Uh ISPs have been doing this for well over a decade? Got nastygrams from AT&T back in 2010 for downloading fansubs of Naruto episodes.

I suspect the issues with your whataboutism is that this article is specifically about CFA in New York, and since In-N-Out does not have any locations east of the Mississippi, it’s an irrelevant point.

Additionally, In-N-Out doesn’t get a pass on their contributions to anti-LGBTQ politicians, as there have already…

A publicly funded rest stop on a highway is supposed to provide food and respite to drivers. if your company is unable to feed people one day a week, then it should not be the only fresh food option at the rest stop. its not that hard to understand. they don’t close the bathrooms one day a week. 

In-N-Out has about 380 locations in 9 States.

Because it isn’t CFA’s Christian ownership which raises hackles. Its their financial contributions to discrimination and their No-Sundays policy.

You know what? The grossest thing here is how you wrote an article going on a tirade about how AI is bad and how if this is what fans want we “deserve” what we get.

Someone decides to write a well articulated thought out response to the very points you made in the article you wrote and posted.

Didn’t stop you from writing an article about Stable Diffusion which had zilch to do with games though did it.

Wagering against future quality based on current content is frequently a fool’s bet. Especially with the machines designed to improve.

Yes, it’s garbage now. Tell me about it in ten years, or even five.

Ok fair — but it wouldn’t be a Kotaku article if it didn’t involve a shitty little lecture. Turnabout is fair play 

Technology evolves, for good and bad, in video games as well as everything else.

“Automation is bad because it’s threatening a white collar job in the arts”, brought to you by writers who doesn’t mind taking part in the online blogging arena which set fire to countless blue collar jobs.

You guys don’t actually give a crap about automation, not really. You’ve never complained about it on this scale…

For PC players, who previously never had access to a dodge,

I don’t even know where to start with this. Dodge rolling has always been a dumb, overused mechanic that is mostly the fault of Souls games at this point, and even there, it was limited by equipment weight and stamina.

“AI art, as a tech and service to aide artists and aspiring is great. But that’s not what this has become, it’s becoming something to replace artists. Who benefits from this? Those who dont want creative thinkers. Who doesn’t want creative thinkers? People who want to control others through conformity.”

but your examples already show that it was unstoppable in an pre-internet era, because people want cheaper and easier. The fight was lost when someone thought about creating something that can create art.

Why is this a problem? There is no need to “art” any more than there is a need to know how to make a basket, and yet people still know how to make baskets.

It’s really interesting seeing creative types come to grips with generative AI and learning algorithms and their output. It’s the impact of open source images.

“No one in this story seems particularly likable and I love it.” I see no issue with the person that should have won the truck. The article does not seem to make that person seem unlikeable. Or, did I miss something. 

No one in this story seems particularly likable...

Ditto.