I’m already sick of this phrase. The tech hallucinates too much, and understands security about as much as a whale understands astrophysics.

Hasbro, not WotC. Wizards of the Coast is just an old name that no longer carries any meaning, like Netscape or Obsidian Entertainment.

Hasbro makes all of the decisions now.

WIPO sounds like an racial slur.

Worse, they would make the hardware in such a way that you need special screwdrivers to open it, and even if you get access to it, the internal design is so hostile that it makes replacing parts a 4 hour experience.

Echo chambers can’t have bad news in it.

(elon, vance, trump, hegseth, bessent, rfk jr, bondi, mcmahon, gabbard, loeffler, etc)

I am reminded of that quote from Spaceballs: “Evil always wins because good is dumb.”

But, like, is it really true? Isn’t the exact opposite actually true?

Well, yes, but also that’s very illegal.

Will the GOP hold them accountable and start an investigation about it? Fuck no!

Is it AI generated?

I’m unqualified to try to untangle why Trump’s handlers are doing this, and I generally don’t like to spout off without evidence.

Trump’s handler is Putin, and there’s plenty of evidence.

People and small indie companies have lost entire fortunes trying to enforce or defend completely obvious copyright cases.

Stable Diffusion. Why do you think all of these models exist?

You really trust the US government to control your communications? Especially given the last 20 years?

No, I don’t trust right-wing Nazis to control my communications. And I sure as fuck trust the government more than I trust greedy corporations. The problem is that the corporations have been fucking up the capitalistic/democratic balance for the last 50 years.

The raw SMTP landscape on the internet is such a shitshow. Setting up a SMTP server requires so many goddamn condoms that you might as well just give up and start using some other professional email service. Or you set it up just to forward email to a GMail account, and even then, Gmail bitches about how much spam you’re forwarding it and blocks you for a time.

Capitalism will outlast copyright. They’ll adapt. The rich have existed for millennia and there’s no reason to think they would roll over as soon as copyright dies.

But, the more they push AI as their digital savior, the more copyright-free content they create. AI is just hastening copyright’s demise.

The biggest problem with Ai is copyright.

FTFY. Copyright is a tool of the rich. It is not for you.

Yep, I can generate a bunch of funny pictures on Stable Diffusion in a couple of minutes.

I think that in a better world, image generation could’ve been used for prototyping, fun, or enabling art from those without the time to dedicate to a craft. It could’ve been a tool like any other. LLMs could’ve had better warnings against their hallucinations, or simply have been used less for overly-serious things due to a lack of incentive for it, leaving only the harmless situations.

I think that world still exists, but it’s going to take corporations tripping over their hundreds of billions of dollars and burning it in a dumpster fire, before they realize that the technology isn’t theirs to keep and own.

Legally, the one hosting the material is the one who is punished, not the downloader. Though, if they are using torrent software, they are both downloading and hosting. Copyright law doesn’t give a shit why they’re watching it.

If I downloaded pictures on the internet by visiting a web site, I’m not going to suddenly get punished because it’s copyrighted. Otherwise, every one of us is now in trouble because of the linked article.

> WEAR GOGGLES