I don’t need a factcheck to realize this is a joke, but apparently a lot of Facebook aunts and uncles do.

2023 isn't taking prisoners, fuck. Why isn't it ever utter shit bags that die early in the year?

Today has been a dark day for sport.

Somewhere in-between ‘not my job’ and ‘I don’t give a shit’.

It could not have happened to a nicer guy.

Imagine being SO INSECURE that you blow up your whole criminal enterprise because you can’t let a comment from a teenager go?

“Paul, who’s been on something of a redemption arc these last few years following the “suicide forest” fiasco in December 2017"

What possible sequence of events could have occurred for you to put forward the suggestion that Paul has been on ‘a redemption arc’ beyond the bare minimum of not going back to a suicide…

Tesla could be about to tank terminally, which raises the question of just what do you do with your highly software dependant, subscription driven, car when the parent company ceases to be? Thinking of buying a Tesla, think about what happens when it is no longer supported and counting the days until it bricks itself…

Surprise, surprise. Sadly he didn’t even manage to learn enough to change his mind about twitter only needing to be “50 people”.

Twitter probably can’t get down to less than 50 LAWYERS, much less 50 employees. Even the idea of only 50 engineers is patently ridiculous. You’re going to need that many people to just…

I feel like if you are moving something like that you need to coordinate with the railroad if a crossing is unavoidable.

While it is true that there are wealthier areas like the Third Ward that lack grocery stores, the idea that it is a comparable situation is very tone deaf. Those in expensive condos or higher end apartments in the Third Ward have the means to easily access fresh groceries, regardless of location. They drive, they use…

It’s crap like this that eats me alive. I’ve spoken several times on this site whenever stories like this come up. I’ve spoken how the State of Alabama attempted to extend I-85 from Montgomery to the Mississippi/Alabama state line that would have wiped out a multitude of farms, neighborhoods and communities, and…

Guy has been innovating failure for years.

AIs don’t “take inspiration” from ANYTHING. That’s the difference. You’re humanizing an algorithm. They literally steal the characteristics of an artist’s style and then overlay it onto other styles like a fucking connect-the-dots to reproduce something *unique* but as much as mathematically possible in-the-style-of…

why is it only seemingly visual artists getting hot and bothered by this stuff?

Funny, I remember a year ago hearing the exact same thing about NFTs.

Dangerous is putting it lightly. A lot of society have been conditioned to not recognize or respect what is art, and instead pay more attention to branding. This has been a 60 year conversion that benefits corporations and capitalistic greed in the end.

All the examples that you gave are either free according to the license, have to give credits to the creator or you have to pay for them in order to use it. All of those things have not been taken into consideration with AI and just been scraped from the internet without any consideration.  Iray is just a renderer and…

Its not a tool if it replaces the whole pipeline and people use it to present the pure outputs as their own “art”. Its not made by you, but rather the 100% of the people that had their images in the datasets, which means it has 0% creattivity and is merely a mashup.

People thinking they are artists because they had a prompt idea are as ridiculous as people defending capitalistic pillars of property.