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by falcolas 2y ago
Unfortunately, a number of flooded properties were located outside the FEMA designated flood zones - even the 100 year+ zones. And they were located higher than the flood lines by something around 10-12 feet (in Ashville, NC). I really hope
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by falcolas 2y ago
> I26 north I40 west are impassible and may be that way for months. The latest I've heard is they're expected to be fixed by Sept 2025. So just shy of a year.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Not the entire image, but parts created by inpainting. Which is admittedly a hot mess of red tape in potentia. But it makes sense from the point of view of copyright having been created to protect people's ability to make a living from
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by falcolas 2y ago
For completeness sake, Adobe does not appear to have taken Google's lead in this.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Thank you for the info. It's still going to run afoul of the copyright office's interpretation of who owns copyright for AI generated materials, but I'm really glad to see them doing something ethical with the model creation.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Nothing from the OP or the original AI Artist was about using Adobe. That said, were the images used by Adobe actually licensed for AI training, or was an existing overly broad license aimed at "showing this in an online gallery"
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by falcolas 2y ago
> This argument is going to lose merit soon. When midjourney and all other models built upon copyrighted work they had no license to disappears (and any models which were in turn trained on the output of Midjourney et.al.), perhaps. >
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by falcolas 2y ago
It's about who created the work (book, painting, code, etc). If it's a human, then it's copyrightable. If it's an AI, then it's not. That's the stance the copyright office has been taking, going so far as to gr
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by falcolas 2y ago
This is backed up by how they have granted copyright to an AI generated and human edited book. The human only gets to get copyright on the parts they "significantly altered". There was a news report on it awhile back that was inte
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by falcolas 2y ago
Last I heard, nothing generated by an LLM can be copyrighted. Copyright is for protecting the intellectual work of humans, not computers. The closest I've heard is a LLM generated book had portions of the book copyrighted by the "
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by falcolas 2y ago
Yes. Or rather, it should get the same copyright consideration as all the artwork that went into building the models. So still yes.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Ask them how much they'll sell commercial rights for. Remember that FOSS is the exception in this economy, not the rule.
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by falcolas 2y ago
> now we have a healthy distrust of pictures we're not sure where they came from. Respectfully, we only wish this were the case. There are, right now, AI generated images and videos of a presidential candidate in a disaster area. Pe
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by falcolas 2y ago
It's not as if we have no idea how to make use of AI in programming. We've been working on AI in one form or another since the 70's, and integrated them with our programming workflow almost as long (more recently in the form
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by falcolas 2y ago
IME: I will either get a repeat of something already written (this happens all the time with java getter/setter boilerplate if the class isn't the one I'm currently working in), or I get some junior level attempt at what I as
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by falcolas 2y ago
As you inadvertently pointed out, AI improvements are not linear. They depend on new discoveries more than they do iteration. We could be in either out of jobs or lamenting the stagnation of AI (again).
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by falcolas 2y ago
> why didn't math disappear when calculators were built? Because you can see a child using a calculator. > Why didn't teaching go out of fashion when TV was invented Laws (which put students in classrooms) and a lack of TV u
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by falcolas 2y ago
Helldivers was published by Sony, which created some issues as Sony tried to force a PS account login on all users, regardless of their platform. So yay ArrowHead, but they're wedded to the same devil that's pushing ads on their p
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by falcolas 2y ago
I have several of his prints from the original Ukiyo-e series. The prints are incredibly interesting in their own right, since they use inks with very low opacity. They're amazing pieces of art, and well worth collecting IMO.
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by falcolas 2y ago
I have to be honest, I search for files about once a year. Tops. Now then in the browser, I start typing a URL and it's auto-completed from my bookmarks (and/or history). Even the most casual users do the same, just using search r
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by falcolas 2y ago
DEI is a replacement word, especially when used in the phrase "DEI hire". It's a replacement for Black, more specifically "N**r". It's been really weird to see "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" becom
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by falcolas 2y ago
Well, that's one potential interpretation of the word woke. It's amazing how much different the definition is. But that's why I put my definition into my comment, so we don't have to argue over definitions in order to
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by falcolas 2y ago
At least a portion of the DEI officer job decline was caused by major investors becoming intolerant of DEI. I don't personally have a causal link for the change in investor's minds, but it happened at about the same time that figh
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by falcolas 2y ago
> Remember COVID, the lockdowns, the suppression of dissent? This occurred under Trump during his first attempt to "poke the establishment in the eye." > How about the left that used to be opposed to war yet now seem to supp
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by falcolas 2y ago
How will caring less and less about the injustice and intolerance experienced by people help in fighting injustice and intolerance?
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by falcolas 2y ago
This data would be of much more interest to your health insurance company. The ultimate preexisting condition pricing guide. Mostly a US concern, as usual.
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by falcolas 2y ago
I'm fine with the buy terminology. When I buy a car, I get fixes for manufacturing defects for free. Day 1 bugs are similar defects.
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by falcolas 2y ago
I'm afraid that the connotations around rent (namely monthly payments) would only encourage the worst publishers to only go further.
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by falcolas 2y ago
He's also lucky the chimney for the boiled helium was working properly. Otherwise he (and perhaps some of his comrades) would be dead from asphyxiation. The quenching process isn't exactly something they practice.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Hours, perhaps. They can shut the power off and that alone will de-energize the coils without touching the helium. Then it can be turned back on. No damage to the MRI, though the damage to the officer's ego might still be unrecoverable

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