Artists “steal” from each other constantly. The most obvious example is sampling. If what upsets you is that the benefits of that “theft” don’t accrue to a worker and instead to an owner, welcome to capitalism. 

Probably, but I just can’t get worked up that they didn’t pay human artists to imitate an AI. YMMV.

Some guy who clicks his mouse 12 times in Adobe thinks generative AI is a dangrous technology sucking the soul out of human art.

Okay- Elon is an asshole - and his “free speech absolutism” is absolute bullshit but...

Ask not for whom the bait clicks.

Look at Barsanti out here trying to make a mountain out of something that doesn't even qualify as a molehill.

And based on that last paragraph you didn’t want to have to write this!

Not to mention that 20 years is actually a long time, especially with large social upheavals in between. How much longer ago do pre-COVID things seem now?

Star Wars’ OTHER problem is us: Humans aren’t really capable of grasping 10s of thousands of people unless they’re looking at a stadium, and even then, we’re not really differentiating. So we’re examining a universe of uncountable beings, of which 10k or so are officially “special” (and others are special-adjacent or…

Hey, don’t even get me started on the mono-habitat planets that make up this galaxy. Hoth, ice planet. Tatooine, desert planet. Dagobah, swamp planet. Jakku, another desert planet. Mustafar, volcano planet.

Yeah even if there were 10k before the purge, there was something like 1 trillion people on Coruscant alone. That’s one for every 100 million people on Coruscant alone if they were all there at once. There would be more Avengers per capita in NYC. Enough to know who they are and the stories, but not common enough to…

OH man, I remember in ye olde days when Giz LOVED him. Reminder: Classified documents being mishandled is a big deal. 

I agree. They portrayed Tatooine as nothing but desert. No polar regions where water might have accumulated. Hoth was an ice ball, but no discussion of the equatorial regions being the only place warm enough for the rebels.

Tiktok has been caught a few times harvesting much more data then what the app tells the users its harvesting. It also asks for more permissions then it needs.

While it is not recommended, beginners do often try to tap someone while in their guard. A more experienced player will use this submission attempt against them, but if you are new to the sport and under presssure like this it’s not unheard of for the guy standing in guard to grab the opposite collar and apply…

not only did his guard not slip, he still had his ankles hooked on each other. it takes real effort to keep your legs wrapped in the guard like that with the ankles crossed. I’ve seen multiple people slept from the guard and their legs immediately drop like sandbags.

Nah, he wasn’t out. I like dunking on him as much as anybody, but he never went limp. I was expecting his guard to start slipping or another sign. Nothing from this angle indicates he had even a brief period of unconsciousness.

About Hydrogen.

I’m not so stupid as to call an Apple release a future flop.

He’s not even a member (AFAIK) of any of the unions that would be expected to respect the picket line, like SAG-AFTRA or IATSE.