Adding to the pile of “I miss ThinkGeek” replies.

I feel like your version of the analogy makes Sony a whiny kid at a table, where my version emphasizes that capitalism is a game where all the participants try to leverage everything to their advantage.

so working conditions at activbliz can improve

She’s already fabulously wealthy so it’s hardly as if she gives a shit anymore anyways.

Yes, obviously the companies that generate these training databases and sell access to them have control over how they’re used.  This argument is the equivalent of “You can’t make it completely impossible for somebody to break into your house, so you should do absolutely nothing to prevent burglaries.”

The way that human artists learn to draw and the way that the Stable Diffusion algorithm generates images are fundamentally different. Modern “AI” is still incomparable to actual human intelligence; that’s just a label that researchers put on it to make it seem more advanced than it is, and you’re buying it.

Spoken like someone who has never attempted to learn any skill or craft in his lifetime.

Yeah, except it’s not creating unique stuff, because AI “art” is completely dependent on having pre-existing art in its database to copy from. It can’t make new ideas, it just reinterprets old ones (and the result is usually worse than the original.)

If you know how AI art works, you’d know nothing it creates is unique. 

I too can be an absolute dingleberry at times. I also say really stupid things with great confidence.

Very interesting response about the copyright stuff, because most of these image generators are trained with the LAION dataset that in theory was only allowed to be used for academic purpose.

I really hope this screws with people using “trending on ArtStation” prompts.

“Man I miss the 80's and 90's when everyone wasn’t acting like a little b*tch about everything.” I, too, wish the government of Florida didn’t act like the LGBT+ community had cooties.

If an organization cancels an event they were going to hold, they should be allowed to explain why. I’m sorry you think keeping their attendees safe and LGBTQ+ people existing (which make up a decent number of speedrunners for some games) are “politics”.

Shut the fuck up snowflake

People who play visual novels and complain that they are, in fact, visual novels are so incredibly frustrating. Please go do that to literally any other genre and leave visual novels alone.  It’s ok to just acknowledge that a genre isn’t for you and move along.

And proof of that ownership is what the NFT actually is in this case?

Can NFTs be licensed characters/IP without the IP owner’s permission? Makes it sound like NFTs are a shady way to make money.

“And when I’m ready to move on to something else, wouldn’t it be great to monetize what I’ve built?”

That’s fair! I admit I haven’t paid too much attention to the Pixel Remasters, but when I see them it makes me wonder why they don’t just make the original games available. Sure, throw in some quality-of-life changes but otherwise I don’t see the graphics in these remasters as being a meaningful improvement over the…