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Idk what the mental cringe reflex is but it goes off whenever I read a MTG card with the text "black creatures".
this card was banned for being racist so wotc agrees with you a little bit (check out the disclaimer on scryfall)
this guy is one of the only pokemon youtubers i can't put on in the background because i keep laughing at shit i overhear. "maybe Poliwrath sucks toes" "Articuno is a pretty good Pokemon to use if your mom didn't quit smoking while she was pregnant with you", "drinking again, Victreebel? get it together man, you have to pick up your son from soccer practice" etc. the video editing gags are also extremely good; if nothing else, skip to the bit starting at 9:20. also this bit showing the second-best equivalents to each of the holy trinity of RBY OU:
the ocean is beautiful this time of year
my brain still assumes that the oldest people born after 9/11 are still like 13 at the absolute oldest so every time i do the math and realize that they're buying alcohol now, i have to go sit down. im glad i didn't go to buy booze on 9/11/2022 because seeing the "you must have been born on or before this date" calendar set to 9/11/2001 would instantly have turned my hair gray
getting halfway through writing a text post before hitting a minor snag that makes you pause to gather your thoughts, the first of which is always "does anyone actually care about/want to hear this", and then deleting the post without saving to Drafts
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Hi there, I looked through your blog and I agree with almost all your takes about AI art. The only thing I differ on is that I believe if a product contains a substantial amount of AI art then that should be disclosed. I agree with you that "effort" is not what makes something art, but if a piece of art is being sold for money then it's no longer just art but also a commodity, which means the labor theory of value should apply imo. So valuing art based on the work that went into is valid but ONLY in an economic sense, and AI use should thus be disclosed just so customers know what they're buying. At least that's my take as someone who's not very knowledgeable with this stuff
gotta admit, i did not expect to see someone bring up the fucking labor theory of value in this debate. you get points for originality and nothing else
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In reference to your new year post: Do you have any good advice for peeling a pomegranate?
fill a large mixing bowl (the one you use for popcorn and/or puking in) with water. score the pomegranate along a few different axes, then dunk it underwater and rip it up into chunks with your bare hands. not only is this viscerally satisfying, but all the seeds will get dislodged and float to the surface where you can skim them off.
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this one is uh. well it's certainly An Experience. unfortunately it is from 2007 and therefore has casual antisemitism all over the place but this feels like a geocities House of Leaves. i found 3rd graders' poetry???
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Artist: Johannes Voss TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link
the most frustrating thing about AI Art from a Discourse perspective is that the actual violation involved is pretty nebulous
like, the guys "laundering" specific artists' styles through AI models to mimic them for profit know exactly what they're doing, and it's extremely gross
but we cannot establish "my work was scraped from the public internet and used as part of a dataset for teaching a program what a painting of a tree looks like, without anyone asking or paying me" as, legally, Theft with a capital T. not only is this DMCA Logic which would be a nightmare for 99% of artists if enforced to its conclusion, it's not the right word for what's happening
the actual Violation here is that previously, "I can post my artwork to share with others for free, with minimal risk" was a safe assumption, which created a pretty generous culture of sharing artwork online. most (noteworthy) potential abuses of this digital commons were straightforwardly plagiarism in a way anyone could understand
but the way that generative AI uses its training data is significantly more complicated - there is a clear violation of trust involved, and often malicious intent, but most of the common arguments used to describe this fall short and end up in worse territory
by which I mean, it's hard to put forward an actual moral/legal solution unless you're willing to argue:
- Potential sales "lost" count as Theft (so you should in fact stop sharing your Netflix password)
- No amount of alteration makes it acceptable to use someone else's art in the production of other art without permission and/or compensation (this would kill entire artistic mediums and benefit nobody but Disney)
- Art Styles should be considered Intellectual Property in an enforceable way (impossibly bad, are you kidding me)
it's extremely annoying to talk about, because you'll see people straight up gloating about their Intent To Plagiarize, but it's hard to stick them with any specific crime beyond Generally Scummy Behavior unless you want to create some truly horrible precedents and usher in The Thousand Year Reign of Intellectual Property Law
Anonymous asked:
How embarrassing to defend AI. In a shirt time you're gonna write an "apology" post.
shirt time writing an apology post
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OKAY HEAR ME OUT 53° in the winter is a ridiculous temp to keep yr house at BUT i think i would also not want my landlady entering the house without telling me and fucking w the thermostat which i think is the main idea of that post that ppl are missing. like yeah 53° but you have a horse is wild but ALSO i do see where they're coming from. you know?? am i missing something??
the landlady should absolutely be telling them what she's doing instead of playing this weird "just dropping stuff off :)" game but she's probably some combination of legally obligated to (minimum temp requirements across New England, where OOP is posting from, are generally around 62-65ish degrees), worried about the pipes freezing and damaging "her" property, and/or worried about the multiple non-horse pets OOP also keeps in their 53-degree home
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do you ever see a reddit comment that feels like the tip of an iceberg floating past
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Crossrays Ria, submission by @cocoamix86
(rails foot-long line of coke) what if we made Anje colorless and 1 mana and not reliant on filling your deck with quite literally every single legal Madness card ever printed