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the only thing I’ve noticed that people care more about a Chinese thing is a Russian thing.

I don’t make art myself, the closest I come is software development, which is already heavily scraped and used for training AI models. So, I agree that I might not fully understand, especially since my field tends to embrace assistive tools.

That said, I think the idea that AI-generated art reflects poorly on the original artist is a bit of a misnomer/self inflicted. When someone looks at an AI-generated piece, they’re not going to think, “Oh, that was by Liyunxiao,” because the end product isn’t a direct copy of any specific work. The models don’t store or reproduce the original source data, they learn patterns based off the source material, and then reapply them using what they have learned, often with a lot of randomization(as shown by it’s sometimes blatant inability to show realistic looking outputs)

While I believe we agree with the statement that work should have the artists permission before usage in a training model, or at the very least be paid for their usage instead of it just being scraped, I think both are comparable. One makes a new piece of art using what its “learned” off traits the training set had, one copies an existing piece of art. Neither prevent anyone from using the original source(artist or game studio), and they both are done usually against the wishes of the original team.

Being said, the example provided I think works better when compared to piracy, as at least at that point it’s a 1:1 clone instead of a creative works. As a art piece by a holocaust survivor being thrown into a training set on a diffusion model, wouldn’t come out the same image on the other end. Only a generalization and styleset is saved. At the end of the day, nobody has the ability to know where the diffusion art’s original sources came from nor is it able to produce a picture that is recognizable to an artists style, whereas with piracy you have a piece of work you can look up to see who owned it.

That’s just my opinion on it all though.

I tried proton and I couldn’t get into using their service since it kept asking for personal information. I ended up not using it.

Honestly, pay needs to be capped at their current states minimum wage imo.

Being said I also believe that all public positions should be like how the president is. Where everything is paid for by the yearly budget. I also think that all public positions should be isolated from personal finances. You are public position representing the US, you have zero need of accessing anything in your financials. I personally believe all assets should be frozen as soon as you take your seat. (or at the least put into bonds or something)

The issues regarding may be email providor side. I just signed up using a gmail account, but it wouldn’t go through with my AOL email.

I’ve never used bit warden, but I migrated from Nordpass to keepass, I currently use a private key for my second form of Authentication so even if my vault is stolen it can’t be decrypted cuz they would need the private key along with it

It’s a stupid simple setup, because I use syncthing to synchronize my Vault across all systems, and I have syncthing set up that way it keeps three or four versions of the Vault active at a time so if I somehow managed to corrupt The Vault I can just use an older version, this way I only have one account that I’m locked out of instead of all accounts.

As for 2fa, yeah I do the same thing as the other guy my 2fa is stored in my vault. I used to use authy for everything, then they decided that it wasn’t secure to have a desktop app, and since I don’t have my phone on me at all times I decided just fuck it and threw it all in one location. It’s less secure but there isn’t a decent desktop 2fa app available that I know of. Technically I could make a seperate keepass vault only for 2fa but that would be a second password to remember

I can tell you what most are going to do. Same password for both the vault and the email provider. Which is counter productive to everything.

actually I would say one step further. It should give a notice for popular email service urls or tagged email saying the alert with a timed window (meaning it can’t just be clicked through)

I don’t use bit warden but, that sounds like a flaw that can very easily fuck your system up.

I find it stupid as a mandatory requirement, if you don’t want to use 2fa then you should be allowed not to, it’s still a multitude better than just using the same password for everything of having it on a text document on your computer.

not the person you responded to but, would depend if that’s the only thing I’m getting, gas costs money, I defo wouldn’t concider that small of a discount saving money since it will cost me about 6 or 7$ in gas getting there and back

well uh, idk how to break it to you but it kinda does.

Piracy doesn’t equal a 1:1 sale, that argument is true, however that argument works with both AI and piracy plus it goes both ways.

The more people who do it via the free method, the less people who /may/ have bought it via the paid method. Meaning the less profit/earnings for the affected party.

However, since it goes both ways, obtaining the item via the free method does not mean that they would have purchased the paid good if the free good wasn’t available.

Both versions the original market is still available, regardless of method used.

I highly disagree that piracy and AI are any different at least in the scenario you provided.

if anything AI would be a morally higher ground imo, as it isn’t directly taking a product, it’s making something else using other products.

Being said I believe that CC’s should be paid for the training usage, but that’s a whole different argument.

so many “multiplayer” ones that are strictly single player as well.

Or steamplay compatible with MP tag but they expected you to just give control to your friend and watch as it’s SP only

Early days of of micro-transactions did help you blend in more, but I noticed they started diverging away, leaving the more natural camos to be unlocked by gameplay, and the obnoxious/distracting ones as a premium.

I didn’t realize he paid his stock parts off already, thats good to know!

As others have said, you are likely running off an old metric that’s no longer true. Twitter / X is considered a privately traded company meaning that the shares that are owned aren’t publicly given anymore, he owns at least the majority of the private shares, however he stated he owns 100% of it.

While he has control of the company because he’s the owner, he hasn’t fully paid for the company if that makes sense. Most of his purchase for the company was done by using his other stocks as collateral to be able to take out loans from the banks.

This is why the article the other day came up of major banks are trying to sell his loans for cheaper than what they’re actually worth, because they’re no longer confident that Elon as a whole is going to be able to foot the bill like he said he was able to. (Honestly unless trump bails it out it’s a valid concern)

Since he owns the company, he can make any decision he wants regarding the company, there is no publicly known shareholders have any decision. Now this isn’t to say that there isn’t privately owned shareholders, but since it’s a privately owned company they’re not obligated to disclose those percentages.

I mean I don’t date, but I’ve never once heard of a person who met on a dating app and actually got together with them, I have heard of instant message platforms working though.

honestly, regardless of what you do, vote in the midterms. It’s the only way to mitigate somewhat what’s been done. it’s November next year and every seat is up for grabs in the house, and 33 seats are up for grabs in the senate.

As a “peon” there isn’t much you can do until then about it. So really it all depends on if you wanna be blindsided by the changes or live in blissful ignorance.

I assume that it isn’t much technical knowhow to take a pair of wire snips and snip the power or antenna to the OnStar services. Least I assume that is what would be done

Weird they censored the picture, the last time I saw this cycle through the picture wasn’t censored

it’s not an entire app but, discord profile decorations.

The fact it costs money isn’t surprising, but the amount of money charged is hilarious.

17$ for some graphics that some look like they took about 20 minutes to make. Just to make your profile look different than everyone elses. Then the “discount” given for having nitro for it is even more laughable.

Whats equally insane is that people fall for it. I know some people that have easily spent 60$ on profile decorations. Spending equal or greater than the cost of discord nitro is insane to me, even if the decoration doesn’t expire.