Hello? I'll take eight.

I was about to post here and make the same point about Chrono Trigger. 

Playing and enjoying video games has always been expensive. But this already pricey hobby is becoming even more expensive as we enter the era of $70 games. For many, $60 was already too much to stomach. Now games cost even more, and that’s not even factoring in taxes, potential DLC, or skins.

I took her “ethical” comment to be a reference to, in a way, setting a ceiling for how much professional artists who are contracted with Epic could reasonably ask for.

In industries where people/entities bid on jobs, putting in a seriously low offer is often seen as unethical, especially if everyone involved knows that…

What exactly do you mean by a “real” job? Are you trying to say that your job is somehow more real than hers or did you put the quotations because you understand that that’s not really the correct contextual word? “Traditional” job might be apt, but illustrator is a very real job, it takes time, effort, mental…

The rich do spend - they spend it on themselves and often at the expense of everyone else. Those megayachts aren’t figments of the imagination.

Haha, no. They spend outrageous amounts on tacky and meaningless nothings. The real reason they stay rich is because they weaken labor organizing. 

The rich are rich by exploiting those poorer than them. It’s a universal truth.

There’s no reason the risk-taking folks couldn’t be worker collectives instead of just rich people who intend to just extract wealth.

Alan Moore is rolling in his coffin.

Man, just from the title I was expecting a haughty mic-drop kinda peacing out, but the video makes it look more like a “thx for the games fam, brb ima go and decompress for a sec”

Obscuring a plate does not put anyone at risk, and I don’t think that is the argument being made. The quote itself mentions obscuring your plate so that you can take part in other illegal activity with impunity, including speeding and running red lights, which does generally put others at risk

It’s NYC, blocking the plate number prevents red light cameras, speed cameras and toll stations from seeing the plate. That means you can drive around speeding, running red lights and using all the bridges and tunnels for free. But let’s just skip those for now and think about what happens when there are hit and run…

These are the people who run lights and speed without consideration. I assure you that they are just as dangerous as the asshats in Altimas.

Because the “permission” is a smoke screen, they just want your shit to feed their stupid pointless toy. It’s why opting in is default and opting out takes 10 days in an obscure form - it’s so the majority of people on the site doesn’t learn they can do this or won’t bother even trying, ensuring their shitty bullshit…

That’s sort of the problem though isn’t it? There’s no way to prevent said morons from using the tool in unscrupulous ways (yet) beyond the quality of said art being terrible.

The ethical concern is that it might erode professional artists’ ability to make a living off commercial work. The whole “automated out of a job” thing.

The tech *is* cool af, but “embrace it or get out of the way” is an incomplete line of thought: these AI programs could have to address a lot of legal loopholes and copyright issues that they’ve been skirting around and not mentioning. For example, if the AI is using Bobby’s art as a sample to create the art,…

Happily. Go fuck yourself.

Sooo, another thing that makes DreamUp terrible...
I tried it out, and prompted it to make a Monkey Scientist wearing goggles, aaand, 2 out of 3 of the images it generated was of a black man wearing glasses... So yeah, AI is kinda racist.
I honestly have no idea how people make anything remotely interesting with these…