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• Post #3801313

  Generally, I'm a believer in evidence over allegations, and the timing is very suspicious, but if there are actual documented conversations alluding to this behavior from years then it's a bad look. I think Politico ought to come forward with more of the evidence so that voters can get a full picture of what was said about him and the timeline of events and statements. But great news for Susan Collins and Donald Trump either way.

• The pop culture hype for GTA VI is totally undeserved.

  Let me preface this by saying that I'm a longtime GTA fan, and so, to some extent, I don't blame people for being excited for the newest game in that franchise. GTA 3 on the PS2 was a revolutionary game that changed the medium forever. Vice City and San Andreas built upon that same template and engine making games that were bigger in better in just about every way. I have mixed feelings about both GTA 4 and 5, both in terms of gameplay and story, but overall feel that they were good ga...

• Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts

  Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

• Post #860977

  I think you're a bullshitting con artist.

• Post #614429

  Yeah. But there's always the risk of being undercut by someone or something cheaper if you're operating in a workplace with zero standards. After all, you could write a lot of articles if you didn't give a rat's ass about the veracity or quality of the information within. Good newsrooms are supposed to have standards--that's what makes them good. If this the people at Ars had done their jobs to a high standard, the article in question wouldn't have been written like t...

• Post #614379

  I'm not a lawyer, maybe you are. I can't fully speak to the legalities at play. But I am a programmer, and speaking technically, AI simply cannot produce an output without consuming other works to be used as training data. In many cases, the training data includes full copyrighted works (images, books, music, etc.) in their entirety. I'm also an artist and musician, and someone who takes the matter of copyright seriously as any person who creates things should. There are cases...

• Post #613091

  In this case it was very much NOT "damned if you do, damned if you don't"--It's just don't. As a journalist it's your whole fucking job to do the research and report things accurately and truthfully. There's no reason at all the "journalist" in question here should have had an AI generated anything for his shitty article. The fact that this was a story on AI misuse in the first place only adds insult to injury.

• Post #609146

  Plaintiff Stephen Thaler had appealed to the justices after lower courts upheld a U.S. Copyright Office decision that the AI-crafted visual ⁠art ‌at issue in the case was ineligible for copyright protection ⁠because it did not have a human creator. That's what the article says. What are you saying this case was about?

• Post #319632

  I do hate unregulated capitalism. But that's not the only problem, even people in the non-profit space, as well as the supposed "communists" of the CCP in China are using and abusing machine learning techniques for the purposes of surveillance, oppression and exploitation. It's not the technology's fault, obviously. But at that point this becomes a bullshit "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument.

• Post #133383

  Where they are... even more dead?

• Post #131121

  And the dumb fucks are gonna keep using facebook, huh? I can only hope to be proven wrong...

• Post #98194

  Mental gymnastics 🎖