The way publishing works, it is easy for Amazon to just check who is responsible for those books. Odd that they are not, I thought the US was a more litigious place.
Thats honestly not as true as some would have you believe. I think it stems from a case where a woman got third degree burns on her legs when a cup of mcdonalds coffee from a drive thru spilled. the company called the case supurflous, and used its vast megaphone to paint the woman as the one who was at fault. it worked. as a pre-teen I recall other kids talking with assurity about how the woman who spilled her coffee was absuing the system- coffee is hot! americans will sue over anything! The woman needed skin grafts and settled for 20k. ABC news called it “the poster child of frivilous lawsuits”.
I moved to Ireland in 2007. Insurance here is shockingly high- if you get in a car accident, the chances people put in “a claim” are HIGH. The bass player of a band I was in here had a €3,500 bass and didn’t work at age 29. He tripped on a paving stone while running downhill on a sidewalk/footpath and sued the farmer who lived next to it. The house I’m living in now has an extention that the previous owner was able to put on with money from “her claim”. Not sure what happened, but she worked for an insurance company. She’s living on an island and “is an artist” now. My friend visiting from the US backed into a car and dented the door panel. When she went to talk to the car’s owner’s, the wife of the family went out and got into the car and said she was in it when they hit the car and her neck hurt and needed to go to the hospital. There were 7 of us there, inculding the irish home owners of the house we were staying in and the cop believed us over her.
These are anticdotal stories from my personal experience here in Ireland. There used to be an Oktoberfest event down on the water on the docklands, it was nice. I asked one of the organizers a year or so ago why they stopped and they said “they were losing money because of the insurance premiums”. My car insurance here first year was €1600 annually, when it was $185 annually in the US (2006 or so).
I lived in the US a lot longer than I’ve lived here, and I never knew anyone who sued anyone else there.
To back up your point but also clarify, the woman with the McDonald’s coffee initially offered to settled for 20k, but McDonald’s wouldn’t offer more than $800. The jury awarded her $3mil. It was later reduced but then settled confidentially. McDonald’s did (as you point out) produce a major smear campaign against her and completely downplayed her injuries. iirc, her the injuries included third degree burns, fusion of labia to her thigh, and multiple skin grafts. The more you learn about it, the worse it gets. We were all brainwashed into thinking it was poster child for frivolous lawsuits. www.caoc.org/?pg=facts
Yes, it’s wrong. It’s understandable to want retribution, but it doesn’t help improve the situation. We need to be better than that, even when our gut reaction is, “to hope these goon fucks get what’s coming to them in prison?”
sports and factories ain’t need no math by god! USA! we got to the moon first everyone else gets our sloppy seconds MURICA! Jesus didn’t heal with fractions
living in the us is like watching Rome burning albeit slowly
Another benefit of protecting gun rights over everything. Now the police can say they were worried that the suspect had a gun and had to fire first. The same people that claim to support the police also make their jobs harder every day by wanting every American to be armed…well every white American.
British cops don’t even have guns. And yet they’re capable of dealing with organised mass shoplifting lbc.co.uk/…/police-descend-oxford-street-tiktok-m… I can imagine American cops machine gunning the crowd in this scenario.
I mean, if I recall right, hardline Abrahamics and their derivatives aren’t supposed to trend towards believing in contraception in the first place, so of course it’d be raw
let’s see them argue this for copying and further altering other people’s styles manually.
you know, what we call “art”.
you telling me all those people that thought “oh wow that artist’s method of using long curving lines is awesome, im going to try that too.” are somehow different than the act of visually scraping everything and then telling ai to create X in the styles of Y and Z?
sorry, but no.
if it is someone copying someone’s exact style and the acting as though the artist made it, that’s where it’s crossing a line. personally i think doing a carbon copy of a persons work is grounds for legal complaint.
I think I agree for the most part. Out of interest, do you think artists should be allowed to legally prohibit future iterations of AI art from using their original works for training?
depends. if they do that, no lie, they invite the streisand effect by doing so.
the only way for that to occur is for the person to scrub the internet of all references to their art work and make sure any public or private viewings happen in person with no capture devices of any kind allowed. then you have a chance at accomplishing not having your art be absorbed.
the reality is, if it exists on the net, it will be absorbed by others out there. sometimes just out of sheer spite. if it weren’t so easy to shit out a home brew ai stable diffusion model or lora in hours, then sure, there might be a way of legally pursuing. fortunately art is now going to become so democratized that there will be a myriad of new artists to copy from.
but at this point that’s like trying to shut down pepe the frog as a meme. just ain’t gonna happen. pepe’s been let out of the box.
i think the artists are scared that with ai in the mix, they’re going to be replaced. but that’s not true the same as painters weren’t replaced by photoshop and digital painters. they could actually embrace the change and lean into it, but unfortunately people tend to be like lemmings in their own echo chambers and the artist echo chamber said “THIS IS BAD! THIS IS STEALING!” never once thinking about all the methods they’ve stolen from others along the way. oh sorry, we will call it “influenced”. my bad.
but yeah, if they lean into it, great things can occur. a friend of mine has literally trained a private home brew model of her own artwork and then added in shit tons of fantasy concepts into the mix. as a result, a shit ton of her heavy lifting for illustration in graphic novels is already done. artists could be using it for inspiration or for reference.
honestly i can’t wait for the artist echo chamber to just calm tf down
My daughter, much to our chagrin (especially her librarian mother) hates reading books. We think it’s because of her ADHD. But we have made damn sure her reading skills are up to par. And they are. I wish more parents would take an active role in their child’s education.
Alright this will sound controversial af, wouldn’t that make it easier to choose if there is a scenario where the driver is about to hit a child and its parent, has the ability to swerve and avoid one of them, and choosing the child to avoid paying child support?
Drunk drivers do not have the reaction and focus span to make that sort of choices when they are driving through people, you know. Generally you tend to avoid pedestrians until the end, because even without paying for child support it’s not a good outcome. And the trolley problem never happens in these cases, because there is almost always the option of trying to brake.
I think realistic nobody will actually think about this in the moment before hitting someone. And if they have enough time to think about this and they have enough control of their car to choose who they hit, then they have enough time and control to stop.
It makes sense that boomers had more jobs over their working life, they lived in an era where they could quit one job and have another job by the end of that week without any pre-planning.
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