My wife draws comics and exhibits at comic con, and her website is basically being ddossed by AI scrapers to the point of NEEDING cloudflare to keep the site online.
Then people get to use the models that stole her work and crashed her site to sell derivative works right next to her booth?
That sucks but it’s pretty much always been like this as technology advances. You can either fight the tide or go with it like Warhol did. He pivoted to doing more photographs later in his career because it was easier to make more art.
Art != business. They are separate things and only heartbreak will ensue when you operate on the assumption that artistic values is business value.
My point isn’t about the advancement of technology, it is about theft and destruction disguised as technology.
If what happened to my wife happened to Warhol the equivalent would be someone tearing his paintings off the gallery wall and selling xeroxed versions with sharpie written over them.
However your ultimate points are that art can’t be business, which in turn means artists shouldn’t necessarily be compensated, which defies reality and morality.
I have tried this approach to mixed results, got Boxer set up on their laptops with a few classics, but they didn't really gravitate towards it.
I searched for modern alternatives and settled on a mix of the Endless series of games on iPad(Endless Learning Academy bundles them all), and as they got older, GCompris. They can get lost for hours in GCompris exploring the different games and activities.
No - it's based on hype and dreams. If it was solely based on fundamentals TSLA would carry an car company multiple, dropping a digit off it's share price. At that price, Elon would have a significant chunk of his TSLA holdings margin called away and be less of a threat to the world and the people on it as a whole.
Engineering entirely new things isn't like making another set of silverware, there are unforeseeable complications, and all forward looking statements are estimates or projections at best. Success seems to depend most on how many times you're able to try.
Maybe I'm just old, but development roadmaps are always vapor, until they aren't, which happens sometimes. Always been that way.
To be clear, I'd much rather my vehicle have superhuman multisensory awareness than only superhuman awareness. And I think it's fair for regulators to involve themselves with vehicle engineering, as all our safety depends on it. I've also watched the AI day presentations about their vehicle training system, and read their disclaimer text for enabling FSD, and it seems like they're doing a lot to advance the state of the art.
I've followed EV development since the 90s, with great excitement and sadness around the EV1, and I built and daily drove EVs before I could find one to buy commercially. I appreciate that Tesla (and now BYD) have forced the hands of the traditional ICE vehicle manufacturers who were content in their partnerships with the oil industry and planned obsolescence.
I own a 1978 Suzuki Carry and a Miles Electric ZX40ST.
I have watched a fair amount of https://www.youtube.com/@MunroLive with interest about the implementations from all manufacturers. Sandy is in my home state of Michigan, birthplace of the auto industry, in which I've been multi-generationally involved, and he knows his stuff. He has criticisms for all manufacturers, but over the years Tesla seem to have listened more than most, to the point of Elon speaking for hours with Sandy on podcasts about technical aspects of the vehicles and production. I also appreciate that Tesla seem to make more of their cars in the US than any other manufacturer. Honda seems to be the only one comparable. I think the future's electric. I don't really care who makes it, but I'd like it to be well engineered, and made locally.
I'd personally probably think traditional ICE manufacturers and oil industries are overvalued, but I'm probably wrong as there's clearly lots of business for those industries which doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
Same here, it's been so difficult to find good shows after Bluey and Avatar. The gap between those two shows and everything else is almost breathtaking.
It isn't quite the same thing. There is a difference between trying to empower historically marginalized groups, and trying to re-subjugate historically marginalized groups.
Improving the opportunities available to people tends to improve economic productivity, so it's hard to argue it is a total waste of money.
On the other hand, removing mentions or attempts to improve inclusion of these groups in the face of rising racism and sexism has no real upside unless you're a racist or misogynist. Purges of this sort don't have any real economic motivations, it's pure ideology.
One was more of an investment, the other is more destruction.
Of course while the DEI scrubbing is dangerous to just some people, the scrubbing of climate-related language is just genocidal.
> It isn't quite the same thing. There is a difference between trying to empower historically marginalized groups, and trying to re-subjugate historically marginalized groups.
Not really. It's all language games.
This is just the mirror image of the liberal conceit they can magically change reality by forcing people to use different words or over-elevating some story (old or new) for ideological reasons.
The lesson from this is that it's all stupid, not just my-side's version, and it should stop.
> trying to empower
> tends to improve
> hard to argue
Lots of weasel words there.
> On the other hand, removing mentions or attempts to improve inclusion of these groups in the face of rising racism and sexism has no real upside unless you're a racist or misogynist.
Lots of absolutism there
It’s easy to argue it’s a waste of money if it is not effective. That being said, not all DEI initiatives are created equal (hah) - some are fine, some are useless but harmless, and some seem harmful.
That’s why the guy below me
> So if DEI language was bad, then correcting it should be a good idea
Is wrong just like you are, because DEI language isn’t universally bad or good.
The point that I’m trying to make is we should be worrying more about things like global warming and the economy and the dictatorships coming to murder us all, which anyone with a brain knows for 100% certain that there is a problem and that we have options to fix it. Unlike DEI where everyone has their own definition of what good is.
> the scrubbing of climate-related language is just genocidal.
100% agree. What Trump is doing is actively splitting the country and distracting from much more important issues
> What Trump is doing is actively splitting the country and distracting from much more important issues
I don’t have a dog in this hunt (I didn’t vote for either of them), but I think its fair to say that Trump seems to be pretty much trying to do most everything he promised in his campaign (which obviously attracted enough votes for him to win). Perhaps people just believe that politicians say a bunch of shit to get elected—then do something else and never expected this level of follow through.
Either way, this is what America voted for…and are apparently what we are going to get.
Then people get to use the models that stole her work and crashed her site to sell derivative works right next to her booth?
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