job of that
Show threadAri PrakashJun 10, 2024
@eb in the current gen-ai hypetrain, its worse for apple's brand image to not do anything than to ship a bad product - since people expect that these things are bad anyway.
maybe i'm giving apple too much credit for making it bad on purpose, but if it was intentional, it was a good idea.
Show threadAri PrakashJun 10, 2024
@ari to add on to this, even the things they showed on screen for image generation were quite bad (real product is likely even worse). i think the play apple is making here is to ship a minimum viable product to send a message that they're doing something, and the relatively bad mass market exposure that most people are getting to genai is probably (hopefully) going to cut down on misinformation using these generation tools since they're so obviously fake.

it also doesn't step on artists' jobs as much in this space (compared to other systems out there), keeping more of the creatives on apple's side than microsoft/openai.

i didn't consider that they're using this to kill genai, but that's not the wildest idea.
Show threadAri PrakashJun 10, 2024
@eb this is why it’s called image playground, it was never presented as a productivity feature. maybe you can also argue that bad in order to kill some of the hype - but that feels a bit weird to me.
the main use case is to get random images to send in your group chats or those shitty ai voice tiktoks
Show threadAri PrakashJun 10, 2024
@eb i fully believe that these images are bad intentionally, to make it immediately clear to everyone that it’s a generated ai image to prevent mass usage of these features to spread disinformation. they could’ve made it good if they wanted to (just pay openai more for dalle), but they chose not to.
perhaps also to make its proper use cases very limited (random one off things in messages) to keep the mac using artists on their side
Ari PrakashJun 5, 2024
@rooster somtimes i compare this to being left-handed - there was a point in time when the number of lefties in the population was low. once they stopped forcibly converting us and casting the rest aside as witches the number did increase. whatever happened to the lefties converting our naturally right-handed children?
Show threadAri PrakashJun 5, 2024
@[email protected] sounds like something someone involved with said drama would say
Ari PrakashJun 4, 2024
@chloe @foone @niko i don’t think your 12c can do this?