... Blender just piling on to it's already solid critical mass of professional functions and features after finally gaining wide-spread industry recognition a few years back. I'm an early Blender user and even have an original commercial license from NAN more than 20 years ago, before Blender was liberated into open source. Back then it was a curious underdog that had full OpenGL UI rendering (a first), a fully configurable UI (also a rare feature) and it fit on a 3,5" disk (absolutely unique).

25 years later Blender has finally taken the industry lead with other 3D kits keeping up by lowering their prices and emphasising special features and optimized workflows. Good to see the laughed-at FOSS underdog in this state of things.

Nice metafor, but I think it also can turn out the other way. The skinhead enjoys you pulling the gun and kicking him out. The week after, he brings his friends to fight it out. The week after the pub is empty and the skinheads pat each other on the back for a job well done.
Ignoring and enduring can be the right strategy. We had a guy that often posted 3d carves of Donald Trump's face. He added comments about how great he was. We kind of ignored him. Of course in this case, each post was pretty expensive to him, and he probably ended up with too many carves. It stopped.
But yes... sometimes you need a bartender that stands up to protect his clientele.
Now that I think of it, there was a famous Cafe in the city. They were known for slipping people a message: your drink is free, finish it up ASAP and leave. Handicapped people, bikers,... they all got the message. I knew a biker, he and his friends got a lot of free drinks there.

There is not a lot of money to be made in Spotify plays for anyone except for the owners of Spotify.

The music industry trades in celebrity. You don't listen to crappy pop music because it's good you listen to it because you're excited by the celebrity.

If you take that away all you're left with is the music which is just background noise to most people. That's not enough to sustain the industry at the profit levels that publicly traded companies require. They'll get eating alive by their shareholders.

Exactly, and there is little difference between AI generated cartoons and what you imagine in your head, neither are real and neither have the slightest impact on subjects of your imaginings. In fact, I'd go further and say that not only do people not have a right to deny others fantasies but that people have a right to their fantasies.

Ideally anyone would be able to snap a pic of their crush and enjoy all the AI generated VR porn they please.

"The responsibility to demonstrate providence"

So you run with the guilty until proven innocent? I think not. Voices and 'likeness' aren't unique and therefore you only own ACTUAL recordings of your image/voice and not impressions such as AI models produce.

"People are not snowflakes - in that we are not so unique that features found in one person aren't unable to be present in another."

Especially to the degree they are successfully copied by these models. The voices or generated content might 'pass' but they aren't actually perfect or accurate.

"We don't really recognize that people are unique and that their uniqueness has intrinsic value that belongs to the individual."

That's because an individuals likeness and the sound of their voice AREN'T unique. Even discounting identical twins everyone has not one but many doppelgangers walking around without anyone trying and celebrities have hundreds because people are trying.

Nobody should have a right to control fantasies, not even the subjects of those fantasies and AI generated virtual sex with someone is nothing but fantasy. I find it hilarious that people who think it would be somehow abusive to cut the tip of a waiter who hits on your spouse also think that same sad waiter should be denied a sad lonely fan fic mental porn of her later.

It isn't nonconsensual sexual content. What are you supposed to do about the people who just actually look and sound like you? Are they supposed to be denied use of your 'likeness' as well. That term is misleading, it only extends to actual images of you not cartoons that look and sound similar to you and that's what "AI" is producing.

The real criminals are the payment processors. They are defrauding their shareholders by pushing perfectly legitimate and paying clients off their platforms by trying to regulate things like this.

Profit comes first doesn't mean you keep the business open. Plenty of businesses can be plenty profitable but it's never enough.

Profit comes before human lives. Humans are disposable shareholder value is not. That's because shareholder value serves the ruling class.

And as a dedicated nation of 12-year-olds America refuses to acknowledge the existence of their ruling class.

If you turn the election over to chatgpt it'll hallucinate a candidate and claim everyone voted for them.

It means the next time they show up, they'll need a court order to do so.

That's why I didn't say it like that. :) I didn't even bring up his brother to him. I mentioned it here, but not there.

"You wanna tried disputing literally any of the points I made?"

  No. Because none of them contradict my post. Go back and reread the initial post. I did not offer an opinion on whether that was right or wrong. How badly do you read?

Look, you're the one going out of the way to muddy the waters over what was a very simple premise. In your post summing me up you got everything wrong. I am not a boomer, I did not go to university, I bought my first property in 2008.

In your rush to contradict you read a mountain into the molehill. Good lord. At least own up to it.