Imagine being a writer for a popular entertainment website, and after watching the most recent episode of your favorite TV show, you open your laptop and start writing a review for the site. You spend several hours analyzing and appreciating the themes and narrative. Your review is a work of love for the series.

Here comes the hypersensitive spoilerphobia crowd complaining the writers didn’t coddle them enough this morning.

If there’s something stopping someone from coming to “my side” when that “side” is “trans people should get to live” then there is nothing I can say to convince them. It’s as simple as that.

I dunno man, if after Polanski loudly and clearly announced he was pedophile, he made a new movie and you went to see it, you would be supporting a pedophile. The NFL does not have an expressly pro-domestic-violence stance, so it’s not the same. And your call out to “gangster rap” is...sus at best.

No my dude. No reasonable person is saying that anyone playing this game is as bad as Hitler. What I’m saying is that if you choose to buy and play the game, you care more about playing the game than you do about JK’s bigotry. And that’s fine if that’s the decision you want to make, but own it.

Yeah, and by that same logic playing a video is not the worst someone can do. Scale matters. Intent matters. Lumping people together into a bin with transphobes and Nazis is throwing the baby out with the bathwater in this case. It is counterproductive and damages the very cause the community and its allies are…

Kathleen, she gives off an attitude of almost naive innocence, which clashes so intensely with the ruthlessness of her actions.

Ever since Detroit Rock City for me.

Yes, also natural selection doesn’t work in a symbiotic host pairing over the course of only two decades. Maybe 20000 years from now, Clickers won’t make noise, because a mutated version of the fungus able to change how the host works is more successful at hunting than the current version. But that’s just not going to…

edit: What sort of irks me with this kind of feedback is that this is the kind of cinematic you put a team of juniors on for a few weeks, and those poor folks get to see the internet tear them a new one in their first years of their career.
Hope they don’t take it to heart.

Taxes, health insurance, lifetime judicial appointments, military policing... we do lots of things in incredibly weird (also evil, profit mongering, usually racist) ways!

Thankfully I have my own (DVD...sigh) copy of The Wall. It’s the movie I’ve watched the most as I tend to put it on for background noise then end up watching it.

Don’t forget Eric Clapton. Even Roger Waters has approached that line of senility, trying to convince Ukraine that Russia isn’t so bad.

i think you’re short-selling the depth of creativity here.

Regulation is all I’ve ever advised. The problem is very simple: IP infringement. Full stop.
We need to legislate better IP laws that disallow dataset spiders from sourcing from non-permissive data. And then we need to prosecute those who ignore that law, in such a way as to compensate those that were infringed upon.

You don’t have to shut up. Luddites do tend to be fairly loud after all. But you are going to indeed take it just like the rest of us are or have.
And it is a bit hypocritical to treat looming automation as an issue for one field and only getting interested in when it affects you or people you empathize with. It’s…

So the concern here is that people will no longer be able to monetize insipid and boring art because AI can make it for free..?

The datasets are public domain. It’s map/topology information and real world object photography (like desks, chairs, swords, appliances, vehicles, etc). One is provided by the US government, the other is provided by a university. I include disclaimers and the license is entirely permissive and free for commercial use.

You are MORE than welcome to point out ANY content I’ve EVER generated that used someone else’s uncredited work. I would LOVE to see that.

AI isn’t going away. In fact, I suspect we’re going to see technology advance so rapidly in the next 5 years that it’ll make the internet boom look like the Jurassic period.

Why? Because we’re training the computers to do our learning for us now. Technology used to be limited by human limitations.

Computers can do it…