Comment on Google Serving AI-Generated Images of Mushrooms Could Have 'Devastating Consequences'

• Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh, gee. We have to enter an email and give them data points. Cool.

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ? I’m saying that’s not what a paywall is by definition, not defending it as a practice. It’s arguably even dumber since at least a paywall means you’re directly financially supporting an outlet. This is just scuzzy for no real reason.

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    • notfromhere@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don’t get in the middle of an angry mob and their target lest ye become their target, or something.

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I had hoped Lemmy could avoid this effect. We seem to be a bit resistant but not immune unfortunately.

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  • rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not in this case

    https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/

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• xor@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  you pay in ways other than money…
  i.e. forced registration is still paywalled… (and there’s usually an article limit or some such after that)

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This mental gymnastics definition of a paywall is not widely accepted. I was pointing out a small mistake. Is my website paywalled because you need to spend electricity to access it? A paywall is one where a monetary transaction is involved to view the content.

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    • xor@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      wow, i didn’t know words became immutable as soon as they’re added to wikipedia….
      or that monetary compensation is the only way to pay someone….
      …
      fantabulous

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Just because you dislike two things, you don’t have to lump them under the same definition. Language could evolve to consider registration-required sites to have a paywall, but that would be stupid and counter to similar usages of “pay”. People seem really eager to stretch negative definitions to include other things they dislike, but it’s not the word that makes something bad, it’s the thing itself. Two things can be different/distinct concepts and also be equally bad.

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