The artist, in the context of taxidermy, is still a person who has undertaken time and effort to produce something that looks decent, unless you’re this guy...

The problem with any situation that boils down to ‘why the fuck didn’t we educate these douchebags properly’ is the cat is already out of the bag - unrestrained free enterprise let a bunch of rich tech bros loose on everything with zero morals because they’ve never been told to wind their neck in at any point in their…

I’m sure that P&G’s marketing executives would absolutely love to be able to just type into a snazzy front end website that feeds into an AI machine learning shop stocked with a bazillion images of Mr. Clean “Give me a picture of Mr. Clean using the mop in this uploaded file that we can slap on the packaging of this…

Not really - both are being employed blatantly to generate profit for the person controlling the generator at the expense of the source image(s).

I think you yourself are adding a huge amount of nuance where there isn’t much - most AI Art Generators seem to be taking a number of images that fit a search term then are smushing them together into a new image that closely enough matches the original search whilst being fundamentally different, hence why you can…

Jesus christ, this is the easiest thing in the world to not fuck up and it feels like every company is hell-bent on making the worst possible decisions in any given moment.

He’s only a ‘token’ $25 million a year. He’s not on $1, after you add in all the other perks and benefits...

That’s a thing worth remembering - like Musk, Zuck doesn’t actually have *that much money*... The majority of their ‘worth’ is tied up in the value of the companies they leech off of.

It’s neither. It’s almost purely to garnish their CV with the credentials you mention so that they will be able to move onto a better paid job within the next year.

If a lawyer was involved, it’s highly likely that he or she would have heavily resisted going public on this until all legal avenues has been exhausted, because if it went to court there’s a good chance she’d blow the entire case up if she tried to use her public forum to extort the other party.

Indeed. Divorces can take years and if there’s a watertight financial control order in place, I can’t see it being dissolved overnight.

The console ‘high-end GPU’ is still the equivalent to a mid-range laptop part and it’s priced cheaper because they know MS/Sony are going to shift X number of units...

They’re also likely styling out the fact that they had to overpay for silicon and manufacturing capacity during the crypto-boom and even though the demand isn’t there anymore, the component/manufacturing partners won’t reduce their quotes, so this is built into the prices to keep the shareholders happy...

Grand Theft Animal

Maybe they’re happy to let Schreier continue to do it because they know nobody will see his output as he’s blocked everyone on the internet who dares question his output, figures or why he sees himself as an internet paragon whilst also using his ‘fans’ to dogpile the people who question him?

I guess the problem with vertical integration is you become insular and think that you a) know everything and b) can do everything as well as (or better than) everyone else...

...and when that involves grifting magic digital money, its destined for disaster.

But is this not just a case of ‘all is rosy so we can afford to be nice’. They’re no Google, but the second GamePass has it’s ‘Netflix 2022' moment and the service suddenly stops growing or even contracts, I can see Microsoft’s pleasant demeanour disappearing quickly...

The reasoning may be different, but Bungie definitely archived off a load of content people likely paid money for, with no way to access it, for no obvious ‘reason’ other than they weren’t given resources to continue to support it, which either says ‘our product is badly written and the only staff who wrote the code…

I’ve tried plugging a USB DVD drive into a Xbox Series S and it’s not recognised, so implementing it could be something as simple as adding a generic USB driver, but my guess is if it was going to be an external drive, it would be a proprietary unit with some DRM and an excuse to sell it for >£50 to offset the digital…

Most patents are, by design, super convoluted so that they fit into a specific use case.