[–] 22 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Can the people advocating for AI art provide any examples of anything human-generated that is artistically interesting? I suspect not and that's a big part of why they're impressed with AI art.

Like, they'd probably say "The Mona Lisa" because it's well known to be Great Art, and then their AI can draw them in the style of the Mona Lisa, ergo it has generated Great Art.

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  • [–] 47 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    She absolutely is profiting from it.

    When a game is "free" the publisher isn't just donating it for funzies. Either Epic pays them (Epic is spending money to get people to its platform) or the publisher is using the game to advertise other games, which has value to them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I'd be curious to hear how you end up liking it.

    As someone who spends a lot of time on the command-line, I've generally preferred MacOS over Windows as my not-Linux OS. But my impression is that for people who like the Windows or Linux GUI, MacOS is a bigger (and less pleasant) change.

    And even on the command-line, MacOS is a different *nix distro and makes seme pretty weird choices (launchd, plists, /etc is actually /private/etc, ...) whereas you could have vanilla Ubuntu inside WSL2.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Conservapedia was comically stupid. Like, there was a lengthy diatribe against the Theory of Relativity that seemed largely based off Andrew Schlafly confusing the Physics term "relativity" with "moral relativity" and being against the latter. This was especially weird because Schlafly personally had a background in applied physics and so ought to know that GPS satellites serve as a proof of some of Relativity.

    As embarrassing as basically every page of Conservapedia was, at least it represented some stupid man's beliefs and effort. Grokipedia can't even do that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    To be fair to New Hampsire: it was the libertarians across the USA who wanted to take over the state (then had to scale back their plans and took over one tiny town). The state government and the majority of state residents were not enthused by the Free State Project. However, the state's politically-conservative roots meant that they didn't have the cultural or administrative tools to stop that train-wreck.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Statutory damages for copyright infringement can reach up to $150,000, but there’s no double-dipping.

    Does this mean that, at most, OpenAI would be forced to pay him 150k? That seems irrelevant (to both parties, in fact).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I definitely wouldn't expect people to have heard of Kirk at all. Even within the US he was a bit of a niche asshole. But I would expect that before posting "RIP he was a good guy" they would do some quick web searches and get an idea of what somedude was about and then only post if they agreed that that's their notion of a good guy.

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