just a reminder!
Considering Trump lies (badly) almost as often as he breathes, I'm not surprised he lied about this too.
A lot easier to speak to dolled up actors than it is to speak to the people you know will boo you off stage
You'd think more flavours of tea would be better, and normally it is, but sometimes you do just want to be able say "tea" and know you're getting a mug of the good stuff
Wait... what?
Is that just a video floating about??
There is no defence they will tell you about. No ADs for you means less money for them
The problem with this is the same problem news websites has when they started switching out their foreign language writers with AI.
Just because you can translate what is literally being said word by word, doesn't mean you're translating the intent of what was being said.
Idioms, phrases, jokes, pleasantries, etc. won't translate into foreign languages no matter how well you can translate the literal words being said.
If you want good quality translation, you should get someone who knows the language and the culture to do it, as they can translate what's between the lines.
Does Photoshop or any digital art not count? I don’t have to have the skill to draw a perfect circle?
Did you read what I said or just start typing the moment you saw brushstroke?
"When you draw a art, whether paint or digital, you're the one doing each and every brushstroke, deciding each and every detail as you draw."
Of course digital art counts. While there are more tools for digital artists, ultimately they're still the ones drawing the art.
So we should artificially handicap the art at the expense of the lesser abled?
You could say this for literally anything gate-kept by requiring decent skill.
If you want to profit from a creative work you should have to make that work yourself. It's not difficult.
Same as clicking a button on a camera at something that just happens to be beautiful. Does it matter if someone next to me is using the same ISO or exposure?
Is this meant to be your gotcha?
The fact that two people chose to photograph the same thing with the same settings doesn't actually matter in my argument because each person still made the creative decisions behind their photographs. Each one chose those settings, even if they chose the same ones.
You can have art classes full of people painting the same thing, but they're all still their own works.
It's the fact that those people did the work and made the creative decisions that matters, not the what they chose to point that creativity at.
I don’t have to realize the complexity of lighting, shaders, or materials to render a scene in Unreal. I get to utilize the processes that pioneers before me discovered.
Guess what, that's why developers have to acknowledge Epic and their engine in any games they male with it, and why they have to pay royalties to Epic (over a certain amount of sales) - because the engine was their art!
You may not need to understand the exact lighting, shaders, etc. required to render the game, but you still made the creative decision to as to where light sources would be.
Just because the engine has AI powered tools, doesn't mean the engine just makes the game for you, you have to build it. The reason you even own the game is because you made those creative decisions.
If the AI tools just made the game, you wouldn't own it because you didn't make the game, you just provided the inspiration. At best you can claim copyright over that inspiration.
The person who wrote the Witcher books doesn't own the Witcher games, CD Projekt Red does, because they made the game.
The person that wrote the Metro series doesn't own the Metro games, 4A Games does, because they made the game.
Both pay royalties to their respective inspirations, because those inspirations are the works the writers own, not the derivative works. Just in the same way the developers don't now own the works they derived their games from.
I understand the frustrations, but this seems stifling in the same way that cotton-gin-phobes, typewriter-phobes, and computer-phobes wpuld have stifled the ability of the average joe to accomplish something.
No offence, but the fact that you're making those comparisons shows you clearly do not.
You're can act like I'm out here arguing against the democratisation of art, but that's not what I'm arguing against.
If you want to use an art AI to make you some cool art, go ahead and do that.
You want to use AI art as the basis of a creation you want to make, sure.
But to claim an AI art piece as your own and to then claim copyright over it as though you made it is wrong. That is what I'm arguing against.
AI art is art, but in its raw form, it isn't anybody's to own because nobody made it, AI did.
To what degree do you consider AI involvement to be the deal-breaker.
In one sentence, when you're editing the AI's work rather than the AI editing your's, you can't claim the original work as your's.
My phone uses something arbitrarily akin to generative AI to sharpen photos. If I take a photo with my phone of something novel, should I be able to copywrite that photo?
