It's not as hard as it first seems. The font has to be rendered down to a vector at some point anyway; so what you have a is a very complex shape. the problem is how the LivePathEffect system itself was designed and then on top you'd like for edits to be positioned correctly and that is more interesting too as you have to feedback the positions to the text selection too.

Right now, the only software I know that can stack effect deformation on top of editable text object is Blender (screenshot, eg. Wave Modifier on dynamic text object, multiline). It looks like "vector magic" how the nodes of the font itself can be influenced by a global effect at their root. Amazing.

It is on my to do list.

"Or maybe fedi polls have *very huge* bias" - except when they don't, as we already know with the DDG poll

"That would only feed the troll" - Statistician is the word you're looking for

"DEPLOY MORE AI FEATURES"

Yeah sums it up

Its terrible and the kids have already moved on.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/67-meme-six-seven

I'd like to know by how much more AI is hated elsewhere. I always find those US vs the world attitude surveys fascinating...

Possibly it's morbid fascination.

@davidgerard

I’d bet. It’s just a fatigiung subject to deal with (and I still need to draw one of my bigger darlings stomping a hyperscale data center into a crater, or my computer werewolf tangling with a sparkly gradient blob monster representative of slop.)

I consider this guy a minor Fediverse celebrity. In case it helps shape the way you handle him, you might want to check out one of these threads:

* The poll he ran that he's referring to: https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/117006976986454267
* Another thread which exemplifies his mathematical knowledge and attitude to views which differ from his own: https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/115207044364101854
* Any other of his pinned posts with replies from other people.

I would never want to instruct anyone in how or whether to discuss with someone, but I think there is a certain pattern across these different subjects that can help you decide.

Full disclosure: I issue these messages somewhat frequently.

It probably works for many content creators without the luck I have to have a monthly community support that make me live of it.

Okay, hey, that's me you're misrepresenting again. You've gone from arguing with yourself about something I didn't write in a thread to arguing with yourself about things I didn't write across different threads. Which is a choice.

I said that it did not call out different reasons for people disliking AI, so conflated people who disliked it for rational reasons and people who disliked it for doomer reasons, the latter of which are actively pushed by OpenAI and Anthropic's marketing because they drive investment.

My point was that OpenAI and Anthropic's appeals to investors are likely to be causing problems for them. The more articles in the mainstream news that repeat their 'oh noes, our AI is so powerful it might accidentally destroy the world' press releases that they push to make it look like their systems do something impressive, the more normal people will have negative feelings about their products.

The Pew survey asks if you're more excited than concerned or vice versa, it doesn't ask why you're concerned. It does ask about concern over AI resulting in fewer jobs, but it doesn't differentiate between people who are worried about AI overinvestment crashing the economy (resulting in fewer jobs) and people who believe the hype that it can actually do a load of jobs.