I think "people in left wing areas" is weird phrasing. There is nothing inherent about an area that makes it left or right wing. "People who live under governments who are responsive to collective issues such as climate and energy prices" would make more sense.
and life of subsistence farming in the countryside costs two orders of magnitude less of carbon sin that life in the city, where everything the enlightened cosmopolitan consumes is delivered by carbon-chugging trucks, freighters, and planes from hundreds and thousands miles away.
but the line is clearly drawn at performative sacrifice, not substantial.
Livestock is 14.5% of global emissions. Food is about 1/3rd of each individual's emissions. A plant based diet can cut that by 50-75%. How is that not substantial?
stopping or reversing climate change would require sacrificing far more than 50% of 1/3rd. it would require sacrificing every comfort and convenience you don't bat an eye about. forget heating and cooling. forget taking warm showers every day. forget having things delivered to you from 5000 miles away, or even 500, so forget about most things. forget those plants you consume being affordable and available year-round, and prepare to spend the bulk of your income on simply surviving.
basically, imagine returning to per-industrial times, because that's what required to achieve the goals you believe to help achieve by abstaining from burgers.
This is the same approach I use. I don't know if it actually produces good results yet as I've only been doing this for about three months. At the very least it feels like I have some agency in my work which I think is one of the things people complain they lose to AI.
And funnily even in the diverse set, most of the images show the pelican riding from left-to-right. There's a ton of bias in our data and even in our brains that you would need to erase to get true diversity.
Why would you even want a completely random pelican scene every time? It would break nearly everyone's expectations if these things didn't do what they were asked for.
Why do you implicitly assume that "generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" means the prompter is asking for a side view of a pelican wearing a scarf riding from left-to-right, done in a cartoonish style?
> most of the images show the pelican riding from left-to-right
Much of that is a pre-AI bias: A majority of bike-pictures are from an angle which reveals the bike's gears to the audience, which are usually on the rider's right-hand side.
It's not just a bike specific thing. There is a well known bias - at least in the western world - to want to view motion going from left to right. That's why I mention bias "in our brains".
maybe someone can create an equivalent of psychedelic drugs for llms? I guess that would probably correspond to raising the temperature in whatever sampling alogirthm one is using.
Surely your conclusion should be that this was not the work of a spy - not a state sponsored one anyway. It's much more logical to conclude that he was working as a whistleblower or under some other personal agenda.
I am missing something about how this could hypothetically be useful. If I played this in the background it would be far too distracting to get any actual work done.
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