This being an example if the former... The AI is sharpening your photo that you took.
If I use an AI generated image and spend 24 hours manually tweaking and modifying it, do I have a right to copywrite?
Assuming it was transformative enough, I'm sure you could copyright your derivative work, but you couldn't then directly copyright what the AI generated.
If I use an LLM to synthesize an idea that I then use to organically create art, is it lesser art?
No, because like an artist taking requests, the AI is providing the prompt. You'd be the one drawing the art piece, putting in the majority of the creative effort.
It all seems so arbitrary at this point. It’s like a typist in 2005 arguing that digital word processors shouldn’t be used to create copywritable art, as it takes significantly less work.
Excuse my French, but how in the flying fuck is that the same thing?
Whether you write a document on a typewriter or keyboard, you're still the one directly deciding what words go on that page, and in what order. Every creative decision it is possible to make, you make.
When an AI writes for you based on prompts, you decide almost none of that. You give it a synopsis and it writes the whole script, essay, whatever for you.
There's a huge difference between those things! How is it so hard to grasp that?
Of course, but the fact he wasn't even being aggressive/provocative towards them makes it all the more worse
Of course he broke the law - he hurt the officer's feelings. That's the worst law you can possibly break! /s
But seriously though. Cops got butthurt, and so they aggravated the situation, and used the fact that the poor man panicked when being manhandled as the reason to arrest him in the first place. What kind of circular reasoning bullshit is that??
Literally by the time they went to arrest him the band had finished their set and were ready to go. All they had to do was wait 2 minutes and they would've got what they wanted.
Sure, a majority of the initial conversation is unintelligible because of the band, but I seriously doubt the director said anything that provocative... if anything the officers are the ones trying to provoke a reaction out of him, and he's just asking them to stay out of his face.
I remember back when it was just a "couple" of rotten apples, but just like in the phrase, it seems they've ruined the whole damn batch. Remember kids, A.C.A.B.
Given I don't use it now and it's free, I don't think making it paid is suddenly going to incentivise me to do so
If you made a painting for me, and then I started making copies of it without your permission and selling them off, while I might not have stolen the physical painting, I have stolen your art.
Just because they didn't rip his larynx out of his throat, doesn't mean you can't steal someone's voice.
“We’re trying to have those conversations with Elon to establish what the sensors would need to do,” Baglino added. “And they were really difficult conversations, because he kept coming back to the fact that people have just two eyes and they can drive the car.”
Yes, and people crash cars all the time Elon...
If you want an autopilot with the failure rate of a human, then you might only need two eyes. If you want an autopilot with a near zero failure rate, you need much better telemetry data
Ah, so Apple definitely wouldn't sell you a 60W USB-C Charge Cable while limiting other cables to 20W?
Nor would Apple ever dream of selling you a cable capable of delivering up to 240W for their phones?
I'm not suggesting that Apple is nerfing their USB-C cables. What I'm telling you is that they're nerfing their competitor's cables compatability in order to sell you a solution you wouldn't need if they weren't such dicks.
Also, I apologise. The USB 2.0 speed fuckery only applies to the pro series Iphones... the normal series ones are limited to USB 2.0 no matter what cable you use.
As for that lightning adaptor, even if you did need it I wouldn't recommend buying that one, unless you're desperate to give Apple even more profits. There are smaller form factor, significantly cheaper converters out there that will do the job just fine.
Well fuck, you got me there... In one sentence you've just given everyone on 4Chan the ability to touch grass.
My definition is more or less the same as the one @ParsnipWitch offered...
The terminally online are thise who have little to no contact with reality. They are the shut-ins and the NEETs of this world. Those that would fully believe in conspiracies about life which could be disproven simply by interacting with others IRL.
What a fucking pant load. You’re so full of shit, it stinks
Bullshit. The majority of people want to dominate everyone not in their immediate social circle. Go look up social dominance theory - it will tell you everything you need to know about how people really behave.
I'm basing this on my life's experience, and of those around me. That might not match your's but what I say is true to me.
