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This is interesting. Midjourney, despite being trained on 2D images, actually figured out that our world is 3D on its own and incorporates this understanding into its creation of images. This isn't super surprising, other programs have figured out that the world is 3D before like StyleGAN some...

Here's a new AI generated Star Trek show. This is interesting as it shows how AI-produced animation has come a long way (obligatory mocking of people who said this was impossible a couple of months ago). Compared with the Seinfeld show it's got far better animation, albeit it still has a long...

I don't think that internet piracy is as difficult as all that. People were doing it just fine shuffling copies of floppy disks back and forth before there was an Internet (Wave if you had a Sierra Online game that made you look up a specific page in the manual or some other feelie as a...

True, but just a look at the timeline makes it hard to argue the rise of abstract and similar arts rose in response to the camera. Just look at the immediately-pre-1850 movements: Historicism Academism Romanticism Realism Troubador Biedermeier Costumebrismo And then the half-century following...

Bob Ross didn't paint realism though. His style was closer to classic impressionism, that's why he was so fond of his 2" brush. That said I do think you're on the spot about it being profitable, Bob Ross wasn't really about monetizing painting (none of them were sold) but monetizing Bob Ross's...

But the still life painting movement did die, as did most realism movements in art. Artists couldn't compete with cameras so they began painting in styles that a camera couldn't replicate. It's no coincidence that the Impressionism movement started within months of the introduction of the...

I'm quite sure that there's absolutely no ill intention nor could anything bad come from training an AI to figure out a person's passwords from the sound of their fingers hitting the keyboard. This definitely won't be used as a hacking tool...

A liar doesn't believe anything he's told. A thief thinks everybody else is out to take what's his. A violent man lives in constant fear of being attacked. There is no rest for the wicked.

https://authors.apple.com/support/4519-digital-narration-audiobooks Apple's now offering an AI-based digital narration for just three bucks to read your digital books to you as audiobooks. Listening to it... I think it's not 100% human sounding but it's at least 95% of the way there. The male...

I suspect we're going to see a sequel to the Dotcom burst of the 90s, where people realize there's no actual utility to AI-governed toasters and what have you and many AI companies fail. That said it's also not as if AI won't have far-reaching consequences, just as the Internet and rise of...

If you're dissatisfied with the way things have gone, let's take things back to my original, moral, argument and I'll lay it out in a more logical fashion using a bit of a map. Premise: One cannot consistently come up with a reason AI art is infringing copyrights without also claiming humans...

Huh. Site seems to be paywalled so I can't tell exactly what's going on, the the link to the study just throws up a blocked URL message for me. But making a computer incapable of basic math... that's really something special. Okay, clearly I need to break it down more for you. You haven't...

But you do keep falling back on legal arguments. You've tried to invoke implicit contracts (which is incidentally a theory in economics that was largely abandoned in the 90s), implied contracts, and arguments about how it's totally different when a file is copied into a cache rather than any...

Right, so can you point to any place in all of history where it existed without that legality? Is there even a theory on how this miracle could happen? Because that's where a large part of the argument is hinging. On the contrary, it is a quite solid gotcha. You've tried to establish that...

Well it's amusing to see you do such a turnabout as playing "It's not legality it's morality" in one paragraph and "It's the legally-defined circle-c symbol" in the next. Consistency is really not your strong point, is it? As-is, even in principle your argument doesn't work. Just visiting a...

So we need to unpack a few things here because, well, most of what you're saying is false. Firstly copyright doesn't trigger from making a copy onto your computer or printing out a copy to view at your leisure, that's totally legal and covered under personal or fair use depending on conditions...

Now that's an interesting interpretation of "literally a contract." Did AI developers sign a document agreeing not to use that stuff in datasets that would constitute a contract? Because otherwise, you're basically arguing that a person should be able to impose contracts on others without the...

You're starting from a flawed premise here. If you post something on the internet in 2015, you grant people the right to copy it. That's how the internet works, you can't actually view the original image, your computer sends a signal, downloads a copy from the website into your cache, and can...

Well right now it's a purely experimental companion that... okay there's probably somebody Waifu'ing Henrika right now but that pretty clearly isn't the goal. If this can be applied on a grand scale, though, we could produce a living world where all the NPCs are acting like real people, capable...

Me personally, I've grown increasingly into the habit of pulling my wireless connector out any time except when I'm actively using the internet. I'm distinctly considering switching to two computers and sneaker netting anything important between them, but currently don't have the resources for...