tragabigzanda wrote:holy shit. I knew the change was coming but didn't realize it would be this week.
BurtReynolds wrote:If you are a working artist, your only goal should be to find certain niches that AI won't be able to replicate for a few yearsMONTHS OR WEEKS, then make as much money as you can off them, then move to the mountains and wait for the drones to come...
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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My naive art friends are losing their minds over this. If only they listened to my cold, ruthless pessimism sooner, they may have been spared this pain.
As it is, they are clinging to the hope that copyright laws will stop it.
Seeing those AI cartoon portraits people were posting on social media, I have to admit one of my first thoughts was "PHATJ is probably having fun with these"
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
Jorge wrote:Seeing those AI cartoon portraits people were posting on social media, I have to admit one of my first thoughts was "PHATJ is probably having fun with these"
SBWM's bandmate wrote:Eh, the mouth is a little off when enunciating the words. If I saw that guy on the street I'd definitely call him out for not being Morgan Freeman.
You're not wrong, but that's still scary close.
Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?
