Do you mean recent as in 100 years, recent as in 50 years, armed conflicts as in ones the US is involved in, armed conflicts as in the ones the US admits to being involved in...?

*looks at my 502 hours played in Crusader Kings*

Yeah these artists are now free from the burden of... pursuing art as a career

The ethically dubious thing about AI art specifically is that it’s trained on images that are stolen from artists without their knowledge or permission. It’s like money laundering, but for art. In fact you’re right, it’s not ethically dubious, it’s uneqivocally immoral, and should be illegal.

The article cites artists who’ve found themselves pushed out of work by AI, and since our ability to eat and have a roof over our heads is (unfortunately) tied to said work, this means AI has directly endagered their ability to survive.

you mean free people up to pursue a career in something fulfilling that they might actually enjoy, such as art?

This! It’s the normal outcome of automation. The problem isn’t AI, the problem is that we don’t have UBI. If we’d take the productivity gain for the next 10-20 years and share it as UBI, all the concerns that would be left are actually AI specific in the vein of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s warnings about AI killing us. The AI…

Yeah, because past inventions and productivity increases ALWAYS free human beings up to do more interesting work or have more free time, right?

Are you out of your fucking mind?

Actually, CGI has done massive damage to the moviemaking industry. So many little stupid things get CGI’d, like having an actor hold a stick and then CGIing in a gun later because it’s cheaper to pay a graphics sweatshop to add in a gun than it is to pay a unionized prop manager. Actors having to try to portray nearly …

“There is literally nothing ethically dubious about artificial intelligence.”

Just needs to be expanded slightly to ‘As a consumer, I hope there is properly compensated and respected human labor behind my purchase’

DeSantis is going to die on this hill isn’t he?

Yeah, putting aside the “cheering for mega-corps” angle, Desantis was literally just trying to retaliate because his fascist policies weren’t liked, and install stooges on these boards for the sole purpose of blackmailing Disney into altering its content by holding hostage the things that council controlled. That’s *li…

Neither the streamer nor the writer make the argument that Luffy himself is a socialist, but rather that the author and the work itself are. I’m not saying that there are no holes in their argument, just that this is a small but fundamental misunderstanding.

Isn’t Alpha Protocol only “bad” because parts of it are broken? And even then, it’s mostly just the combat.

Hey do you know what an allegory is

I don’t think he said Luffy was a socialist BECAUSE he’s a terrorist. He can be two things.

I have no idea what you're talking about.