I would question how the state is served by this prosecution. If someone commits murder, there is a state interest in locking that person up to protect the rest of the citizenry.

again, writers practicing their craft in earnest, for free, as a part of a gift culture is on the opposite end of the spectrum as having their work used by a chatbot who exploited that to create a for-profit product.

yup. genuinely, go for it. i would rather have hundreds of kids experiment with writing based on my fanfic than a single dataset have access to it for programming purposes. 

fic has ALWAYS been accessible. writing has been accessible for YEARS. people have been writing fanfiction since the 1800s and publishing it since the 1890s. Accessibility has never been an issue, as there is literally no gatekeeping happening and nothing stopping anyone from writing fic.

humans read and learn, but anything they produce is created through their particular lens informed by their own entire life, way of thinking, and their capabilities. What they read, they paid for (with money, time, personal investment), they appreciated, and it inspired them. If a human learned to write the same way…

writers practicing is very different than a chat based generator pulling the next most likely word out of a dataset

If you cannot see the difference!! in between a HUMAN BEING!! taking something they love and loving it EVEN HARDER and in public and within fandom culture and a machine outputting The Next Most Likely Word then i simply cannot explain it to you in simpler terms lmao

per kashtanova’s profiles on instagram and twitter, they use both they and she pronouns. 

At this point, AI seems less to me like an artist’s tool and more like a particular kind of search prompt. If I go to Shutterstock and type in “a pretty girl in a yellow dress holding balloons,” it’s going to return images to me that fit that prompt with various degrees of accuracy. But even though I crafted that…

I mean personally I’m way more stoked for multiversal shenanigans, Kang, the whole MCU getting ripped apart and put back together, etc... than I was for Iron Man 2 or whatever you’re being nostalgic about.

The best thing this show did was reveal early that Kirigan was evil. It was obvious from his first scene, but most shows would have held that for the first season finale, which would have turned the first season into an incomplete story with an obvious ending that just serves to set the real story in motion.

What I thought was a very important character moment for Joel – that many have overlooked – was after Ellie’s comment in the truck, he smiled and laughed!

AND that’s the difference between plot-based and character-based storytelling.

I haven’t played the games, but I watched my husband play them.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll guess I’ll say it again. The whole show is gonna be “filler” until the season finale. There’s no complex and evolving plot to set aside. Joel and Ellie head off in search of the Fireflies, they eventually find the Fireflies — that’s the whole season, nothing in between matters.

The Linda Ronstadt song choice was just perfect

This episode was some of the best television I have seen in a long time. I’m playing the game for the first time and I just got through this section, so getting to compare them so fresh was really fun. I have to imagine this is going to earn some awards.

Are you telling me the guy who shot these moments...

It’s obviously an early post-production still. The movie doesn’t release for 10 months.

Again, it’s not much, but the sight of Brown wielding a sword certainly has me intrigued.