Waypoint Radio has been my favorite podcast since it debuted, and Waypoint’s criticism has been the best in the business, bar none. This really sucks.

This sucks so, so much. I will miss Waypoint Radio most of all. I hope eveyone lands on their feet and keeps doing stuff where I can continue to follow them.

Riot knew they were partnering with a pyramid scheme when they signed the deal.  I have no sympathy for them now that they’re in the Find Out phase.

This while crypto thing has really reminded how people getting paid millions of dollars almost always have no idea what they’re doing and that the real work is done by the middle class keeping their company afloat. Eat the rich. 

In keeping with the Simpsons theme...

this article was shared on an pro-AI Generated Image reddit so if anyone is coming here and thinking surely I’ll find a balanced and measured discussion of AI Art let me tell you we got a lot of people in here who wish they could do what human artists do and are willing to throw actual living artists under the bus so…

AI Art is not like a human creating art because AI Art is produced by a CODE that STEALS art, not an Artist who takes Inspiration from other artists. if you can’t see the difference between those two things then we can’t be friends/talk about this further. 

simply because it is allowed does not mean it is ethical

inspiration is different from scraping

do artists agree to have their art fed into any ai image generator

AI generated images are done so without any artist’s premission, and are, techincally ‘owned’ by the ai image generator, not the typist. it’s morally grey, ethically shitty, and devalues the actual work done byartists whose iamges were scraped to create the ai image. 

It’s almost like a movie *specifically about a multiverse* might feature different versions of characters from the ones we know. Shocker! (Although I now do want some version of Shocker to show up to turn that into a pun)

I actually thought they were doing a take on Valerie when I first saw the design but realized I…

a headline that says ‘best books’ and is a list of best books is not clickbait lmao 

What I like about this list is it is interesting.

Agree or disagree, this list isn’t boring.

No it’s not. Fortnite made 3000 dollars in the time it took me to write the word ‘dollars.’ If they want to buy the eternal copyright for a piece of art, they can pay at least what they make in, I don’t know, an hour.

...”perceived” self-worth?

Do you think the people working at the fast food chains are being paid what they’re worth for the price of the food that makes the company billions of dollars?

Artist who makes their living with their own art

The agents claimed that all the contracts “had set conditions for fee and terms,” and that the company “did not have the time and manpower to negotiate each one separately.”

Ugh, the worst part is, they’ll find someone desperate enough to take the deal. Not that that’s the individual artist’s fault. And I imagine we’re not too far off from large corporations just using AI art generators for whatever Epic was looking for.

I hate the world we live in.