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I agree that George is one of the best stand up comedians, but that doesn't change that his material is very much counter-culture. It's made to rub people the wrong way, to get them to think differently about why things are the way they are. That makes it inherently not as good of a money maker as someone who tries to please all sides in their jokes. I'd like to believe if he was alive today he would do a beautiful piece on AI.

In your second point I have to wonder though. Who made it a headline? Who decided this was worth bringing attention to? Clearly, the controversy did not come from them. There is nothing controversial about an homage. But it is AI, and that got people talking. You can be of the opinion they did it for that reason, but I would argue that they simply expected the same lukewarm reception they had always gotten. After all, people don't often solicit themselves to be at the center of hate. Even when the association pays off, experiencing that stuff has lasting mental effects on people.

And again, if they wanted to be controversial to stir up as much drama, they could have done so much more. Just don't disclose it's AI even though it's obviously AI, or make George do things out of character, like a product endorsement, or a piece about how religion is actually super cool. All of that would have gotten them 10x the hate and exposure they got now.

But instead, they made something that looks like and views like an homage with obvious disclosure. The only milder thing they could have done is found someone whose voice naturally sounds like George and put him in a costume that looks like George, at which point nobody would have bat an eye. Even though the intent is the same, just the way it was achieved is different.

You're right, it can lead to a flood of new material that could overshadow his old works. But that would basically require it to be as good if not better than his old works, which I just don't think will happen. Had nobody bat an eye at this, it would have just sunk into obscurity, as is the fate of many creative works. Should more shows be made, I think after the third people would just not even care anymore. Most haven't even bothered to watch the first, after all.

I mean, fair enough. But what alive person titles their show "I'm glad I'm dead?" Especially since people that know George know he's dead. It's almost The Onion level of satire. And once the video starts, it immediately starts with a disclaimer that it's not Carlin, but AI. Nobody would sit through the entire show only to be dumbfounded later that it wasn't actually Carlin risen from the dead.

While the estate might have a fair case on whether or not this is infringement (courts simply have not ruled enough on AI to say) I think this is a silly way to characterize the people that made this. If you wanted to turn a profit from a dead person using AI to copy their likeness, why Carlin? He's beloved for sure, but he's not very 'marketable'. Without context to those who have never seen him before, he could be seen as a grumpy old man making aggressive statements. There are far better dead people to pick if your goal was to make a profit.

Which leads me to believe that he was in part picked because the creators of the video were genuine fans of his work (the video even states so as far as I remember) and felt they could provide enough originality and creativity. George Carlin is truly a one of a kind comedian whose words and jokes still inspire people today. Due to this video (and to an extent, the controversy), some people will be reminded of him. Some people will learn about him for the first time. His unique view on things can be extended to modern times. A view I feel we desperately need at times. None of that would be an issue as long as it was made excessively clear that this isn't actually George. That it's a homage. Which these people did. As far as I see, they could be legally in the wrong, but morally in the right. It's unfair to characterize them purely by their usage of AI.

I agree and I get it's a funny way to put it, but in this case they started the video with a massive disclaimer that they were not Carlin and that it was AI. So it's hard to argue they were putting things in his mouth. If anything it's praiseworthy of a standard when it comes to disclosing if AI was involved, considering the hate mob revealing that attracts.

Finally. A human readable format. And pretty too.

Lets be real - This isn't going to change on it's own. The only way for it to change is if everyone collectively took a stand against it. Which simply just won't happen. The most reasonable thing to do is to focus your energy on collectives that actively reject such practices. Oh hey, you're already in one: Lemmy, good job. As long as we work together to create a small corner of the internet that remains true to what the internet should be, we can grow it and create a better internet in the long term.

No worries my fellow unethical dishonest internet-using homie. It's not like nuance exists and things can be both good and bad. Everything is black and white, after all.

Ah yes. Like that damn internet and those cursed devices people use to access it. Anyone using those is inherently not honest or ethical.

PC is typically easier to develop for because of the lack of strict (and frequently silly) platform requirements. Which typically makes game development more expensive and slow than it needs to be when just targeting PC. If that barrier to entry was reduced to that of PC, you'd see a lot more games on there from smaller developers.

With current gen consoles, pretty much every game starts as a PC game already, because thats where the development and testing happens.

Rockstar here is the exception in that they are intentionally skipping PC - something that should be well within reach of a company their size while clearly being capable of doing so.

If another AAA game comes out with only PC support I'll be right there with you - but most game developers with the capability release for all major platforms now. But not the small console indie studio called Rockstar Games it seems.

Awesome and great explanation for a layperson. Because the industry has been faking lighting for so long and lighting is quite important, the industry has become incredibly good at it. But it also takes a lot of development time that could be spent on adding more content or features. There's a reason the opinion about ray tracing is extremely positive within the game development industry. But also nobody's expecting it to become the norm over night, and the period with hybrid support for both raytracing and legacy lighting is only just starting.

First: They did actually end up removing this and making it configurable, check the bottom of the page. In a vacuum, the idea to stop cut-and-clear racists and trolls from using Lemmy is not something that's too controversial. Sure, they are being hard asses about changing their mind and allowing instance owners to configure it themselves (and I'm glad they changed their mind). But there's a big overlap between passionate and opinionated people, so they have to be at times to ensure a project doesn't devolve into something they can't put your passion into anymore.

