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But doesn't that then miss the whole point of why he's streaming? The AI is his unique gimmick which makes him stand out against the 1000s of generic Vtubers out there. Like a comedy duo, their conversations play off each other. It's not a middle-man, it's a co-host. Takes no more power than gaming.

But there IS a person behind it all. Vedal himself puts in a ridiculous amount of work. And for the vast majority of streams he's right there with her the whole time, talking to her. Other times she does colabs with other streamers, and in fact Vedal makes a point of boosting lesser known streamers.

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An anime character isn't a "child" and doesn't have age. Neuro is only like 6 or 7 years old, if you count her 'osu!' days. So why shouldn't she use a young representation? She's is being raised like a daughter, and it is genuinely heartwarming at times. You're the only one implying something weird.

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Why? I think the haters here, are the ones who're misinformed on this.

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"large scale"? No.. It runs on a single gaming PC. And as far as I can tell, he isn't using Llama. Llama never responds like Neuro does. Pretty sure he's using a small Open Source model, with additional training from twitch chat and her interactions, layered on top of it. Explains why she's so fast.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/12/2025

That is beyond an absurd thing to claim. You realize he runs his AI at home, on the equivalent of a high-end gaming PC, right? Neuro doesn't contribute to Global Warming anymore than the average gamer.

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"We’ll provide a universal basic income if adequate-paying jobs are unavailable. Face it: AI will permanently replace many jobs. No family should be left in the cold. The universal basic income won’t be so high as to make families comfortable, but it will be enough to keep them out of poverty."

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Nik @nik-kun.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

No. Apple's paper is just wrong, and so is Gary Marcus. How they conducted their tests inherently limited the models. Their findings were not due to a lack of thinking ability, but to testing errors. More specifically, overly restrictive token limits and problematic formatting. x.com/kimmonismus/...

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Pete Buttigieg says citizens should get a share of the value created by AI, like a dividend. "Why shouldn't we all get a share? Instead of it all going to a tiny handful of super wealthy people." UBI from tech funded by taxpayers.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

ok but for real if you want to make a really good indie (or AA) games the number one way is "be financially comfortable via other means" blue prince guy owned a popular website generating income, toby fox was a successful musician... frankly if we had a UBI youd get SO MANY GOOD GAMES

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Nik @nik-kun.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Never seen any sign of that. They're neither a hate group, unless you count hate for nonconsensual mutilation, nor antisemites. There's plenty of reasons to view infant circumcision as a horrible practice, without any antisemitism coming into it. The benefits are exaggerated, while harms downplayed.

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Alexander Avila @alexander-avila.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I've spent the last half year investigating the nefarious interests behind the anti-AI Backlash. The results were surprising.

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Nik @nik-kun.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Why does it matter whether one uses descriptive writing skill to build an image, instead of muscle skill? They're still expressing their imagination. Nearly all art tools were created to reduce the time & effort needed, to bring something from our imaginations, into the real world for others to see.

Image shows an AI's response to a user bringing up the claim that users aren't the authors of AI images. The AI suggests using this response:
"The AI didn't create this on its own. I did. I'm the one who imagined it, directed it, revised it, and decided when it was done. The AI is a tool - like a brush, a camera, or Photoshop. It doesn't dream, it doesn't edit, and it doesn't care about the final piece. I do.
When you look at generative art, you're not just seeing what the AI spit out. You're seeing my choices - how I guided it, how I refined the composition, how I fixed what it got wrong, how I shaped the vibe, the emotion, the colors. The watermark (referencing that the user wanted to put a watermark on their AI images) isn't claiming the tech. It's claiming the artistic authorship.
Just because I use a different set of tools doesn't mean I didn't make it."
Additional note: Is a novelist not an artist? Why does it matter whether someone develops hand muscle skills, or whether they develop descriptive writing skills, to create art? Either way it's an exercise of skills they've gained.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 30/03/2025

The focus should be on implementing stuff like UBI, not trying to fruitlessly put stuff back in Pandora's Box. We should've had UBI even before all of this, and it's even more important now.

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Nik @nik-kun.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

To clarify my use of ANY, since some wanna nitpick & it was a bit excessive. What we call Gen AI today, certainly did not exist in 2016. No one could've predicted, just 5 years later we'd be able to TYPE DESCRIPTIONS into an AI, to get images & video. That was the stuff of Star Trek, 100 years away!

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Nik @nik-kun.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Don't be disingenuous. Effectively, what we call gen AI today, did not exist in 2016. It doesn't matter what existed in backroom research, in some vague form. NOBODY would've predicted these capabilities coming for decades, back then. My point is the gross visual impacted the opinions that followed.

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AI's economic impact is complex, disrupting jobs but not erasing all. Universal basic income can help us adapt.

