The training models do contain a heavily compressed version of the art used as training materials. This is easy to prove; if you prompted Midjourney to create a picture of a green eyed Afgani woman, it spat out something clearly close enough to the National Geographic photographic to constitute copyright infringement.…

That is what the company prefers. But many style guides, including AP, say not to use all-caps for company names and products unless the letters are individually pronounced.

There are absolutely some fantastic art channels on art, may of which have good reason for depicting non-sexual nudity. I’m sure they’re a minority, but they absolutely exist.

In Valhalla you fight all day, get resurrected if you die, then party all night. Sounds like a fantastic narrative justification of a rogue like to me.

To make matters worse, the patent almost certainly should not have been granted in the first place. Various strategy games had similar systems, Shadow Over Mordor’s only innovation was putting them in an open world action game. If the patent was challenged in court, it would probably be overturned. But small game…

I think it’s intended more as a self-discipline/self-reward tool (e.g. you can use your Switch as long as you can charge it).

I don’t think it’s actually that hard, at least for big-centralized services. Just require a license for all images used in the training data. The reason why the AI can reproduce images of Mickey Mouse is that it’s trained on a data set that includes a ton of images of Mickey, and it’s storing that information.

“Now the devs can start a new studio and make the games they want without any publisher breathing down their necks about having to make the shareholders happy every 3 months.”
That’s only an option if you’ve got enough money on hand to support yourself for years. Which I assure you, most Volition devs do not.

The parts visible to guests were perfectly well themed. The entrance is themed as a shuttle pad, then you’re “flown” up to the starcruiser in a “shuttlecraft” (actually a simple motion simulator). You only see the bland showbuilding if you look for it—which is true of a whole lot of Disney attractions.

Part of it is that nerdy stuff like D&D is on the short list of things Mormon teenagers ARE allowed to do.

So I enjoyed Elantris, but it really shows that he was still developing his craft. The prose is very clunky. I’d only reccomend it if you’re read the rest of his fantasy works and want more.

Yes, that. If you pass a certain subscriber not only will your support tickets automatically get bumped in priority, you’ll have a designated human rep you can contact directly.

I definitely do get sick noticeably more often while traveling than at other times. I suspect airports and airplanes are the main culprits, but I can easily believe wiping down the TV remote and other frequently-touched areas housekeeping doesn’t regularly clean makes a meaningful impact on your odds of catching…

Wait, parents stay for every practice these days? When I was a kid it was just becoming the norm for parents to attend every game (instead of just the highlights of the season), and my parents rightfully rebelled against that.

The six pointed star on the floor of Gringotts originates from the films (which isn’t to say they shouldn’t have changed it in the game).

All the positive reviews I’ve said say it’s well executed, especially in terms of environment art and open world design, but I haven’t seen anything that suggests it’s not the bog standard open world template applied to a new IP.

Judged on its own merits, it’s pretty good. But judged as a series, 1-3 is a much more powerful series than 1-4.

I think people understand that you can’t build theme park rides to accommodate every body type. But, especially considering this ride does not move very quickly, it’s hard to believe it wasn’t feasible to design it more inclusively. 

It depends on height. I’m 6'3" with a 36" waist, and qualify for at least a broad definition of “thin”. I could gain an extra four inches of waist line and still be in the thinner half of Americans.

“Annual expenses” should be how much you spend in one single year, it’s how much you spend on average.

Granted, figuring that out can be tricky.