I mean Ukraine has the opposite problem, soviet created a system where only having connections with people in power matters. And trust me, you'd rather be discriminated by wealth rather by not being part of someone's family.
Post-soviet, majority of economy was state-controlled, lots of money go through state via taxes. This created a class of oligarchs who gained their wealth controlling state owned factories and leeching money to their personal accounts. These people own TV channels and elect their politicians on populist leftist platforms. Ofc they don't deliver, but hey, lots of money are spent on social net, got stolen along the way to the end user.
Naturally, oligarchs have no interests in other people to be able to open up their businesses or whatever. So smart people in Ukraine do look up on how capitalism works, cause more private money would circulate in the country, the faster things will change.
Then you should provably know that image gen existed long before MLLMs and was already a menace to artists back then.
And that MLLM is generally a layered combo of lots of preexisting tools, where LLM is used as a medium that allows to attach OCR inputs and give more accurate instructions to image gen AI part.
AI marketing is total BS, but it doesn't mean AI is not useful in it's current state. People try to argue as if that was the case, but it simply isn't. Agentic AI + LLM does speed up usual tasks by a whole fucking lot.
Next day, these people would be wondering why they don't have access to essential tools they need to be effective (means of production), completely forgotten they were against these tools completely out of principle. This is as shortsighted as it can get.
You can have knowledge of the technology firsthand and just need to generate the code? I mean I would need to google different function names and conversion tricks all the time anyway, even if I'm really good at it. If AI slops it for me, it just speeds it up by a lot, and I can notice bad moments.
Again, the better you know what you are doing, the more it could help.
The fuck, they just attacked the protest and they have the audacity to claim they were subjected to verbal abuse or whatever. Nobody should have the right to just push the protest out of the street just because they feel like it.
Some really vicious backdoor that contains dangerous substance in a hidden chamber? Not a far reach when we are talking about corporate backdoors normalized.
When reading cyberpunk lore, quickhacks didn't make any sense to me. Some programs that break cyberware because of backdoors, but why would people install cyberware with backdoors?
Now I look at the sad state of mobile market and, yeah ok, that makes sense.
I mean Ukraine has the opposite problem, soviet created a system where only having connections with people in power matters. And trust me, you'd rather be discriminated by wealth rather by not being part of someone's family.
Post-soviet, majority of economy was state-controlled, lots of money go through state via taxes. This created a class of oligarchs who gained their wealth controlling state owned factories and leeching money to their personal accounts. These people own TV channels and elect their politicians on populist leftist platforms. Ofc they don't deliver, but hey, lots of money are spent on social net, got stolen along the way to the end user.
Naturally, oligarchs have no interests in other people to be able to open up their businesses or whatever. So smart people in Ukraine do look up on how capitalism works, cause more private money would circulate in the country, the faster things will change.