I’ve posted this elsewhere, but this video is a really good breakdown of the situation.
The P in GOP stands for Projection.
I think this confusion is proving the pointlessness of mags like Vogue and models in general. Why do models exist? They certainly weren’t there to impose their overly high unrealistic body standards for women.
Especially with all of the airbrushing and photoshopping going on. Have you seen videos of digital editors working off of the source material? They fuck around with a LOT of the details, even to the point of changing arm/leg length. It doesn’t seem like much of a leap to go to AI at this point. Even if they didn’t, they would just use AI tools within Photoshop to almost do the same thing.
Models only exist for advertising. That’s it. I don’t understand why we would treat advertisers as some protected class. This is just the inevitable fate of an already pointless industry.
It’s noticed as AI because the company told the fans it’s AI.
If they did a good enough job with the filtering and inpainting and didn’t say anything, they probably would have gotten away with it for a period of time.
Civvie 11 had a good video on both Descent games.
State monopolies are fine. The government is owned by the people, and when corporations don’t think an industry is profitable, the government’s job is to step it and take on that job themselves. That’s how we end up with utilities, 911 services, the post office (back when it wasn’t fucked with by Republicans).
The problem with copyrights is the corporate stank that gatekeeps enforcement. When a large corporate entity sues a small party, the small party is fucked.
Also, Mark Twain and Disney fucked up the length of copyright over the last 150 years. The social agreement was that we were supposed to get most of this shit into public domain in a reasonable amount of time. 80 years + life of the author is not a fucking reasonable amount of time, by any stretch of the imagination.
And a single woman and her organization seems to hold a disproportionate amount of power over the payment processors.
I don’t understand it. Payment processors could easily tell her to pound sand, but they don’t.
Copyrights exists to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.
So, fuck them. Let AI destroy the fabric of copyrights.
It’s also a dumb fucking argument in general.
LLM models are not magic. They don’t store the entirety of human history in a 10-20GB file. That’s a fucking stupid idea. They look at something, process some weights, and move on to the next thing.
It’s like going on Google Image Search, and seeing all of the copyrighted images on your browser. You didn’t “steal” those, just because it was downloaded. That’s not how copyright works.
Please stop parroting this stupid fucking argument.
I’ve lost more of these old GIFs than I realized when gfycat shut down.
I completely forgot that Holden was part of that commune of, what, eight mothers?
It’s a shame, because ComfyUI can be so much more than just image generation. And just because there’s a lot of string processing for LLMs doesn’t mean that it isn’t important to capture in an I/O interface, especially when it comes to preserving chat history. Save data, load data, ask new questions, etc.
ChatGPT is pretty damn powerful, I’ll admit. But, all of its components need to be localized, especially since something like a Mixture of Experts model could be split down to base models and loaded/unloaded as necessary.
ComfyUI is just a bunch of Python code tied into I/O nodes. I’m surprised there isn’t a good set of nodes for SGLang yet.
This seems like the kind of thing that should be bookmarked and thrown in corporations’ faces at every moment.
Have you used any good ComfyUI workflows specifically for chat LLMs?
Ummm…duh?
Yeah, no. Not buying that Elon is trans.
Trump did an abrupt about-face on Ukraine policy over the last few days and the US is going to start shipping them weapons again.
Did he say all of this, or did he do it?
Because Trump’s word is worthless. Less than worthless. Like, inverse debt millionaire worthless. Every time somebody listens to him talk, he actually owes them money.
My hope is that the “AI” craze culminates in a race to the bottom where we end up in a less terrible state: local models on people’s phones, reaching out to reputable websites for queries and redirection.
We’re already heading there. But, it’s not going to happen by sitting on your hands and waiting for the billionaires to hand you these local models on a silver platter. You honestly believe the overlords that own your phone will give you shit for free? They want you hooked on subscriptions, that send all of your personal data and social security numbers to their huge databases, until the day you die. And then they’ll sell that data to your children and your grandchildren just to make even more profit.
You have to take it. You have to find it yourself. You found Lemmy. Good. So, go find other shit. Discover open source. Discover piracy. Discover Linux. Stay on top of it.
Google just killed uBlock Origin, but I’m using Firefox, because the writing was on the wall at least a year ago.
This is BS. Whatever payment processor they develop will need to interact with all of the major credit card processors: VISA, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express. All credit and debit cards use these four brands as the backing network. There is no way around it.
Nobody is going to add a new credit card brand, not even Steam. Amazon doesn’t do it. Twitter doesn’t do it. Ebay doesn’t do it. Nobody does. If they did, they would face immediate retribution from the VMDA empire. Their payments would cease, and Steam would collapse overnight.