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- Comment on Glue used to be rare and magical. 5 days ago:
With the ghost of solvents past.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
If you hired someone to copy Ghibli’s style, then fed that into an AI as training data, it would completely negate your entire argument.
It is not illegal for an artist to copy someone else’s style. They can’t copy another artist’s work—that’s a derivative—but copying their style is perfectly legal. You can’t copyright a style.
All of that is irrelevant, however. The argument is that—somehow—training an AI with anything is somehow a violation of copyright. It is not. It is absolutely 100% not a violation of copyright to do that!
Copyright is all about distribution rights. Anyone can download whatever TF they want and they’re not violating anyone’s copyright. It’s the entity that sent the person the copyright that violated the law. Therefore, Meta, OpenAI, et al can host enormous libraries of copyrighted data in their data centers and use that to train their AI. It’s not illegal at all.
When some AI model produces a work that’s so similar to an original work that anyone would recognize it, “yeah, that’s from Spirited Away” then yes: They violated Ghibli’s copyright.
If the model produces an image of some random person in the style of Studio Ghibli that is not violating anyone’s copyright. It is not illegal nor is it immoral. No one is deprived of anything in such a transaction.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I think your understanding of generative AI is incorrect. It’s not just “logic and RNG”…
If it runs on a computer, it’s literally “just logic and RNG”. It’s all transistors, memory, and an RNG.
The data used to train an AI model is copyrighted. It’s impossible for something to exist without copyright (in the past 100 years). Even public domain works had copyright at some point.
if any of the training data is copyrighted, then attribution must be given, or at the very least permission to use this data must be given by the current copyright holder.
This is not correct. Every artist ever has been trained with copyrighted works, yet they don’t have to recite every single picture they’ve seen or book they’ve ever read whenever they produce something.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I’m still not getting it. What does generative AI have to do with attribution? Like, at all.
I can train a model on a billion pictures from open, free sources that were specifically donated for that purpose and it’ll be able to generate realistic pictures of those things with infinite variation. Every time it generates an image it’s just using logic and RNG to come up with options.
Do we attribute the images to the RNG god or something? It doesn’t make sense that attribution come into play here.
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
That’s a good point. Many do seem to worship the holy blunt 🤔
- Comment on Think about it 3 weeks ago:
I believe the lesson here is that marijuana just isn’t toxic enough to kill anyone.
- Comment on Director of Japan's First AI Anime Defends New Spring 2025 Work: 'It Will Give More Opportunities to Animators' 4 weeks ago:
On the contrary, AI enables voice actors to change their voice in ways that biology won’t let them. If a voice actor can act, AI will give them the power to play more parts than they would have been able to previously.
It’s just a tool. It’s not the magic, “replace humans” thing people think it is.
- Comment on Director of Japan's First AI Anime Defends New Spring 2025 Work: 'It Will Give More Opportunities to Animators' 4 weeks ago:
Here I was, thinking that the first AI-generated anime was Ave Mujica. Because it’s that bad.
- The script sounds like it was written by AI.
- The animation in half the scenes is like 12 FPS (because they couldn’t be bothered to wait for a full render).
- The characters lips move like goldfish eating flakes whenever they speak/sing.
- They appear to have used stock mocap for the characters playing instruments and couldn’t be bothered to match up their movements to the music.
By all accounts, it’s like AI did 90% of the work and then they handed it off to some intern for finishing.
- Comment on My dog probably experiences the vacuum cleaner exactly like me in my recurring nightmare as a child trying to convince my parents that the monster in our home is dangerous 4 weeks ago:
Did they ever find out just how dangerous you are?
- Comment on These Electronics-free Robots Can Walk Right Off the 3D-Printer. 4 weeks ago:
They created golems powered by compressed air instead of magic.
Definitely marking this down in my mental, “in case of Isekai” notes.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
I meant it as: You can be a man baby and still be correct. The two are not mutually exclusive.
…but don’t let me stop you from overreacting to random, silly comments said in jest like a man baby 👍
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 4 weeks ago:
Would you say your research is evidence that the o1 model was built using data/algorithms taken from OpenAI via industrial espionage (like Sam Altman is purporting without evidence)? Or is it just likely that they came upon the same logical solution?
Not that it matters, of course! Just curious.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 4 weeks ago:
This completely ignores all the endless (open) academic work going on in the AI space. Loads of universities have AI data centers now and are doing great research that is being published out in the open for anyone to use and duplicate.
