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I just noticed people are mass complaining about some AI post from *reads notes* A year ago. Huh. Not to be That guy but I think y'all are freaking out over Nothing. Since giving it a read through, it's mostly just a piece about AI's practical purposes. I will be staying here, but I purely use Neos for hosting, you may contact me via Email or Discord if necessary.

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neogeist 1 month ago

Agreed.

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jeith 1 month ago

100% agree

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feelingmachine 1 month ago

pretty much this + i really dont think anyone should trust smthn as new as nekoweb for safe secure hosting anyways

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owthehedge 1 month ago

Sorry if I dont word myself right, just got back, but for me, its not really the practical uses talked about that Im worried about, its the support of generative AI like midjourney I don't want to support, coming from an artists POV. He also mentions the use of AI in therapy as a positive, which is. Not great. dunno, it's a big topic to explain and I want to get something to eat.

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owthehedge 1 month ago

but yeah it just made me kinda uncomfortable, and I was already kinda considering moving to nekoweb anyways, since it has anti-AI scraping enabled by default. not trying to hate or anything, that's just my opinion.

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i like the minimalism and color scheme here--the dithering on the image also makes it quite the vibe along with the website!! <3

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magolor

1 month ago

Well isnt this a conundrum

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magolor 1 month ago

https://kyledrake.com/writings/ai not sure what I'll be doing about this since I have 2 sites on here....we shall see

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spotofmummery arcade90

1 month ago

Appreciate the follow!

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Been busy all day updating my site with JavaScript functionality! It was much less daunting to learn than I thought and now I have even more ideas for my site, haha

caitsith

1 month ago

literally just found out about the neocities ai thing....im not fully informed with the situation yet but just letting people know i have a nekoweb account that i seriously need to update https://caitsith.nekoweb.org/

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catboo 1 month ago

what's going on?

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signal-garden 1 month ago

how do you follow people on nekoweb without finding them in the explore page ;-;

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blackmagegaming 1 month ago

Can you go into more detail about this? If you're talking about the chatbot, that was used in this years April Fools update.

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tsumugsfish 1 month ago

https://kyledrake.com/writings/ai

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tsumugsfish 1 month ago

tho the blog is from 2023, so make your own judgements

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bugholdersepiphany 1 month ago

the AI stuff was from a year ago and it's possible the dudes perspective not only has changed since then, but he literally had discussions with people who messaged him about why no one wanted AI shit. it's a non issue at this rate.

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caitsith 1 month ago

yeah i just got around to reading the blog post and while i do not necessarily agree with lots of his takes on AI, i dont think im too concerned at the moment regarding it in relation to neocities, im gonna try and keep updating nekoweb anyways though cause ive been meaning to do that :)

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puddingpudds

1 month ago

Ah, tragedy strikes in these lands... AI *can* have some benefit to daily life, but never in artistic fields. Using AI to create art is going to completely kill creativity for the individual and for society as whole. “After all, why should I think and spend time creating a story/ art, when I can just type some prompts on a website and be done with it.”

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puddingpudds 1 month ago

It’s a terrible and depressing mindset to have that will become all more prevalent, specially when it’s embraced with open arms. Treating art as “something to get over and done with it” rather than “something hard to do but very rewarding” it’s basically saying that you don’t care about the creative process of art, you just care about the results, money and fame from it.

puddingpudds 1 month ago

That’s not even mentioning the constant stealing, scraping and violations these AI developers have to do to make and sell their products.

puddingpudds 1 month ago

So, Stewart Brand’s PC argument and AI are not the same thing, Kyle. One you use as a tool to make your creative projects and develop your skills, the other is a cheat code for mediocrity with no difficulty or skill to develop. One benefits the user and gives them tools to pursue their creativity, the other spews out the same trash that is controlled by their corporations.

puddingpudds 1 month ago

With that being said, I’ll be going forward with my plans of moving to Nekoweb. I don’t want my code, writing or art to be fed to a machine without my consent or control because you got a handsome offer from these thieves. Don’t get me wrong, I’m far from amazing at any of those 3 things, but they still hold a lot of value to me, because you know, I spent a lot of time making it.

puddingpudds 1 month ago

I’ll still hangout here and talk to the wonderful people I had the pleasure to meet here during these 2 years, but I’ll no longer be paying for Neocities services or hosting files here. It’s gonna be a long process to move everything, especially for me who has never even tried such a thing and is completely oblivious to many obvious things! But it’s for the better.

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miela583 1 month ago

There would still be work to be done with it, but I think the "download entire site" option in the editor would help moving a lot. You'd still have to change all the links, but I've looked at mine after weekly backups and thought it seemed pretty doable.

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puddingpudds 1 month ago

I tried using the "downloading entire site" option but only butchered the website files, usually downloading only like, 30% of everything and stopping right after, due to my website being a little toooo big. I used the “Mount to Computer” feature to download everything, which worked pretty well. But changing all the links and stuff will take quite the long time…

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crackworths 1 month ago

What the fuck did Kyle do now?

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puddingpudds 1 month ago

@crackworths Kyle made a dissertation about how we should embrace AI with open arms like we embraced PCs back in the day and expressed support towards generative AI. Saying that it is a tool to help with creativity, which I disagree with heavily in both principle and the current execution (all the stealing, scraping and stuff).

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crackworths 1 month ago

Kyle really wants to break the trust of half of Neocities' users huh?

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des 1 month ago

what a trip i was just watching a friend replay octo expansion this week, i think it's the most loved single player mode of spl for a reason! 2s hero mode is there to ease you in but it was super fun for me to complete it with every weapon

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