And the difference in results is clearly different. There are people who replaced artists with Photoshop, there are people who replaced artists with AI, and each new tool with firther empower people to try things on their own. If those results are good enough for them then they probably wouldn't have paid for a good artist anyway.
The stuff around us is made out of molecules. Most molecules are made out of more than one atom. Oxygen, the gas, is made out of oxygen molecules. An oxygen molecule is made out of two oxygen atoms. So O2. When you hear "pure oxygen", it's about the substance oxygen (O2), as in pure from other găsesc, not the element oxygen (O).
Now you can also have O or O3 molecules, but those have an electric charge (aka ions), so they're unstable and prone to bond with other elements or to break apart. A gas made out of monoatomic oxygen would be extremely reactive.
Ah, yes, another unpopular opinion. Look at all the commenters explaining why they'd rather watch 1 hour of fluff than read 5 minutes of instructions and completely disagreeing with OP.
AI is supposed to work with human input. AI is a tool for the artist, not a replacement of the artist. The human artist is the one calling the shots, deciding when the final result is good or when it needs improvement.
Sampling music is literally placing parts of that music in the final product. Gen AI is not placing pieces of other people's art in the final image, in fact it doesn't store any image data at all. Using an image in the training data is akin to an artist including that image on their moodboard. Except the AI's moodboard has way more images and the odds of the work being too similar to a single particular image is lower than when a human does it.
Changing the setting from a grocery isle to an electronics department makes for a completely different story. Goes from "yeah, sure, that happened" to "perfectly credible encounter."
I couldn't watch The Expanse after one or two episodes because it strayed from the books, but somehow I stuck with Foundation. I think because it's so ridiculously far from the books, I have an easier time just watching it as its own thing and have no expectations from it.
Nobody is forcing people, it's just the most common choice for the reason given above (also because a lot of people choose beach destinations for their vacations, and it's the best time for that). Everyone is free to use their days off when they want to and not everyone chooses summer vacation.
I don't get the whole month of August off on paid vacation. That's a straight-faced lie.
You not getting vacation doesn't mean it's not common for others. Definitely common to get a month of vacation in summer in Romania, mandatory in Sweden, and based on comments here it's common in other countries too.
Also, even if you don't use your time off to get a full month of vacation, it is a fact that most of European countries mandate a minimum amount of annual paid time off that's more than double of what most get in the US.
25 to 30 days of annual leave is unheard of in the US. And it translates to 5-6 weeks, which is well over a month. It's common in a lot of European countries to take 4 of those weeks off in a single continuous summer break, usually August (some prefer July to avoid the August crowds). Yes, there's a misconception that everyone in Europe takes August off, it's ultimately up to each individual how they allocate their days off, but there are companies that do assume everyone will take August off and all but shut down during that month.
The distribution shown in this post is for base 10, but Benford's Law includes distributions for other bases too. The wiki article linked in another comment goes into detail on that too.
Are you sing Tor or a VPN? Sharing the same IP with thousands of other people is something that would lead to getting captchas every time you visit a site. Most sites use Cloudflare or other CDNs, and they see the same IP making tons of requests every second, so they flag it as a potential bot IP and issue the captcha challenge.
Yeah, I was too lazy to find a better description for it and didn't want to go into valences