He’ll be dead by then and he knows it.

What are you talking about? People emigrating (after an enormous genocide) is how this country was made!

Conservatives love the concept that private charities should be the ones who provide, “hand outs” (e.g. free food) and things like health care to those who can’t afford it. Except they always conveniently neglect the fact that all the charities in the world combined are but a fraction of a percent of government spending on similar things.

Furthermore, charities cannot hope to match the efficiency of governments providing the same services. Even the most inefficient government agencies have overhead far lower than the best-run charities.

Governments don’t have to solicit for donations. They aren’t beholden to the market or bad economic times. They can pool bureaucratic resources across multiple programs and take advantage of economies of scale that the biggest charities could only dream of.

The truth is that if you actually want to help the most desperate people of the world, government programs are the most efficient and effective way to do so.

Thousands of tons of plastic pollution

OK so a trivial and insignificant amount.

Nope. In fact, if you generate a lot of images with AI you’ll sometimes notice something resembling a watermark in the output. Demonstrating that the images used to train the model did indeed have watermarks.

Removing such imaginary watermarks is trivial in image2image tools though (it’s just a quick extra step after generation).

…or trying to get away with as much as possible and seeing what sticks.

Reminder: The Bill of Rights applies to all persons living or residing in the United States. Whether or not you’re a citizen is irrelevant. Green card, visa, no visa, etc doesn’t matter.

Everyone gets freedom of speech in the US. Everyone.

To be fair, when it comes to stock photos the creatives already got paid. You’re just violating the copyright of a big corporation at that point (if you distribute the images… If you never distribute the images then you’ve committed no crime).

Why stop at “AI-generated”? Why not have the individual post their entire workflow, showing which model they used, the prompt, and any follow-up editing or post-processing they did to the image?

In the 90s we went through this same shit with legislators trying to ban photoshopped images (hah: They still try this from time to time). Then there were attempts at legislating mandatory watermarks and similar concepts. It’s all the same concept: New technology scary, regulate and restrict it.

In a few years AI-generated content will be as common as photoshopped images and no one will bat an eye because it’ll “just be normal”. A photographer might take a picture of a model (or a number of them) for a cover or something then they’ll use AI to change the image after. Or they’ll use AI to generate an image from scratch and then have models try to copy it. Or they’ll just use AI to change small details in the image such as improving lighting conditions or changing eye color.

AI is very rapidly becoming just another tool in photo/video editing and soon it will be just another tool in document writing and audio recording/music creation.

Not a bad law if applied to companies and public figures. Complete wishful thinking if applied to individuals.

For companies it’s actually enforceable but for individuals it’s basically impossible and even if you do catch someone uploading AI-generated stuff: Who cares. It’s the intent that matters when it comes to individuals.

Were they trying to besmirch someone’s reputation by uploading false images of that person in compromising situations? That’s clear bad intent.

Were they trying to incite a riot or intentionally spreading disinformation? Again, clear bad intent.

Were they showing off something cool they made with AI generation? It is of no consequence and should be treated as such.

Anyone tried it?

I’d argue that the most inhuman behavior is coming from the Texas legislature.

I was going to say… It is kidnapping. It’s just state-sanctioned kidnapping.

Nah. It’ll be to make them transgendered.

Tell me you’re planning an insurrection without telling me you’re planning an insurrection.

The best defense against measles is to not have Republican parents.

They’re not just bismuth! They’re bismuth and selenium with some oxygen mixed in (to connect those elements together, I think).

The reason I point this out is because this means that not only can the chips of the future perform blazingly fast calculations they can also cure your tummy ache and prevent dandruff!

Once this technology becomes mainstream it’ll be bismuth as usual. We’ll all be getting down to bismuth.

A whole new era of puns is upon us! The product of the selenium.

Just an FYI: In Florida (at least) a similar bill was passed not because of any concerns about lab-grown meat but because loads and loads of rich people keep small amounts of cattle on their property which gives them massive property tax breaks (money that most of these counties desperately need). There’s literally over a million cows living like cow kings in Florida.

I get what you’re saying about factory farms but I just wanted to point out the truth: While those conditions are common for other farm animals I’m not aware of it being that common for cows (in the US) 🤷

As far as I know the factory farms that are like that are all related to poultry and swine (the people that run them).

Reminder: The Bill of Rights (where we get the 1st Amendment) applies to all persons living and residing in the United States. Not just citizens.

🤔 Maybe building a town around a single industry isn’t a good idea.

BREAKING: Sadness and heartbreak as completely predictable and preventable situation slowly unfolds over decades.