A Haiku can be copyrighted. So can a tweet ..... https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/tweets-protected-copyright/

This was making the rounds several years ago. Let’s just all drink Faygo and become Juggalos.

Some of the worst FBJail offenses were when friends landed in jail for something that was posted YEARS ago.  I hope they also add a “statute of limitations”......

<quote>You’re conflating two points: Whether the prompt is copyrightable, and whether the art generated by the AI as a result of that prompt is copyrightable.</quote>

You’re conflating two points: Whether the prompt is copyrightable, and whether the art generated by the AI as a result of that prompt is copyrightable.

Depending on the software at play, the same phrase will actually generate the same image every time (or very very nearly so) so long as the other settings the software uses (random seed, etc) stay the same. I’ve done this myself on a pair of parallel local Stable Diffusion installations.

How is it any different than opening a paint program and using the circle tool to draw a circle. I didn’t go and hand color each pixel. I just gave it a command to put a circle in that location....the program did all of the calculations about how to translate my prompt to digital art.

i made $15k one year buying $2.97 ed hardy markdowns from sams club and auctioning them all off.

It’s not even new either.  I knew someone that scoured thrift stores and sold on eBay 20 years ago.  There are just more platforms for it now.

It’s basically how all retail works. They buy wholesale and sell retail. And then there are shops like TJ Maxx that buy close-out merchandise on a discount and then sell it in their stories. Or people who buy from the clearance aisle at Target and Walmart and then sell it on ebay (retail arbitrage).

I spent five years running around to every resale store/church sale/yard sale/ free finds for the better part of early fall so children residing in area shelters could have their pick of Halloween costumes. Going through dodgy piles in the hopes of getting some intact garments. Hauling garbage bags full of donations. T…

<quote> I often only get to game for a half hour at a time, and I just remember feeling like doing exactly the same couple of minutes long loop over and over again just wasn’t enjoyable gaming in such short sessions.</quote>

It’s crazy how some publisher/dev heads have come out in recent years to say that live-service elements are a must for sales and bottom lines, yet

By making more great games? It’s a formula that has worked for decades, even for R*. 

hand-wave hand-wave hand-wave, I’m going to say that Bill the prepper retrofitted his truck (the S-10 in question) with an engine that can run on basically crap. He was more or less ready when everything started so that he put himself in position to survive, so I’m going to say that his particular S-10 is going to do…

How it hell is lifting up 5 gallons of gasoline, balancing it on an plastic tab against the fuel filler hole and then PUSHING DOWN considered safe in any way. I spill much less with my “unsafe” older gas cans. 

The best stories have an element of truth in them.

FUCK safety spouts. God!

I don’t know about 20 years, but I do know that my 5-gallon can of gas that I use to top off my lawn mower lasts for three or four years before I need to fill it back up.

Also, safety spouts can piss right off.

I must be lucky, because I use the same old ass gas and my mower starts right up after a handfull of pulls. Then 1 or 2 pulls every mow after that.