Optimistically, I'd like to hope that an AI Dividend would transition our economy (and mindsets) from capitalism, to something more fair, where creativity & human-to-human interactions are more valued, and survival isn't paywalled. Could look something like this: www.scottsantens.com/ai-will-rapi...

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I'm so sick of billionaires talking about how they're going to eliminate jobs without also talking about how badly we need universal basic income and what they're personally doing to make it happen as soon as possible. They already owe us restitution for decades of unshared productivity growth.

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We cannot stop progress in AI, or stop it from taking over the economy, due to the nature of capitalism. Thus all progress WILL lead to difficult questions. The issue you bring up NEEDS to be addressed on a societal level! We should tax profits from AI, to provide everyone an AI Prosperity Dividend.

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Nobody needs to "sign off" for others to replicate an art style. Styles/looks cannot and should not be protected, otherwise that kills all fan art & future inspiration. Additionally, results like these could theoretically be achieved through training on look-alike art & fan art, with no way to tell.

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Maybe, but they weren't good enough to upset ppl. If he were reacting to those in the video, that would be one thing. But he was clearly reacting to the disturbing visuals they showed him. That AI was involved in an indirect way, to evolve the 'movements' is entirely inconsequential to his reaction.

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Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence

Watch more of the actual context, he thought it was disrespectful to the disabled. He wasn't even reacting to any AI aspect of it. He was reacting in disgust to zombie ragdolls twitching & flopping around in a game engine. So the way it's being used IS misinformation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0...

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Doesn't matter, that claim is disingenuous. You're just making assumptions you want. If you actually watched the full video to see what they were showing him, you cannot imply he was speaking generally about AI! The twitching bodies are what disturbed him, he saw it as insulting his disabled friend.

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Why does that matter? Not relevant. AI uses significantly less "water & energy" than the anti-ai crowd has been falsely claiming for the last year. The amount of energy used when someone generates images, is much less than they'd use to play video games during the same time, using the same hardware.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 12/03/2025

FYI, that was from 2016, long before "generative AI" existed, in ANY form. He was reacting to an entirely different form of "AI", an evolutionary animation project that controlled zombie ragdoll models in a physics sim. Their movements disturbed Miyazaki, he thought they were insulting the disabled.

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It is no coincidence that so much of the US is poor, and the rich have gotten so rich. Stop looking down to find someone to blame. Stop looking at your neighbors to find someone to blame. LOOK UP. Inequality is destroying us.

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Nik @nik-kun.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

AI's energy usage is being overly exaggerated by those looking for ways to demonize it. Running AI models on a home PC takes less energy than using the same PC for gaming. Whether we're talking about energy, water or carbon, AI uses far less than existing things we do. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nik @nik-kun.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Maybe, but that make sense, text data is smaller than image data after all. Generating an AI image still uses less energy than most other things we do with technology. People can run AI models at home, using less energy for less time, than it takes to play video games. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nik @nik-kun.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

To correct misinformation, neither does AI. That's not how generative AI works, and running AI models on a home PC takes far less energy than using the same PC for gaming. Whether we're talking about energy, water or carbon, AI uses far less than existing alternatives. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nik @nik-kun.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

That's a shortsighted opinion. Like many things, AI is not black & white. I believe there are plenty of legitimate uses for AI that do not qualify as "slop". I also find your need to call it slop, to be rooted in the same thinking that resulted in CG & digital art being labeled similarly in the 90s.

Nik @nik-kun.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It's his website. And as far as I've seen, there's nothing "slop" about his use of AI.

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About those $5,000 "DOGE dividend" checks, if they actually happen, they're going to be more like <$200, and that's per household not per person, and none will go to the bottom 40% of households, which includes at least a third of all Trump voters. This is not even close to a UBI.

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RottedRoots @misanthropy057.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

My biggest argument for UBI is to just think of a world in which our survival needs are no longer locked behind labor. Less people trapped in abusive relationships. Less scamming as people don't need to wheel and deal for money to survive. Think of what we could create together

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For as lousy as you seem to think AI is now, this is the worst it'll ever be. My view on this merely acknowledges that, and rather than resisting what cannot be stopped, I advocate for us to adapt our economy & society before things get any worse, so that everyone ends up better off than we are now.

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You're entirely missing my point. It doesn't matter what the courts rule, my own knowledge & understanding of the topic proves to me that the courts currently misunderstand the technology, just as much as you are. AI will keep improving. Technological progress cannot be stopped, nor can open source.

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Specifically, our system of capitalism, requiring everyone trade human labor to get what they need to survive, is incompatible with AI as it out-competes the value of human labor. We can't stop AI, so we must change our economy. I support a UBI or AI Dividend so everyone in society benefits from AI.