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TranscriptA single panel comic with a malformed, slightly damaged, yet freshly built home in the background. In the foreground, a man in a hard hat and a reflective vest is speaking to another man, presumably the buyer, saying, “It’s called vibe construction. I’m not even a contractor! Pretty soon all buildings will be made this way.”

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[-] Draegur@lemmy.zip 75 points 1 month ago

Gives too much credit.

It would in all likelihood have two exterior doors but neither of them would be at ground level

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

Well from the outside it looks something like a house. It’s only when you go inside you realize it’s all cardboard toothpicks and super glue holding it up. There’s no bathrooms or closets. Just a living room. A single room.

[-] Draegur@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

Someone actually did attempt to have an AI generate a floorplan blueprint for a house and it had like six bathrooms, labeled two of them bedrooms and another one had two bath tubs, no toilet, and was labeled ensuite even though it opened to ... the garage. ... With no garage door.

Actually I went looking for the one people were clowning on and instead I found SEVERAL MORE horrific backrooms-like fever dream layouts ._.

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

I thought this would be fun so I gave it a go.

Tap for A.I. slopI asked for just a normal Australian home. Nothing too fancy.

It gave me a mansion with 4 queen sized bedrooms lol. With an alfresco. I don't even know what an alfresco is. Also one of the bedrooms is a dungeon with no exit, and there's a hallway to nowhere. I questioned it about this, and it did that thing like "ok ok you got me, that was just a fake one for fun. Here's the REAL one.

To get to the ensuite, you now have to go through the laundry. And to get to the walk in wardrobe you have to go through the ensuite. Also it added like, a "sub hallway" corridor tunnel thing to the secondary bedrooms like it's a dwarf fortress or a hotel or something. Super funny

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Floor plans are one of the best ways of exposing the limitations of AI.

AI knows patterns, it knows X is found next to Y. It knows that the label X tends to go with furniture that looks like Z. But, it doesn't know why for anything. It can't even ask the question Y. It's just a pattern matching and generating machine.

So, it doesn't understand the purpose of a door, or a hallway, or a bathroom. It won't tend to put the laundry machines in the living room because that's not a pattern it has seen, but it's not because it understands why that might not be ideal.

It's actually the same with software, it has just been trained on a lot more software, so it is better able to make something that blends in and looks correct at first glance.

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago

Ooooh.

Now I finally understand where those hotels with glass doors and walls for the toilet are coming from recently!

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

It has no doors, and that brown thing is just a painting of a door in an otherwise solid wall. The windows, too.

[-] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Perfect for roadrunners with defense against coyotes.

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[-] Archer@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago

Congrats we’ve looped around to why construction regulations exist

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 26 points 1 month ago

And why AI companies push back hard on regulations and accountability.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 month ago

I've long said (well before AI) that we must have similar kinds of regulation for software, especially software that is used as infrastructure. This includes ~all social media, operating systems obviously, productivity software, shopping websites/apps... It's all the wild west, with so many dark patterns and predatory tactics, all of which regulation would ban. Software engineers would have to be certified and personally responsible for their design, just like civil engineers.

It would have to be balanced somehow with software freedom. I don't want to add any barriers for hobbyists and bedroom programmers just wanting to play around with code and share it. But at the same time, I see that barriers are sorely needed for everyone else.

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Hobbyist carpenters also don't have to deal with like 99% of the regulations around buildings.

You can just go make a chair, or a table. Frankly if code is going to be used in a serious large scale project it shouldn't be the realm of hobbyists and if it does somehow end up like that they should be held to same strict code as the professionals.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

Frankly if code is going to be used in a serious large scale project it shouldn't be the realm of hobbyists ...

Yes, exactly, but:

... and if it does somehow end up like that they should be held to same strict code as the professionals.

I'm thinking of things like dogecoin, which by all accounts was made as a joke with zero intention of catching on, but somehow became huge. The creator of dogecoin did not mean for it to end up like that, and by the time it did, it was out of his hands. Should he be held accountable for dogecoin to the same extent? I would say clearly not. But that sort of creates a loophole where anyone can make anything and pretend they just "never intended" for it to get as big as it has.

