Class. Working class vernacular = profanity. Words that demonstrate a university education = sophisticated. It wasn’t someone who decided anything. It’s a social phenomenon the emerges organically in any class-based society.

what youtube really needs is to actually define more than two ratings.

Can someone explain to me why we as a society even still have the concept of random words arbitrarily being designated as “swears”? I can understand slurs, but who was it who decided one day “ok no one should say ‘ass’ cuz it’s too naughty”? Kinda feels like if people just stopped caring about the “shocking impact” of…

What’s even the point of having age-restricted videos then?

‘anyone who pledges to support her monetarily is also a transphobe’ and comments like that, where people say ‘you’re x if you y’, immediately draw my ire. Give me a reason that’s substantiated, not a threat of your perception of me shifting.

Arcane

The only copyright nightmare is that you can’t copyright it.
almost no one at an anime convention copyrights the art they’re selling anyways so...

And as far as A.I. art goes... well, we actually learn the same way it does, we train models in our minds of what a good piece of art looks like and we guide our canvas…

For me, it’s amazing for quick and high-quality art used in TTRPG campaigns for things like backdrops, portraits, and other setpieces. I’m not an artist, and if I were, I wouldn’t have the time to prepare my campaign AND make the art for it. Finding art is a hassle and is almost never exactly what you want or need,…

What’s this?  A nuanced reply that addresses both the pros and cons of a newly emerging (and disruptive) technology?   Madness!

I call BS.

On the one hand, kotaku’s breathless anti-ai art bent is really tiring, but on the other hand: good.

How biased do you have to get before someone puts the brakes on?

I have to say, the AI-generated llamas are not significantly worse than a lot of stuff on DeviantArt

That Technollama on the bottom looks pretty cool. I get the legal concerns of AI art, but what exactly are the ethical ones? That its a machine mixing up various artists work? I don’t see it as any different than artists getting inspiration.

Or are the ethical concerns tied to the legal ones?

Ai art has nothing in common with nfts or crypto, seeing as it produces something instead of nothing.

insert knee jerk reaction below:
ok, slow down here. the only shitty part of this is the paywall. the tech is cool af and the cats well out of the bag at this point, embrace it or get out of the way it’s going to change how things work.

Reminder that AI is racist because whatever it trains on is racist and you can’t really escape that on the Internet.

AI image creation is exactly the same thing human artists do - every artist develops a style born from every piece of art they have ever seen. Nobody ever creates anything from nothing. The human brain learns from everything that has come before, remixes and smears it all together and spits out work that - because we…

What war was the US in for Hilary to be a war criminal? I cannot wait for this answer.

Don’t group Kevin fuckin Smith with a racist asshole and a transphobe, he’s the nicest fuckin person ever.