“uses people’s work without their consent” is literally the entire history of art. Van Gogh’s style was heavily influenced by Japanese woodblock prints. Monet was influenced by ukiyo-e Japanese art. Do you think these artists got permission from the original artists to use their work as “training data”?

Some people need a firm backhand to teach them to stop making up fetishes in order to feel special.

The infamous “11 foot 8 Bridge” has things that dangle from a pole which hit your truck if its too tall, but that doesn’t persuade people from not opening their trucks like cans of tuna.

While politicians and fossil fuel CEOs have obvious reasons to do that, what I don’t get is why so many average Joes do the same thing. What do they stand to gain from “proving” climate change is fake? They’re average shmucks just like the rest of us, who will be equally fucked, without a bunker to escape to, if the…

Trying to quell the rioting French public is historically, a poor decision:

Not gonna happen, there wouldn’t be NEAR enough opportunities to shoot scenes of Tom Cruise running.

This has always been my response to the people who think A.I image generation will take artist’s jobs. For that to happen, whoever it is that would normally hire a human artist, would need to be fine with using whatever it is that the A.I decides to spit out. Lord help them if they have specific ideas about what they…

It’s painfully obvious that this is a “I need this to be removed entirely, as I have no self-control and I will watch it if it’s available” situation.

I find it baffling that “rich idiot full of Silicon Valley ‘move fast and break things’ hubris, who thinks he knows more than people with the qualifications to understand this shit, did not understand this shit” isn’t a believable enough explanation.

Those games out in the bin outside are going to be sun-faded as shit.

The maintenance team:

Makes sense. If you make a game starring Sonic the Hedgehog, but you haven’t paid Sega for the rights to the character, it’s copyright infringement whether you draw the art of Sonic with giant tiddies or you had an A.I generate it.

The USB C debacle is what happens when you leave engineers in charge of the naming conventions. 

“Suicide Squad but as an isekai anime” sounds like a joke at the expensive of both the proliferation of the Suicide Squad franchise (despite not having gotten the best of receptions) and the oversaturation of anime with an isekai theme. It’s nuts to think it’s real.

I moved to Japan nearly a decade ago, and I’m still not a huge fan of these sandwiches, it’s so weird to put fruit on a sandwich. Now katsu sando, THOSE are an excellent Japanese sandwich!

You gotta wonder, how many of these people are against it because they don’t like the idea of it awakening something in them..?

We need to start feeding Christians to lions again, let them see what REAL persecution looks like.