That dog has said some terrible things

So what is the alternative? A lot of artists and their allies think they have an answer: they say we should extend copyright to cover the activities associated with training a model.

And I am here to tell you they are wrong. Wrong because this would represent a massive expansion of copyright over activities that are currently permitted – for good reason.

He goes on to say that prohibiting AI works from being copyrighted and worker collective bargaining are better solutions, and I really agree with the arguments for this. I also liked this bit about how some of what remains past the bubble could be useful:

And we will have the open-source models that run on commodity hardware, AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff, like transcribing audio and video; describing images; summarizing documents; and automating a lot of labor-intensive graphic editing – such as removing backgrounds or airbrushing passersby out of photos. These will run on our laptops and phones, and open-source hackers will find ways to push them to do things their makers never dreamed of.

Mention and link to it on Reddit when it is especially relevant

It’s possible to cut a groove in a board so you can drive a screw outwards from it, but that’s pretty difficult and also the wrong approach for shelves which should be attached to the wall by supports underneath instead to distribute forces better.

If the material is worn down, just buy a fabric chair cover, problem solved

The article doesn’t have pictures but one it links to does: https://www.uafsunstar.com/news/student-eats-ai-art-in-uaf-gallery-protest-arrested

The artist’s reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/1qcektc/my_art_in_a_gallery_show_was_destroyed_over_ai/, which includes real pictures alongside some photorealistic AI generated depictions of the art being chewed up. He disclosed in the post text which of the pictures those are and which are real, but of course some people in the comments didn’t read that and took discrepancies in the images to mean that the whole event was faked. Which is pretty brilliant if intentional, fits well with the “ChatGPT psychosis” topic of the original piece. Might have gotten slightly out of hand though since these images are now featured in screenshot of screenshot style posts that lack the context that it’s not a real picture.

I also like the memes people are making about it, overall a very entertaining event.

Good movie though

Wow, great speech

more and more [Americans] are calling for a revolution—and not all of them think peace is an option

Maybe this is true but I don’t think a selection of tiktok videos is a good metric for this

Didn’t they go through a whole thing where other countries were imposing shit on them to force repayments of national debt? Maybe understandable then that tax evasion is popular if a lot of what is paid in taxes isn’t going towards improvements to your own country.

If it is, at least they bothered to put a different font on the text than the usual for ChatGPT comics. The woman being drawn identically in the second panel except for the eyes is also a point against it being AI.

Browsing Lemmy by only what you have subscribed to is not as viable as on Reddit because there is generally less content per community.

Someone’s gotta stay behind to tell people to check out Lemmy

Drugs people use illegally have overlap with drugs prescribed as medicine, like amphetamines for adhd and opioids for pain management. Who gets to decide what is healthcare on behalf of the individual? Doctors, parents, governments, insurance companies? There is a lot of room between them to get it wrong. In all of these cases authorities are claiming to be protecting people from making what they say is the wrong choice. Of course it is in some cases, and parents probably should be pressuring their children not to take dangerous drugs, especially for reasons that are not healthcare. But if there are authorities that deny that something is healthcare, and that’s contested, “my body, my choice” is a slogan that implies it should be the individual that decides.

Your arm’s off

Makes sense, I have an account because it’s fun to collect the free games even if I never play them, but I can’t see myself spending money there.

I keep them, but I also bought a set of all the different sizes of allen wrench so they are now redundant

Yeah but they externalize it as an “addiction” and want to think of their actions as being someone else’s responsibility

Did he? I read the article and it seemed to omit any mention of that. It’s kind of implied by the word ‘deepfake’ but the exact role AI may have had here is not clear to me.

They’ve admitted what they really want is to outright ban porn, so it’s all just trying to push it as close to that as they can get