• MoribundMurdoch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    The 2005 Kingdom of Heaven movie really did Guy and Sibylla dirty. I’m fairly sure the history was especially distorted because the writer and director were atheists and clung too tightly to a “religious tolerance is ideal” message, even at the expense of accurately portraying the actions of the actual historical figures.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      2·
      2 days ago

      You’re right, they should have made it more clear the crusaders were all evil and deserved worse.

      Guy was exiled to Outremer in the first place for trying to kidnap Eleanor of Aquitaine btw.

    • zemo@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      I see what you mean but I will always love that movie (the directors cut) for many reasons, one being its portrayal of philosophy.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      3·
      2 days ago

      She was part of the ruling family in a crusader state and almost certainly killed her son after he developed leprosy.

      Guy was unpopular because he was cruel and stupid. Guy was banished to Outremer in the first place because he participated in a kidnapping plot against Eleanor of Aquitaine.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_of_Lusignan

      If you want to give Syballa a pass for being a woman in what’s definitely a man’s world that’s one thing but her heart was as stupid as her brain and it got her killed.

      On the other hand, she was part of the series of own goals that led to Saladin destroying the crusader states so maybe it’s good that it was.

  • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
    392·
    2 days ago

    That weirdly smooth skin and odd hair shape behind the neck are reminiscent of AI

    Edit: Damn, I thought it was a pretty big consensus that AI was harmful to users and took away from human expression, but I seem to have found the last remaining bastion of the pro-AI movement here on Lemmy

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
      141·
      2 days ago

      Are you familiar with the “Chad” meme? The whole point is the over-the-top obvious, smack-you-in-the-face image editing.

      • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        2 days ago

        There is a difference between editing, and asking a program to make an entirely new, weird looking image using half a sun in power and more data than the entirety of twitter

        • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
          12·
          2 days ago

          I pretty strongly doubt that even without power usage or quantity of training data that people would stop gatekeeping prompt-generated imagery. It’s a whole personality trait to put on whatever the yiff equivalent of grinder is now.

      • ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago
        1 (18.25-ounce) package chocolate cake mix
1 can prepared coconut–pecan frosting
3/4 cup vegetable oil
4 large eggs
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour

        Don’t forget garnishes such as:

        Fish-shaped crackers
Fish-shaped candies
Fish-shaped solid waste
Fish-shaped dirt
Fish-shaped ethylbenzene
Pull-and-peel licorice
Fish-shaped volatile organic compounds and sediment-shaped sediment

        …

        • Nomorereddit@lemmy.today
          1·
          1 day ago

          You can get kcal and protein per serving real easy.

          Also you can say here’s ingredients i have, what dish can we make where each serving has 400 to 700 kcals and around 50g of protein

      • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
        131·
        2 days ago

        I wish more places adopted either tagging or outright banning of AI images

        The least the user can do is be upfront about AI usage

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          101·
          2 days ago

          It’s a meme. They aren’t trying to fool you into thinking it’s something that it’s not. It’s not like it’s misinformation.

          • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
            81·
            2 days ago

            Yes, but it uses an ungodly amount of power to produce an image from a plagiarism machine when there are many other femchad meme formats out there

            • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
              51·
              2 days ago

              I’m not saying I like AI images or think people should use them more often, I’m saying in this context I don’t this a disclaimer is needed. If the only problem is “I don’t like AI images because they’re bad” just down vote or suggest to community moderators and/or instance moderators to ban AI images.

            • iegod@lemmy.zip
              21·
              2 days ago

              Yes, but it uses an ungodly amount of power

              Wha. You can self host stable diffusion on your home pc. There’s nothing ungodly about the power requirements. The claims are wildly exaggerated, and worse, never verified by those using them as some kind of gotcha.

              • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                As I have done in the past, and nothing has come close to its level of power consumption. Similarly, there’s more to AI than just making the images. By downloading and using generative AI, you’re supporting their creation, which is currently using more energy than some small countries, even the open source ones

        • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
          42·
          2 days ago

          that’s fair. I just thought this one was particularly obvious. like it isn’t even trying to not be ai.

          I’m on the fence on this being a specific problem though. the individual tokens don’t actualy take that much energy or water or whatever. the resource use is all in training. all of the infrastructure being built for ai right now is for training the next model. this looks like it was done with a model from a couple generations ago. like if you don’t want to use a product that’s bad for the environment then using an older model should be fine. especially if you run it locally, which is totally doable. this image looks like it used an older model.

          as for plagiarism, this is a meme with no profit potential. if the internet cared about copyright in memes we would never share any image macros. the chad face that this is based on is also stolen art that the internet has been sharing for years. that’s what memes are. stolen art shared without permission with no profit motive.

          I’m a professional photographer/videographer who has directly felt ai hurt my career. it has also been trained off of my own images against my will. I generally hate ai, but i like to be an informed hater. all that said, there’s really no moral grounds to hate this but not a version with the non ai Chad face.

  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
    29·
    3 days ago

    Sibylla no, she will not let him go

    Let him goooo

    Sibylla, she will not let him go

    Let him go-o-o-o-o

    She will not let him gooooooooo

    • cjoll4@lemmy.world
      23·
      3 days ago

      No, her son Baldwin V was king. Guy was Baldwin V’s stepfather. Baldwin V died in childhood which made Sibylla the Queen, and her husband was temporarily the King-Consort or Prince-Consort or whatever the appropriate term was for a Queen’s husband at the time.

      But in this particular time and place, the Queen’s husband typically became King at coronation and assumed the role of monarch in her place. This is what everyone expected to happen. All the vassals hated Guy and wanted her to pick someone else.