AI art has a very real place in current society. It’s very useful, and is absolutely going to get better and become a normal part of the future. We’re not going to avoid it, so we should work on making AI less morally fucked. The technology isn’t the problem, the people behind it are. Rather than stealing art, the multi-million/billion-dollar companies behind these models need to pay artists for every single piece of art they use in their models.
I’m betting the number is “wherever you become addicted to masturbating and/or porn”. If you’re masturbating frequently enough to cause any real health problems, you’re likely well past that point.
AI generation is getting out of hand
I feel like if somebody has horrible social anxiety, your partner complaining for you, in front of you, probably ain’t much better. I know I would find the situation embarrassing as hell.
I mean, maybe it should be. Maybe the government should be paying artists instead like somebody else suggested somewhere. Idk, it’s an interesting topic. But that’s in these peoples ideal world that we clearly do not live in. I am in complete agreement that, pirating all forms of art being the morally just thing to do (like the very first commenter suggested), is very incorrect. At least in our timeline it is.
To preface this, I do agree it’s not morally correct to pirate. At BEST it’s morally neutral, and usually it’s not even that. I don’t know why people think they’re entitled to another person’s work without paying just because it’s “art”. They’re not.
However…
I completely disagree that your analogy is spot on. If I have zero plans to ever buy a certain car, but then one day decide to just steal it to see if it’s fun to drive, that car can no longer be sold to somebody else and the dealership or whatever just lost a lot of money.
On the other hand, if I have no plans to ever buy a game, but decide to pirate it to see if it’s actually fun, the developers don’t lose money from that. I never would have bought it in the first place, and they can still sell it to others because I didn’t actually take it from them.
That’s the difference. Now, if I had already planned on buying it but decided, “nah I’ll just pirate it instead”, then I would agree they’re losing out on a potential sale. That’s still different from losing a car though, because the dealership isn’t only losing a potential sale, they’re also losing an item in limited supply that takes physical time and labor to make (as opposed to just fabricating another Steam key).
This is how I handle pirating. I more or less treat pirating as a demo for the game. If I liked the game enough to finish it, 9/10 times I’m going to actually buy it unless I have some personal reason not to, like the dev being a pos I don’t wish to support or something.
I enjoy doing this. I’m usually thinking about the book I’m reading, so, while it might take me twice as long to finish a book, I also got to experience much more of the book, even if it was just my imagination.
Of course, it’s an absolute bitch when it’s something I have to read within a certain time frame, like for school or something.
Right, like movies haven’t been doing that for decades longer.
In what way do you think evolution enslaves us?
Sure. Because you were able to find success, that means everyone should also be able to do it, no matter how different their circumstances are (like the fact that a game genre may be more niche, or that you actually have to pay for games).
You seem like the type that unironically tells people to just pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Right, “oh well” is all you can say about that. Which is why publishers are useful to many games.
There are plenty of great games you will literally never hear about.
Tbf it’s a lot harder to edit a gif than a picture. Removing author credit is lame af though. It was very obviously intentionally done.
That explains so much. I used to play legacy console but was always confused about why I wasn’t traveling as far as I should have been when going to the nether.
This is the official wiki page btw. https://minecraft.wiki/w/The_Nether
You could try uploading to imgur and then just linking it.
Tbf, you’re buying an 8-10 pound box of them, which, according to the images, is more than likely at least around a dozen of them.
Still expensive, but it’s somewhere in the ballpark of $10-20 per banana rather than a single $177 banana.
I imagine phones no longer having headphone jacks isn’t helping the wired headphones market. I’d gladly use wired headphones if it meant I didn’t need to charge mine or worry about them dying on me. Aside from working out, it’s not like the wire is exactly in the way…
Bro gives edge lord a whole different meaning.