I’ve downloaded several academic models and all commercial models and AI tools are based on all that public research.
I run AI models locally on my PC and you can too.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, both you and your friend can be correct 🤷
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
Element needs to be better. Discord is awesome with the way it auto-plays looping videos/gifs and has animated emojis.
Seriously: That’s all they’d need to do. The element devs need to focus on fun.
- Comment on China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September 5 weeks ago:
Nope. In fact, if you generate a lot of images with AI you’ll sometimes notice something resembling a watermark in the output. Demonstrating that the images used to train the model did indeed have watermarks.
Removing such imaginary watermarks is trivial in image2image tools though (it’s just a quick extra step after generation).
- Comment on Removing Watermarks From Images With Gemini Is Now Way Too Easy 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, when it comes to stock photos the creatives already got paid. You’re just violating the copyright of a big corporation at that point (if you distribute the images… If you never distribute the images then you’ve committed no crime).
- Comment on China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September 5 weeks ago:
Why stop at “AI-generated”? Why not have the individual post their entire workflow, showing which model they used, the prompt, and any follow-up editing or post-processing they did to the image?
In the 90s we went through this same shit with legislators trying to ban photoshopped images (hah: They still try this from time to time). Then there were attempts at legislating mandatory watermarks and similar concepts. It’s all the same concept: New technology scary, regulate and restrict it.
In a few years AI-generated content will be as common as photoshopped images and no one will bat an eye because it’ll “just be normal”. A photographer might take a picture of a model (or a number of them) for a cover or something then they’ll use AI to change the image after. Or they’ll use AI to generate an image from scratch and then have models try to copy it. Or they’ll just use AI to change small details in the image such as improving lighting conditions or changing eye color.
AI is very rapidly becoming just another tool in photo/video editing and soon it will be just another tool in document writing and audio recording/music creation.
- Comment on China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September 5 weeks ago:
Not a bad law if applied to companies and public figures. Complete wishful thinking if applied to individuals.
For companies it’s actually enforceable but for individuals it’s basically impossible and even if you do catch someone uploading AI-generated stuff: Who cares. It’s the intent that matters when it comes to individuals.
Were they trying to besmirch someone’s reputation by uploading false images of that person in situations they were never in? That’s clear bad intent.
Were they trying to incite a riot or intentionally spreading disinformation? Again, clear bad intent.
Were they showing off something cool they made with AI generation? It is of no consequence and should be treated as such.
- Comment on Could your body adjust if you separated your macros into meals? Like all carbs for breakfast, all fat for lunch and all protein for dinner? What would happen? 1 month ago:
I think it’s part of a, “stabilizer diet”
- Comment on Could your body adjust if you separated your macros into meals? Like all carbs for breakfast, all fat for lunch and all protein for dinner? What would happen? 1 month ago:
I highly recommend not eating your keyboard. The most commonly-uaed macros probably taste like finger cheese.
- Comment on Nokia to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon 1 month ago:
I dunno. What kind of service can you get with LowG™?
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 2 months ago:
“With your powers dispersed, I can go back to playing games on my NES!”
- Comment on What's wrong with this picture? 2 months ago:
It’s from the alpha
- Comment on I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons • Kisaki Kyouiku kara Nigetai Watashi - Episode 7 discussion 2 months ago:
This anime looks so lame… But you can’t judge a book by it’s cover and even the description of many animes can be deceiving.
Is it actually any good? Or is it the trash anime it appears to be?
- Comment on What job do you need this hard hat for? 2 months ago:
Any place with screws loose or loose nuts.
- Comment on After completing my first job I'm thinking of quitting my regular job and doing plumbing full time 2 months ago:
It’s a skill that opens doors… Or maybe not 🤷
- Comment on Anyone knows what's this on the 5.25" bay? 2 months ago:
It’s a 5.25" slot cover, duh! You’ve got three of them.
(Plus a hard drive with a vent, a 3.5-to-5.25" floppy adapter, and a CD ROM drive)
- Comment on How do you organize your 3d printing/modeling project folder(s)? 2 months ago:
I have a “My Creations” directory for things I make. Then there’s a “Toys and Games” directory and a “Household Stuff” directory.
Then there’s the giant fucking mess for everything else 🤣
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 2 months ago:
Know Linux? Kindly filter out all job postings from Meta. You know, for failing to meet the Linux community guidelines.
Actually, you should do that anyway but now you have a more practical reason.