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“Fertility rate drops” suggests that people are becoming less fertile.

The article itself says that people. are taking measures to have fewer children due to cost, the economy, the political landscape, etc.

Infertility is not the same as choosing not to have children.

“Polling in recent years has indicated that the number of adults who never want to have children has grown, and that men and women plan to have fewer children than previous generations.”

I think the key here is that this market hasn’t been affected yet but it will be more than likely. Also just because you can get the card doesn’t mean you can get all the rest of the components to build a PC. I definitely don’t have the newest latest or greatest. No DDR 5 RAM, no fancy current gen or even previous gen video card. I own a PS5 and a gaming handheld with Linux on it. And those two pieces of hardware have gone up in price instead of down in price and will more than likely continue to rise.

Last gen hardware will see a price increase it it hasn’t already the longer the AI bubble BS goes on. Because you’re right. people will opt for that if they can’t afford the latest and greatest. Are they going to pay $650 for that same 3080? Harddrives are twice as expensive and not something that last forever. Mobos can die and the fabs that make them may in fact be switching to making other components to fuel production of AI chips. RAM isn’t a magical component that never goes bad and it’s going to dwindle in availability for DDR4 and possibly DDR3 when businesses realize they can’t get the new stuff for their business suite computers. They’re already salvaging RAM and in some cases Harddrives from their used computers before they sell them off.

AI is a symptom but it is making things worse and has the trajectory to continue that trend until it crashes and dies.

The people who program, run and upkeep the LLM have intentions. The LLM is not a sapient or sentient entity.

It matters because every time we anthropomorphize Generative AI LLM’S we re-enforce peoples belief in their ability to tell lies or truths.

People’s believe is what leads to trust in them and things like AI psychosis.

An interesting way to look at it is AI also can’t tell the truth.

What it does is generate the next likely word or words based on its most significant statistical positive in its database. So it doesn’t know anything. It doesn’t tell truth. It doesn’t tell lies. It isn’t an entity. The people behind it are allowing it to present information as factual and we have no reason to trust them.

Yeah. I don’t upvote or interact unless I already know the song or am interested because I know the artist. Very very occasionally I’ll get curious about something I’ve never heard of but it’s rare.

I understand what you’re both trying to say and I think you’re talking past each other.

A new person entering the market doesn’t have the option to rely on a backlog of games and if a component in your rig failed tomorrow it would be exhorbitantly expensive to replace it even if it were a budget rig.

The more budget you go, the harder it is to replace existing components because lots of things are incorporated and solder together as a cost cutting measure.

So say you’re a new gamer hoping to buy a rig. New or used you’re screwed right now even if all you want to play are AA or indie games and you never touch a AAA game. Buying used is going to be expensive because theres now a high demand for used hardware because new hardware is exhorbitantly expensive.

So even if what you say is true and we can all just get by with budget hardware, that hardware is still going to be prohibitively expensive and the reason is Generative AI and capitalism.

That’s not something I’ve seen suggested before but it is an interesting way to go about it.

I would have sent in a video of me asking them not to bother even considering me if this is the type of lazy nonsense their HR dept gets up to.

I’m doing my part.

I don’t disagree. But Lemmy doesn’t have the same kinds of mod tools as other platforms like reddit. So it’s up to us to report behavior that’s against the rules, and even then it’s up to the mod to be active in the community so they know what’s going on. There isn’t an algorithm or automod to fall back on and the mod of the comics community is … absentee at best.

So you’ll give attribution to scientists, but not artists? Interesting. Stupid, but interesting.

There are a lot of people who will continue to support this user either because they don’t know the user was removing attributions from the stuff they repost, or because this one doesn’t do that so it’s okay.

Giving them any support will cause them to continue that behavior (and they will continue to break the 2 post limit on this community).

I think that deliberately removing credits should be against the rules but if they try to link back to the artist to give attribution in the event that the comic has already had attribution removed I would be okay with that so long as the rest of the work is intact. The individual who’s been shown to be using AI to remove watermarks and artist signatures really ought to receive a suspension or something both for their ridiculous post rate (far exceeding the new rule about 2 posts per day), and also because they admit to removing attibution on purpose.

Fabolous out here for years spelling out his name in every song, and here you are just lying.

I do have one. The artist who writes and draws the War and Peas comics has a patreon and (on Tumblr where I follow them) they advertise by placing a panel beneath the comic with their patreon information in it. But very often they only share that on their own social media, and I don’t think I’ve seen it on Lemmy.

But they aren’t hiding their work behind that patreon, instead they ask for donations if viewers should be so inclined.

I am fine with that type of advertisment because this is them asking people who enjoy their work to help support them.

I assumed (I may be wrong) that this is was what OP meant. But even if they mean just a signature, to me that’s even more egregious. Would OP go to a museum and remove the placards with the artists names?

Edit: Green and Blue Fox comics also does this with a link to their Instagram, and other social media where you can find their work, which again, I am fine with. I don’t understand what Op’s beef with artists getting appreciation and potential donations is.

If you want ad free art, make your own.

What I’m hearing is that you don’t want to support the creators who’s work you repost here.

I don’t agree. These types of ads are the few that I’m actually okay with. because it’s an artist trying to support themselves, not a corporate schill using AI or trying to push a big corp.

The War and Peas comics artis has a patreon. I can’t afford to support them directly but I do want them to receive support.

Why don’t you want artists to get paid for their work?

I made a second comment where I specified but okay.

If you were curious about how bad it was the only ethical thing to do from a consumer standpoint was to pirate it because why would we reward Combia Pictures for such a crap product?

The need to know more about this new genre of hick hop intensifies.