If it's not ramping up already, it seems pretty inevitable that businesses will need to turn to smuggled goods to stay competitive once they suspect (or know) others are doing it. While that will mean government revenues from the imports will largely evaporate, at least it'll mean Trump can say prices haven't gone up. But bribery, corruption, and related things like turf wars will likely explode.
Sure, I was being flippant. But the fact remains that a Titanic amount of money and computing is being used just to make (partly) derivative, if pretty, pictures.
Doesn't seem exactly profound, nor does it even seem to have any particularly compelling ROI. But I'm probably missing something...
Creating Studio Ghibli-inspired AI art seems unbelievably anticlimactic for the most hyped tech this century.
It's also patently obvious that artists are trained on other people's art. I play in a band, we write our own stuff. Our influences, and who we sound like are the subject of polite conversation, not vitriolic arguments and accusations of "theft".
Well, they create money by giving loans ("inside money creation"). That money is destroyed when it's paid back, so I think in terms of GDP it's neutral?
This is an interesting paper on BTL house prices in particular:
https://www.bankofengland.co.u...
There's a pretty depressing diagram illustrating the relationship BTL has on the wider economy in "6: How do pressures on the BTL sector matter for financial stability?" that shows pretty much any attempt to use policy to lower prices will amplify economic downturns. We're hooked on housing, essentially.
iCloud in either case is as secure as any other vendor in the space where the keys are held by the vendor (such as google).
I thought Google passkeys mean that Google doesn't hold the key? Or is it that not everyone is using passkeys for Google services yet?
I think it's the scale/capacity of the computer to produce derivative works they're mainly objecting too. Otherwise, as you rightly imply, preventing the copying of style, approach or some other inspiration would kill art stone dead. Or at least mean that the only artists that could survive were those using AI to screen their works against prior art so that they could not be accused of "theft".
One thing I agree with them on is that you should not be allowed to prompt using artists names. That seems unnecessary.
On the "no ads" thing, I can reccommend this https://pi-hole.net/ which I also access via https://www.pivpn.io/ when I'm out of the house sometimes.
Reaching for the barbells. Probiotic kitchen swimming in kefir and kimchi. Hope I'm doing this right...
I was about to ask how on god's earth could anyone say
Yes. I can see now perfectly well why you like WP so much. I too would fucking love it in that case.
Two doctors, and then a High Court judge have to decide before anyone in the UK will be allowed to kill themselves. It's hardly going to be a wave of dying.
Just wanted to leave that subject title here.
My father worked as a "sensitivity reviewer" for a UK government records office in his retirement after he left the diplomatic service. The stuff he was releasing was from mostly 50 years years ago when it was statutorily made public as long as it didn't deal with anyone alive (or members of the royal family - thanks Tony Blair!). He said he'd heard that there was a "black hole" coming down the line from the period in 90's when departments moved to email and digital storage. People in about 2010 trying to get stuff off early archives of those for internal purposes and FOI requests were reporting they were often unable to do so.
Maybe that's a good thing, I dunno. But for anyone wanting to know what was being said about, for example, Pergau Dam in internal communications between Whitehall and the Foreign Office - they might have a hard time.
Article sez, "As well as recovering gold, the company is also looking at what to do with all of the other materials that it is separating out from the circuit boards. They contain a number of different materials including aluminium, copper, tin and steel. They’re also investigating whether ground up boards could be used by the construction industry."
I wonder whether, in a properly circular economy, companies making physical goods would be made to source their materials from the waste of others, and find buyers for the products of the disposal of theirs before they could go ahead into production? Those that didn't would be guilty of eco crime and exposed and fined like environmental polluters today, and legislation fought over for exemptions to non-circular materials?
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