“ complete with neatly trimmed landing strips”

Cowards.

Nobody asked, you fucking neo-nazi

Nobody asked, you fucking neo-nazi

At every job I’ve ever worked at where we were given computers powerful enough to play games, I would just ask head of department, and the simple response would be along the lines of: “yeah thats not a problem, just it is a work laptop first so if IT says a game is creating any lapse in functionality talk it out, if…

How about if you get your work done on time and aren’t causing any problems, work shouldn’t care what you do on your work laptop?

man it's like the problem is it shouldn't be a reason to screw you in the first place

Jesus Christ why do you care? Seriously. How does what she does, impact your life in any measurable way?

Hahaha, the way a woman chooses to live her life and work is a goal post moving. Wow. WOW.

She’s actually allowed to do whatever the fuck she wants, and you can choose to pay for her content or not. Are you this mad when bands go on multiple ‘farewell tours’ or athletes un-retire to play another season?

You’re the one babbling. She could have just fired them all and called it a day. In fact, by not doing so, imbeciles have jumped on that as a sign she hasn’t changed her streaming.

Anyone calling her a scammer or a liar is just showing their whole ass at how fucking stupid and pathetic they are. Ever since the drama and her pivoting away from hot tub stuff, her Twitch numbers have absolutely tanked. She would regularly have over 10k viewers, sometimes 15 or close to 20, now she’s usually around…

“just ignore it and it’ll pass over time”

It’s not really “looking for reasons” when Rowling has very publicly made those statements…but this is all spoken like someone who probably has never had to deal with comments like these directed and them. Must be nice. 

People aren’t “looking for reasons” to be angry. People are rightfully angry over transphobia, and this game is based on the franchise created by one of the world’s most visible transphobes. And fuuuuuuuuuck you and your stance of “ignore it and it’ll go away”. That’s not how social change works. The trans community…

I’m curious if anyone can point to a historical example of saving an employment sector by putting a technological genie back in the bottle.

While I don’t mean to downplay the ethical issues, like using artists’ works as training data without (or outright against) their wishes, at least diffusion-based AI art generators (I’m not sure about other types if there are any) are not “collages” and don’t “paste together” anything. The trained models contain zero…

When I was in art school some of my teachers and most of my classmates used to tell me that I wasn’t making real art because I used Photoshop in some of my printmaking projects. This is just what happens when new technological breakthroughs occur. 

Exactly. Everyone raging over AI art lately just reminds me of Metallica suing Napster. Yes, mp3s and the internet made sharing music easier and selling CDs less profitable, but the technology has vastly improved the music industry over time, and has helped countless musicians who otherwise would have had great difficu…

cool story, lex. I’m sure you’re right about whatever you were on about. I’m a developer who makes games with the tech; I’m not reading your paragraphs that pretend I don’t know what I’m talking about, to make yourself feel better. You want to be civil, we can discuss our differences of thought on the tech; not it’s…

No, that would be analogous to - say - the poster design represented here in High on Life. Or the way Google’s Imagen works.

And to those people, I say: “Come on, really? Come on.”