Pledge: Paint or build something… anything.

I once had a t-shirt that summerised how to deal with fuck ups.

Good judgment come from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.

So if I fuck up there is no one else to blame, so I just fix the problem if I can and move on… hopefully a little wiser.

so basically …

/me runs

accept, apologize, fix and move on ?

That’s the theory at least.

When I make mistakes in my hobby adventures then it often really drains the energy and mojo for a while.
The best method so far is to try and find something else to do until I have the energy to either find a work-around or accept the mistake as a feature.

Sometimes I get lucky and the mistake makes a thing better.
Like when I masked off the sections on the doors that I was painting.
It showed that having some kind of highlight/alternate colour between the sections made them look even better.

Silly me had to try and improve that, which in hindsight was not as good an idea. I’m still trying to figure out a way to solve that.

yay … the wood I had ordered has arrived.
And it looks like all is exactly as specified, so now I need to worry if I measured correctly  😀

Also 12 mm MDF is heavy. I’m not quite sure if I have f*cked this up or simply underestimated the weight.
It definitely is a bit more complicated to move everything in place once I have it assembled, so I will have to adjust my plans a bit.

Nothing like a reality check, eh guys ?

I also get a 10 Euro discount if I post 5 pictures of my project … yay.  (which is 5% of the cost of the wood … )
Definitely will post the construction in my project.

isn’t that the same turd in a box that said that everyone who paints Germans for WW 2 is a Nazi ?

Anyways …

– ‘AI ethics’ lady didn’t tell him ‘no’ at any point ?
That means she is either not doing ethics or he never really asked her the meaningful questions related to the project.

– copyright is no joke and I’m surprised that didn’t trigger this
I seriously doubt GW would be ok with anyone using their products as a source for anything ‘AI’ related.
Just because the big boys can do this that doesn’t mean us mere mortals are allowed to do so.

– you can run ‘AI’ locally. Ollama can do that. It may not be as fast or as efficient, but at least the environmental impact is reduced to a really big and powerful pc.

– first rule of ‘AI’ tools : always check and verify the answers because it will hallucinate without telling you
(I’ve run into that one multiple times. )

– if you’ve spent a few moments doing research on ‘AI’ then you’d know of the rather questionable ethics of the company behind Chat-gpt. And no … that wasn’t ‘recent’ events. The simple fact that they went from ‘open source’ to ‘for profit’ should have been a warning. This was known a year ago already (November 2024 to be precise).

– No amount of disclaimers will stop people from trusting the results the program gives

• This reply was modified 2 days ago by limburger.

I’ve used ‘AI’ at work and as a hobby.

It’s fun to experiment and see what it does.
For creative things it is like a big encounter table that some rpg’s have.
You give it a hint and it will generate some nonsense that you can use to build on.

I would never trust anyone to use the generated output in a semi-professional product.

It is scarily good at writing code, but it can easily f*ck up and invent things that make you go ‘hmm’.
It needs constant human super vision to be somewhat functional.

One thing that I do wonder about is that this must have been what it was like when photography was invented.
We went from having to pose for days so a skilled artist could paint a portrait to mere minutes.

Heck … if you spent any time on art forums you will see similar arguments about the use of post-processing for photos.
As such I have no doubt that ‘AI’ that generates ‘art’ will end up in a similar situation once we get have copyright attribution and training data figured out. The only problem is that companies have cheated their way to the current state.

They have blatantly stolen more data than even the biggest leech on the peer-2-peer torrent network, but unlike mere mortals they haven’t been sent convicted for theft and sent to prison with a multi-billion fine.

Pledge – finish putting my desk area back together after decorating last weekend so I can hobby again. Got a shiny new desk, shiny new storage and one day off this weekend 🙁 Tomorrow I’ll be sitting in the corner sorting out just how many variants of blue I own. Maybe even get the model I think I’m doing for the community challenge out the cupboard and washed..

How do I cope/deal with my f* ups? Hmm, I like to think I’m good at honestly admitting mistakes, genuine apologies and pretty good at learning from the first time I make the mistake.  Won’t be watching the video for context though – I refuse to give that man views for any reason.

Music a little something from one of our local venues last week

and from a few years ago even closer to home

The last good doctor …