What is with this stupid idea that they should cut costs to meet the dividend? Why should regular employees, who had nothing to do with any strategy decisions, be forced to lose pay? If they actually have cash issues, which no tech company has shown they actually have, then why aren’t they cutting the dividend first?

I think this one response from Sarah Silverman probably sums up the best possible response one can truthfully have when it turns out one of your friends is on the “gross monster” spectrum:

The actor and showrunner has pled guilty but so far not publicly commented on the allegations.

It’s a sport...you are supposed to be pissed if you think you are going to win and you lose. Who cares if he breaks his controller? He didn’t get violent with people, just his own property.

ok but were not vulcans. do you expect everyone to bottle up their feelings so you dont feel bad?

So... how in the world is this a story?

You know, I cannot wait until Elon Musk finally kills Twitter for good, just so that I can stop seeing articles about what some randos on twitter said.

Exactly. The anti-capitalist thing, which was at WotC’s behest, shows the huge problem here.

Good news everyone, we’ve decided to put something that can’t be copyrighted into the Creative Commons!

The main issue I have with this new version (other than the OGL 1.0a deauthorization) is the complete lack of any kind of definitions for what kind of content (and not just in your content, speech outside your published content!)
constitutes “objectionable” content that is a violation of those license terms. As it’s…

There’s also the argument that kind of highlights the inherent nature of our justice system. It’s not to rehabilitate or reform, but to punish. If the person being punished will never realize they’re being punished, there’s little point.

You’re commenting on Kotaku. Do you really think pointing out an anime profile picture is an insult on a site that regularly covers anime?

I seriously don’t understand the raw hate for AI art. It seems to me like a great tool for good artists to speed up their work. I’m constantly hearing about artists who do web comics getting burned out because the amount of tedious work that is needed to be put in to keep a comic going that needs to be updated…

The sad fact is that if you actually know how Stable Diffusion works, you quickly realize how fast this lawsuit is going to end with being dismissed - unless, of course, they managed to land a judge who would be easily hoodwinked and not understand how all this works, which is sadly possible, because how it works is…

I wish them luck. In order for this case to have any standing, the plaintifs will have to point to specific works they think were plagiarized, and at least show how those devalued their work or caused damages. I wonder if in this case or future cases, the remedy is to have a logo or watermark that mark the media as…

The work that went into developing the AI tools is, in itself, an act of artistic creation. They did not spring forth, fully formed, from the brain of some faceless corporate drone.

Glad someone in this comment section has their head screwed on right.

This is always going to be a super problematic argument because what critics of AI art don’t want to admit is that human artists train themselves on vast amounts of copyrighted work with “no consent, no credit, and no compensation”. There are thousands of artists who have learned to ape other artists styles, and based…

I believe you, but I have to agree with the OP. This new license had to go thru multiple back and forths during drafting between legal and general management teams. I would be really really surprised if no one saw this coming. The scrambling is probably related to “how to deal with all this” meaning, that there was no…

You give business execs too much credit for being in touch with what people want.