I'm not going to say you're wrong. As long as inequalities exist between people, there will always be in-groups and out-groups of people. Humanity is tribal, and likely always will be.
But most people don't spend their waking moments trying to enforce these tribalisms. Arseholes definitely do, but that's not the majority of people.
And what magical fucking force forces people to “chill”?
Biology.
The human brain doesn't come pre-built. There are many parts that develop at different rates, with the pre-cortex (the "rational" part of your brain) still developing even into your mid-20s.
During your adolescence this process is nowhere near complete, thus adolescents are generally severely lacking in the long-term judgement and planning department. They are more likely to be impulsive, to jump on the bandwagon of peer pressure without thinking through the consequences.
As they get older, most people become generally better at thinking things through. Less likely to act on impulse, and more likely to listen to others. They learn about viewpoints way outside their own and start to become less self-absorbed. At least that's my experience of growing around my peers.
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They don’t. Because that magic doesn’t fucking exist. Only the trauma of punishment makes people stop abusing others. Without the threat of permanent injury on themselves, people will always try to permanently injure others as a means to dominate and control - at least for the sake of their social groups. That desperate need to dominate and control is what makes them human.
You are spreading self-aggrandizing lies; spreading an infection that will only cause more people to get more “uppity” and beat more innocent people to death. Stop lying about people and apologizing for their bloodlust. People are murderers, hunters for the only “game” still left - forcibly isolated human beings.
I wasted my entire life being kind to people, only to mock me for being so stupid, so gullible enough to fall for the con that they would be nice back. They beat me like they were mining for ore, driving blow after blow into my skull until it was permanently disfigured, and then they broke every bone in my limbs until they didn’t work anymore.
Don’t give me this horseshit about how people “chill out” - I did not get almost murdered over fifteen years by people who would simply magically stop being murderous because some timer ran out. No, those motherfuckers murdered as if it was a fucking religious mandate and they are the same type of assholes who tried to take over the U.S. on January 6th.
No one is ever going to acknowledge my humanity, no matter how kind I am, or what I do. I will always be seen as a “less than” because the ENTIRE human race are malignant narcissists - and there is an entire organization of psychologists and sociologists who reject the pro-human narrative and know exactly how evil people really are. Quit apologizing for rapists and murderers.
Jesus christ you went off the deep end quick, I am not responding to all of that...
I don't know what kind of life you've experienced, but you've got some deep-seated traumas up in that head of yours that you need to figure out.
Not only that, but you've seemingly driven yourself into an almost schizophrenic delusion that everybody is after you, looking for a chance to tear you down in whatever way they can. That's just not the case.
If your tendency is to explode on anyone who disagrees about your worldview, to compare them to murderers, then I'm afraid you might just be the problem in your lack of a social life - I'll leave you with this:
"If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole" - Raylan Givens, Justified
USB-C has for years now supported higher wattage power delivery, and higher data transfer speeds than lightning.
I can't speak to your experience, but from mine, the build of quality of Apple's own lightning cables was terrible. I owned two IPod Touch's over the course of about 6 years, and I basically went through one cable a year because they'd just disintegrate towards the ends of the cable or internally decapitate themselves. Didn't even need to break them, they'd break themselves.
Whereas in the 6+ years I've used phones with USB-C, only two of them have broken. One was because the cable got snagged under a chair and I pulled the USB-C end off not realising it was stuck, and the other one was my Mum breaking the USB-A end shoving it into a plug the wrong way. Both things that had nothing to do with the build quality of the cables. I still have every other one of my USB-C cables.
I find it hard to believe that all of the guards meant to be watching over a high-profile prisoner on suicide watch just happened to disappear at the same time the multiple cameras also meant to be watching over him failed, and those both happened to coincide with the period he's said to have killed himself.
Either it's unimaginably high levels of incompetence and neglect, or somebody paid off a bunch of people. Considering it was rich pedos who wanted him dead, I don't find the latter unreasonable to believe