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I finally poked at my nginx logs, because generally nothing happens on my servers

202.155.137.157 - - [30/Mar/2025:00:53:00 +0100] "GET /mirrors-JapanMapTranslate-github/patch/bin/kanaconv/HiraganaConverterImpl.class?id=c1c09efe21a09ecbd6f95641c8a0086ec538ae39 HTTP/1.1" 200 663 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/312.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.3"

yeah... yeah... ok... this bitch is accessing ONE specific file as Power PC Mac OS X ???

get the fuck outta here.

% Information related to '202.155.137.0/24AS212238'

route: 202.155.137.0/24
origin: AS212238
descr: CV. Rumahweb Indonesia
Jl. Arimbi No. 482
Kel. Banguntapan, Kec. Banguntapan
mnt-by: MAINT-CRI-ID
last-modified: 2025-02-25T00:03:14Z
source: APNIC

With the most recent online trend of having AI generated images sort of resembling the art style of Studio Ghibli, nothing sums things up more than this quote by Hayao Miyazaki on similar technology from several years ago:

"I can't watch this stuff and find [it] interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all."

Which also brings to mind this quote by Guillermo del Toro, said during a conversation with the British Film Institute, where he also, interestingly enough, references Miyazaki and his work later on:

“I saw a demo of AI and I thought oh that's what people think animation is, giving prompts and the computer does it. You know, but AI has demonstrated that it can do semi-compelling screensavers. That's essentially that. The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires, it’s how much would you risk to be in its presence. How much would people pay for those screensavers? Are they going to make them cry because they lost a son? A mother? Because they misspent their youth? Fuck no!”

More personal rambling on why only human art is art here:
🔗 fringemagnet.net/2025/03/artif

Full Guillermo del Toro video here: 📽️ youtu.be/TlC9sxUu2l0?si=a2LTgw

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An older video of Miyazaki replying to AI experimenting. The most importing part is the student saying 'we'd like to make a machine that draws like humans'.

If you use AI to create stuff, you might get temporarely corporate 'likes', but you'll never get the respect you're looking for.

And you're supporting the destroying of real life artist carreers.

Get yourself some pencil and paper and start on YOUR carreer.

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