Yeah it is very difficult and I am open to other reasoning on this. The problem is that the agreement can be made to ban the party who wants the child from contacting the uninterested party. But it cannot be made binding to the actual child. Parenting and responsibilities do not end with paying child support. No…

The pro-lifers who think these embryos are people under the 14th Amendment and the pro-lifers who want to ban IVF because it violates Catholic doctrine should be locked in a room full of knives to fight it out.

I don’t understand how he got past everything because it was so prominent to me that he had so many issues just from talking to him in that time period.

In a house where six young people live, I can imagine it’s a near-constant stream of coming and going, noise, random friends, etc... might as well just install a revolving door. That one of the survivors is being persecuted is beyond awful; it’s so easy for the people who weren’t there, who will never experience…

“It’s just needless, pointless cruelty all the way down.”

This right here it is really all it is. Cruelty

They’re not replicable though, that’s the entire issue, you utter schmuck.

One last note on the topic. I would point out that there are Stability-based diffusion AI for music as well, but they are specifically trained on “datasets composed entirely of copyright-free and voluntarily provided music and audio samples”. So what’s different here? Simple. Musicians have major litigious labels…

Tell me you’re not an actual artist without telling me you’re not an actual artist. Literally all of the people you mentioned who don’t complain, also take Umbrage with work getting stolen and uncredited.

Also your analogies don’t make any sense in relation to AI art...
Taking inspiration and creating a new work with…

“where are... the coders complaining their code snippets are being used by AI code completion systems”?

AIs don’t create art, though. Art requires a mind that can make subjective and aesthetic choices to elicit some sort of response from the viewer. AIs simply take aspects of other people’s art based on algorithms and throw them together. It’s following a rule set with zero actual understanding of what it’s creating,…

I feel it’s a bigger problem than what you’re describing here since it’s multi-faceted

You mean the class action lawsuit by coders against Github or the gazillion morose articles and op-eds by writers and journalists being morose about the future of their profession? The scientists complaining that datasets trained by neocolonial image tagging farms in lower income countries provide both bad data for…

It is also worth noting that SOME visual art is getting a pass on getting chewed up by these systems - tell me why the creators of the systems knew enough to not train them on Mickey Mouse or Gatfield, but only on those intellectual properties of individual artists who have far less ability to retaliate? 

AI art is here and it isn’t going away.

AIs don’t “take inspiration” from ANYTHING. That’s the difference. You’re humanizing an algorithm. They literally steal the characteristics of an artist’s style and then overlay it onto other styles like a fucking connect-the-dots to reproduce something *unique* but as much as mathematically possible in-the-style-of…

why is it only seemingly visual artists getting hot and bothered by this stuff?

Go differently, perhaps. But AI art has been influenced and even propped up by the same people shilling for NFTs; the same ones all for stealing art and calling it their own for different means. One thing they have in common is the absolute disdain, antipathy, and envy towards people who have a passion for drawing,…

I just don’t get how a website exists only for artists, fucks artists over then wonders why the artists got mad? YOU HAD ONE JOB, LOOK AFTER THE ARTISTS!

AI art is so insidious and a blight to the community, I hate it. I shouldn’t have to put an ugly water mark on my art just to be able to post it without fear of it being taken and tossed in the AI meat grinder (ignoring how rampant art thefts already is) so it can churn out some mediocre soulless copy of my work.…