Other comments are saying this is an ad, which… Is true, but this was informative too and now I know about a product I’ve never even considered before.

The technology works the same way at everything. It averages and smooths out the rough edges into a homogrnous lump.

The XPS my dad has is amazing, but I think it was significantly more than $1k, closer to $2k.

This shit was asked a week or two ago. Go away advertiser.

Omggggg thats a dream to me ngl.

Me too! Me toooooo!!! I spent so much time looking for those pictures, before I realized I was simply female and then spent even more time looking for vaginoplasties. I’ve seen enough now. I’m pretty certain, though I dont need to make the decision soon anyway.

Wait did you start a kink thread and then kink shame in the comments?

All people can get turned on by seeing themselves looking sexy, I lingerie, etc. This is especially socially acceptable for women, too! Getting dressed up in lingerie underneath whether you plan to get laid or not, you know? Or taking pics of yourself. Perhaps it could be a form of gender euphoria. So yea there’s my take on Blanchard’s theory.

Thats funny because shareholders are deeply involved in Valve, and those shareholders frequently decide which products get investment and which don’t.

Not exactly. They’re tankies, which has its basis in appreciating the USSR and modern day China and some other governments that call themselves “Communist” while having very few if any leftist and communist qualities. Hexbear is eager to defend genocides, whitewash parts of Russian history, and tell you why America is in the wrong in every single event, and therefore America’s opponents are good. Most confusingly, they’re also trolls. They really enjoy that these arguments anger other people.

Acceptance. A lonely person can’t solve their loneliness by themselves. You can’t logic your way directly out of being lonely.

Queue our see pee. If they stick with this acronym I’m gonna call it Quirkypie.

Awesome. Glad the days are over when important whistleblowers in the white house are using Confide, or some other encrypted bullshit meant for horny young people and like a genuinely professional and email-adjacent encrypted service.

My hot take is people on mastodon are there because they want defederated twitter and aren’t as nerdy about trying new online social experiences

Say gex

Thanks for this reply. You’ve shown this issue has depth that I’ve ignored because I like very few of the advocates for the AI we’ve got.

So one thing that trips me up is I thought copyright is about use. As a consumer rather than a creator this makes complete sense - you can read it, if you own it or borrowed it, and do not distribute it in any way. But there are also gentleman’s agreements built in to how we use books and digital prints.

Unintuitively, copying is also very important. Artists copy to learn, for example. Musicians have the right to cover anyone’s music. Engineers will deconstruct. and reverse engineer another’s solution. And businesses cheat off of one another all the time. Even when it has been proven to be wrong, the incentive is high.

So is taking the text of the book, no matter how you got it, and using it as part of a new technology okay?

Clearly the distribution isn’t wrong. You’re not distributing the book, you’ve made a derivative.

The ownership isn’t there, I mean the works were pirated. We’ve been taught that simply having something that was gotten through online copying is not only against the ‘rightholder’ but “piracy” and “stealing”. I have a really simplistic view of this - I just want creators paid for their work, and have autonomy (rights) over what is done with their work. This is rarely the case, we live in a world with publishers.

So it’s that first action. Is that use of the text in another work legal?

My basic understanding of fair use is that fair use is when you add to a work. You critique or reuse that work. Your work is about the other work, but also something new that stands on its own like an essay or a collage, rather than a collection.

I am so confused. Text based AI is run by capitalists. And we only have it FOSS because META can afford to lose money in order to remove OpenAI from the competition. Image based AI is almost certainly wrong, it copied and plugged in all of this other work and now tons of people are suing, Getty images is leveraging their rights management to make an AI that follows the rules we are living with. My gut reaction is a lot of people deserve royalties.

But in the other hand it sounds like AI did not work until they gave it the entire internet worth of data to train on. Training on smaller, legal sets was a failure? Or maybe it was because they took the tech approach of training the AI on every google image of dogs, or cats, etc. Without any real variation. Because they’re engineers, not artists. And not even good engineers, if their best work is just scraping other people’s work and giving it to this weird computer program.

This is all just stealing, right? But stealing is a lot more legal than I thought, especially when it comes to digitally published works of art, or physically published art that’s popular enough to be shared online.

Amazing how every generation of technology has an asshole billionaire or two stealing shit to be the first in line to try and monopolize society’s progress.

What the AI is doing is reverse engineering the authors magic formula for creating new works

Great but the humans involved knowingly let it scrub pirated works.

fourth industrial revolution" as some have claimed

The people claiming this are often the shareholders themselves.

prohibitively expensive to train for smaller applications.

There is so much work out there for free, with no copyright. The biggest cost in training is most likely the hardware, and I see no added value in having AI train on Stephen King ☠️

Copyright is already just a band-aid for what is really an issue of resource allocation.

God damn right but I want our government to put a band aid on capitalists just stealing whatever the fuck they want “move fast and break things”. It’s yet another test for my confidence in the state. Every issue, a litmus test for how our society deals with the problems that arise.

Writers are rich because they’ve made artwork and sold it. I personally hold that to a higher value than CEOs.