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tb_ , 4 months ago to news in Researchers Dispute Claim That Ancient Whale Was Heaviest Animal Ever

probably the biggest living thing ever is alive right now.

So they’re technically correct.

Just not in the way they meant to be.

tb_ , 4 months ago to science in Single orca seen killing great white shark off South African coast

Whaddya mean? Orcas, along with dolphins and sperm whales, belong to the “toothed whales” suborder.

tb_ , 4 months ago to technology in iOS 17.4 is now out with support for third party app stores in the EU

what makes phones different in that regard?

Corporate greed

tb_ , 4 months ago to technology in Yuzu Nintendo Switch Emulator Lives On With The Nuzu, Suyu Projects

It possibly seeing a legal precedent is the scary part.

tb_ , 4 months ago to world in Antarctica sea ice reaches alarming low for third year in a row

You can let yourself be heard and you can vote.

Complete apathy is how we assure there definitely won’t be any change.

tb_ , 4 months ago to news in ‘Why are you asleep?’ Rahul Gandhi pleads with India’s low castes to vote out Modi

Not inherently stupid, mind you. Un(der)educated and lied to by those they should be able to trust.

tb_ , 4 months ago to games in EA shuts down Ridgeline Games

Capitalism bukake

tb_ , 4 months ago to technology in Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying people to buy the Mirai

And not every car requires a ton of lithium, like it would if everyone wants to go both EV + massive range.

tb_ , 4 months ago to technology in Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people after it laid off 700 people

If your human agents are earning a 0 perhaps they’ve been given too little time, too little training, and too little tools to resolve the customer’s case.

tb_ , 4 months ago to news in A former US surgeon general says he went to the ER for dehydration and ended up with a $5,000 bill. He called the healthcare system 'broken.'

Thank you

tb_ , 4 months ago to news in A former US surgeon general says he went to the ER for dehydration and ended up with a $5,000 bill. He called the healthcare system 'broken.'

How so?
I’m out of the loop.

tb_ , 5 months ago to technology in Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI

Thank you for reading my post, only responding to a single point, and making a strawman of the rest of my argument.

Why do I even bother.

Enjoy replacing yourself.

tb_ , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to technology in Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI

Now riddle me this: Who pays subscriptions for Photoshop?

Ah, my favourite argument.

“Clothing brands are using slavery to produce clothes.”

• “They ought to be produced sustainably!”

“Who’s going to pay for that?”

Perhaps generative AI models, as they currently exist, are too good to be true.

If they can only afford to pay individual artists pennies, perhaps it is something that shouldn’t be taken. If those artists are happy for their work to contribute to someone else’s MRR scheme then they should be free to submit their work wherever, or tag it with something.

I don’t care what Getty Images gets paid. I don’t know how the licensing works for that platform, but Getty doesn’t make all of its own images and those photographers and artists who contribute ought to be compensated in turn.
If that makes the work infeasible, so be it.

But if that’s a system that gets implemented now then the existing companies would have an insurmountable headstart. Should they be forced to completely wipe their work?

And Getty shouldn’t be making money off pictures from the 1800s. I agree with that too.

And I understand no “value is generated” by paying property owners. I guess you should give your books away to people on the street since the value has already been created by writing them and there’s no more point in selling them.
Not literally, of course. But if individual artists don’t make any money and/or reputation off their already made work they won’t be able to continue “generating new value”, I guess they’ll have to find some office job, or head out to the not-yet-automated mines.

It’s a shit situation which is profiting off a free and open internet. An internet which is slowly closing itself off further and further.

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And I think, with all due respect, you’re misguided for being happy to contribute to your own replacement. If you sell your books on Amazon; Amazon is getting flooded with AI generated books, making it even more difficult for yours to stand out in the sea of regurgitated garbage. Maybe you personally have a system for getting around that, not everybody does. Alternatively you don’t rely on the income of your books, but at that point why bother publishing at all? Might as well send them directly to OpenAI or whomever.

Edit: Oh, better yet, because I just ran into it: Getty/Adobe Stock licensing you generated images! I’d laugh if it didn’t make me want to cry.

tb_ , 5 months ago to technology in Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI

Small artists would get shafted one way or the other.

And ideally they wouldn’t. Letting AI companies take as they please is one part of that, therefore it should be stopped.

Injustice is such a frustrating thing. But when the opposing party has trillions of dollars and you draw in your free time there’s literally nothing you can do. So much for equality.

tb_ , 5 months ago to games in Nvidia’s finally replacing GeForce Experience with this all-in-one ‘Nvidia app’ - The Verge

That is good knowledge