“It’s an MP9 from B&T–” “Beckler and Tock.”

The shorthand in English is “sour grapes.”

Band-aid over an intolerable abuse.

No computer needs personally identifying information just to boot. You are an object, do as you’re told. There is no legitimate government interest that justifies this demand.

I’m not sure humans can do anything continuously without learning. It’s just a question of what your brain is filtering down to habit and experience. If your enemy is the compiler saying ‘error on line 314’ and line 314 is blank, you know to take a deep breath and start checking semicolons and braces. If your enemy is Copilot emitting ‘assert true’ tests, you know to grumble and move down a level in the specificity of your instructions.

At the end of the day - does the project work?

It werfs flammen.

Not with the conviction that I would have done any differently.

This isn’t exactly a defense contractor asking about tracking targets under three feet tall. It’s a video card monopolist looking to buy your website which hosts a couple thousand public files for free. The only solvent company in this obvious bubble is going to pay someone for a copy of your server infrastructure… which again, is freely available. The worst-case scenario for users is scattering and scrambling to re-upload all the content they’ve already mirrored.

A lot of people who’d rail against accepting a check with three commas would be morally offended by hosting this particular site to begin with.

Nothing good is allowed to happen ever again.

I can’t exactly fault any rando for accepting a dump truck full of money… but god dammit, Clem.

The unspoken benefit of window units is the implicit focus on cooling only one room versus an entire home. When I lived in central Europe twenty years ago, I was already shocked that people in summer did not at least keep the bedrooms tolerable.

But yeah, if we’re gonna do whole buildings, you should skip our atomized mid-century bullshit.

Commercial parody is commonplace fair use. If it surpasses the original… oh well.

The amount being used becomes negligible as the corpus grows. Filtering a billion webpages into one gigabyte means their average contribution is one byte. Play with the numbers all you like, it’s gonna come out to less than a paragraph.

If we went full copyright maximalist, and criminally banned using anything but public-domain / BSD / CC0 works, the commercial impact would not be much different. The technology itself shifts the economics of text, images, video, and code.

The little stars are pretty much universal shorthand for generated images and video. For several years at this point.

“Calm down,” “I’m not reading,” “slop justification,” “‘I am physically incapable.’”

Lie better.

‘I didn’t read that, you’re just lazy, slop slop slop ha ha.’

Yes it fucking is. What you’re doing is shitty and you need to be better. You can’t claim to care oh-so-deeply about true human effort, then brush aside when someone tries explaining their position on the issue you hassled them about.

This is abusive trolling.

Shitposts being deep expressions of the soul, apparently. News to me after several Photoshop Phridays selected my hard work of maybe half an hour. News also to the photographers whose images I stole and illegally combined. Images picked from the few relevant examples, when I’d search for a specific reference and cross my fingers.

These contradictions don’t phase you. You’re not listening. Any disagreement gets labeled as brain damage, and then the same complaints get parroted anew. As if people who pirated Photoshop will be swayed by copyright law.

My guy: the personalized aspect of a gag image for strangers is the quality of the idea, not the tedious skill of rotoscoping low-quality inputs. Effort can be part of the joke, but there’s entire subcultures for text over stolen frames from Spongebob. Now eight gigs of linear algebra will let your computer render bespoke images on command. In what reality will people politely abandon that and pretend it never happened?

Would a model trained only on licensed work change how you talk about this, at all?

Quoting one sentence from a book is fair use even if you shoplifted that book.

Genuinely surprised it’s even opt-out.

These companies train on Disney DVDs. Permission is not a factor. Training is transformative use, as much for counting letter frequency as for building a chatbot that can sort of code.

We goons seem distinctly realistic about this tech, because we did this shit the hard way, and that was much closer to theft. The shrill insistence ‘it’s only combining images!’ has to be met with (1) nah we know what looks like and it’s never this clean or bespoke, and (2) the alternative is literally combining images. Those photos of an elephant hunt, Ted Nugent, and Snuffleupagus had identifiable authorship, and their union involved neither permission not attribution.

What bugs me most is people asserting, ‘models don’t understand what they’re showing.’ They don’t have to? The user understands those concepts, which is why they asked for them. A human being is using the tool’s ability to show those things to express an idea. Even if that idea is really really stupid.

The nature of bad faith is that there is no right answer.

You didn’t read any of that - you just sneered harder than the first guy. Most of y’all do not seem to care which complaints you pick, except for where they point toward. They are not addressable. They are pretense.

That’s why grabbing whole photographs off Google Images and slapping them together in Photoshop is lauded as good-old-days shitposting, but you still posture about “plagiarism.”

You’ll take my code and have a nice life or so help me!

They were sadly on-point with ‘Biden promises peaceful transfer of power to guy he called a Nazi.’ They were just stupid about which part of that was a problem.