Second: I mean... what do you expect? In the issue above they actively encourage people to make their own fork of Lemmy and run that if they don't like something from the base version of Lemmy, so I kind of would assume they do as they preach. Instance owners also have the option to block communities without defederation. Lemmy.ml is basically their home instance. If anything this is a reason not to make an account on lemmy.ml, but as long as that doesn't leak into the source code of Lemmy, who cares?

It's because the current version has nothing wrong with it. If the Lemmy devs should choose to sabotage the Lemmy software, you'd be surprised how easily that happens when it pisses off all the instances and their owners. Instances will simply refuse to upgrade. And like most things, eventually some fork will win the race to become the dominant fork and the current Lemmy devs would be essentially disowned. Different forks also doesn't necessarily mean API breaking changes, so different forks would have no issue communicating (at least for a while).

This was my gut reaction as well, but dont do this, the makers of uBlock Origin warn against it! https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube/detection-faq/

Can't I just hide the pop-up with uBO's Picker?

No. Cosmetic filters don't stop the message - they just temporarily hide it from view. The anti-adblock script will continue to run in the background and will eventually block you from watching videos. Please don't use, share or recommend using any of those filters and don't report any issues when using them.

If it's a fairly inconsequential service (no payment/personal info, nothing lost if it gets hacked), you can just generate a far shorter password. Even randomly generated passwords can be remembered eventually if you have to type it enough times, and that's still better than the same one.

If it's not inconsequential, I'd be questioning if my money is well spent on a sadistic service that makes my life hell trying to have a minimum level of security. I would say that even if it wasn't a generated password that you have to type over.

It's the choice between trusting one company (or if you self host, trusting yourself) to have their security all in order and properly encrypt the password vault. Using one password for every site you use means that you have to trust each of those sites equally, because if one leaks your password because they have atrocious password policies (eg. storing it in plain text), it's leaked everywhere and you need to remember every place you used it before.

Good password managers allow audits, and do at times still get hacked naturally (which isn't 100% preventable). Yet neither of these should result in passwords being leaked. Why? Because they properly secure your master password so it can't be reverse engineered to plain text, and without the master password your encrypted password vault is just a bunch of random bytes. And even in the extreme situation it did, you know to switch to a better password manager, and you have a nice big list of all the places where you need to change your password rather than trying to remember them all.

Human memory is fallible and we want the least amount of effort, because of that we usually make bad passwords. Your average site does not have their password security up to date (There's almost a 0% chance not one of your passwords can be found here). If you data is encrypted accordingly, it doesn't matter if it gets leaked in any way or stolen by some rogue employee, so long as they do not have your master password. So yes, I'd say that's a good idea.

If you use StableDiffusion through a web UI (might exist for others as well), you might have access to a feature called 'interrogate', which allows you to find an approximate prompt to an image. Can be useful if you need it for future images.

It can also be done online: https://huggingface.co/spaces/pharmapsychotic/CLIP-Interrogator

LLM is the wrong term. That's Large Language Model. These are generative image models / text-to-image models.

Truthfully though, while it will be there when the image is trained, it won't 'notice' it unless you distort it significantly (enough for humans to notice as well). Otherwise it won't make much of a difference because these models are often trained on a compressed and downsized version of the image (in what's called latent space)

Oh yeah, shame on me, spending a part of my day 'shilling' for myself and my friends and colleagues. And 'shilling' for a better future for us all by dissuading people from weaponizing bad arguments and misunderstandings to defend themselves, because that will not help them one bit. The latter part of you sentence is such utter nonsense that I don't even need to respond to that.

Oh cool, you think misrepresenting and overly simplifying other people's points of view and an accurate representation of how certain copyright laws work (even when that's an inconvenient truth) is ethically justified as long as I can tell my anti AI homies that I stood up for them by 'dunking' on a person arguing in good faith for them to fight the right battles, and not cling to false ideas which will lead them to suffer more in the long term and turn people who would support them against them by spouting easily disputed lies.

But sure, go ahead! I'm sure you'll change so many minds by immediately disregarding everything they say by putting them in a box of "thiefs" because they said something that didn't fit very specifically within your "Guidebook to hating anything related to AI".

Now back to a serious discussion if you're up for it. Creative freedom is built on the notion that ideas are the property of nobody, it is a requirement since every artist in existence has derived their work from the work of others. It's not even controversial, using your definition of stealing means all artists 'steal' from each other all the time, and nobody cares. But because a robot does it (despite that robot being in 100% control of the artist using it), it's suddenly the most outrageous thing.

I know for sure my ideas have been 'stolen' from my publicized works, but I understand I had no sole right to that idea to begin with. I can't copyright it. And if a 'thief' used those ideas in a transformative manner rather than create something that tries to recreate what I made (which would be actual infringement), they have every right to as without that right literally nobody would be allowed to make anything since everything we make is inspired by something that we don't hold a copyright over. Most of the people actually producing stuff that will be displayed publicly so other people will experience and pull it apart to learn from understand we have no right to those ideas to begin with, except in how we applied those ideas in a specific work.