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Look at defective pikachu and then read up on harlequin babies. Look at pictures. Compare their eyes. You will certainly not regret reading up on harlequin babies and seeing pictures. No nightmares, guaranteed! doot doot

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They want to bomb the middle east, but harder. It's not even that they're "the same", it's that they have similar approaches, but one is much worse. Everyone lolmemes about republicans dropping bombs and Democrats dropping bombs with rainbow flags like it's some deep insight, but all this does is massively benefit the right. It sews disengagement from the left and people "protest vote", then the people that do the thing they're protesting against worse than get into power. Unfortunately in a two party system, such as the US, it's better to vote for the less bad one than neither, even if the one you vote for doesn't do everything you'd like them to

I don't really attach myself to things with vague meanings anymore. I dropped Dilbert out of boredom long before Scott Adams really went mask off, but it's a good example of people putting their own meanings to vague media. I'm just explaining why people here might like a comic without knowing it's origin.

you'd think you'd learn just a teensie bit of sign

Ubers have officially devolved into the gross / dangerous Taxis that they replaced.

Thank you for your well thought out, stimulating thoughts on this. I am sorry it took a while to get back to you on this, and it was really fun running into you in another thread. Writing this makes me feel like one of those guys from history writing letters back and forth on the topics du jour of their era. I am glad that you had those positive interactions with Jørgen , and it is one of the fun parts of going to live gigs. It does also suck seeing our favourite musicians having to be their own roadies and merch guys, but it allows us to connect to them in a personal level. But at least our money is going to the right people. You are right that these technologies enable the wolves to have more power. I posit that it's always been the case; but technology marches on, what was once a bronze spear that allowed tyrants to grab more land eventually evolved into surgical tools that allow surgeons to heal people. I feel that philosophically, human beings need to understand the new tech and tools that arise and contextualise them to be used for good and not for harm. However, there will always be people using it for harm. But those people harming us can already harm us anyay. Like I said, they were making slop in boardrooms anyway. It's not the generative AI's fault that the next wave of artificial pop is going to be made in a server. We've had hatsune miku; a popstar that only exists as a literal product and entirely within the machine. Interestingly, there are multiple ways to view the commercial use of generative music AIs. For example, the people making money off it now aren't the Sonys and BMGs of the world, it's random anonymous people exploiting the common people's desire for mood music. Before this, there were loads of anonymised videos/compilations on youtube with titles like "relax cafe" or "lo fi beats to study to", leaving credits of the musicians out of the video. The AI generated music fits the same niche in the same way. The music they make isn't very good, but it's not like a megacorp is exploiting this to crush the music industry further. It's just augmenting the same trend that already existed. The person getting rich off it, for now, is some dude somewhere that has had enough of life kicking them in the face and made something generic and tried to get money for it. Would the people that look for that mood music be better served with authentic musicians for whatever mood it is they are searching for? Yes. Is this something new in the world of listening or music? No. It's the same thing as the pop music problem : the listener is an unsophisticated idiot, and wants slop. They don't care about who wrote this, what pedigree it has (family trees of bands, evolution of musical styles, compositional ideas etc), they just want "Sad, feels like raining piano". This need could be met with decent curation and attributed, or you can just buy a compilation CD of re-interpreted pop songs you already know on piano, slowed to the right tempo with a gentle woman's voice softly singing the lyrics. Same slop. No thoughts. Handmade analog crap that's as sophisticated as mc donalds. That's why I don't particularly see the generative AI itself as the problem. It's been generic slop and tinpan alley songs for generations already. The teenagers killed music in the 50s, it's already dead. What's another spit in the face of the dead art? The other part is the stuff I already covered. You can experiment and find new ideas with low skills. It's something that can enrich your life and inspire you. Some things I didn't mention is empowering creatives with less skill in other areas. You can make art for a game or music for a game if you can't draw or create music. And maybe, later on, if you make connections with people, you can replace the AI placeholders with human generated ideas. But on that path, you can empower yourself to bring yourself to a stage where you can actually participate with the creators of the arts instead of being a faceless nobody. Thank you once again for these discussions. You are in the back of my mind from time to time, I'd love to send you some guitar tracks and see if we can make some Zu/Sunn like music together, but its likely to take a long time. Stay safe, stay well, stay happy.

shove it up your ass/10

I get podcasts with subtitles but this is next level genius!

I'm not the right person, but I am sufficiently warned and I hope I never do what the right person did to get this warning.

*hides face inside fluff*

James Earl Jones.

definitely not macaroni, there's no hole in it farfalle are the type species for the "there for chew, not to hold sauce" category

Wait what? What are these for then, if you cant measure angles or draw parallels? Just being able to draw 45 and 90 degree angles?

The first C in Pacific is pronounced at least very similarly to the one in Ocean, depending on dialect.

You are arguing that people not being able to differentiate two songs by a 10 second snippet is bad enough for copyright infringement, but spitting out full chapters is ok because nobody is going to read a full book that way? Nobody's going to listen to a Queen song in 10 second snippets either. The intro is similar, but after the intro the song is entirely different. Nobody would mistake e.g. the verse or the refrain of Ice Ice Baby with Under Pressure. It's two entirely separate genres. So if the intro sounding kinda similar is in issue, then outputting the intro of a book should be just as bad. But if I was to take that chapter, the one it spit out verbatim, and put it as a chapter of my book that I published, then yeah, definitely I could be sued for copyright, even if I didn’t do it willingly. Because people would read it and go “oh totally, that’s Pelican Brief” That's what I don't get. If I download a book illegally off piratedbooks.to (made up URL), then not only I but also piratedbooks.to will be liable for the copyright infringement, and generally piratedbooks.to will be much more liable because they are commercially distributing pirated goods. Now if I ask ChatGPT to output copyrighted content (an action that isn't much different than "asking" a piracy platform's website for the content by clicking the "download" button), then OpenAI is for some reason not liable at all for that because it was all me doing this. Even though their platform provided the pirated content.