Judgmental much? I’ve watched plenty of “mature” anime but shonen shows would dominate the top of my list and I’m damn near 40.

Yeah Corridor Crew is a legit VFX house.  This isn’t just some tech bro in a basemen

Oh fuck, it was a freelance article? I take it back. Kotaku can’t claim credit for buying out a freelancer’s article. It could just as easily end up on a far more legitimate news website. Kotaku is a glorified pop-culture tabloid now, except riddled with unnuanced politics and trite personal opinions, and it sucks.

Anyone can feel free to ignore new tools. Existing methods of doing things will still exist, but be increasingly supported by new approaches. I feel like the art community doesn’t like how the training occurs, or that you can ask for art in their style without them creating it. Both of these are valid concerns and…

Overtly defining AI-generated images as “plagiarism” seems like a slippery slope that could lead to any art provably influenced by another person’s art as plagiarism. Yes, I get that the AI systems are literally TAKING- often against the will of the original artist- pieces of work and processing them to make it’s…

Here’s my regular reminder that you people have a problem with capitalism, not a problem with technology. All this pearl clutching over displaced artists completely misses the point that in a just world, the artists could continue to make their art without the threat of poverty and new technology like this wouldn’t…

The article is just drenched in outrage. This is on par with the kind of burn-it-all-down writing you find in response to a tweet about how maybe a 25% tip for take-out is a bit much.

Since the start of this I’ve felt this has been a “tactical” mistake, for lack of a better word, and there will be nothing positive that comes from any of it. This definitely seems like one of those “let it go” moments, where people had the chance to play into the hands of the “bad guys” or let it go for the better…

And you have folks like Turbotastic in the comment section of every. single. article. about this game being a dipshit to people not fully against this game. But sure, “false flag”. LOL

Yeah.. they’re glossing over the large number of straight up ‘KYS”, death threat and doxxing attempts that she and Silvervale both received over this. LGBT person myself, and I won’t be touching anything related to JK. But the outright vitriol for clout that these people on Twitter are throwing at anyone who doesn’t…

I didn’t buy the game, but not buying the game isn’t going to do anything to stop legislation. You shouldn’t justify harassment, justifying harassment is what leads to people born into different situations creating legislation that acts to restrict the bodily autonomy of individuals.  

Wizard Game drama and the Media not critically covering it it has allowed some ‘Allies’ to hijack the actual rights movement for their own screwed up ends, which generally has amounted to attacking and harassing people they don’t like.

Playing the game has nothing to do with it and attacking people over it is not winning anything at all. I guarantee mose of the people doing this have added nothing to the fight for trans rights. I vote for it, pay into it, and am myself gender fluid and was unsure of being trans and I even try to help the community…

But I do feel like allies attacking people over playing is probably having more of a negative effect in regards to furthering the cause than anything.

I don’t at all disagree with the idea of boycotting the game or whatever other wizard merch so as not to line Rowling’s pockets any further. But I do feel like allies attacking people over playing is probably having more of a negative effect in regards to furthering the cause than anything.

I’m not sure honestly, I do feel like most of it has been blown out of proportion. On the other hand though, I have seen people I know say things along the line of ‘if you even think of buying this game, you are not my friend, you are not an ally’ which I would also argue is blowing all of this out of proportion. Its…

Fear of a real or imagined reactionary backlash is never a good reason to not push for good things, but man does it feel like a lot of the awfulness spawning out of this game is self-perpetuatingly cyclical. It’s all backlash to the backlash to the backlash to the backlash at this point; all noise no signal.

“But an AI can’t have experiences.”

What does it mean to have an experience? Is that the only kind of data that is valid?

“AI is 100% dependent on the writing of humans”

And humans are 100% dependent of some kind of data before they can create anything. And?

I don’t think there’s any controversy or deception between the terms AI and machine learning. Of course they’re the same thing. We’re also learning machines, just of a different construction. Our computational power may be more advanced in some respects, but there’s still a logic-driven process taking place.

100% agree. And even though I’m excited for the potential held with these AI (both text and image generation), it’s definitely something we need to take seriously and react to sooner rather than later.