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

How about only apply to non-FOSS software? Most hobby projects used not just by the author altend to be FOSS, and businesses can decide to go FOSS, making their software independently auditable by anyone, or go through certification.

I guess there's a danger of a campaign to re-brand FOSS as "uncertified" then...

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I’m guessing most commentary will be about software, but there was an analysis I heard of, claiming that construction is one of very few industries across economic sectors that just hasn’t made any kind of efficiency advancements in decades. Most other systems follow some kind of workflow improvement, or inventions that significantly improve some part of the process. But home building has only gotten harder and more expensive for making the same homes as before.

Maybe we’re seeing the same in game development. You look at what games were made during PS360 on multiple odd architectures, low memory, and comparatively small teams, and see how much things are faltering since then.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Homebuilding in the US did make some serious efficiency improvements, just many decades ago rather than a couple. Sheetrock is massively more efficient than lath-and-plaster, trusses are more efficient than onsite rafter roofs, and prebuilt windows and doors are more efficient than the older casement windows and hand-hung wooden doors. Never mind that these more efficient alternatives are much shittier in so many ways than what they replaced.

More recent efficiency improvements have been confined to massively underpaying construction workers and bribing inspectors to cover up the incredibly shitty quality work this inevitably produces.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Regulations stifle innovation!

/s

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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

That's shockingly accurate to how houses are built anyway.

I work in the development department for a city where the average new-build home is about 7 million dollars. They are some of the worst-built places I've ever seen with a pretty facade on top.

[-] BehindetheClouds@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For my experience a decent portion of construction workers are on drugs, on and off site, so it doesn't surprise me.

  • There seems to be a misconception and what I said. Not suggesting they aren't hurrying and doing a shoddy job. My point is is you can't work solid 18 hours day after day. It's not possible without a recovery. But to avoid that they take drugs.

So you have a whole bunch of sloppy jobs that aren't done properly, by people who need r&r, not meth, cocain or opioids.

That's why it doesn't surprise me

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

It's not drugs. It's trying to build as cheaply and as quickly as possible.

[-] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are a lot of drugs, but “stupid mistakes made while hurrying, and then not taking the time to fix them” is the #1 issue. Everyone is obsessed with hurrying, and few people recognize how mucy time is wasted by hurrying. It’s bad. I plan to build a house by myself next year, because I can’t find contractors/workers who will go slowly enough to avoid making mistakes. They just want to do more fast, crappy projects so they can make more money, which I can understand, but don’t respect.

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

You need to install your own plumbing though because all pipes for the next two years are earmarked for data centers.

[-] Shatur@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 month ago

And they will be selling it at the current house prices, keeping all the reduced cost to themselves.

[-] Gremour@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

But the market will regulate itselt. Right? Right?

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

Unrealistic, vibe coders never admit they aren't actual programmers.

[-] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

They are still missing the 5 people that will be standing around watching the work happen.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

They all got laid off so one guy can not watch the work happen.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

.......at what point am I allowed to just start burning everything to the ground? THIS is the reality I've gotta live through??? Fuck that!!! Fuck AI!!! Fuck "vibes"!!! I just want to be able to eat lettuce without feeling like I'm prepping for a colonoscopy!!!!

Burn it. Burn down society. Burn it all. I will not sit by as our country is presided by a pedophile rapist. Why is ANYONE ok with this???

Burn it down.

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[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

"What does 'load bearing' mean?" "Shut up! Just use this, it'll be good enough for the time being!".

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Here's the ladder to the second floor (the first one is boiler plate for running water).

[-] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

If Picasso was an architect.

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[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Which one did they turn into an AI?

[-] nobodysreadingthis@quokk.au 3 points 1 month ago
[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Strangling, or Goon?

[-] laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

If it is cheaper heck my rent is 1k usd +

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

Spoiler: it won't be, and the proper buildings will cost twice as much because they'll be in demand.

[-] Sylaran@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Lorax house

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