Bigots, in all their varied forms, attitudes, and ideologies, have NEVER suffered from a shortage of excuses for their bigotry or the ability to shift from one excuse to the next without pausing to evaluable their bigotry. Even as society tries to wash away one form or source of bigotry, bigots are already busily…

That was my read on this idea as well. It would take more and heavier firepower than is likely to still exist in any relevant capacity. So while bloaters aren’t literally unkillable, for all intents and purposes, they’re not possible to kill with any weapons still available. The only option is to run like hell.

Depending on viewing angle and pose, the number of ‘visible’ fingers can vary dramatically. And because these AI tools ‘break down’ the image data into generalized principles based on *regularity* of features, the fact that hands are so irregular and variable makes creating a unified output structure for anatomically…

A few things:

Yes and no. There is definitely a legal issue with using someone’s voice without permission, but the technology already exists and is widely available to completely replace voice actors, famous or otherwise, swap voices in or out for any performance, or any manner of similar things. You pick a name, and an AI can…

Given the rapid progress of ‘creative’ AI tools, I suspect artists, writers, musicians, and similar have a few good years left as ‘dedicated’ creators — in whatever medium they use — before that ‘world’ falls out from under them. The new paradigm is going to be ‘creators’ acting more like directors rather than doing…

Pick up and start again with what remaining energy sources? Coal? Nope. We’ve completely gutted our surface deposits. What remains requires modern technology to reach and extract, modern technology that will not be able to produce, operate, or maintain. Oil? Same problem as coal. Natural gas? Same problem again.…

Yes, there have games with worlds big enough. Many of them. And the developers had to hobble their ambitions because voice acting was too expensive and time consuming to fill them. Skyrim has over a 1000 NPCs you can speak with, and thousands more who have spoken lines. And as a matter of course, most of them used…

Regarding voice acting — because there’s literally no possible way for enough voice actors to speak the diversity of lines that a good writer can string together, with enough unique voices to populate entire game worlds of characters. Furthermore, the data used to do so is no less problematic, since spoken dialog is…

Pro-tip: being called out for being agreedy piece of shit is not defamation if it’s *TRUE* no matter how much it hurts your fee-fees, Brett (a man whose entire family line apparently has no idea how phonetics works).

Homophobic, super-bigot fast-food chain is no longer bigoted enough to appease hyper-radical conservatives and their moving-goalpost drive towards full-on fascist theocracy. In related news, the Taliban and Al Qaeda continue offering America’s conservatives suggestions on how to achieve their goals. When reached for…

Yet to take flight? As of now, that’s a fairly ‘polite’ way of describing the train wreck that is New Glenn and Blue Origin.

The *CURRENT* generation of ‘AIs’ have some pretty serious limitations. The most important of which is context extrapolation. What they ‘understand’ is only understood under the specific circumstances which it is trained to ‘understand.’ It cannot take what it ‘understands’ and extrapolate and apply it to another area…

The sad thing is, the people for whom these idiots are performing are also so stupid that they actually think their fellow idiot politicians are showing ‘proof’ of their imagined conspiracy, when really all they’re doing is showing the extent of their collective stupidity.

Still no. That’s not micromanaging. Perhaps you should educate yourself about the meaning of micromanaging. I’ll even help:

“Censorship is wrong! Now silence all these people saying things I don’t like!” — Republican Hypocrisy on full display.

Cowing to the censorship whims of radical conservatives isn’t ‘micromanaging’ corporations. And the fact that you say something this stupid, without a ‘sarcasm’ tag, is a perfect example of why so many Republicans are so fucking clueless.

“Big Tech” is really just a microcosm of all the problems with capitalism itself. All the reasons to keep these tech companies on a short leash apply to basically *EVERY* industry and the corporations operating within them. Finance, real estate, health and medicine, transportation, telecommunications, power…

And how would you propose to do that? White folks outnumber black folks, especially in that region of the US, they’re more than happy to take up arms to ‘protect’ other white people, and have law enforcement backing them at every level of the government. A field mouse has a better chance of taking down a mountain…

Particularly since many of them are *members* of said terrorist groups or, at the very least, willfully and knowingly choose to support and protect them.