Initial-eclipse - You Force It To Yield

"I have a rich bf/gf but they only buy themselves expensive gifts and get cheap ones for me" and you let that slide?

not gonna lie im really feeling the danger in the world rn. this site has really doubled down on transmisogyny. its always been bad but lately its absurd. ppl responding to trans women being sexually harassed en masse by calling us hysterical and crazy to b upset. every week the discourse focuses on a new transfem who dared to be unpalatable in ways that are perfectly fine for tme ppl. the obsession with our sexual lives whether its our kinks or just demanding sexual availability. the revival of a thousand year old slur for "effeminate males" to hurl at us when were inconvenient and loud. the expectation that we all stay quiet and tiptoe around other ppls hangups n discomfort, deny ourselves liberation where it would cause others a loss of privilege. its fucking bleak.

Australia is presented with significant demands when it comes to safeguarding its own maritime interests, including being able to keep highly strategic maritime trade routes open, in the Pacific and beyond. Increasing regional competition with China, as well as the prospect of Australia becoming embroiled in a major conflict in the Pacific in support of various allies and partners, including the United States, are clearly of particular concern to Australian authorities.

Every piece written on Australian defense policy invariably approaches the Joke

Quiet Quitting is when you're not doing anything wrong but the vibes are off

How exactly do you advance AI ethically? Considering how much of the data sets that these tools use was sourced, wouldnt you have to start from scratch?

a: i don't agree with the assertion that "using someone else's images to train an ai" is inherently unethical - ai art is demonstrably "less copy-paste-y" for lack of a better word than collage, and nobody would argue that collage is illegal or ethically shady. i mean some people might but i don't think they're correct.

b: several people have done this alraedy - see, mitsua diffusion, et al.

c: this whole argument is a red herring. it is not long-term relevant adobe firefly is already built exclusively off images they have legal rights to. the dataset question is irrelevant to ethical ai use, because companies already have huge vaults full of media they can train on and do so effectively.

you can cheer all you want that the artist-job-eating-machine made by adobe or disney is ethically sourced, thank god! but it'll still eat everyone's jobs. that's what you need to be caring about.

the solution here obviously is unionization, fighting for increased labor rights for people who stand to be affected by ai (as the writer's guild demonstrated! they did it exactly right!), and fighting for UBI so that we can eventually decouple the act of creation from the act of survival at a fundamental level (so i can stop getting these sorts of dms).

if you're interested in actually advancing ai as a field and not devils advocating me you can also participate in the FOSS (free-and-open-source) ecosystem so that adobe and disney and openai can't develop a monopoly on black-box proprietary technology, and we can have a future where anyone can create any images they want, on their computer, for free, anywhere, instead of behind a paywall they can't control.

fun fact related to that last bit: remember when getty images sued stable diffusion and everybody cheered? yeah anyway they're releasing their own ai generator now. crazy how literally no large company has your interests in mind.

cheers