He’s not trolling as best I can tell.  He’s a guy who sincerely believes are that stuff he’s babbling on about and him sharing it isn’t harming a soul.  

Some people made the argument that Spears should be free by arguing some permutation of “Ackshually Britney would have her shit together if she didn’t have her dad and the 2003 paparazzi in her life”. Others thought (myself included) that emotionally unstable people who aren’t a danger to others deserve a high degree…

Yeah, definitely need to delineate between “AI using artists content to learn and generate imagery without compensation and/or attribution is bad” and “there are no legitimate use cases for AI art”.  There are a truckload of use cases like yours where you need something passable that would cost either a prohibitive…

I mean look the way this project is proof of the impact of years of low interest rates in the tech space leading to misplaced spending and overhiring in the wrong areas.

I’m sure this is a great game, I really am. I enjoyed the first one.

Oh Mikey bless your heart, the average use case for porn isn’t a scene out of Little Children.

Legit line of inquiry here ...

I doubt it. Most net nannies use actively maintained lists and also screenshots of screen activity that are analyzed.

IIRC He installed a linux partition to work around it to duck the registry issue. Doing that isn’t the most sophisticated thing in the world but it requires a bit of knowledge (or help which I doubt Duggar had).

Meh, unless he or his son are very good at computers then he’s not monitoring much of anything spicy. In addition to sending browser history reports, Covenant Eyes is a full blown net nanny that is as actively maintained as any of them are. It’s a nasty little bugger. If you try to delete it without the proper admin…

At first I was like Vox not practicing it’s same brand of unrelenting sanctimonious doomerism? but then I saw the byline was Dylan Matthews.

Well yeah of course but it makes for a much better plot to a dystopian Sci-Fi game to pretend otherwise.

Yes, AI absolutely will be a factor in games development, as it becomes inextricably woven into the tools used to make games—no matter how negative that may be—because: capitalism.

I think that argument is mostly coming from people who are obsessed with mapping a certain set of fiction tropes on to Star Trek that don’t really fit with the tropes that Rodenberry was going for himself.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about them entering the public domain, I just don’t care and think if you have to point to hundreds of years of evolution for the mythos to have improved you’re still kind of proving the point.

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If what “indie” creators have done with “Steamboat Willie” is any indication then my always nagging suspicion that public domain is deeply overrated for everything except works that have real educational value. Individuals are largely free to create their own art about these characters now anyways and any use case…

This is not about a mistrial, as that’s really hard to “force” in terms of getting a judge angry enough to do something stupid. Judges are allowed to display plenty of emotion and anger towards anyone disrupting their courtroom.

Well, look, I’m not shocked either of us got dismissed. I gave a nice and gilded, but still clear version of “calm down you fucking weirdo” whereas you on the other hand are over here saying the quiet part loud in terms of being willing to employ extralegal means to stop Trump, something I would think that someone…

Jezebel has always been a bit ... inconsistent ... with who they insist should have the right to control any interpretation of their life vs. not.