Quoting: GuestAre you Picasso or an average human? You really think your creativity cannot match an AI?

Yes, I fear I'm less creative at least in writing poems and painting than an AI.

I hope I'm still better (more creative?!? I don't know!) in my best field, software development.

But all of this seems to be a "Rückzugsgefecht" (dictionaries say it's "rearguard action" in English?) of mankind.
We're trying to defend what we think we're best in and what seems to be the "most human" trait to us, and it gives us strong feelings, and it makes us fear.

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Quoting: mahagrAfter the last update, for me Steam is now totally broken in my computer, fonts are huge and menus do not fit into the space they are given. So yeah, I am not gaming in my Linux desktop for a bit as it also lost all the games due to folder change, which I am not able to fix without tinkering as also the configuration modal is broken. :)

On the other hand, I have no interest to game in my computer right now, I guess.. I just use my Steam deck instead.

If someone else has ran into the scaling issue, please let the rest of us to know how to easily fix it.

You could try
GDK_SCALE=1 steam
in the terminal.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusLooking at those numbers: bets on whether Linux exceeds MacOS in Steam share by the end of the year? :happy:

Wow, this is hefty! :shock:

Linux 1.44% -0.03%
OSX 1.79% -0.60%

So it's 2.39 => 1.79 in a single month, and this cannot be due to China, or Linux would have seen a similar drop!

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I don't stop being surprised how low the percentage of the 1 - 2 million Deck users is compared to all Linux users. :)

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Quoting: Linux_RocksHowever plebian on-board sound is a disgrace. I'm glad that my Sound Blaster AE-7 works *better* in Linux than Windows.

I once had my Windows installation (long time ago) give up on my SoundBlaster due to an update (I think it was Vista). Linux continued to support it. It's not always Linux that's failing on hardware support...

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Quoting: GuestHow is an AI supposed to "create" or "innovate" when it just vomits associations of other work it has been trained upon?

AI is more "creative" than most humans.

These comparisons are getting ridiculous. Yes, computers are less creative than Pablo Picasso, less intelligent than Albert Einstein and every some million miles of driving, they are killing a person. But they can compete with an average human in all of these fields easily. Mots of us don't write poems or paint pictures at all.

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Quoting: fabertaweThis is not generally a good thing, in my view. Jobs will be lost and the quality of human creativity will be diluted and swamped by a tsunami of this stuff.

The strange thing is that now AI is painting and writing poems, while humans are doing hard work for minimal wages.

Wasn't this once supposed to be the other way around...?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: hardpenguinYes, this is good. Gotta get rid of the AI generated images (it is difficult to call it art).

It's obvious that this will not happen, right?

I do understand - and share - such feelings, but in the end, it's like trying to get rid of photos in the early stages of photography because they're "not art".

People said similar things about music sharing--where did it go?

Erm, I got no idea which similarity you're pointing at here. (Music sharing, like with Napster?)

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: hardpenguinYes, this is good. Gotta get rid of the AI generated images (it is difficult to call it art).

It's obvious that this will not happen, right?

I do understand - and share - such feelings, but in the end, it's like trying to get rid of photos in the early stages of photography because they're "not art".

People said similar things about music sharing--where did it go?

Erm, I got no idea which similarity you're pointing at here. (Music sharing, like with Napster?)

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: FSE

Quoting: EikeThey could Paint Yoda and Harry already.

Painting Yoda or Harry is IP infringement unless one can prove fair use.

You missunderstood what I tried to say: They can paint Yoda and Harry already, and thus infringe copyright, just like they can with AI. So I see nothing new with regards to Yoda and Harry.

Yeah, but the point is everything an AI produces is somebody's Yoda or Harry--maybe two or three somebodies mixed together if you're lucky.

Ok, I do get the point, but I don't believe the premise is true. AI can come up with stuff at the back that doesn't look like anything put in at the front. (When I think of it, my body ca... well, let's skip that. :D )

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