Even if we “won” a nuclear exchange with multiple countries we’d all be losing.

I’m starting to wonder how many CEOs need to be human sacrificed into a volcano before the metaphorical rains come.

Drugs. And some of this country is magnificently beautiful (I happen to live in a section that would qualify as such) which makes up for the absolutely shit people who run it.

When fascists say all the populist crap they don’t mean it.

Yup that’s why I used it as an example

I mean they don’t call them National socialists for nothing. I’m not the least bit surprised that fascists are talking socialist adjacent talking points but rebranded. IIRC even the Nazis had some redeeming social welfare programs (for good aryan Germans, fuck everyone else) that were adjacent to socialism… to capture the interest of those who would vote for real socialists.

Kinda like how Starbucks has decent workers benefits compared to their competitors - to prevent unionization. Or how FDR enacted the new deal to prevent actual socialists from gaining power.

I hope I’m getting my point across…

Yeah. Listening to JD Vance of all people talk eloquently and with a populist message about the east Palestine train derailment really took me by surprise. The guy - our future far right VP - sounded like Bernie sanders.

I think the political parties are doing a really weird shift and most people haven’t caught on yet.

Obviously it’s possible to achieve that affect with a camera and a wide open aperture. But it looks off and too defined of a difference in AI.

Very in focus foreground and very blurred background where if you start to really look at it it makes no sense.

It was a drone time traveling

It’s not my art. It’s how you view art in general as “disposable”.

“Disposable art” see, you’re telling on yourself about how you view art and artists. There’s a reason people aren’t a fan of this even if you’re doing it as “ethically” as possible.

Ok but can you explain because I’m not seeing the connection.

And who is openAI compensating for their work?

At least adobe is compensating creators. No other big name AI company is doing that. Anyone who uses AI to make “art” is complicit in this theft.

The rest of your argument is putting words in my mouth. Do better. AI is hot garbage and a waste of natural resources.

Don’t get me wrong I hate adobe. But. They at least got AI right. These aren’t big corporations you’re “stealing” movies from. They’re everyday people like myself who’s art is being used by AI for training against my wishes.

They’re not only losing $ they’re also having their work reproduced in a way they don’t support.

Just because it’s cents doesn’t mean it’s “no money”.

I didn’t post my artwork online just to get ripped off by AI and tech bros who see nothing wrong with stealing work from artists.

And so long as we exist under this shit ass system we shouldn’t be stealing from working class artists. It is theft.

Stealing from big companies like movie studios? Whatever. Stealing from the working class? Not so great. People should 1. Have the right to not have their work used as training data and 2. If they agree to be used as training data, be compensated.

The imagery used for the training data isn’t licensed to be used as such. It’s stolen.

The “art” that goes along with the writing (not the writing itself which I assume is your actual writing)

As an artist, the training data used for most of the image generators is stolen work. As in, the original artists didn’t give permission for their work to be used that way. Some aren’t stolen, such as adobe’s ai tools, which are trained on imagery that’s licensed for it.