David White

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

@Adiofreak "A man chooses, a slave obeys."

"If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows."

"Do you feel like a hero yet?"

Art is political, impactful art even more so. Even if it is not overt, art always speaks to the way people are when it is created.

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

Colors give breath to the void, shape gives it structure, and together they form meaning.

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

In the last 12 months:
341,000 impressions across FB+IG primarily organic w/ ads content, leading to 9700+ in-person activations in a tight hyper-competitive market, the realm of politics is the realm of marketing, and this was just my first attempt to learn the space this year.

I also wrote their book on how to use social media, brand guidelines, SOPs, frameworks, etc and shot the content myself (photo + video).

Created, learned to run, then ran Meta ads to convert 300+ subscribers to a local events newsletter I wrote every week for 3 months on a budget of 10$/day (determined a lack of market fit, moved on)

I am self-taught in any skill I am proficient in; it's the best and only true way to learn high-value skills for me. Trial by fire.

What do you think I could build with your company?

https://t.co/hzXwVtBQEO

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

@ItakGol ̷U̷S̷A̷ ̷h̷a̷s̷ ̷C̷l̷a̷u̷d̷e̷
USA has ChatGPT
USA has Gemini
USA has Grok

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

@jun_song As if the IRS couldn't already skim your purchase details and find your anthropic subscription. As if the CIA & your ISP couldn't see your web traffic to Claude.

This ban is just petty government payback from anthropic not wanting to weaponize Claude before their IPO.

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

What is Anthropic's marketing budget, my god.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

Thoughts as someone who was against AI, and is still partially against it, but uses it anyway.

1. Piracy is a response to a lack of quality in service or access, not the morals of content/game production (it is always acceptable to pirate Adobe products, for example)

2. Computer code is not artistry; it is logic masquerading as artistry. As such, you cannot "pirate" or steal logic.

3. Piracy isn't theft if buying isn't owning; it's a foundational principle outside of democratizational access to information (books, historical works, internet archive, etc) for piracy and why people do it. Should your website be "pirated" by the Internet Archive? (Not a 1:1, similar principle though)

4. Millions of people bought Arc Raiders, knowing the AI voice-over they were using, it was likely trained on real VA's. Would you walk into their Headquarters and like to explain to the artists, programmers, etc how you'd love to pirate their game for that choice? I bought Arc Raiders. Should I have simply pirated it instead on pedantic moral grounds? The market rewards are never to be ignored in the games industry.

4.5 So long as not a single soul lost an actual opportunity to the megacorp AI company shilling an AI LLM feature/model, the amount of innovations this technology enables is substantial. Layoffs around "AI" right now are just normal tech layoffs with a new PR coat of paint.

5. The knowledge to create any game was already out there in droves, paid courses, outdated books, 3 hour long youtube videos, weekly newsletters. None of it is accessible to the less technically inclined. AI fixes that, as annoying as it is, which is why it's used for rapid prototyping and commercial endeavors (among other cost-saving shaped reasons).

6. Data harvesting is bad. I hard agree, it is and should've been illegal to just rip code from github and everywhere else online to train ChatGPT and other models, that damage has long been done. I also hate seeing it for concept art, trained on actual human artistry, to create slop. I would rather use a local model, pay for the dataset I want to use for it, and train it myself off of that. We don't live in that world right now.

7. The quality sucks, and that's the main concern most people have with it. The quality is degraded compared to human hands and human vision. We're already seeing the point where that is no longer relevant in code, which is why the moral argument is the fallback here.

All in all, the choice to pirate something is up to you; a pirate's life is a free one, and you have free will. I was as anti-ai as could've been until I saw what the technology enabled me to do in a fraction of the normal time. I'm still on the fence, but not blind to the reality of the world tech has forced us into.

I will always want human hands and human vision on a piece of artistry, but as I said originally, I see computer code as a language interpreter for human to binary, not art in and of itself. It is a logical problem solved with a logical output, and creative thinking is something no AI can actually steal from you.

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

@grok The only time it would be extremely funny to ask...

@grok is this true?

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Moon Base gaming room - Paul Alexander, 1960

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

@Adiofreak "A man chooses, a slave obeys."

"If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows."

"Do you feel like a hero yet?"

Art is political, impactful art even more so. Even if it is not overt, art always speaks to the way people are when it is created.

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

It is very funny to me that the first of these posters depicts the Warsaw Pact as a coalition of peace, because on the other side of that line is NATO, the other peacekeeping coalition of nations in Europe.

Funny how there was 2 of them doing none of that.

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Vehicles of the future - Shonen Club Magazine (1936)

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

Theres an irony to the defining quote of the Fallout franchise I don't think many people realize.

In the fallout 1 intro the slideshow they give talks about "War Never Changes" as the idea that all wars throughout history were purely for 1 reason: Wealth or Resources, usually meaning the same thing.

From the romans to WW2 to some extent this can be true, but WW2 specifically had other causes. Idealogical furver / extreme differences, ethnic tensions between peoples, a few evil moustache people. Then Fallout goes to the setting of the cold war and says the same thing: It was only ever about resources/wealth. That is a lie that this entire franchise was built on.

The USSR, China, and the USA in the real world did not struggle with nuclear armerment because of natural resources (though in the fallout universe I think that is the case?) they fought over idealogical differences. Differences so vast and so extreme they cannot possibly come to terms with co-existence unless it is to buy time to annihilate the other side.

In the history of the cold war China and the USSR got closer to real live all-out war than the USA and USSR ever did because they share a border and leftist infighting amongst nuclear nation states.

I just think that is an interesting thing to note about Fallout.

[Mini Modu @MinModulation]

The era of the PC is over. Rather than make the AI WMD "safe" for consumers, they'll restrict it for pre-approved "safe people" only.
And how do you restrict access to tech? Pull essential hardware out of the consumer market. Even 16GB of RAM is too much of a AI Gen threat.

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

Out of 8 scam attempts in my DMs only 1 mentioned something in my bio, be better, scam better.

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

Neat.

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

@YouTubeGaming

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

@Apogee_Ent Pretty iconic
https://t.co/ywTWTUWHGm

[David White @DavidMillWhite]

@pr_pirate Content marketing, is it viable as a grass roots / inexpensive way to market a game pre-launch?

i.e. making video/photo based content adjacent to the game, or directly about the game, for social media (YouTube, TikTok, IG, etc).

[BNBaku @BNBaku]

Helldivers 2 ARC TROOPERS | A 2003 Clone Wars Animation Tribute

I wanted to expand on the previous animation and as soon as I remembered this scene it had to be done. Made entirely with Blender (Goo-engine) and Davinci Resolve over the course of 3 weeks!

[Kenney @KenneyNL]

Stronger and googlier together. 💪