The infrastructure is just severely outdated. On top of that. After being up there for 32 years when it retires, the outside of the hull has been worn down because of micrometeorites and just space dust in general. So structurally it isn’t 100% anymore either.

The point of retiring/deorbiting the ISS is that it will be getting too old for safety by 2030 -- in fact, the original plan was to abandon the station earlier (this year, IIRC, or 2025) and continuing operations until 2030 is stretching the station much the way Mir was stretched (and Mir was getting pretty ugly and…

Yeah, I’da thunk either a big shove outwards, or a big shove inwards and maybe some det cord, and both of those if they just want to wreck or abandon it. Lets make a large telescoping electromagnetic piston that pushes an unwanted, unusable bit to atmospheric doom while the recoil lifts the rest slightly?

“those old ones have terrible graphics.”

2nd universe over, just past the Twilight Sector

If only you could stop your elderly relatives from sharing their DNA from these companies too.

Im not.

Or, we could control the biggest sources of climate change which aren’t jeans washing, and start holding the polluters accountable instead of pretending these actions that help 0.000000001% of the problem mean anything.

I’m hoping they’ll do similar spots for Vellani and Parris, preferably each with their own character-heavy teaser, but perhaps combined would be fine. I’m actually looking forward to this movie for all three ladies, but especially can’t wait to see Vellani’s take on being such a big Danvers fan. Reminds me of a couple…

I mean, it makes sense on terms of audience awareness? Almost anyone who knows who Kamala Khan and/or Monica Rambeau are already understands that this is a sequel to Captain Marvel, whereas there are probably at least a few million people who saw Captain Marvel, but have no clue who Kamala Khan and/or Monica Rambeau…

Hey Caitlin, the only other comment is from a known troll. How about taking care of that?

What the hell is with this "Oh man artists are an elite group that need to be taken down a peg or two" nonsense being used in defense of this? Y'all realize "starving artist" is a phrase for a reason, yes?

Because you’re developing your own style based on what you’ve learned, and (presumably in this hypothetical scenario) have gotten good enough to where what you produce is something people want and are willing to pay for. That’s not what this AI does. It produces an amalgamation of the works of dozens of different…

There’s nothing wrong with fan art so long as it’s not marketed as original material (or marketed at all) and credits / draws attention to the original creator in some fashion. This is not the same situation.

Well, ok. So leave.

I like how you just slide right on over and past literally one of the most important and biggest sticking points in this whole discussion, which is the rights of the artists on whose backs this derivative, hacky garbage is being spit out.

There is no “conversation”. You don’t use existing artworks from living artists to train these things on without the artists' express permission. Full stop.

They did prove their point though: The point of this AI is to *not hire artists in the first place*

It’s working exactly they way they want.  And that’s the problem.

I like how people have watered down the meaning of “outrage” to the point that it’s now just used to describe anyone having any point of view whatsoever.

To prove a real point they should have hired their own artist to draw reference art, and not take it from an existing anime.