The fucked up thing about AI right now is that AI companies get to act like we’re in a post-copyright world, pirating from literally everyone, while the rest of us are still stuck in copyright hell.

That’s the double-standard that they always upheld. Two large companies play by the rules. A small artist always plays by the rules when faced with a large company’s copyright. But, one large company stealing against a small artist? The company steals anything they want, as long as they can get away with it.

Marathon vs. Antireal is a prime example. They steal her artwork and style, put it in the game, and get away with it. The only reason they settled and paid her was because:

1. They got caught
2. The evidence was obvious
3. The bad PR was affecting their sales

If any of those weren’t true, they would have gotten away with it, stolen it outright, and not paid her at all.

No AI involved in any of that. No need when corporations already held the power for centuries.

I don’t think it’s realistic that the rich will dismantle IP in the name of AI progress

I think they’ll accidentally do so, by creating so much from AI and a judge declares that it can’t be copyrighted because X% is AI generated, and existing precedent already required human input for copyrighted material.

I replaced it with a Patricia Taxxon video, so fuck Grey. He seemed to not get the point of his own damn video.

Well, that’s a damn shame. I guess I’ll have to find a different source for the history of copyright.

Actual artists have been fucked over by copyright since its invention. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Mark Twain, Sonny Bono, and Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.

All content is remixed and remastered, so I don’t really see a point to copyrights at all. Anything that relies on copyright are a part of incredibly incredibly oversaturated industries, so people should just make what they are passionate about, and not worry about whether some dude decides to rip it off to create some other thing. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, after all. Jazz musicians certainly don’t give a shit, and people have been stealing the Amen Break for decades.

People are too damn concerned over trying to be rich and famous from whatever idea they foolishly think is unique. Every melody has essentially already been created, and if it hasn’t, then AI and LLMs will take care of the rest. Create art because you like to create art.

If the rich end up dismantling their own IP shield that has existed to enrich themselves for centuries in the name of AI progress, I’m going to call that a win.

The problem is not AI. It’s the work-to-live death spiral. Install UBI and abolish copyright.

Like a caveman asking for an email address…

Please do not equate YouTube to TikTok. TikTok is literally incapable of long-form videos and the platform is a cesspool of misinformation.

Governments take standards and measures very seriously and have for thousands of years.

Yeah, that was before Trump.

FarmingWhileBeige is highly recommended. He does a lot of good educational (and sassy) videos about different aspects of the farming industry, and has a good catalogue of funny shorts of reacting to stupid TikTokkers in-between. He has the experience and knowledge, and he’d be the first to tell you to stay the fuck away from the industry unless you’re ready to deal with a lot of bullshit.

You know what else fixes the birth rate? Making life less shitty and giving people enough money to be able to raise children.

In the meantime, negative birth rate is just self-correction of asshole dictatorships. Can’t make money line go up if birth line go down.

There is no privacy with a free AI agent.

Depends on where the AI is hosted. If you’re running a local LLM, all of that data is stored in-house on your PC.

What are you going to do? Sue them? Call 911? Ring up your lawyer?

“Operator, this company is doing some very illegal fuckery! Please arrest them right away!”

Rule #4: Don’t submit low-quality posts.

Also, this user is a bot. Look at the post history. No normal user posts 40 entries in a 24 hour period. And no, I don’t mean they post a bunch of posts in one period, and bunch the rest in another period. I mean they are consistently posting 2-3 entries an hour without sleep, without a break.

EDIT: Holy shit… 1.69K posts in two months.

Yep, there it is. There’s the hook. This bot moderates exactly one forum as the only moderator, to sell a bunch of PC parts. There’s the scam. This is just like those YouTuber bots that link to a personal profile for a porn website.

They should bring Hope to anybody.

Asshole is still president, still defrauding millions of people with rug pull scams, still making billions of dollars with insanely shady means.

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Meanwhile, pirates are still doing the public good, in the name of digital preservation, a lack of physical media be damned.

We’ve tried to educate, but the general public is just so fucking stupid and won’t learn any lessons at all. How many pre-orders does it take before they realize it’s a scam? Fuck, there are still idiots that buy the latest FIFA game at full price every single year.

It’s not even victim blaming when they repeatedly don’t learn they are being shafted over and over again.

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I taste no appreciable difference between the brands,

Either you don’t have any taste buds, or you don’t order pizza that often. A statement like this is like saying “I taste no appreciable difference between Coke and Pepsi”.

• Papa Johns’ has an almost-sugary pizza sauce that I don’t like that much. I also prefer pan pizza, but their default is that floppy NY pizza style. I consider them one of my least favorite option. Fucking Yum can’t manage any of their brands.
• Domino’s used to suck about 15-20 years ago, but they have improved in every way now. Typically my go-to delivery, for a major chain brand.
• Pizza Hut is still pretty good for pan pizza, but some think is greaser than others. They tend to use a lot of cheese, which is fine by me.
• Little Caesars, absolute fucking garbage. I’d rather heat up a cheap pizza at home.
• Cicis, barely above Little Caesars, about the same quality as Chuck E. Cheese or Mr. Gattis
• Jet’s Pizza, really really good pan pizza, a bit more expensive, but better than old standards like Domino’s or Pizza Hut.
• Mellow Mushroom, Old Chicago, Blaze Pizza, all S-tier pizza restaurants, though they don’t deliver. Making your own pizza with Blaze just makes it the top pick out of all of these.

You post this on a piracy forum?

Sorry, I don’t get any ads on my downloads.