Moira_Mayhem @ Moira_Mayhem @beehaw.org

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If an artist falls in love with drawing and learns to draw from Jack Kirby's work and at the beginning even imitates his style, does he owe Jack Kirby royalties for every drawing he does as he 'learned' on Jack's copyrighted art?

Now that it exists how do you propose we make it not exist?

Even if we outlaw it Russia and China won't and without the tools to fight back against it the web is basically done as anything but a propaganda platform

I don't know if you noticed this but some really big companies with high stock valuations are only existing because investors poured tons of capital into them to subsidize the service.

Uber could not do taxis cheaper than existing if they didn't have years of free cash to artificially lower prices.

We are in the beginning of late state capitalism, profitable companies go under due to private capital firms and absolute ponzi frauds get their faces on time magazine.

Enjoy the collapse.

We are allowed to have nuance, nothing is inherently good or bad. A knife can wound or make dinner.

Trying to reduce nuance lessens the public discourse, do not be tempted by lowest common denominator memery.

Whether anyone likes it or not LLMs are here and even if we strictly regulate them there will be organizations and governments that do not.

WHAT WE SHOULD be focusing on is how to prevent low effort AI content from just basically overtaking the web.

We are already mostly there.

Serious Question: When an artist learns to draw by looking at the drawings of the masters, and practicing the techniques they pioneered, are the art students respecting the intellectual property rights of those masters?

Are not all of that student's work derivative of an education based on other people's work who will never see compensation for that student's use?

This is not actually true at all, you could train very good LLMs on public domain only info, especially science oriented ones.

But what people want is a chatbot that can call on current events, and that is where the cost comes in.

Fuck yes those memories...

I used to purposefully disable the error correction on my modem so the connection sound didn't have that stupid hissy wobbly beepy part at the end. Yeah it meant that sometimes I'd fjhkswa thjasd ar eee e but it was worth it for that pure music.

Maybe we're blessed for knowing it like none that came after, or cursed for knowing it will never be that good again...

I admit that Mint is the distro I got the furthest with, several weeks in I just stopped being able to do full screen 3d. I spent a month and a half on forums trying to figure it out including 2 clean installs and couldn't get anywhere.

I even did board level diagnostics on my video card.

Just gave up and went back to windows, never had an issue there and still don't.

I'll use linux for remote servers or fun little house gadgets, but as much as I hate windows, (and I hate windows with the seething glowing magma aged bitterness of someone who has had to support it since WIndows 3.11.

I would LOVE to ditch it, especially now, but until I can get a clean install to doing what I need to do in under a day, I can't advocate linux.

Not me, this will lead to malware installed in the brain.

You think popups are bad now?

Wait till you get them in your dreams.

View it in desktop mode

I have tried to switch my daily driver to linux for more than 15 years now, Linux desktop just isn't ready.

Full disclosure: I am an IT admin with near 3 decades of experience, including administrating linux servers, so this isn't a skill gap.

If they really understood the phrase 'too many cooks spoil the soup', then they'd realize the advantage of smaller online communities.

Reddit was at its best when it had a low count but engaged userbase, and became actively worse as it grew.

I think this is because trolling and response isn't a 1 to 1 ratio. All it takes is 1 toxic person to make an entire subforum rancid and takes the effort of several mods to mitigate it.

The more people you have, the more chance you will have these trolls organize, the more likely they will either overwhelm or infiltrate the mods.

Yeah but then when it collapses all the roaches will scurry off to other forums, including lemmy .

Personally I want it as a place to sequester the hard and alt right, like 4chan was before the digg exodus.

Every time someone pops the infection caul where they gather, it just spreads their toxic juice everywhere else.

You are absolutely correct in every point and it is a massive tragedy that we have been shunted into siloed tribalism.

I don't see an easy way out of this besides the total collapse of online advertising.

Maybe this will warn people about the dangers of profitization, and how poorly regulated capitalism destroys everything it touches.

You aren't here for a discussion. All you want to do is parrot off a series of barbed questions you have curated from watching spicy youtubers.

And no one except you and other edgelads enjoy that.

Maybe next time come with an original thought or two.

Bye.

Lol don't call it ☼Masterful☼ till it works! I could be very mistaken about lava flows here though I hope to post my updates to lemmy so we can all see how it goes together.

My inspiration was, in a roundabout way,: how to find a FUN way to dispose of kings who keep making insane crafting requests like weapons made out of soap. I envisioned a room suspended over a lava tube with a hanging pillar holding it up and drawbridges providing access. If the king got silly I could pop the pillar and drop his whole royal suite into the tube.

And of course I had to keep his subjects near him so I built the fort into the volcano side but I was annoyed about how irregular the floor size and mineral patterns were. I had just learned about obsidian casting in industrial quantities (the reason for the initial volcano embark) so as I was playing the thought kept coming back: 'Well, obsidian is a really valuable mineral when carved, and obsidian mechanisms are an amazing trade good, so... what if I made a whole fort out of obsidian?

So I tried that with that existing fort, not a fancy fort with a lava tube, more like just a giant cube of solid obsidian cast off to the side from the volcano.

It worked magnificently! The rooms were all lavish with just bare stones engraved, and I had unlimited material for stonework and mechanisms.

Smiling in satisfaction I said "This is cool... but it could be cooler."

And that's when I came up with my 'volcano base with a live active lava tube in the middle'.

The original took about three months of damn near every moment I wasn't working or sleeping, hopefully my experience since then will cut that time down a bit.

I'm really excited to see how this goes, and can't wait to share my updates.

Fun Fact: If you dig out each floor and drop them all at once, the game registers the internal hollowed out tube as being 'outside', meaning even after you cast the obsidian tower, all internal areas are considered in sunlight, so your dwarves never get sunlight sickness when defending raids and you can grow aboveground crops in the safety of your mountain home.

I don't think you understand. They can't win the case but if they don't bring it, they might lose their brand.

Pocket Pair is not violating even Japan's strictest interpretation of copyright infringement.

Agreed, all of the 'drama' surrounding this possible copyright case is largely created by youtubers and tiktokers for views.

That said, Nintendo WILL probably sue but as a formality to protect their brand, and will gracefully pay Pocket Pair's legal fees as a cost of business once the court rules in Pocket Pair's favor to keep their copyrights from lapsing to generic use. It's not uncommon.

Not doing that is how Bayer lost the copyright for 'Asprin' in the U.S.

Now if a ton of people refer to Pals as Pokemon the same way people refer to all tissues as Kleenex, THEN they might legitimately run the risk of losing their copyright and will pursue aggressively but I don't see that happening.

It literally doesn't but you like to say it because your favorite youtuber thinks so.

There is no legal issue, Nintendo is suing as a formality to protect their existing copyrights. They'll be ruled against and shrug their shoulders and pay Pocket Pair's legal fees because that is a much better business decision than risking losing their copyright to their existing creatures.

If they don't aggressively protect their copyright, the JCO might just rule that they have become generic and common use like how Bayer lost the trademarked name 'Asprin' in the U.S. when it was considered common use and Bayer did not pursue it aggressively.

But that doesn't make good youtube poop or memes so you probably think this is some kind of hotly contested hullabaloo because of where you are getting your info from.